Whitney Frost Stan Account

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

Laura Aguilar is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work mines the intersection between feminism, body image, queer politics, and latinx identity. Her earliest works depicted latina lesbians in intimate portraits, calling to mind the frankness of Catherine Opie, while her best known series features self-portraits of Aguilar posed nude in the California desert landscape. These photographs are instantly striking, finding in the artist’s body formal elements that echo the landscape itself, as in its doubling here with the giant rock that eludes the frame. Aguilar also forces our gaze onto a body that does not conform to stereotypical images of latinx or feminine identity—a body type that is not so much othered as invisible, despite its ubiquity. The artist originally began to produce these photos as a means of grappling with her own issues with weight and self-acceptance, but quickly came to see them as something more. They offer a profound, ambivalent vision of woman and nature. We see Aguilar dissolve into the landscape in search of anonymity, at the same time that she reclaims the pride and beauty in her body far removed from the society that rejects it.

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One Word: Honeymoon

Pairing: Benedict Bridgerton x fem!reader

Warnings: 18+ smut, minors DNI.

Author's note: Hi Nonny! I hope you enjoy these 250 words featuring a smidge of filth. Thanks for kind words and your prompt 😁🧡🧡

You wake to a beam of sunlight across your face, streaming in through a slit in the heavy velvet curtains of the inn. And the heat and weight of a naked man wrapped around you.

One Word: Book

Pairing: Benedict Bridgerton x fem!reader

Warnings: 18+ smut (ish), minors DNI.

Author's note: Hi Nonny. Well, this turned out to be the first smutty(ish) drabble for Benedict in this challenge. I doubt it will be the last lol. Thanks for your prompt 😁🧡🧡

You giggle, the leather spine tacky against your diaphragm, the weight jostling upon you.

“I must say, you are not the most reliable of book rests,” Benedict remarks drily with a crooked grin, eyes sparkling in the lantern light.