Up, up, and away...

justinchungphotography: Armando Cabral and Kalaf Angelo.

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:13 -0400

Armando Cabral and Kalaf Angelo.

"I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:59:14 -0400

““I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.””

- Maya Angelou (via wearebarebones)

alxsbnn: everybodygrabsomethingstable: Is this a normal-sized...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:58:58 -0400

alxsbnn:

everybodygrabsomethingstable:

Is this a normal-sized violin with miniature instruments inside, or a bunch of normal-sized instruments inside an enormous violin?

kemetic-dreams: NiceLighting

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:55:58 -0400

kemetic-dreams:

Nice
Lighting

Reblog if your tumblr picture is actually you.

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:53:35 -0400

The Wretched of the Earth: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:45:39 -0400

The Wretched of the Earth: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?:

fuckingrapeculture:

literaryreference:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this…

veganrantss: White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:24:09 -0400

veganrantss:

White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.

grrlyman: How to win at everything.

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:10:02 -0400

grrlyman:

How to win at everything.

tastefullyoffensive: 9 Cats Taking Selfies

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:27:12 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

9 Cats Taking Selfies

fuckyeahfemmes: Sylvia Plath’s copy of The Great Gatsby

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:12:57 -0400

fuckyeahfemmes:

Sylvia Plath’s copy of The Great Gatsby

pale-porcelain: French Anti-Smoking Advert this boy is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:04:44 -0400

pale-porcelain:

French Anti-Smoking Advert

this boy is perfect

holy shit for some reason i find this metaphor kind of violent/ veilied homophobia. i mean i get it that smoking is sucking the “dick” of a corperation but i feel like the reason people would find it a grossout is cause its gay.

eithe way, this add is sufficinetly provocative.

marelunae: israelfacts: A Health Ministry inspector poured...

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:58:01 -0400

marelunae:

israelfacts:

A Health Ministry inspector poured bleach over pots full of food in a Sudanese restaurant in Tel Aviv Sunday night.

The inspector, from the ministry’s district office for Tel Aviv, was participating in a raid by police and municipal inspectors on illegal businesses owned by African migrants. Altogether, the raid shut down 10 businesses in the city’s Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood, confiscating their equipment and welding the doors shut. The equipment was then loaded onto vans by other African migrants who had been hired as contract workers.

Many diners saw the inspector pouring bleach on the food, and one, asylum-seeker Aladin Abaker from Sudan’s Darfur region, posted photos of the incident on his Facebook page. He also described his feelings of humiliation.

“Everyone − except the destroyers − was in tears from the humiliation,” he wrote. “The waitress told us, ‘I’ve seen very harsh things in my life, like torture in Sinai, but this humiliated me more than what happened to me in Sinai.”

Abaker accused the inspector of “insensitivity to people and their culture, which sees food as a sacred thing that must be respected,” and said the raid was aimed at “embittering our lives so we’ll return to Africa ‘voluntarily.’”

Altogether, he said, more than 200 kilograms of meat, chicken and fish and over 500 prepared meals were destroyed.

The inspectors said they didn’t know where the meat came from and therefore feared for the diners’ health, Abaker wrote. “We told them: But this is the only place we’ve eaten all our meals for four years now, and none of us ever had stomach problems. Even whites eat here.”

The Health Ministry responded that inspectors had discovered “deplorable sanitary conditions, food stored under unsuitable conditions and temperatures, and food from unknown sources. In order to preserve the public’s health and that of the diners themselves, it was decided to destroy the food immediately. As part of the process of destroying the food, chemicals suitable to this purpose are used. It should be noted that this was a routine process of food destruction that is no different from other destructions of food/meat.”

Tel Aviv’s deputy city manager, Ruby Zelof, said the raids were carried out “to eradicate the undesirable phenomenon of businesses operating illegally, with sanitation and safety problems and illegal connections to electricity and water, and sales of alcoholic beverages without permits.”

Haaretz | Photo credit: Aladin Abaker

Israel is deporting Africans and also planning to put tens of thousands into detention camps.

Knesset Member Miri Regev — a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud Party — called the refugees “a cancer in our body” and Danny Danon — also a Likud Knesset Member — wrote on his Facebook page referring to the Africans as “infiltrators”. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said the African asylum seekers threaten “the Zionist dream,” adding, “Jobs will root them here.”

See also:

Why is the birth rate in Israel’s Ethiopian community declining? Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs, or told they would not be allowed into the country

Israeli woman has her photo taken with Africans, titles the Facebook album: “Late night tour of the Tel Aviv Safari”, captions the photo: “There are no signs forbidding taking pictures with the animals. There were no signs that forbid feeding, but we passed on that.”

Stupid fucks

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:55:48 -0400

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:52:55 -0400

simhanada: me as Jesus at 5 yrs old. monologuing

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:52:13 -0400

simhanada:

me as Jesus at 5 yrs old.

monologuing

Pull a handmade book of strings (by Kate Callan)

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:48:17 -0400

Pull a handmade book of strings (by Kate Callan)

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:46:30 -0400

perennialflight:

Warsan Shire

alisonannestitch: goodtypography: Briar Mark One of my all...

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:45:34 -0400

alisonannestitch:

goodtypography:

Briar Mark

One of my all time favorite embroideries.

youngblackandvegan: amen

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:17:59 -0400

youngblackandvegan:

amen

The Wretched of the Earth: ihaveabsolutelynoidea: here’s the thing about sex, sexualization, rape...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:37:36 -0400

The Wretched of the Earth: ihaveabsolutelynoidea: here’s the thing about sex, sexualization, rape...:

ihaveabsolutelynoidea:

here’s the thing about sex, sexualization, rape culture and the phrase “sex sells”

sex does not sell. at all.

the objectification of women’s bodies is not sex. focusing on breasts or gentials or ass in order to sell a product or an idea is not the same thing as sex….