Benjarich.

"I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only conclude what they feel from the state of their institutions. I don't know if white Christians hate Negroes or not, but I know that we have a Christian Church, which is white and a Christian Church, which is Black.

I know as Malcolm X once put it, that the most segregated hour in American life is high noon on Sunday. That says a great deal for me about a Christian nation, it means I can't afford to trust most white Christians and certainly cannot trust the Christian Church.

I don't know whether the labour unions and their bosses really hate me. That doesn't matter. But I know I'm not in their unions. I don't know if the real estate lobby has anything against Black people, but I know the real estate lobby is keeping me in the ghetto. I don't know if the board of education hates Black people, but I know the textbooks they give my children to read, and the schools that we have to go to.

Now this is the evidence. You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my life, my woman, my assistant, my children on some idealism, which you assure only exists in America, which I have never seen."

-James Baldwin, 1968, on the Dick Cavett Show (clip from I Am Not Your Negro)

like, no, it's literally in the name "Assigned Gender At Birth" it's an event, something that happened to you.

you did not "grow up AMAB". you're not different from any other man just because you were AFAB.

15 years old: i was so cringe when i was twelve, i'm super mature now though. i'm a totally different person. i'm basically an adult

18 years old: i was so. (trying to be nicer to myself) fifteen. when i was fifteen. i wasn't an adult even a little back then. i'm an adult now though of course

21 years old: i was so newborn fawn taking its first steps when i was 18. i wasn't an adult at 18 i'm barely even an adult now tbh

23 years old: i was so. hey wait the others have all gone up in increments of three why'd it change

23 years old: because i'm still 23 so i can't speak to that experience yet

23 years old: do you think anything will magically change in the next few months to the point where you can't possibly imagine how you'll feel at 24

23 years old: i mean you never know. anything can happen. they're letting people born in 2002 turn 24, for instance

codependent 🐰🦊

Hopefully my fandom card hasn’t been revoked lmao

Also pst pst pst i’ve been away too long. Please let me know which new fics are the bee’s knees. Burry me in them. Throw links at me. I want to drown in recommendations.

Uhhh I think Kate had a phase, with uh- there was a magazine? fan-zine? She's gonna kill me. Oh! It was a Star Trek thing she liked. So my opinion on fanfiction is it's good: kids telling stories, right? That's nice.

Uh, and Lenora! I remember she liked "drarry." I don't know what that is, but I guess if you write a fanfiction: put a "drarry" in with me and Armand.