I Don't Run A Particularly Activist Blog Over Here, But Please Read And Be Aware Of This. This Bordered

i don't run a particularly activist blog over here, but please read and be aware of this. this bordered inhuman and i don't understand why there isn't more protest and I want to cry too, and if tumblr is going to care about internet activism this better fucking be the kind of thing it pays attention to.

#StopBlackGirls2013 demeans, degrades and devalues black women (with images, tweets) · SherriWrites

It was open season on black women on Twitter Sunday night. The tweets in the ugly trending topic compared black women’s bodies w/ animals, furniture & food. Black women’s existence was a joke. The topic trended for hours & reached the #2 trending topic spot. Post-racial Amercia? Um, OK.

this is a thing that happened. I actually cried, then I cried more. Someone wrote about it much more eloquently than I could. YT feminists had nothing to say ofc. Here is another article, its got some great comments.

This one is my fave and perhaps the most astute.

I probably would not have even pulled myself together to make this post if hadn’t gone looking for something to read to make myself feel better and found this quote from Baha’u’llah:

“O SON OF MAN! Write all that We have revealed unto thee with the ink of light upon the tablet of thy spirit. Should this not be in thy power, then make thine ink of the essence of thy heart. If this thou canst not do, then write with that crimson ink that hath been shed in My path. Sweeter indeed is this to Me than all else, that its light may endure for ever.”

So write the truth that I know. This is a terrible sad thing that happened, it is both racist and misogynist, and anyone who knows of this and tries to deny the existence of racism, or tries to say that black women don’t need “black girls rock” or The Abbie Mills Defense Brigade, or any of the other spaces that we create for ourselves is a racist fool whom for whom I have neither mercy nor kindness.

Open season on black women is over.

In Which I Like Concerts and People

boyfriend was like hey keep thursday free it'll be a date and i was like okay and he wouldn't tell me what and then he surprised me with a Postal Service concert and it was unbelievably wonderful

tonight i get to go back to seattle and see paul mccartney with my parents

thus concludes this edition of lovely things

"Girl, you so big!"

— Obama reacting to Mount Rainier (h/t Bettina Hansen of The Seattle Times)