Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.
The original post only has US helplines. I've added UK helplines underneath. It would be great if people could add numbers from everywhere in the world.
If you’re attending SXSW this year, check out this panel with the President of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, and Tumblr’s own CEO, David Karp (@david).
Septima Poinsette Clarkwas a civil rights and education activist. Originally barred from teaching in Charleston, SC schools because she was Black, Clark petitioned for that right in 1920. She won. And she did it while teaching children during the day and adults at night in a nearby town. MLK Jr. refers to her as “The Mother of the Movement”.
Mae C. Jemisonwas not only the first Black woman in space, she was the first Black female astronaut for NASA ever. She launched in the Endeavor in 1992, just 25 years ago.
Above is Anna Maria Weems, a woman who escaped slavery by posing as a male. With a $500 reward for her capture, Weems spent over two months on the road until she found freedom in Canada. This art comes courtesy of the Smithsonian Libraries’ (@smithsonianlibraries) yearly celebration of BHM, which includes stories, art, personal histories, and lots more from their massive collection.
Follow these too:
Black Women Art (@fyblackwomenart) has been around since 2012 (!), giving anyone who follows them a regular dose of art featuring Black women.
Badass Black Women History Month (@bbwhm) is a brand new Tumblr celebrating badass Black women every day for Black History Month. Hell yeah.
There are more in the search results, of course. More Black women in STEM, in music, in sports, standing up for their rights, and have you read up on the Motorcycle Queen of Miami? One thing to note: some of these posts aren’t just highlighting women from 10, 20, 30, 100 years ago. They’re also highlighting Black women today, because Black women are still making history.
Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.
Like he will not be happy at all.
For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.
This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others).
Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status.
And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.
I will always reblog this.
if anyone is curious to read a book that is ‘lord of the flies’ but with girls, check out Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. It’s a bit silly but so, so good. there as canonical explicitly mentioned lesbian, bi, and trans characters.
I want to show this to so many people that I know, but when I say that a toxic combination of white & religious privilege, mixed with fear perpetuated by sensationalist media has brain washed so many Americans into thinking the things this Twitter user pointed out, I am in no way exaggerating when I say it is nearly impossible to make people who believe this shit see reason. I’m a white American from the Bible belt, I know what racism, classism, and religious intolerance look and sound like. I have actually heard members of my family say that slavery and Jim Crow-era (& post) discrimination wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. They’ve said that modern textbooks have distorted the history of the civil war to say it was mainly fought over slavery (believing that it wasn’t), not even acknowledging that maybe the history they learned was steaped in racial bias. And that’s just the tip of the fucked-up-beliefs iceberg. This fear of people who are different, and the hatred born from it, are centuries in the making. And that’s just talking about the area and the people where I live. I am full of hope for the leaders born in the generations that see the fuckery of the current and past generations and what they’ve done to our country. More and more of us are waking up and seeing the hateful ideologies we have believed and propagated for what they are. I’m hopeful, but not expectant when it comes to people changing their long held beliefs. I’m sorry for how disheartening this is. Also sorry if this post is a hot fucking mess. I’m not always great at expressing my ideas in a coherent way.
