Straight men who embrace their femininity, express emotions in a healthy way and help advocate for minority groups without speaking over them? Big dick energy.
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The thing that makes this even better is the fact that Terry Jefford is Terry Crews (or is it the other way around? I guess we’ll never know)
During the 1980s, more gay men died in New York City during the AIDS crisis than all recorded deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam. You need to know that.
how are u going to tell me mermaids dont exist then
dont quote me on this but im pretty sure weve only found baby giant squids so we dont actually know how big they can be
we also know like nothing about lobsters since most of them on the ocean floor and some marine scientists predict that, theoretically, there could be submarine sized lobsters
this is all EXACTLY the way my brain works about the ocean.
Y’all remember the leviathan from the movie Atlantis?
Its spooky but… i wanna eat a submarine sized lobster… get some melted butter… boil that thing up… fucc… hungry now…
Imagine the pressure
And people are surprised when I say I prefer mountain for my holidays
I love the ocean so much
yo fuck the ocean
i love the ocean so much but i’m never going anywhere near it, ever
Dole’s required to defend their trademarks or they might lose them. That vaguely threatening letter reads to me as “I have to legally say this but I don’t want to because I’m laughing too hard and they’re actually giving us marketing, but…I have to say it.”
a lot of TERFs speak like they’re giving a speech in a movie. One time one of them referred to me & my “brethren”, which they then had to clarify meant trans people and their supporters. I still think about that and laugh sometimes. “you and your brethren” fedgyejgfjhdgsjhksa like what are we, viking warriors?
Sadly Rosewood was not the only black town that was destroyed something similar happened in Tulsa
[CW: antiblack racism, antiblack violence, slurs and depictions of violence in linked articles]
I can’t speak about Tulsa, but Rosewood is local to me, and I can share some information I’ve collected for those who want to know more about it.
(Disclaimer: I’m not an expert; I’m just a local hobbyist historian who’s made a point to track down links and share them.)
Rosewood is almost nonexistent in the community memory. I learned about it in passing in school when I was younger because I had a teacher who cared, but most people have absolutely no clue. The town was completely forgotten for a long time, before the history was rediscovered a few decades ago and there came some interest in preserving what was left of the site. Local Black organizing has done quite a bit to get the history more recognized, but it’s still an uphill battle.
As the above tweets say, Rosewood was a predominately Black town that was destroyed over a weeklong period in January of 1923, after a white woman falsely accused a Black man of rape. There’s a fairly comprehensive article about the town and its history on Wikipedia here. Here’s a link to the Rosewood page on BlackPast.org, as well.
The last remaining original building is for sale as of May 2018 for
$500,000. There have been threats made by locals against any Black people who may be interested in purchasing the site, though the current owner of the building, a Japanese woman who was unaware of the history when she first moved in, has been firm in saying she hopes to sell to someone who understands and values the history of the town.
Locals have also been known to threaten and harass school trips to the area, and the sole historical marker for the town has been repeatedly vandalized.
People are actively, to this day, trying to erase the history of what happened there. Fortunately, there are local archaeologists and historians working on uncovering and preserving more of the town. There has been discussion of purchasing the house to turn into a museum, though interested parties haven’t been able to raise the money. I’ve had my ear to the ground in case any crowdfunding efforts crop up, but I haven’t heard anything yet–I’ll be sure to share if anything does go up.
If you can stomach reading more, here are some links from local news sources and historical orgs about the town, what happened, and the current status of the site. I’ve also included a link to the book mentioned in one of the articles:
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