Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”
Americans:
Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal
WHY HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE LUDLOW MASSACRE, WHY WASN’T I TAUGHT THIS IN CLASS
I wanna make it clear to white “allies” that this holiday season no Black or brown person is interested in hearing you bitch, moan and gripe about your racist ass relatives, especially when you’re too much of a punk to say anything to them. Shut up.
Unless you’re gonna bring your meemaw who thinks that Jim Crow should be legal again directly to me so that she can run me my fade, then I quite literally Do Not Care. I’m not here to reaffirm that you’re one of the good white folk.
every time i see a black woman get called selfish for doing what she wants and having her own best interests in mind i feel like cringing. we do everything for everyone. no one out here works for us, carries us through our pain, builds us up when we get down. we try to save everybody and you know what we get in return? nothing. so excuse me if black women choose ourselves for once instead of babying every other self capable group of people and lifting them up even when our knees get weary. we absolutely deserve a place in the forefront, full of love and admiration and dignity and the respect we have earned and continue to earn. every black woman does. me choosing me has nothing to do with you, unless my choice to care for myself reflects your failure to be shit without me.
it’s important for all lesbians, and young women and girls especially, to know that men who ask them out or ~declare their love~ or try to convince you to “give them a chance” when they know you’re gay are wrong. they are, at best, beyond disrespectful and at worst outright predatory. it’s okay to feel hurt, or angry, or upset, or annoyed. it’s not always safe to put these men down hard like they deserve, but it’s also important to know you don’t owe them your kindness or understanding. you don’t need to feel apologetic. they don’t deserve your concern for their feelings.
men who do this are wrong, and so is anyone who tries to tell you they aren’t.
the energy of ordering food via drive thru and then eating it in your car in the parking lot is so powerful. like you could walk 50 feet and sit at a table in the light but we just stan alienation in this country
me hunched over in the dunkin parking lot like a goblin, devouring an old fashioned donut in the dim orange light of the streetlamps, abba blasting,
