the best people in life are free.
Youstina. 21. California.
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friendly reminder that ariana grande appropriates kabbalah and is an antisemite!!!
im….really confused. i just read the article and it said that since her catholic church said that gays werent okay, she went to find a more accepting religion, and the things she learned from that religion are what helped her get successful… how is joining a religion and crediting success to it appropriating it? like im just honestly confused
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do you ever look around at the big crowds of people around you and realize everyone has a story and memories and family and troubles and achievements and a first kiss and a broken heart but you’ll never know any of it and every human life is really intricate and expansive but oh they’ve walked into a shop and you’ll never see them again and you’ll never know just what they were thinking
I think about this a lot
There’s a word for this:
What was beautiful about the 90’s was women didn’t have to do much to be considereeed beautiful.
I love this.
Black women 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.
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zero--orchestra
Earlier this year, author K Tempest Bradford challenged readers
to try a year of books that aren’t written by straight, white, cis men.
Some see challenges like this as limiting our reading choices - but in a culture where white, straight, cis narratives continue to dominate, intentionally diversifying the stories we read is an exercise in expansion.
As in the past two years, I put together this list of publications from 2014 with the help of resources like the Lambda Literary Foundation and Sistahs On The Shelf, as well as reviewers around tumblr, goodreads and elsewhere. It has grown thanks to the efforts of small presses like Kórima Press and biyuti publishing. These are all books that feature the voices of queer people of color and/or QPOC protagonists.
Annual disclaimer: There’s no way this list is exhaustive.
These are also not personal recommendations, just every title I could
find. If I was unsure about a book’s contents (that is, if I was unsure
if the qpoc characters were prominent, or if I thought the book might
be exploitative), I tried to give weight to who the author is (i.e.
I was more likely to include books I know were written by people of
color). Of course, I’ll happily add books to the list if you have
any suggestions that fit the theme - only books about QPOC, and only works published in 2014.
Here’s everything I found, arranged by
genre:
Fiction
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Drama
Memoir/Bio
Nonfiction/Queer Studies
Young Adult
Children’s Lit
Comics/Graphic Novels
