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Agggh today is so beautiful! How was your day?

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:54:07 -0400

Agggh today is so beautiful! How was your day?

Aw booty :’)

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:28:53 -0400

Aw booty :’)

My sister lookin cute in her dress (I need excuses to use my...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:45 -0400

My sister lookin cute in her dress
(I need excuses to use my new phone)

My sister graduating n shit

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:22:57 -0400

My sister graduating n shit

Guys my aunt is in her late forties and look at her damn legs!

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:46:04 -0400

Guys my aunt is in her late forties and look at her damn legs!

Am I QT yet? I’m going to another boring graduation ceremony....

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:37:32 -0400

Am I QT yet?

I’m going to another boring graduation ceremony. Yey.

"Your skin must be sensitive enough for the lightest kiss and thick enough to ward off the sneers. If..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:22:33 -0400

“Your skin must be sensitive enough for the lightest kiss and thick enough to ward off the sneers. If you are going to spit in the eye of the world, make sure your back is to the wind.”

- Gloria Anzaldúa, “Speaking In Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers” in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (via bwildness)

ghdos: thefoxxypoet: odinsblog: A Bronx bus company is...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:10:42 -0400

ghdos:

thefoxxypoet:

odinsblog:

A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the New York Post reports.

The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.

Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” reports Giove.“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”

The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.

The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.

The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.

The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.” [emphasis mine]

This is a total diss to my hometown. Ugh the Bronx is many things, but there is beauty there…and I’m happy I spent a good chunk of my childhood there.

It’s irritating to see these dumb ass tourists come to my city and mock it for their enjoyment and someone is getting paid to be a racist/classist asshole.

They’re taking a tour of the projects like it’s a zoo. Like it’s a fucking exhibit. SMH.

Me and Rosa right now

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:56:25 -0400

Me and Rosa right now

A true gentleman

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:28:09 -0400

A true gentleman

Our beautiful bonfire :’) You guys are gonna have to deal...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:13:00 -0400

Our beautiful bonfire :’)

You guys are gonna have to deal with my friend appreciation posts for the next few days. I lub you guys. Good job with the pics Rosa. I had to throw in the one of Michael and Ivy grinding tho.

What do you mean the internet isn’t like real life???

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:53:06 -0400

What do you mean the internet isn’t like real life???

They’re here…kind of gross and kind of exciting

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:25:03 -0400

They’re here…kind of gross and kind of exciting

mosoli: im still laughing at this

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:53:16 -0400

mosoli:

im still laughing at this

thepoliticalfreakshow: Yet Another Gay Man Has Been A Victim Of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:49:44 -0400

thepoliticalfreakshow:

Yet Another Gay Man Has Been A Victim Of An Anti-Gay Hate Crime In New York City

Just a few days after a homophobe murdered gay man Mark Carson in Manhattan’s West Village, another gay male was attacked in the latest addition to New York City’s recent string of anti-gay hate crimes.

Reports Bruce Yelk at NightlifeGay.com, party promoter Dan Contarino was assaulted last night at Avenue D and 4th Street by a man who screamed “faggot” as he kicked and punched Contarino. Witnesses came to Contarino’s aid, but his assailant got away.

Contarino wrote on his Facebook page early this morning:

THANKS FOR CALLS…. GAY BASHED LAST NITE…. back from small surgery…. CHEST XRAYS THIS AM…. suspect still at large… police n media waiting to interview me… U JUST WANNA CRY N MOVE ON….

Earlier in the evening yesterday, more than 1,000 people gathered at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in lower Manhattan to march in honor of Mark Carson and all the other LGBT men and women brutalized in the city of late.

[via Towleroad/Image via Facebook]

"Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind."

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:26 -0400

“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.”

- Meshelle NdegeOcello (via kickand-snare)

brvdleysoileau: how is “slut” even an insult wtf get that dick grl

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:19:10 -0400

brvdleysoileau:

how is “slut” even an insult wtf get that dick grl

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:47:59 -0400

Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds - Hollow Bones

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:40:05 -0400

Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds - Hollow Bones

any good upcoming funk/ska/reggae/jazz shows in NYC?

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:34:40 -0400

any good upcoming funk/ska/reggae/jazz shows in NYC?