I Want To Be Politically Informed And Educated But I Also Wanna Have A Good Day And Be In A Good Mood.

Minneapolis, MN. May 28th 2020

Let talk about black women (make your follow @AveryFrancis on Instagram)

PROTECT ALL BLACK WOMEN AT ALL COST

a compulsive obsession with cleanliness is beaten into us from birth, don’t curse, don’t scream, that’s dirty, don’t wear that, don’t touch that, that’s dirty, have sex, don’t have sex, that’s dirty, you made a mess, clean it up, your brother made a mess, your father made a mess, clean it up, pills instead of a gun, blood’s dirty, don’t play in a dress, you’ll get it dirty, open the windows and boil water with cinnamon and vanilla when da smokes, it’s dirty, older brother not learning he smokes til five years later, he can’t know, that’s dirty, don’t want things, don’t need things, desire can’t be pure, not yours, are you a virgin? have someone else’s hands taken that cleanliness? would that be so bad? of course it would, doesn’t he know there’s no cleanliness left in me to take? he doesn’t care, he’ll take my filth if it’s all i have, as long as he’s taking, as long as it’s all i have left, don’t love her, don’t touch her, that’s dirty, ive cleaned this kitchen ten times, it’s still dirty, da spilled his drink clean it up, he can’t know how bad he’s getting, this house must be clean, clean of him, clean of sin, clean of evidence at least, i’m not clean anymore but i try to be, i have to try, i can’t be dirty, and now it’s not about staying clean but only appearing to be, plato said there’s a class of woman who are receptacles for filth, a sewage system of women at the bottom, and i’m part of that, it feels like it, and now i’m a hopeless cause, i’m tainted, i’m dirty, and i can’t let it spread, what’s around me must stay clean, i can’t infect the world around me, i have to hold the filth inside and keep the world safe, but every woman is this way so what world is there to care for, because no one cares, no one sees, but they don’t want it dirty either, do they.

Fuck study aesthetic classism

Fuck I'm so inspired by Grey Academia because I'm pretty salty!! So let's break shit down!

- Favorite stationery can be that pen you found on the ground that works pretty damn well

- Bullet journal with spreads every now and then, mostly handy notetaking paper. Pretty lettering right alongside scratched out modules started in ink. Bujo can mean a dotted notebook, or a piece of blank paper, or the next page in your class notes

- Your desk decor includes unwashed mugs and your electric bill

- You've needed to buy batteries for your fairy lights since you bought them

- Library books. Rented textbooks. Reserve textbooks. Pirated textbooks. Photos of the problem set on your phone.

so issac newton was a gay sugar daddy... why wasn’t i aware of this

Dark academia is not about buying expensive books or sweaters or aesthetic props, sometimes its about illegally downloading a book you're dying to read, reading it and then showing a friend how to do the same.

Dark academia is not drinking 3 cups of coffee screwing up your mental and physical health, sometimes it's about eating a pastry while enjoying the rain. Take a break from your hectic schedule.

Dark academia is not about being a rude jerk in the name of being mysterious, be kind be helpful. Make friends, you can't carpe diem without someone to remember that you did it.

Dark academia is not about reading old white men, and placing them on a pedestal. Sometimes, its about reading them and analyzing them and then reading point of views of other bi-poc writers. Trust me, you'll be amazed of Persian, Arabic and generally south Asian dark academia.

Dark academia is not about exclusion. It's about education! Learn, read and go down that rabbit hole of research! Then go and share what you've learned with your friends! Bi-poc and queer people, people of various religions have always belonged in academia and they always will. Vintage aesthetics not values,always remember.

Feel free to add more!

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You should be outraged. You should be enraged and if you are not, if the senseless killing of the black community at the hands of our police force does not anger you please reevaluate your humanity.

To be unmoved by the current issues of our society is a privilege. To prioritize looting and damage to property over lost black lives and police brutality is to lack humanity.

Please evaluate and educate yourself, this is a major issue and we need serious reform and revolution in this country.

You can’t love the Romantics and academia and remain ignorant and complacent.

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George Floyd.

Killed by Minneapolis Police Department recently. Suffocated and murdered. A grocery stores called the police when they thought he was writing a bad check. This man had his knee on george’s neck for 10 minutes. Cutting off his airway. Took his life and treated him as nothing while putting his on a stretcher. They watched him DIE.

THIS IS AMERICA.