“Keeping the internet open is critical for us. It powers social movements, and provides a global platform for people of color, LGBTQ folks and the most marginalized communities to tell their own stories, run their own businesses and route around powerful gatekeepers.”—Candace Clement, Free Press Action Fund Campaign Director via @fight4future
Starting today, June 11, U.S. internet providers will be legally allowed to censor and block websites and apps, and force you to pay extra fees to to access your favorite places online. Your internet sanctuaries, the communities you are part of, the ones you have help build up, could be decimated.
Will it happen today? No. Next week? Probably not. The changes will not be swift. They will come piece by piece. A slow, tempered death to the free and open internet we love.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You can still make a difference, Tumblr. We need the House of Representatives to sign a discharge petition in support of the Congressional Review Act that would force a vote on the floor.
Contact your reps—let them know you support net neutrality.
It’s so easy. Just go to BattleForTheNet.com, fill out the form, and follow their directions from there.
They have an updated widget for you to throw on your websites to urge others to make a difference. You can put it on your Tumblr. Let your followers know what you stand for, encourage them to do the same. It’s so easy to do. Just copy and paste their small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.
Go, go, go, go. We know you have that passion in you. We’re fighting right alongside you.
(via theladyinthestripeddress)
The woman alone,
finding parts of herself
she never knew existed
will always be more powerful.
- Poem No. 2, Questions for Ada by @theijeoma
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
your hair
your smile
your skin
your poise
the magnificient beauty of it all
even the sun
pays attention
its flares salute
keep shining
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend my days
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep.
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend my days
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep.
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
NO ONE
should be able
to ruin you.
Protect your
happiness,
sanity and
love
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
All our mothers have
always known the power
of sisterhood,
you didn’t teach them
how to use their weapons.
- Narratives by @theijeoma
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
The woman
carried herself
like God
worshipped her body.
- @theijeoma
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!
use their hate
as an ointment
to glow even more
- @theijeoma
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!
“Nobody warned you that the women whose feet you cut from running would give birth to daughters with wings.” - #questionsforada
December 2nd, 2016.
Amazon, Kindle & iBooks.New cover, more poems
One of the best/most powerful writers of all time!!
I swear to the Lord
I still can’t see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
- Langston Hughes
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!
Love…
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!
Queen Ama.
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!
With grace & style
AFROPUNK. BROOKLYN. 2016
Storyteller: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
This elections results have me very distraught, so figured I might as well edit some photos of black beauty & joy that always get me out of any funky mood. God help us for the next 4 years and consequential years afterward! We will prevail…no matter what!!!