on the lips of the souls that you dismissed

i already know there wont be anywhere near enough options but

some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows

On this day, 9 August 1970, 150 people, including the British Black Panthers, marched on local police stations to demand an end to police raids on the Mangrove Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, London. Nine people were arrested and charged with conspiracy to incite a riot. Those arrested were Frank Crichlow, Darcus Howe, Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Barbara Beese, Rupert Boyce, Rhodan Gordon, Anthony Innis, Rothwell Kentish, and Godfrey Millett. All were later acquitted of conspiracy charges. Home Office documents later revealed the raids were part of a plot to destroy the emerging Black power movement in the UK. The events served as the subject of the 2020 Steve McQueen film, Mangrove. Learn more about Black working class organising in Britain in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-making-of-the-black-working-class-in-britain-ron-ramdin

you have to get this piercing!