Acespec Jiang Cheng Writers, You Are Doing The World A Service. I Have Never Felt More Seen Than When

Having a crush on someone is nice until you start losing your mind.

Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

Red tulips <3

𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡

— flowers as hair accessories 💐

"And now there's all this talk in university about “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” And we know what people mean when they say “inclusion.” Or we know some of what they sometimes mean. And sometimes some of that is really good. But I often wish that we thought about using, even though it's more unwieldy, the term “non-exclusion.” Because it's kind of like, I don't want to be excluded from this particular set of resources, from this particular set of chances, from this particular set of responsibilities. But I don't want to be included in the already existing form of those things. When I come in, as Anna Julia Cooper says, and Paula Giddings echoes, where and when I enter, it's got to change. It's not enough for you to welcome me into your thing. You have to be open to the possibility and the fact that when we get there, it's going to be different. It's got to be different. It can't simply be the same old structure that used to exclude us. And this has to be something that you can be open to. And ideally it would be something that you would desire." -Fred Moten

Sometimes the grief really is love persevering huh