PLEASE STOP SCROLLING THIS IS URGENT

Boiling years of struggle and thoughts around names down into a small zine wasn’t easy, but I’m proud to announce I’ve found a name that fills me with joy instead of dread. 

I’m Ellory, and I couldn’t be happier about it.

Who knows about Sally Hemings?

She was Thomas Jefferson's slave.

Called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?

She bore him 6, perhaps as many as 8 children. He kept her locked in a basement room.

The room was recently unearthed, and DNA evidence has proven the lineage of Sally's children.

She was beteeen 12 and 14 years old when he started raping her, and Jefferson was in his forties. He freed the children that he had with her, but not Sally. Her daughter had to free her mother after Jefferson passed away.

This is not taught in schools. This side of history. We are supposed to consider the founding fathers as great men, fighting for justice and freedom, guided by God... when they are evil men. Selfish men who did nothing, save that it was for their own aggrandisement, personal benefit, and financial gain.

I would also like to add that Sally was Jefferson's dead wife's half sister. Sally's mother was raped by her owner, who was Martha (wife of Thomas) Jefferson's father.

These people left a legacy.

A legacy of entitlement under the most criminal of circumstances, and White Supremacist beliefs which pervade U.S. Society and Culture, to this very day.

A round off applause for the world's best mum.

this is what we need.

Reblog this and put your zodiac sign, whether you prefer the ocean or the woods, coffee or tea, sunrise or sunset, dragons or monsters, and pink or blue.

Forget Me Not. 

i am begging someone to draw richie wearing this

9 year old me playing knockoff disney dress up games on girlsgogames.com

seven comfort movies, tagged by @onl-you 💕

i. princess and the frog

ii. it

iii. avengers: endgame

iv. the maze runner

v. mean girls

vi. guardians of the galaxy vol. 2

vii. grownups

I nominate @fucking-greywater , @beep-beep-tozixr , and @anxiouslymalicious , only participate if comfortable of course.

👼🏼🌸💐🕊💞🍬💞🕊💐🌸👼🏼

emoji spell to attract sweet and gentle romance into my life

like to charge, reblog to cast.