i want blood, guts, and angel cake

“You shouldn’t be alone down here.”

“I’m not alone, I’m with you.”

After almost 200 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered, her case will be presented to a grand jury by Attorney General Daniel Cameron. 

— WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

It means that it’s time to go harder than ever before for Breonna Taylor. 

1. GET OFF YOUR LAZY *** AND SIGN THIS THIS AND THIS PETITION

2. DONATE TO BREONNA’S FAMILY IF YOU CAN

3. MAKE SOME CALLS DEMANDING JUSTICE! Numbers are included in THIS Twitter thread.

MORE INFO INCLUDED IN THIS TWITTER THREAD.

It’s time to show everyone that WE CARE ABOUT BREONNA TAYLOR. We want JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. 

______________________

Additional Resources:

I can’t stop laughing at Carrie being told “NO” by Mark. Also, Harrison Always Knows Best.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

In particular, the kitchen walls are there so that you can leave the kitchen messy when entertaining guests or having a meal (to the point that some open floor concept homes have a second, secret kitchen called a mess kitchen). The walls of the kitchen confine smells to the kitchen area, so your sofa doesn’t smell of bacon. Mess spreads from room to room.

Noise too, travels in an open floor concept. You’re confined to a bedroom or outside to make phone calls, listen to podcasts, etc. etc. without disturbing the rest of the household. The minute someone needs to cook? The entire house becomes unusable.

Open floor concepts have higher heating (cuz drafty) and cooling (kitchen) costs. They also require ALL of your decor to match if that’s a thing that’s important to you.

the baudelaire children confide in mr. poe that they’re being hurt by count olaf, and mr. poe goes and tells count olaf they said so, and olaf then punishes the children for daring to speak out. that’s real. olaf hits klaus so hard he falls over. that’s real. violet tells mr. poe about the literal abuse olaf subjects them to, and mr. poe dismisses her as a girl griping about chores. that’s real. in this book, children are trod on, disbelieved, laughed at, scorned, punished. that’s real. 

i don’t consider myself an abused child, but i was hit growing up. not often and not hard enough to bruise, but enough that i still, as a nineteen year old college student, flinch and cringe and cry and can’t stand up for myself against anyone; even to this day, i can’t, because i’m still convinced that if i contradict i’ll be screamed at or physically hurt. this stuff lingers. one day i was pushed so hard i fell against my bedframe and got a bloody nose! eventually i got too large to slap, but one day my mom pushed my sister. and then i did something i’d never done before: i decided to tell “a trusted adult.”

this adult essentially told me “if you’re not getting hit so hard you’re being bruised, you’re fine.” and guess what? i never told another adult until one day years later it burst out of me and i absolutely broke down sobbing in the car to my aunt and grandmother. for 20 minutes i couldn’t even stand up.