Refusing the Narrative: Books to Educate Yourself

Consider donating to some of the many local organizations and bail funds. If books will decide you in favor here’s a few publishers donating 100% of their proceeds.

Also, please join in on #BlackoutBestsellerlist, maybe with a book from 50 Poetry Books by Black Writers About Justice, Abolition, and Black History.

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black publishing power.

To demonstrate our power and clout in the publishing industry, Sunday June 14 - Saturday June 20, we encourage you to purchase any two books by Black writers.

Our goal is to Blackout bestseller lists with Black voices.

#BlackoutBestsellerlist #Blackpublishingpower

Help me out w 2$ (or more if you can <3)

Okay since enough time has passed that I started talking about where I moved, let me explain a bit further:

I am dealing w three main issues that could use financial support: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1- Last year on a 90 day notice I ended up selling off my shit and driving- yes DRIVING- to Mexico to live there w my partner. I paid for a permit so I could cross the border w my car- it lasts 180 days, which is up now.

2- Tourist visas are, as mentioned, 180 days after which you HAVE to leave so I recently had to fly out and come back (so I can have a fresh FMM) which costs $$$$

and NOW I have to drive up to the border to clear my old permit and get a new one, which costs $$$ in gas and non-working time

3- And that non working time is a BIG DEAL because in order to get my residency, which will save me from having to do this back and forth again, I have to have an income of $3,600. Take home. As I am self employed that means I have to MAKE $4,800 A MONTH for 6 CONSECUTIVE months in order to get approved. If a month goes under…the clock starts again.

Last month I had a post like this but sadly I still had to pay  myself with $700 from my savings account to make the necessary $4,800

I only need to keep this up for TWO MORE MONTHS but with all the travel I had to do this month next month’s income might get dinged.

PLEASE SUPPORT! Donate!

I’m a Black Indigenous Femme that had to flee FL last year for multiple reasons (it’s basically ground zero for American Fascism rn) and living out of the US has been a lifesaver but in order to lock in the long term stuff I need community support and/or reparations to make it work!

HERE’S HOW TO HELP:

The money has to go to my BUSINESS account so:

1. p*yp*l.me/ellipsislux 2. Book a service w me (hi I’m a spiritualist! Also check out my ‘ask a question’ option- you can even ask me stuff about herbs or anything! - if you would like energy chart dowsing kindly schedule any time AFTER June 7th)

Help me grow my business:

Subscribe to my Youtube & like my videos! Follow me on insta https://www.instagram.com/iamthatwhich/ & share my reels!

Actually since non-concrete amounts seem to be hard to grasp : I had to come out of my funds $700 to make up for last month pls help me that much this month

*****Please note I don’t know how much I’ll need, only that my work is thrown off and I’m trying to ask for help BEFORE shit hits the fan. Please help POGM *prior* to the crisis point <3*******

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🙃NEWS🙃

My license plate was stolen at the border which is additional $$$ in express shipping a new plate SO I AM SAFER FROM BEING STOPPED BY POLICE and more time away from work.

Please boost + support! Thanks to the 2 ppl who’ve helped so far! 🙏🏾

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20/700!

Thanks a lot bc I have to stay in TX 3 additional days until my new plate arrives and that’s costing me time and $$$$ 😩🙏🏾

35/700!

Please keep helping 💜

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🙏🏾Praying we make it!

I got my plate!! I had to make a long drive yesterday to get it but it’s back on my car so that’s done, thank gxd!

I will be heading back to the border towards home today, so exhausted w all this driving but thankful for the help and eager to be back home where I can work and rest 🙏🏾

Hi so this is losing steam and with just 2 more months left on my minimum 6 month income requirement for my visa success is the only acceptable outcome!

And it’s Juneteenth no less!

Remember: you CAN book a service w me!

My website is thatwhichcreates.com or email iamthatwhich at gmail dot com

Otherwise pls support via pa-pal.me/ellipsislux

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one can instantly free oneself from the chains of identity discourse by simply conceiving of sexuality as something that is dialectical and not metaphysical

your sexuality does not exist within you, nor does it exist as an immutable wholly external ideal to be discovered. your sexuality is locatable only within your interaction with and relations to the world around you

reciting this every time I log on to post like the litany against fear

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#interpret this in bad faith and ill vaporize you with my mind

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Seems like a huge conflict of our time is essentialist vs existentialist philosophy and the fight against the real world repercussions of peoples brains being rotted by the former.

Obviously though this conflict in thinking is only a reflection of a conflict of interests between the forces of an old social order and a new one struggling to appear.

Emerald green stimboard for anon

2022 was the year of pondering orbs

in 2023 we ponder the tricontahexahedron

year of the tricontahexahedron

year of the tricontahexahedron

Two moons

2021

Angie McMonigal Photography-6830-Edit by Angie McMonigal https://flic.kr/p/f6reP6

into the opal ocean of your dreams

(process shots and the full res version of this artwork are on my patreon)

20-something girlies we need to start leaving the house to meet people who make us feel like people

the general population’s education of indigenous american cultures is literally painful like people walk around not knowing that native americans domesticated dogs and turkeys, that many communities had farms that stretched for hundreds of miles, that many communities had completely terraformed their territories, that there were native trade systems stretching across the continent, that there were native metalsmiths before european arrival, that most native people were multilingual etc

also fed up with peoples assumption that sedentary cultures were “more advanced”. like sure, they had technology that hunter gatherer cultures didn’t, but that’s because the hunter gatherer cultures didn’t need those technologies. hunter gatherer cultures have their own ways of doing things, and they do it that way because it works for them. like what if i called you less advanced because you don’t know how to make a serrated arrowhead, and you don’t know how to work a bow drill or an atlatl or a long bow.

When I met Eva late last year, she looked smart in a jean jacket with a neatly tied silk scarf around her neck, small dangly earrings and cropped curly hair. Over the course of the last 44 years, as she continued to teach English to fifth through eighth grades, Eva’s rent increased almost fivefold, to 270 euros from 55, but her wages increased more than 20-fold, to 3,375 euros a month from 150. Viennese law dictates that rents in public housing can increase only with inflation, and only when the year’s inflation exceeds 5 percent. By the time she retired in 2007, Eva’s rent was only 8 percent of her income. Because her husband was earning 4,000 euros a month, their rent amounted to 3.6 percent of their incomes combined.

That’s about what Vienna was aiming for back in 1919, when the city began planning its world-famous municipal housing, known as the Gemeindebauten. Before World War I, Vienna had some of the worst housing conditions in Europe, Eve Blau notes in her book, “The Architecture of Red Vienna.” Many working-class families had to take on subtenants or bed tenants (day and night workers who slept in the same bed at different times) in order to pay their rent. But from 1923 to 1934, in a period known as Red Vienna, the ruling Social Democratic Party built 64,000 new units in 400 housing blocks, increasing the city’s housing supply by about 10 percent. Some 200,000 people, one-tenth of the population, were rehoused in these buildings, with rents set at 3.5 percent of the average semiskilled worker’s income, enough to cover the cost of maintenance and operation.

Experts refer to Vienna’s Gemeindebauten as “social housing,” a phrase that captures how the city’s public housing and other limited-profit housing are a widely shared social benefit: The Gemeindebauten welcome the middle class, not just the poor. In Vienna, a whopping 80 percent of residents qualify for public housing, and once you have a contract, it never expires, even if you get richer. Housing experts believe that this approach leads to greater economic diversity within public housing — and better outcomes for the people living in it. [...]

So, Andre Dickens has lied about the total cost of cop city to the citizens of Atlanta.

Instead of the 30 million originally planned,

Cop City will instead cost tax payers 67 million!

That's more than twice as much as promised!

The majority of Atleans oppose cop city being built so that's tax payer money going to a unsupported cause without any vote.

If you are in Atlanta please attend the second public comment on June 5th. If not from Atlanta make sure this problem is heard about all across the world. With all the misogynic, transphobic, homophobic, and racist laws being pass right now, I fear that this facility will be used to further the fascism present in the U.S.

Not to mention the ecological disaster this will cause

These pictures were taken by drone only three months from each other. The sediment and runoff from this alone far exceeds the national limit and it will only get worse with the chemical runoff from the explosives that will be used.

I know the world's sort of gone to the dogs lately but please please please don't let this go out of the public eye. If the police force can't train then the police force can't enforce these laws. I have a list of petitions and funds pined on my blog as well as phone numbers to blast if you want something more direct.

Stop Cop City!!!

rico nasty for SSENSE ~ shot by zhamak fullad

Lake Shore Drive 

Yvonne Jacquette (b.1934)