hell on erath

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.

serenely reblogging this once more after deleting responses from white people saying "talking about this is actually unhelpful because im oppressed too" yeah i know. i wrote that down in the post i made, and i also wrote down why remembering the difference is important. did you read it?

Oh hey I wrote a small essay on exactly this back when I was still being kind and calmly explaining things to yakubian devils

wow, look at that, a black trans woman saying the exact thing i said, except she said it a year ago and it didnt get as much traction.

Thing is that I’m not the only Black trans woman writing theory on transfeminism, Black transfeminism, or trans intersectionality - I’m just lightskinned and won’t shut up so I’m one of the most visible ones, and crackers STILL get mad at me for saying the most basic-ass concepts like “white people are still white even if they’re otherwise marginalized”

I wanna toss this link on here because it’s directly related to the whole “lack of intracommunity solidarity when race is involved” thing and has a specific example from my local community.

More direct source of concern

5calls has NOT updated to reflect this

not even two years after the 2024 racist riots and attempted pogroms, we are back to more racist riots and attempted pogroms.

i do wanna say for those that haven't heard, that yesterday there were anti-immigration marches planned in multiple major cities in the uk and there were some extremely successful counter protests stopping them.

ellsworld x paswg!

If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

I really want people to know that Kory is highly intelligent, she received all the education someone who is royalty would be raised with and she can learn and fluently speak any language by just touching the other person (originally she didn't needed to kiss, she just kissed Robin because she wanted to). I wish people believed that female characters can be intelligent, competent and worthy of respect with any appearance and set of personality traits, no matter how they're dressed.

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

You know brown ppl aka Asians (that includes Arab and other middle Eastern ethnicities, right?) Saying that Damian should be the darkest brown to be accurate and ignoring all the rest of shades of brown that actually exist... Even in the same brown family is just plain weird.