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was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

PubMed Central (PMC)

Arabic Medicine in Literature

Google Books

A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

going here would fix me actually

Off The Leash 🐱🐶🎤

The cruelty of racist white men.

✞ 666 ✞

After Theda Bara as Cleopatra by Bob Carlos Clarke, 1986

Blackie Lawless | W.A.S.P.

Bass Amateur Shop

(bandcamp) (youtube) (spotify soon)

Albert Pyun’s “Knights” (1993), with kickboxer Kathy Long.

recent assemblage pieces (+ family photo)

that's me

so many of the "i only use chat gpt for ___" excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.

you don't need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!

you don't need chat gpt to be a "more detailed search engine", because you're robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?

if you use it to write essays, you're taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!

and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there's supercook and the like. for creating routines, there's about a million apps!

whatever you "only" use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don't have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???

makes me sick to see people dedicating their lives to their careers and families. what about phone in bed

“I don’t know how to reconcile that my favorite piece of media was made by someone awful.” Because they’re a shitty person who made something good. It’s not that rare of a phenomenon. Shitty people make good things everyday. A piece of art being made by a terrible person does not make its effect null and void and making good art does not redeem a terrible person. People who are irredeemably nasty can say something true and honest on occasion. To reevaluate a work after finding out more about the artist’s horrendous biases and actions and still find things that are honest and true even when consuming it through a critical lens, that is a beautiful thing. If the artist’s actions and words completely destroy it for you and distort the meaning you once found, it’s okay to feel a sense of mourning and loss at that.

This is not to say that you should continue to lavish social and financial capital on the artist because you enjoy their art but to say that enjoying art made by horrible people does not mean you are in some way unclean.

”pdf file” “unalived” “grape” “corn” what if i killed myself right here right now

You’re in your 20s saying seggs and unalive… Maybe worry about that

Kurt Cobain in the living room of his Los Angeles apartment on Spaulding Avenue, spring 1992

The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894

its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

There are two basic arguments for shutting the fuck up about cishets at Pride.

First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers? What if it's none of your business?

Second and perhaps more important: If you think you can tell that someone is CIS, let alone HET, by LOOKING at them, you are a cop and an idiot.

“The Boxer”, c.1935 by Hyman Bloom (1913–2009). Latvian-born American painter. oil on canvas

Giovanni Baglione - The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros (ca. 1602)

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (detail). By Rembrandt, 1632

Random PNGs, part 181.

(1. "Arzneibuch" from 1675, 2. Encased blythe doll, 3. Membracid nymph, 4. Anatomical model, 5. Victorian playing card, 6. Pin cushion valentine from 1909, 7. “Heart Book” from c. 1550, 8. Princess fairy cradle by Debbie Schramer, 9. Leech jar from 19th c.)

Luis Caballero