thrive.

after what feels like a fairly long and dragging content hiatus, quite a few things have changed around here-

I’m taking a summer course to get my minor done before senior year!

I started looking back at my old posts, and I miss the way I used to bullet journal. hence, this spread from a few weeks back.

I started therapy.

these photos are edited weird, but I can’t help it that my childhood room has one big wall painted coral pink.

I’m home. and I’m wearing a mask inside the house around my parents until further notice (or, at least 14 days after I last traveled)

I’m just going to be blunt here: the dark academia aesthetic is extremely white-centered, euro-centric, and romanticized. as students, it is essential that we are showing up for our BIPOC siblings (specifically our Black friends) in every single aspect of our lives including our online spaces. as a part of the studyblr community, our tendency to be consumers is pretty inevitable- whether we’re shopping for cute stickers to decorate our planners or looking for the next novel to read, it is time that we acknowledge the importance of where that money is going towards. I URGE YOU TO STOP BUYING ON AMAZON! here is a non-comprehensive list I’ve put together of BIPOC small and/or independent businesses!

please feel free to reblog this and add onto this list (obviously keeping in mind the criteria I’ve previously mentioned) to spread the support for our BIPOC creatives and business owners. (the ones in *starred italics* are my personal favorites, but you should really check every business out!)

Art (mostly prints but some also include stickers and other products)

*Illi Ferandez 

Depeapa

*Emma Make Studio

Fanesha Fabre

*Jimoko

Yumiin Color

Yuki Illustrates 

Meenal Patel

KrishnameetsBrinda

*Discover Black Artists on Society6

*The Everyday Print Co

Stationary

Copper And Brass Paper

*Conni Creates

*Dani Creatives Co

Blinks of Life

Page Eleven Paper Goods

*Cloth And Paper

Yoseka Stationary

Graphic Anthology

The House of Roushey

Leather Imagined

Millenial Loteria 

*Every Sort of Mischief

Little Woman Goods

Dos Estrellas 

*Artelexia 

Bookstores

Back Pearl Books 

Books And Crannies

Philippine Expressions Bookshop

Cafe Con Libros

Brave And Kind Books

Fulton Street

Mahogany Books

Arkipelago Books 

Palabras Bilingual Bookstore

Epilogue Book Cafe

{ 02-04-18 } 91/100 days of productivity

Resources for Canada:

Mental health resources for the Black community in Toronto

A script for Torontonians to follow when contacting city officials

Podcast detailing racism and corruption in Ontario

How non-Black folk can support Black Canadians

Resources for America:

Thread of bail relief funds for different states/organizations 

Split a donation between 38 bail funds

How to donate when you have no money 

Podcast on racism in American

Podcast episode on racial inequality in medicine, and protest safety

How to stop a horse from being used as a police weapon 

Fund for Black Trans women in Atlanta

Twitter thread with compiled petitions, organizations, and other information

How to safely film police misconduct

Resources for biologists and naturalists:

Information on #BlackBirdersWeek 

Boost for Black paleoartists

Free Field Ornithologist memberships for Black students (must be sponsored by a mentor/advisor)

Opportunity to bird/botanize/geologize the Californian desert

Donation to supply Black birders with binoculars 

Article on structural racism in Natural History museums

Free to use antifascist paleoart/paleontology icons

Resources for the arts:

Google drive with Black revolutionary texts

Graphics you should be posting on Instagram instead of the ‘BlackOut’ square

Boost for Black Gamdev/Art streamers

Resources for Black animators

More resources for Black animators

#DrawingWhileBlack directory

Portfolio reviews for Black artists

Rad screenprinted shirts that benefit the Louisville Community Bail Fund

UNDERCOVER COPS ARE BEING CAUGHT PLANTING CARS/BRICKS, SETTING FIRES AND BREAKING STORE WINDOWS TO MAKE PROTESTS LOOK VIOLENT

DON’T BELIEVE THE MEDIA

#STAYWOKE 

1/6/2020

sorry i was gone for so long! how’s everyone doing?

57 / 100 days of productivity

I took my studying to the living room today. Yes, my entire family watched me take these photos. Yes, I’m still recovering from the embarrassment.

Hope everyone’s having a great week 💕

Alright, so. Coffee. I don’t drink coffee. I have no desire to drink coffee. I find people who enthusiastically go on about the flavor differences of lattes, espressos, and french press brews, both amusing and mildly baffling. All the coffee ads. Coffee jokes. Bustling coffee shops. To me, all coffee is similarly bitter and unpleasant. I have been through so many “Try this, it’s sweet! You can’t even taste the coffee!”  Alas, I always can. And I’m  sensitive to caffeine anyway. So, I don’t really think about drinking it when I wake up or am tired.

 Yet I love the smell of coffee. I love the idea of coffee. The feeling of a warm cup taking the chill from my fingers, the cozy ritual of having a drink and chat. I might try someone’s coffee. If they ask, if I want to please them and share in something they enjoy. I am also perfectly capable of learning the preferences of those I care about and creating a cup for their pleasure. 

But I don’t want coffee, generally speaking. I will probably make a face after trying their coffee and wash the taste out with something else. They may rush to reassure me that it is an acquired taste. And I’ll have to reply that it’s a taste I don’t particularly care about acquiring in the way they did. ‘Drink it till you like it’ will never work for me.

May 18, 2020 | 04:17 PM