📸: Protester with sign that reads, “Columbia [University] is the enemy of all Black people”. 1968. Photo by Steve Schapiro.

Whew what a photo and the sign from 1968 is timely.

So, I have stage 2 breast cancer.

2+yrs I’ve begged for help for my mom & I’m beyond spent.

I don’t want to spend the next 6mo of chemo still begging for life saving funds for her.

$82,520 to clear my mom’s fund so I can focus on trying to beat cancer.
gofund.me/37f58176

There’s actually a much better answer

everybody say thank you Evening Monteiro

This is why I think the leftist tendency to dismiss online disability advocacy and activism is dangerous.
For many disabled people, 'showing up' in person isn't possible; that this has to be explained to progressives is depressing.

my family has been calling us crying begging for help to be able to afford the most basic necessities. everyone around them is struggling and starving. please help me help them as no one else is.
vm: three-dee
ppl: deesturbance
dm for zelle
please use 🌟 in your payment

Obituaries are records of people's lives. Especially for black folks. My grandma kept a tin of every single obituary of family and friends. It's allowed for us to trace family lineages because they often mention names of parents, spouses, children, cousins and more.

if you're into ancestor veneration, funeral programs are also a good/common thing to put on an altar. lots of people use funeral programs on ofrendas for dia de los muertos/difuntos

i think we spend a little too much time saying “american police are trained by the iof” and not enough time saying “the iof are modeled after american police, who are modeled after american slave patrols”

the women have waists as thin as their necks but they added one fat guy so i guess its what we need

CARICOM recognizing Palestine as state while helping the international community in the transgression of Haiti’s sovereignty is ironic but very predictable.

And yall were clutching pearls when I said drakes mining of other cultures , accents & styled was a form of minstrelsy ..and now he’s literally rapping behind a mask (ai filter ) …to sound like ..

im crying this shit so ass man

Schools weaponize student housing contracts to force students to comply with institutional objectives.

Campus eviction is uniquely devastating because:

- Students pay a year’s rent upfront
- That rent is nonrefundable
- Many students paid w/ student loans that accrue interest

can i just say, this is a Layla 🪬 fan account. not just for this, or always seeing a mask on. but seriously, layla has been put through it by columbia and that genocidal professor all while processing a tremendous amount of grief.
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buymeacoffee.com/itslaylas

This is what the repression against the Stop Cop City movement is making abundantly clear to people:

If you’re going to get hit with the same domestic terrorism charges for handing out flyers as you would for property destruction, might as well do the most damage.

One of my abusers has been on the frontline of in person protests while I write this from my bed (as I’ve written and created songs from my beds & bedrooms these past 4 years). It makes me wonder how things would change if our ideas on who is on the frontline changed.