Are We Human Because We Gaze At The Stars?

An author doesn't have to be an academic to have valuable insight and information to share. But if they are presenting themselves as an academic to seem more legit, but their credentials are fake or misleading, it's a big red flag.

Let’s not overlook how it always seems to be black women targeted either.

lest we forget

Happy birthday, Space Mom.

masculine looking cishet guy wearing an ”ask me about my pronouns” shirt. when you ask about his pronouns he really excitedly explains to you that they’re he/him.

This is what we want when we say cis people should explore their gender too. Get excited about it! Euphoria is awesome! Find what you love about being you and embrace it wholeheartedly!

Ursula K Le Guin AND Carrie Fisher were both born on this day (1929 and 1956, respectively), so that makes it some kind of holiday, right? Write. Stick it to the patriarchy. Take your meds. Go for that audition/job/thing you want. Read.

#friend of mine pointed out that today carrie fisher would’ve been 69 and ursula k. le guin would’ve been 96#<-prev prev tag

I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

Absolutely crazy to me that the pro AI people nearly always think creative stuff is a chore that a machine needs to do instead of something that is actually fun.

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

No one is safe until trans women are safe

If you ever wanted to know how you can help make a change for your trans sisters, this is it. Let spaces that do not welcome your transgender sisters die off by not participating in them. You can take it one step further and write a message to the organization (or other) managing and planning those spaces and events stating that their lack of transfem inclusion is the reason why you do not participate. As a black black person, this is like my litmus test of whether or not a queer space is right for me. If they are transmisogynist, there is a 90% chance that they are also racist. It doesn't even have to be overt transmisogyny. Transfem erasure is a big red flag because if trans women do not exist in their world, there is a big chance that black people don't either. Transmisogyny and misogynoir are very similar since they are both based in a eurocentric ideal of what a woman is. I know I'm not the only little black girl that got told by their peers that they aren't feminine enough to be considered a woman or be desired as a one. Many of the same arguments used against my trans sisters have been used against black women. This is not a coincidence. Look into your own transmisogyny and there is a chance that you will find racism somewhere in there. Please make an extra effort to protect your BIPOC sisters.

Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”

It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you

Holy hell that's video is…painful and stunning. If you grew up listening to Johnny Cash I think it'll hit even harder. And June Carter Cash is in the video, which takes hard and doubles it.

#i remember my friend vali saying#why is anyone trying to make songvids to this song?#the most emotionally gutting video has already been made#by johnny cash himself (@bossymarmalade)

I'm glad people who didn't know who are discovering it's a cover, not just because Trent Reznor deserves that much, but because I think the fact that Cash did not write it is crucial to the power of his version. This is a young man's song about suffering, about addiction and self-destruction in youth. And Cash is, in the most majestic possible way, taking that and going "oh kid, you have no idea", and changes the meaning without changing the lyrics (except for a single word). In his voice, on his face, in his aged hands on the guitar and piano, it becomes about the agonising brevity of life, the irretrievability of mistakes, and the inevitable loss of everything, including a recognisable self. But the creativity of repurposing only shows if you can still see what was originally there.