little brown girl with big dreams
Oh hey, Mubarak. Nice pinstripes. Wait, what? Oh shit, those pinstripes are actually your name spelled over and over again. You’re a douche, no doubt, but that is some serious despot swag.
Harold Perrineau as MERCUTIO in Romeo and Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
Be more like Freddie Mercury. Dress as loudly as you want. Chase love recklessly. Own many cats. Surround yourself with your physical possessions. Sing in public and don’t care what people think. Mind your business, unless someone isn’t minding their business, and then you’re allowed to rough them up a bit. Commit petty theft. Commit as many crimes as you can get away with. Steal your ex’s cats. Steal people’s clothes. St
Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
no white lgb person will reblog this
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldn’t be where it is today. Don’t forget the roots, don’t forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, “hmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!”
but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who won’t ever reblog or acknowledge this
My apologies to the original poster as I photo captured this post to add to the thread-I reposted this last year for pride and expect to repost it every year I have left-it’s our history people.
Marsha P. Johnson allegedly died of suicide in 1992, and her death was never investigated. Even I, a mere prole, could catch the “she was murdered” vibes from the circumstances surrounding the discovery of her body.
Without a trans black woman, LGBT+ rights would not exist. Never forget. Never “pay it no mind”.
R E M E M B E R
For the record: Marsha’s body was found floating in the water in NYC, with multiple reports saying she had a hole in her head. There was no evidence of drowning. She had reportedly been seen at three in the morning a few hours earlier saying “they’re after me” or something to that extent.
Marsha P. Johnson was shot and murdered. Never forget her name. Never forget our roots.
you can unfollow me but you can’t un-read my posts so really i’m the winner here
our paths may have crossed briefly but you still had the misfortune of knowing me
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
i call this look ‘waiting to pick up my werewolf boyfriend on my flying motorbike’ (he/him)
