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aftersun but it’s remus and harry

Paul Mescal and his mission to traumatise an entire generation into crying when hearing 80's music

the thing about aftersun to me is that the sadness inherent to the movie is not just that calum inevitably kills himself - it’s that this is their happiest time together and it’s still so flawed and banal and gently wrong. the beds aren’t right. calum doesn’t get up to sing with sophie. she’s is on the cusp of growing up and he’s so wounded he can barely stand. and both these things are unutterable. so they don’t talk about it. and what makes me cry is that calum is drowning in this movie but you can see him try and try and try to bridge that gap between them and when he can’t, it’s sophie that is trying. and the fact that this unsure stage of togetherness between a father and a kid is all they ever got to share is what gets me

It is, and always will be, endlessly weird to think of your parents as people. Think of the future you want, think of the life you want. Then think of your parents, of most parents. What did they want at your age? Are they happy now? If you looked at their lives, would you be happy with it? Maybe, we will continue to grow and find out I suppose, but it's hard to know. When you went on a 2 week holiday to that all inclusive family resort, what sad drama were your parents talking about while you played pool with some kids you met half an hour ago. Think of all the nights where your bed time was 7pm, how many times did your parents cry over something hours later.

When we look back on the videos our parents took in our childhood years, if we ignore ourselves, what will we see in their eyes?

Do you have to watch and read everything about a piece of media the moment you finish consuming it, or are you normal?.

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

— The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I pray that God will bless you in everything that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can understand the problems of the world and where you fit into that world picture. I pray that all of the fear that has ever been in your heart will be taken out.”

— Malcolm X

Malcolm X was the most based man to ever live no I will not be taking questions.

Malcolm X on Palestine:

“The number one weapon of 20th century imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians.

Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.

And the continued low standard of living in the Arab world has been skillfully used by the Zionist propagandists to make it appear to the Africans that the Arab leaders are not intellectually or technically qualified to lift the living standard of their people...thus, indirectly inducing Africans to turn away from the Arabs and towards the Israelis for teachers and technical assistance.

‘They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.’

The imperialists always make themselves look good, but it is only because they are competing against economically crippled newly independent countries whose economies are actually crippled by the Zionist-capitalist conspiracy. They can't stand against fair competition, thus they dread Gamal Abdul Nasser's call for African-Arab Unity under Socialism.”

Malcolm X: Zionist 'Logic', published in “The Egyptian Gazette,” Sept. 17, 1964.

‘full movie watch free online’ was in the early 21st century a kind of prayer

one day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been against this

- omar el akkad

"In 1984, a few years before his death, James Baldwin explained to an interviewer from the Village Voice that queers could see the precarity of heterosexuality, even as straights kept it hidden from themselves. 'The so-called straight person is no safer than I am, really. The terrors that homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if society itself did not go through so many terrors it doesn't want to admit.'

As Baldwin saw it, it is not simply that straight people are suffering and in denial about it, but that heterosexual misery expresses itself through the projection of terror onto the homosexual. One way to think about this is that homophobia is the outward expression of heterosexual misery; a kind of subconscious jealous rage against the gendered and sexual possibilities that lie beyond the violence and disappointments of straight culture."

-Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this

- suheir hammad, on occupation

There is life here. Anyone reading this is breathing, maybe hurting, but breathing for sure. And if there is any light to come, it will shine from the eyes of those who look for peace and justice after the rubble and rhetoric are cleared and the phoenix has risen. Affirm life. Affirm life. We got to carry each other now. You're either with life or against it. Affirm life.

- suheir hammad, on occupation

a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body.

- suhier hammad, on occupation