photographs taken in Canton, Mississippi by Floyd D. Tunson (1976)
via FB Black Archives
Muhammad Ali training at the Main Street Gym in Los Angeles for his bout against Archie Moore, 1962.
Photos by Stanley Weston
the dumbest people on the planet are having a field day transvestigating a woman from a country where there are no medical services for gender transition, it is impossible to change gender on legal documents, and it's illegal to be LGBT
Four Asian Butches, Perminder Sekhon, 1997 from Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender (1998)
There r some really handsome dykes out there in thee world. Thank god I am alive to see them
all prisoners on death row are political prisoners. capital punishment is part of both the afterlife and presentlife of lynchings and slavery. the myriad of issues including the permanence of death as punishment, how death sentences are deployed in an overtly discriminatory manner, how capital punishment does nothing to actually prevent crime, denies people any chance of restorative justice all of these are secondary to the simple fact that the state should not have the right to kill human beings. some of y'all keep missing the point and focusing on the dichotomies of guilt versus innocence when it comes to the liberation of prisoners on death row (and otherwise). regardless of whether or not an individual is "guilty" of the crime they have been charged with, the state should not be able to detain them indefinitely before murdering them. full stop. rest in power marcellus williams and may we, in the words of george jackson, "rage on aggressive and free" until no human being is murdered by the state again
“I am typing these words as June 2003 surges with Pride. What year is it now, as you read them? What has been won; what has been lost? I can’t see from here; I can’t predict. But I know this: You are experiencing the impact of what we in the movement take a stand on and fight for today. The present and past are the trajectory of the future. But the arc of history does not bend towards justice automatically—as the great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, without struggle there is no progress . . .”
- Leslie Feinberg