we are dizzying falling specks of starlight on the bottom of your eyes so when you shut them, ever so slowly, the world will fade into a beautiful place where you can be, be so lovely that your heart will ache from the loveliness of it all. (you are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins)


❝ Ever notice how when people talk about racism or sexism being over all they mean is that the violence has become so systematized and subtle that they can’t see it anymore? Then, when something awful does happen they say, ‘How on earth could this happen? There’s no way it’s connected to anything! What a terrible incident! What a bad man! What a one bad man acting alone!’
Dylan Ingraham (via fatwasandfanboys)

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► the life and times of jannat m.: The 8 stages of Genocide

emmazomer:

  • 1. CLASSIFICATION: All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality (i.e German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi)
  • 2. SYMBOLIZATION: We give names or other symbols to the classifications.
  • 3. DEHUMANIZATION: One…

(Source: genocidewatch.org)

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