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@adaptinghoul / adaptinghoul.tumblr.com

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a black man was found hung in huntington, new york today. police ruled the hanging a suicide before performing an autopsy, and media has been largely silenced. as of june 22 2020, this is the fourth hanging of a black person in a public place in the last week: the seventh in less than a month. all of these deaths have been ruled as suicide.

not all of the victims’ names have been released: we do know of Dominique Alexander, Robert Fuller, Malcolm Harsch, and Titi Gulley.  (xx)

this should be considered a national crisis. we need to treat it as such. 

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jsyk I am loving this vibrational moment in worldwide culture with tearing down statues of confederates, genocidal conquerors/explorers, slavers, and racist founding fathers, but y'all, I'm really gonna need E.VER.Y.BO.DY to keep aaaaall of that energy when lin manuel miranda tries to re-release hamilton for real life money next year

yeah sure cancel a play written by a person of color with an entire cast of color except for the british bad guys (it's not subtle imagery). That's how we're gonna punish George Washington for being racist! Btw its not next year. Stream Hamilton with the original Broadway cast on Disney+ July 3rd!!! <3

Being written by a person of color and starring people of color doesn't absolve the show of pushing harmful narratives. The ~imagery~ of having the British people be white and the Americans be POC doesn't remove the fact that the "heroes" those POC are playing are racist white men who brutalized people of color (SPECIFICALLY black people). And doing things like this is actually EXACTLY how we're gonna punish George Washington for being racist: not supporting narratives that gloss over and don't acknowledge his owning and treatment of enslaved people.

You know damn well these lil overgrown theater kids ain't gonna read this bc they don't give a single solitary fuck abt Puerto Ricans or Puerto Rico (esp Black Puerto Ricans lbr) except to try & silence anyone they disagree with lmaoooo, but for anybody out here with some integrity, go ahead & read this is you haven't already ✌🏽

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thinking about that ilya kaminsky poem that’s like i was / in my bed, around my bed america / was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house

we lived happily during the war - ilya kaminsky

& its companion piece “in a time of peace”

“In a Time of Peace” by Ilya Kaminsky

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kaelio

my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

the tag game on this post is so strong

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“I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. It’s a strategy designed to ensure that the institution functions in the same way that it functioned before, except now you have some black faces and brown faces. It’s a difference that doesn’t make a difference.

Diversity without structural transformation simply brings those who were previously excluded into a system as racist, as misogynistic, as it was before.”

Angela Davis

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don’t post pictures of unmasked protestors! especially right now! the police don’t need more of a reason to target people who are protesting George Floyd’s death 

99% of the protestors ARE masked and y’all are still posting face pics of the ones that aren’t please stop making their images go viral

people are killed for this shit, protests are a unit, not an individual action, stop drawing attention to the individuals 

several activists/protesters from Ferguson were murdered. this isn’t a joke people’s lives are really at risk when you do this. Whether its police retaliation or white supremacists.