Michal {MJ for short} Black, queer, twenty-something androboi. Seattle transplant. Grad student. Mild misanthrope. Realistically romantic individual.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“Now everybody asks me why I’m smiling out from ear to ear…” #corny #dontcare
I make a kinda cute boi.
Lianne La Havas “Lost & Found” acoustic cover
Had the pleasure of seeing Lianne La Havas live in Seattle Sunday night. Best live show I’ve been to in years… check her out!
I’m just gonna put this here and walk away quietly.
if i lay here, if i just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget all of the homework thats due tomorrow
(Source: theres-the-door-squidgy)
Gross but true.
(Source: peculiarpleasures)
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference — those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older — know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House by Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
started reading this amazing book on the train the other night. y’all need to read it:
“One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation’s consciousness. But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, the openly gay Rustin is not the household name that many of his activist contemporaries are. In exploring history’s Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D’Emilio explains why Rustin’s influence was minimized by his peers and why his brilliant strategies were not followed, or were followed by those he never meant to help.”
