The Menagerie

absolutely, people should not be ignoring the current culture of police brutality and white supremacist violence. people should be using their platforms to do what they can to help others. whether that’s via social media, providing help to people locally if they’re able, or both. ignoring these issues and pretending as though they don’t exist is completely unacceptable, especially when people of colour and especially black people don’t have that luxury. silence is complicity, 100%. 

and also like,, people need spaces to take breaks from active activist operations, not only for their own mental health but so that they’ll be less likely to burn out and can be better and more helpful activists. and the design of social media sites where there’s no separation between activism and entertainment, so you’re simultaneously bombarded 24/7 with cute animal videos and horrific videos of warcrimes, isn’t conducive to good mental health or good activism. it leaves people without appropriate tools to process their emotions and experiences and makes burnout more likely. so creating spaces like specific tumblr blogs that exist for taking breaks and recouping is necessary for that kind of processing, and as long as you are also doing what you can to help and not using self-care as an excuse to simply ignore these issues altogether, creates healthier activists and thus better and more sustainable activism.

Do you know I don’t think one hour passed where I didn’t think of you? I tried not to, but every time I closed my eyes, there you were.

Take Me To Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLs_-SXZGqE

Bohemian Rhapsody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjD80dBPelI

Wonderwall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHkxAb3tNY

But others are just far enough away that they sound like classical music for a minute:

Pompeii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcDIZGlr9U

this oddly sad cover of Despacito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAi-F1Io7gc