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In 2005, Mariela Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive free, legal sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender.

Mami Wata

Madonna (Madame Duvalier), 1983 by  Paul Claude Gardere (#haiti)

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

A harvester exhibits his catch of butterflies, George Steinmetz.

“Black brothers, Black sisters, i want you to know that i love you and i hope that somewhere in your hearts you have love for me. My name is Assata Shakur (slave name joanne chesimard), and i am a revolutionary. A Black revolutionary. By that i mean that i have declared war on all forces that have raped our women, castrated our men, and kept our babies empty-bellied. I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots that protect them and their property.” –Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur, held captive by the united states of amerika in 1973. She escaped with the help of her comrades in 1979.

angela davis

“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” - Angela Davis 

Audre Lorde, from The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (via wishbzne)

Toni Morrison (1931–2019), U.S. author and editor (right), and Angela Davis (b. 1944), U.S. author, academic, political activist, one of the authors Morrison edited at Random House publishing company, photographed by Jill Krementz on March 28, 1974 in New York City

Everything about her was embroidered in truth, love, and justice.

Toni Morrison dancing at a disco party in New York. March 5, 1974. Photographed by Waring Abbott