Yikes

Sigourney Weaver

Can’t believe I have to say this, but normalize having empathy for Black women when they go through traumatic experiences.

Everytime a BW is in the media for something traumatic, jokes are made. EVERY TIME!

The lack of empathy for Megan is very unsettling.

This must be emphasized again.

People are desensitized to the trauma BW experience and downplay it. Despite the frequency in our community, it is NOT normal and it must be stopped. Disgusting.

Ruth Thorne-Thomsen

hello is me again i am BACK with ANOTHER PIGEON JUMPER

ravelry page is HERE 

i am also going to bump my round-up of nature, gardening, and land justice organisations for UK Black people

Please also SHARE and  / or  DONATE TO SISTAH SPACE. Sistah Space is a Hackney-based charity that supports African & Caribbean girls and women affected by domestic & sexual abuse. the local council are evicting them. Sistah Space have been told to leave by the end of July. It’s hard for this organisation to get funding because their needs go unrecognised by the system. They need financial support to carry on with their work, especially considering the stress, danger, and instability of the pandemic.

[post made 10th July 2020]

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Madisin Rian by Laura Okita for Vogue Italia Magazine - January 2020.

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Ibby Sow , Djily Kamara and Mamadou Diagne by Urivaldo Lopes for SLIMI Magazine - May 2020

Beim Angeln in Zeschdorf hat mir die Nachtigall ein Ständchen gesungen.

While fishing in Zeschdorf, the nightingale sang me a serenade. (Brandenburg, Germany)

Anok Yai at Jacquemus SS 2021

Mickalene Thomas

Venus at Sunrise From the Space Station : From the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Christina Koch snapped and posted this image of the planet Venus at sunrise. (via NASA)

un bain de rivière

We should already be planning how we’re going to support the nigh-inevitable mass teachers’ strike in a few weeks.

Listen to teachers now.

Follow some teaching groups like Red For Ed in Arizona who already are protesting.

Watch cities like Phoenix, LA, Orlando, Miami, and other hot spots in the next couple of weeks.

Donate to your local teacher’s union. Donate to local school PPE funds.

We are already organizing. Help us prepare.

many of the worst places for this are where striking, collective bargaining, and/or labor unions (… effectively even if not literally) are illegal - meaning they could lose licensure, pensions, and/or be jailed for attempts at these.

even if you’re not in education, i truly encourage you to protest a full reopen of schools. call and ask them how many of them have pulled their own children but demand the teachers and students show up. as the op mentioned, donate money if/where you can.

children will die — especially those with disabilities. their guardians will die. educators and janitors will die. bus drivers will die. and now teachers are the ones who have to figure out what to do.

the governments know. they expect everyone, including children, to be okay with it when they get sick or are permantly disabled, or when people around them die or are permanently disabled from the government creating what WILL be entirely preventable nationwide superspreader events.

national unions and teachers’ organizations still provide aid where local chapters cannot. some examples are the NEA, the AFT, and the IWW.

Mammina Aker and Yorgelis Marte by Johnny Dufort for Marc Jacobs Campaign 2020

DORA JUNG, Kallionlohkare (Rock Boulder), Finland, 1970. Damask weave on wool and silk. / Bukowskis

Kenojuak Ashevak (ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ • Qinnuajuaq Aasivak) was an Inuit artist born in Ikirasaqa, Baffin Island. She is regarded as a pioneer of modern Inuit art.

“I just take these things out of my thoughts and out of my imagination, and I don't really give any weight to the idea of its being an image of something.... I am just concentrating on placing it down on paper in a way that is pleasing to my own eye, whether it has anything to do with subjective reality or not. And that is how I have always tried to make my images, and that is still how I do it, and I haven't really thought about it any other way than that. That is just my style, and is the way I started and the way I am today” - Kenojuak, 1980.

They love carrots so MUCH

One of my favourite videos on the internet

THIS is what it means to go absolutely hog wild

We should already be planning how we’re going to support the nigh-inevitable mass teachers’ strike in a few weeks.

Listen to teachers now.

Follow some teaching groups like Red For Ed in Arizona who already are protesting.

Watch cities like Phoenix, LA, Orlando, Miami, and other hot spots in the next couple of weeks.

Donate to your local teacher’s union. Donate to local school PPE funds.

We are already organizing. Help us prepare.

Hubble Finds Medusa in the Sky : The Medusa merger, was not always one entity, but two. An early galaxy consumed a smaller gas-rich system, throwing out streams of stars and dust into space. These streams resemble the writhing snakes that Medusa, a monster in ancient Greek mythology, famously had on her head in place of hair, lending the object its intriguing name. (via NASA)