This blog is driven by a passion to illuminate the intersection of sexuality and cultura. Spiritual activism utilizes the mediums of art, poetry, and storytelling to espouse Higher Consciousness and social change. The work is dedicated to challenging oppressive social norms and educating others about the true diversity of comunidad.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.
Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)
Sylvester Magee, the (probable) last American born into slavery died in 1971.
The last living child of former American slaves, Mississippi Winn, died in 2010.
Slavery in the territory that is now the United States lasted more than 330 years. We will be 330 years removed from slavery in the year 2195.
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Boy Genius of Michoacán to Study Quantum Physics at Harvard
10-year-old Luis Roberto Ramírez Álvarez of Zamora, Michoacán, has an IQ score as high as 160, according to a Mexican organization for gifted and talented children.
Luis Roberto has already taught himself three languages: English, French and Mandarin. He plans to study quantum physics at Harvard this coming fall semester, reports Sistema Michoacano de Radio y Televisión (SMRyTV).
Paranorman reveals first openly gay animated character
at first i thought mitch and kathy were going to hook up, like athletic boys and bratty teenage girls always do at the end of movies. but then he said this and the whole theatre screamed and EVERYTHING MADE SENSE AND IT WAS SO GREAT
What I like about this the best is that they LITERALLY WAITED UNTIL THE VERY LAST SECOND TO REVEAL IT. Basically forcing you to form your opinion of him based on his personality and characteristics, instead of his sexuality.
WHICH IS HOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO WORK.
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Look I’m a white person
I use a credit card
No FATS, no Fems, no blacks.
Mating call of the white homosexual. (via howtobeterrell)
LAUSD Votes to Close LA Indigenous High School
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted to close the Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory High School on Tuesday. Trustee Mónica García was the only board member who voted to renew the Indigenous-themed school’s 5-year charter.
“We have had more than 500 years of resistance. This is nothing new,” Marco Aguilar, the schools’ co-founder and executive director, told crying students and supporters after the board meeting.
Anahuacalmecac can still appeal to the Los Angeles County Office of Education to stay open. Stay tuned for more information.
Visit: Semillas Community Schools
Photo credit: Bob Chamberlin, LA Times
Gabby Douglas - Won Gold Medal for US - Hair criticized for being “unkempt” and “embarrassing”
Quvenzhané Wallis - Nominated for Oscar - Called a “Cunt” by The Onion
Sebastien De La Cruz - Nails the National Anthem and is subjected to racism and bigotry online.
Julia Dale - Nails the National Anthem and is praised as the “Little girl with the big voice”
Welcome to America, please come again.
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Cop shoots and kills 7 year old girl, walks on mistrial: "prosecutors have a difficult time convicting police officers because people don't want to believe an officer would shoot a 7-year-old"
DETROIT — The trial of a Detroit police officer accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 7-year-old girl during a raid has ended in a hung jury.
The jury reported back shortly before 3 p.m. Tuesday that it couldn’t reach a verdict even though the judge earlier in the day had asked jurors to continue deliberating the case of Officer Joseph Weekley, who was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death.
Family members of Aiyana Stanley-Jones began crying as the judge declared a mistrial and dismissed the jury.
Aiyana was shot in the head as the Detroit Police Department’s Special Response Team executed a search warrant for a murder suspect May 16, 2010. Weekley, 37, is accused of gross negligence resulting in Aiyana’s death during a raid at a home.
Aiyana was sleeping in the front room when police entered and she was shot.
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