This is Adelaide, the niece of one of my really good friends. She was born 3 months prematurely and after struggling for about five months, she’s passed away May 4th. Addie never left the NICU, and in her five months she had about four surgeries. Although she was always in pain she was always smiling and happy- she was definitely a fighter. In the end the hospital bills really piled up so the family is trying to raise money to help with the cost, and even the smallest amount helps. I’m not associated with the family but I would really appreciate if Tumblr could help out even just a little bit; it would mean everything and more.
Even if you can’t donate, please take two seconds to pass this on. Thank you very, very, much.
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"The policeman who shot down a 10-year-old in Queens
stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood
and a voice said “Die you little motherfucker” and
there are tapes to prove that. At his trial
this policeman and in his own defense
“I didn’t notice the size or nothing else
only the color.” and
there are tapes to prove that, too.
Today that 37-year-old white man with 13 years of police forcing
has been set free
by 11 white men who said they were satisfied
justice had been done
and one black woman who said
“They convinced me” meaning
they had dragged her 4’10” black woman’s frame
over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval
until she let go the first real power she ever had
and lined her own womb with cement
to make a graveyard for our children."
- Audre Lorde “Power” (via femignome)
(via princess-veyonce)
Spider Stories: An Animated Filmby Central City Tower Info: The pilot for an action cartoon set in a African inspired fantasy world. A mythic, epic experience with a unique cultural perspective
Sypnosis: Spider Stories follows the tale of Princess Zahara who is thrown into hiding after the royal family is overthrown by a corrupt neighboring kingdom. While traveling with a misfit caravan of merchants she meets a wandering drummer griot who introduces her to the spirit world. Armed with a mystical staff, the fearless princess embarks on quest to reconnect with the spirits, reunite her homeland, and reclaim the throne.
They are developing an 11 minute animated pilot for a fantasy adventure series called Spider Stories. Your pledges will go towards funding a team of animators to get it done at a professional level of quality.
Help support at and find out more information HERE
(they have until March 31st)
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"
BEAUTY IN THE SHADE
by: Andre Donegan
Woman with shaded skin
Your pigment lights candles
Handled by angels
Guiding light for the heavens
It does not eclipse
Your complexion
Leads eyes to beauty’s true direction
To the world, let not your mind conform
Just because your skin is not wearing it’s uniform
Please… please don’t embrace the lies
For what lies on you is beauty
Eternity cannot embrace comprehension
To provide an explanation
Capturing your angelic coated creation
You’re in my view…
Treasures lie deep within you
Which is why God shaded you the way he did
Because your presence
Would blind the mind’s eye if he didn’t
Jewels so Luminous
Jealo-sea would storm in us
High tides of tears cried
Hands open wide for pieces of your time
For others would see that you are rich beyond belief
We live in a world full of thieves
That steal minds, throw them in washing machines
And fill them with bleach
Now inclined to think brighter is better
Dark skin equals scarlet letter
Evicted from “true beauty”
Because your skin couldn’t pay the price
You pay the price of being who you are
So “natural disaster” is labeled on the being you are
I see you…
You are not Katrinas
All I see are queens
You need not to be crowned
Because you had it on
Out the womb
I see beautiful portraits
All this world sees are tombs
This world blows smoke
Their words and how they view you are fumes
Blow them away with your features
Be the defeater you were born to be
Not the defeated bred by society
You are visible to me…
I say this continually
Because you go unnoticed constantly
Tinted windows it seems,
You look out
But none can see you apparently…
This was a poem
But if someone were to question
Your essence in my presence
This is what my response would be…
"- (via fuckyeahdarkgirls)
right so when squirrels gather loads of food and not come out for weeks it’s ‘normal’ but when i do it it’s ‘antisocial’ oh ok
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