HUNTRATZINGER JTHMATHGUS BENEDICT

Make Her Proud ✊🏽

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Many white lgbtq folks have spoken out about their distaste for the current riots and protests that are happening across the US right now, but still want to celebrate pride. 

So in honor of pride month, here’s a quick history lesson. 

This is Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman, and the reason we can celebrate pride today. 

In the year 1969, the police were raiding gay bars and nightclubs and arresting people by the dozens. This had been going on for several months when one night, the police showed up at the Stonewall Club, and began their usual arrests.

 One of the cops pushed a woman against a cop car, hurting her head and causing her to cry out in pain, and that was when Marsha decided enough was enough. She grabbed her shot glass and threw it at the wall, and so began the Stonewall riots, which went on for several days. 

Starting to sound familiar? 

Marsha took a stand for the community and she started the long tradition that lead to the Pride we know today. So not only was pride a riot, it was started by a woman of color. So now, it’s time to pay it back. Stand up for your black and brown brothers and sisters as we fight oppression, just as we fought for you.

 Fuck Shit Up. 

Give Them Hell. 

could it be transphobes like you who are constantly crying that the evil transes are trying to abolish sex?

could it be the amount of bigotry trans people have been constantly getting even within the LGBT+ community?

could it be the amount of harassment and violence trans people suffer?

no one’s stopped celebrating sexualities

no one’s stopped talking about gay issues 

but a lot of people have been focusing more about trans issues specifically to spite TERFs like you

have fun being mad though

Vermeer through time

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The Brooklyn Museum wishes you a happy and prosperous Year of the Rat!  It’s the beginning of a new twelve-year cycle in the Chinese tradition. Legend has it that when the animals of the zodiac competed in a race to see who would be first in the cycle of years, the wily rat caught a ride on the back of the ox, then jumped off to cross the finish line before any of the others.

As busy collectors of stuff and parents to many offspring, rats represent wealth, industriousness, and fertility. People born in the year of the rat are said to be friendly and energetic, but they don’t like to spend their money. No matter what year you were born, there is something at the Brooklyn Museum to please your tastes, and the lunar new year is a great time to check out our newly reinstalled galleries for the Arts of China and Japan.