She Submitted Her Master’s Thesis! 

i may not have a “brain” or an “ability to write well” but sometimes i type out a great metaphor and all

Manimukta by Preeti Mohan x Weaver Story | Festive 2019

“Why are you guys being so dramatic?”

We’re being “dramatic” for Breonna Taylor.

For Ahmaud Arbery.

For George Floyd.

For Tony McDade.

For the people who lost their siblings.

For the people who lost their children.

For the people who lost their parents.

For the people who lost their lives.

We’re being “dramatic” because people died. Because people suffered.

*people choose to kneel during the national anthem to peacefully protest police brutality*

Some People™️: tHat’S uNaCCePtaBLe

*people march in the streets and harass passersby to protest safer-at-home orders*

Some People™️: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that’s their constitutional right

You don’t care about rights; you care about “your side” winning.

achilles and patroclus / andromache and hector / odysseus and penelope

• • Black Girl Academia • •

Normalize Diversity in Academia ✌🏻✌🏼✌🏽✌🏾✌🏿

dark academia critics

dark academia is like one of my favourite aesthetics however there are certain things/issues that bother me about this whole aesthetic

1. where is the diversity?

have you ever come across any dark academia posts that included any people of color. everywhere I go, all I see is elite white kids. I would die to see japanese/korean/indian /pakistani/ african/ middle eastern dark academia students often wearing their ethnic attires and embracing their cultures.

2. eat the rich

I know the whole theme about dark academia is ivy league/ rich elite students but imagine middle class dark academia srudents who are not necessarily clad in expensive attires rather wearing clothes bought from the thrift stores studying on scholarships, who own second hand books and antique/vintage items from some local flee markets or thrift stores.

3. fuck that Greek philosophy

not that I hate Greek philosophy but all dark academia posts do talk about is western art/architechture/ mythologies / history and philosophy etc. I would love to read and discuss persian poetry and history , south asian mythologies, japanese/Arabic/korean calligraphy, Muslim world's art and architecture.

4. what's up with that nerd shit.

why are dark academia students always protrayed as nerds, reserve, quiet, hates to have a social life, perfectionist who can't afford to get any grades lower than As etc like even the best students have their ups and downs, what matters is the passion and the will to do better. It's okay to have a life outside books, to have romantic dates, to prank, to hangout with yout friends, to skip classes, to be unorganized...its more realistic.

Tianna Arata is a black woman who is about to face 15 years. She currently has eight charged against her including multiple felonies, all because she organized a peaceful protest. A FUCKING PROTEST. She’s an active activist using her 1st amendment to speak on systematic racism and other important issues. Please reblog and check out the linktree below with links for the petition, go fund me for legal matters, etc https://linktr.ee/freetiana

A SHADE TOO DARK

They say the way through is the way out.

They don't want us to weigh in--just to stay out.

A closed mouth is a silent shout,

But the people can't hear us when we shut our mouths.

If you speak up it's too loud,

Too black and too proud.

Just a shade too dark.

But there's a remedy for that,

Another bullet in a black back.

Souls turned desolate

Another bully lackin' black tact

Black man--white cop.

Gun cocked

pop, pop

Two shots

No thoughts

Un-armed, life lost

Cheeks turn

Hate costs.

Just a shade to dark.

Red handed as the blood spills.

Black bodies turned to buzz kills.

If the people don't acquit 'em you know the judge will.

And you try to tell me times ain't what they was still?

Just another ni**a in a white world.

They tryin' to wipe our history--white whirl.

Dismantling families killing off the "villain".

An infection to them "white folk" and them bullets penicillin.

Mass incarceration and gentrification too,

The wounds from the hatred have pierced us to the roots.

They try to call us thugs and force us from the roost,

But all lives will matter when the black ones finally do.

I guess we're just a shade too dark.

Velimir Khlebnikov, from “An Oak Tree in Persia”, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt