Garnet! (postersssss)
OH MY GOOOOOD.
this is amazing
July 1-6 | Atlanta, GA to Hunting Island, SC
To start July I sent 6 days as the Bike Tour Manager for the Black Freedom Bike Tour. I traveled with 9 black women as the rode their bikes from Atlanta to the beaches of South Carolina.
This trip should us the south + and the true resilience and “can do” attitude of Black women. We rode facing issues of sexism and racism, injuries and hurt bikes. But through their struggle and laughter, they biked 310+ miles to show pay homage for the freedom fighters before us, and the fight we are currently in as black queer, fem and masculine women.
Did I mention we camped and cooked for ourselves.
We did some tribe shit.
We met the King and Chief from Oyotunji of the only African Village in the U.S.
We stood at the Combahee River where Harriet Tubman led her raid and freed over 700 slaves.
We loved on one another and created friendship and sisterhood that will outlast the time we spent on this trip in the Deep South.
Check out: blackfeministfuture.com or #BlackFreedomBikeTour
When I was 16, I had a fake I.D. and decided to go to a gay bar by myself because some friends bailed on me. While there, an older gentleman bought me a drink. He wasn’t a creeper, and he definitely wasn’t unattractive. I accepted the drink and began talking to him. No big deal. As the hour progressed, I felt myself feeling strange. I mentioned that I felt like I had a headache, and this guy helped guide me out of the bar. As we were walking down the street, the thought of, ‘Oh god, he’s drugged me, I’m going to die’ came to my head. I tried to get away, but I was so drugged up that I could barely walk, let alone speak. It also didn’t help that I had really large ‘goth’ platform shoes because I was going through a phase. Anyway, this guy brought me to his suv and began undressing me. As a final act of defiance, I hit him over the head with my platform shoe. He then punched me, and I remember thinking, ‘Why don’t they ever give workshops to gay guys about being victims of rape too?’ While I was as careful as possible, I never saw the guy slip something in the drink. I even watched the bar tender make the drink. Anyway, I lied there completely paralyzed while this pervert was lubing up. I locked eyes with his for a moment, and that’s when it happened. A very large and angry drag queen opened the door of the vehicle and beat the shit out of my attempted rapist. She and her other drag friends helped dress and care for me while the police arrived. I was saved by a group of guardian drag queens. They were basically the modern day ‘angels from heaven.’
Standardhunter-avenger-consulter-grimm:
God bless drag queens.
I will always reblog this
Whenever drag queens are present, you best believe they will save the fuckin day.
Oh fuck yes.
If this isn’t on your blog I’m judging you.
Every time a bell rings, a drag queen gets his wings.
God bless drag queen omg
THIS IS DEAD ASS MY FAVORITE POST AND I HAVEN’T SEEN IT IN FOREVER.
Yooooooo
I don’t know how much she is making, but I’m sure it’s not enough.
jesus fuck
(Source: http://love-and-bdsm.tumblr.com/)
LifeStraw purifies water instantly and inexpensively: it is a solution that can provide millions of under-privileged people with safe drinking water.
reblogging again because science
Seriously, Science. Do your thing.
IT’S ONLY 20$.
OH MY GODI’VE BEEN WAITING FOR TUMBLR TO GET WIND OF THIS
I’ll always signal boost this because not only does this work for people in under privilege areas it’s also proof of human ingenuity.
Really, we kids that grew up in the early 90s were all told about how we had to conserve water because drinkable water was such a rare resource and people in foreign lands were basically fucked up the ass because there was no way for them to get drinking water. 20 years and 20 bucks later one of the biggest problems humanity faced is a non issue. THAT’S FUCKING CRAZY!
Somebody should start one of those online donate things where people can donate money to buy these to send to areas with unsafe drinking water. But somebody other than me should do it because I don’t know how to do that kind of thing or get the word out.
this is amazing
FYI to everyone, if you purchase a LifeStraw through EarthEasy, they will send you a LifeStraw and also send one to the Philippines (through the Rotary Water Projects) so that the victims of Typhoon Haiyan can have safe drinking water. So if you were thinking of buying one, buy through them, not Amazon. It’s the same price.
Follow-up to above, you also can donate directly to the LifeStraw fundraiserhere without needing to buy one for yourself. You have drinking water right now. You can wait to get this. They cannot.
I need a few of these for my zombie apocalypse back pack
Wendell Pierce, AKA the bunk, AKA the best actor and possibly best person alive, launched Sterling Farms, a chain of GROCERY and convenience stores in the food deserts of his hometown of New Orleans.
The stores offer fresh and healthy food, and offer rides HOME if you spend more than $50.
“The most important thing to me is creating a relationship with the community; creating an economic engine as an opportunity for them just to have access to a decent GROCERY STORE,” Pierce says.
Wow, what an inspiration. This is the sort of activism that ADDRESSES real issues, and provides resources that enable communities. Plus, it just sounds like good business. CLASS ACT.
BOOST THIS!!!
Yaaaass
BLACK POWER, BLACK LOVE, BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
You Can Now Give Your Boyfriend A Chocolate Mold Of Your Butthole For Valentine’s Day [NSFW]
What a time to be alive
It’s lit
I’m disgusted
hershey’s new kisses: kiss my asshole
Yooooooooooooo
A graduate student has created the first man-made biological leaf. It absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant. He did this by suspending chloroplasts in a mixture made out of silk protein. He believed it can be used for many things but the most striking one is the thought that it could be used for long distance space travel. Plants do not grow in space, but this synthetic material can be used to produce oxygen in a hostile environment. (Video)
If you don’t think this is cool, you are very wrong.