Jordan Peele’s horror film, Get Out, opens next week on the 24th (February). It’s pretty much the only black-led film out this month (besides, I think, the Ice Cube comedy, and the limited release documentary of James Baldwin), and it’s written and directed by a black man. It’s also pretty unique to its genre, being a horror film through the lens of the black experience, as a commentary on “unconscious, liberal white racism”.

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The past two days (Feb. 9th-10th 2017) immigration authorities have been making a series of arrests in at least 6 states across the country. Immigration lawyers and advocates confirmed that they are arresting a currently unknown number of undocumented immigrants. These raids are targeting people freely - meaning those who once would have been dubbed “low risk/low priority” such as those without criminal records are being arrested.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has confirmed that home and workplace raids have occurred in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and other cities they refuse to identify. But we know from the arrest of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos that Arizona has been targeted and immigration lawyers and activists have also documented raids over the past 48 hours in:

Vista, Pomona, California

Compton, California

Austin, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Pflugerville, Texas

Alexandria, Virginia

Annandale, Virginia

Charlotte, North Carolina

Burlington, North Carolina

Plant City, Florida

The Hudson Valley region of New York

Wichita, Kansas

Then this one guy got up to give his toast: an old white deeply conservative male senator who has been a senator for two decades and a legislator for more than four and who has probably TWICE voted in the interests of anyone who wasn’t a deeply conservative man, and this SHALLOW, TEDIOUS MOTHERFUCKER decides to lay out his ENTIRE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. His fucking high school experience, his favorite and least favorite classes, his time as a [product] salesman and as a [famously boring but lucrative corporate occupation], and none of it was precisely offensive, but I felt this white-hot throttling rage rise the longer he spoke – at the idea that any of this qualified this man to make laws for me, at the idea that he felt entitled not only to the rule of my country but to my attention and my time, that this DULL NONENTITY was standing before me, a millionaire who creates the laws of America, while dozens of underemployed geniuses are stuck writing blogs or working retail for pennies and no health insurance. And then he said the following words, in his garbage avuncular “folksy” drawl:

“And then somehow I was elected senator. Now that was a surprise to me!”

Consciously I knew this was just a figure of speech–just a fake self-deprecating phrase that meant nothing to him. But it seemed so precisely emblematic of him and of people like him: this “durr hurr, I just stumbled in here and look at me now!” attitude, both disingenuous and entitled. Bitch, you got here because you had MONEY and you LOOKED RIGHT FOR THE JOB!!! Women and people of color and particularly women of color fight and claw every second of their lives to get a fraction of the power – no, of the mere self-determination – that you wield in your puffy, thankless little claws, you VACUOUS SOUL-SUCKING NOTHING PERSON, and you just WALTZED THE FUCK IN HERE with LITERALLY ZILCH TO OFFER, and now you want to STAND BETWEEN ME AND THE OPEN BAR FOR HALF AN HOUR TALKING ABOUT IT!!!! 

Then he thanked his wife for being “The real one in charge.”

The date for the Science March on Washington (and like a billion other places) has finally been announced and everything about it looks lit

it’s past, present and future

you will be hurt

you are hurt

you were hurt

you are stinky

you were stinky

flotsam is floating wreckage of a ship!!!!!

jetsam is part of a ship that is purposely cast overboard or jettisoned!!!!

 for the people who keep telling me they cant find diverse #ownvoices books by people of color or that there are none. 

contemporary + romance

- asian authors -

born confused - tanuja desai hidier

girl in between - pintip dunn

i believe in a thing called love - maurene goo

enter title here - rahul kanakia

if you could be mine - sara farizan

its not like its a secret - misa sugiura

my so-called bollywood life - nisha sharma

none of the above - i.w. gregorio

since you asked - maurene goo

starfish - akemi dawn bowman

tell me again how a crush should feel - sara farizan

this promise i will keep - aisha saeed

to all the boys ive loved before - jenny han

qala academy - tanaz bhatena

when dimple met rishi - sandhya menon

written in the stars - aisha saeed

tiny pretty things - sona charaipotra & dhonielle clayton

- black and african authors -

all american boys - jason reynolds & brendan kiely

allegedly - tiffany d. jackson

american street - ibi zoboi

the boy in the black suit - jason reynolds

dear martin - nic stone

the hate u give - angie thomas

little & lion - brandy colbert

peas and carrots - tanita s. davis

the sun is also a star - nicola yoon

this side of home - renée watson

tiny pretty things - sona charaipotra & dhonielle clayton

pointe - brandy colbert

when i was the greatest - jason reynolds

you dont know me but i know you - rebecca barrow

- latinx authors -

the education of margot sanchez - lilliam rivera

the inexplicable logic of my life - benjamin alire sáenz

juliet takes a breath - gabbi rivera

north of happy - adi alsaid

we were here - matt de la pena

when reason breaks - cindy l. rodriguez

yaqui delgado wants to kick your ass - meg medina

high fantasy + urban fantasy

- asian authors -

the bone witch - rin chupeco 

the forbidden wish - jessica khoury

forest of a thousand lantern by julie c. dao

huntress - malinda lo

not your sidekick - c.b. lee

prophecy - ellen oh

the reader - traci chee

serpentine - cindy pon

silver phoenix - cindy pon

soulmated - shaila patel

the star-touched queen - roshani chokshi

- black and african authors -

akata witch - nnedi okorafor

promise of shadows - justina ireland

shadowsharper - daniel josé older

- latinx authors -

labyrinth lost - zoraida córdova

shadowsharper - daniel josé older

historical + historical fantasy

- asian authors -

an ember in the ashes - sabaa tahir

everything i never told you - celeste ng

outrun the moon - stacey lee

under a painted sky - stacey lee

- latinx authors -

burn baby burn - meg medina

iron cast - destiny soria

shame the stars - guadalupe garcia mccall

magical realism

- black and african authors -

into white - randi pink

- latinx authors -

the girl who could silence the wind - meg medina

summer of the mariposas - guadalupe garcia mccall

the weight of feathers - anna-marie mclemore

wild beauty - anna-marie mclemore

when the moon was ours - anna-marie mclemore

sci-fi

- asian authors - 

forget tomorrow - pintip dunn

the amaterasu project - axie oh

the girl from everywhere - heidi heilig

want - cindy pon

- black and african authors -

binti - nnedi okorafor

the blazing star - imani josey

the fifth season - n.k. jemisin

love is the drug - alaya dawn johnson

orleans - sherri l. smith

is that enough? they’re out there. you just have to be willing to look.

Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war. I could’ve swung either way? But now I’m definitely spending the next 4 years converting your daughters to lesbianism; I’m gonna eat all your guns. Swallow them lock stock and barrel and spit bullet casings onto the dinner table; I’ll give birth to an army of mixed-race babies. With fathers from every continent and genders to outnumber the stars, my legion of hapa babies will be intersectional as fuck and your swastikas will not be enough to save you, because real talk, you didn’t stop the future from coming. You just delayed our coronation. We have the same deviant haircuts we had yesterday; we are still getting gay-married like nobody’s business because it’s still nobody’s business; there’s a Muslim kid in Kansas who has already written the schematic for the robot that will steal your job in manufacturing, and that robot? Will also be gay, so get used to it: we didn’t manifest the mountain by speaking its name, the buildings here are not on your side just because you make them spray-painted accomplices. These walls do not have genders and they all think you suck. Even the earth found common ground with us in the way you bootstrap across us both, oh yeah: there will be signs, and rainbow-colored drum circles, and folks arguing ideology until even I want to punch them but I won’t, because they’re my family, in that blood-of-the-covenant sense. If you’ve never loved someone like that you cannot outwaltz us, we have all the good dancers anyway. I’ll confess I don’t know if I’m alive right now; I haven’t heard my heart beat in days, I keep holding my breath for the moment the plane goes down and I have to save enough oxygen to get my friends through. But I finally found the argument against suicide and it’s us. We’re the effigies that haunt America’s nights harder the longer they spend burning us, we are scaring the shit out of people by spreading, by refusing to die: what are we but a fire? We know everything we do is so the kids after us will be able to follow something towards safety; what can I call us but lighthouse, of course I’m terrified. Of course I’m a shroud. And of course it’s not fair but rest assured, anxious America, you brought your fists to a glitter fight. This is a taco truck rally and all you have is cole slaw. You cannot deport our minds; we won’t hold funerals for our potential. We have always been what makes America great.

i like the idea of a mongoose as an anti tea party animal

i like the idea of a mongoose as an anti tea party animal