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Promptly-Written Photo Prompt: Wildfire

 wanted to share this hoping itd inspire someone tht follows me that makes music or just anything

 i made this song with a cheap toy keyboard and recorded my vocals on my phone because at the time i didnt have a microphone and the keyboard didnt have any line ins to plug it into my laptop so i just said fuck it. the keys  reminded me of all the mexican music i had been listening to, and falling in love with at work…banda and ranchero all that stuff is so painful whether u understand what they r saying or not haha. 

A friend of mine shared this on Facebook, and I shared it too. But seeing as I have a lot more followers on tumblr than friends on Facebook, I thought I’d bring it here.

Will’s post really talked to my heart, because it’s exactly what it’s like to live in a gentrified neighborhood. Sure, my wall didn’t get painted on, but the feelings of entitlement that are held over you are universal. It’s very frustrating when people have been living in your neighborhood for less than 3 years and they act like you’re the new ones.

And let’s not even get into the comment section of this post! You cannot compare gentrification, which systemically kicks poor people (who are usually poc) out of their neighborhoods to “white flight”.

Kiripi Katembo’s best photograph: the heroic women of Kinshasa

“When I look at this picture, I think about all the work women do to serve the economy of Congo and their families, but they get no respect. They are treated like machines, while men can do what they like. I also think of my mother, who died last year. She worked in the market, ran her own business, knitted and worked out in the fields, too. So I called this image Move Forward as a way of saying thank you to women – because they are the true power of my country, the people driving it forward”

- Kiripi Katembo.