Oh yes Taylor Swift profiting off the gays ™ Again. Please.
dont mean to sound like a Swiftie ™ but why be mad when you can be glaad that Taylor who’s the biggest popstar in the world rn with a massive following actually gave prominent LGBT icons a platform.. the music video really showcased the gay spirit and apparently donations for GLAAD spiked when the single got released so it seems most of the proceeds will go to the charity. also, she advocates for the Equality Act and even put it at the end of her video. she encourages viewers to engage in politics and write to their senators. the video is in good spirits and the song has a good message. i’m gay and tbh i really dont see why we should make this experience something negative when the pros outweigh its problematic aspects. also, Hayley Kiyoko is openly gay and is in the music video so there’s an LGBT artist you can check out if you wanna support gay artists
look at this neat doritos i got
If you look closely, you can pinpoint the exact moment where my heart shattered.
getting bullied at art school is the worst bc not only are you getting picked on by people who post voltron discourse but every mean thing they say to you is verbatim lifted from a text post you’ve already seen and that has damaged my self respect in a way that nothing else ever could
Shortly after arriving in Lagos, my guide showed me a story that was being passed around Nigerian social media. There was a woman who’d been stopped in traffic behind a crowded prison truck, and she witnessed a food vendor running alongside, shoving his food between the bars of the window, into the hands of the prisoners inside. By the time he was finished, he’d given away all his food. The man was himself in desperate circumstances. He was sleeping outdoors. But despite having hardly anything to give, he gave away all his merchandise. Amazingly, my guide Kola was able to locate the man. His name is Ibere Ugochukwu. And this is his story:
“A few years ago I worked as an apprentice in a cosmetics shop. I was supposed to receive a payment at the end of my term. But I was warned by the other employees that the owner would find a reason not to pay me. He’d always invent reasons to fire his boys right before their payment. So I made the decision to quit. But when I told him, he dragged me to the police. He told them lies about me. He told them I’d stolen so much money. And they tortured me. They tied my hands and legs and they hung me from the ceiling. They beat me. I went deaf from all the slaps. For ten days I was given no food. My fellow prisoners would share little bits of their meals when they were finished. But some days I saw nothing. Honestly I was about to die. And I started to pray to God. And on the tenth day, the guards decided that it would cause too much trouble to let me die. They told my employer: ‘After what we did to him, he must be innocent. Because he’d have confessed if he was guilty.’ They released me into the world like a madman. And I’ve carried the memory ever since. I promised myself that if I ever found someone in a similar situation, I would help. So when I learned that prisoners pass down this road, I chose to hawk in this location. I waited until I finally saw the truck, and I pushed all my food through the bars. My fellow vendors couldn’t believe it. They asked me who would pay me for the food. I told them: ‘I didn’t do it for any man. I did it because of what God did for me.’” (Lagos, Nigeria)
the most exciting thing about tumblr is when you’re reading an issue post and you have to guess if you’re supposed to agree with it or not before getting to the last comment
you: everyone is problematic
me, an intellectual: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
the crew goes out into the forest just to film random b-roll shit and the director accidentally finds the like..rarest worm on earth so they run back to their house like COYOTE LOOK and then there is a very heartfelt and sincere response to weird worm including an entire mounted piece of wall art apparently
Stuff I like that I reblog, and stuff that I post .... Luke
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