sidcrosbybro:

for everyone feeling fucking frightened as fuck right now

starduststarling:

Maybe you’re not a fighter; maybe you’re not the kind of person to march on the front lines throwing bricks, molotovs, and yelling.  That’s okay.  That’s so so so very okay.  You’re important.

What’s equally as important as that are small radical acts of kindness.  Love your neighbors, love your friends.  Love yourselves.

Be there for each other, be willing to lend a helping hand or shoulder or couch.  Don’t be afraid to put yourselves out there and do what you can for your community.  Anything you can do or provide matters.  You matter.

You can help in the gentlest and most personal ways, and those matter at least as much as any protest.

A people united are so much harder to fight and tear down than individuals.  Link arms with your neighbor and they can’t break you.  They’ll never break you as long as you still care, and as long as you’re still willing to show it.

You’re important and you’re valuable, and you’re all so so dear.  You can help and you can make a difference.

You’re important.

lilacblossoms:

feministgamingmatters:

If you want to care about frivolous things today, that’s okay. If you want to lose yourself in something small and enjoyable, that’s perfect. And if you can’t, that’s okay too. You just need to listen to yourself and do what you can and need to.

It’s not frivolous to take care of yourself, and shore up your defences, and remember that there are things in this world that are worth sticking around for, and enjoy your life

the world won’t be made better by you internalizing all the world’s hurts and burning yourself out

don’t feel guilty if you need to put the bad things out of mind for a while

love yourself

electrobytes:

fuck white people

someone: but ur white!!!!

fuck white people

the-movemnt:

To this day I marvel at how many well-meaning white Americans will parachute into remote villages and slums in Africa, Asia and South America to do charity work, but won’t set up anti-racism projects in places like Logan County, West Virginia, where at least 96% of residents are white and most believe Trump is all that stands between them and racial oblivion. It’s hard to fathom how many white-run think tanks, foundations and charity organizations exist in the U.S., but how few focus specifically on deeply studying white racism and eradicating it.

This is not work that people of color can shoulder alone. White spaces are isolated by design. According to the Washington Post in 2014, 75% of white Americans have no friends of color. We’re not going to get past a nation where between 40 and 50% of Trump’s supporters think black people are lazier and more violent than whites and nearly 70% dislike Muslims if anti-racist white people don’t penetrate the communities from where this thinking originates.

— Zak Cheney Rice, Only white people could have prevented a Donald Trump presidency

follow @the-movemnt

handaxe:

somewhere in the United States right now is the first woman president. she is watching this unfold and she is making plans. 

So I made a promise a while back not to mention that cheeto dusted shit stain after Dec1, but that was obv before I realized just how hateful this country actually is. Since he will now be Racist-in-Chief, I won’t be able to avoid mentioning him once in a while.

So! I would like suggestions for names and titles to refer to him. Reply to this or send an ask. I will compile them all into a post to which I can then refer back.