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tomarza:

it’s almost 2015, and soon armenians will commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of their genocide. in the more than ninety-nine years that have passed since the deportation and massacre of armenian intellectuals and community leaders from istanbul on april 24, 1915, which is considered by many the beginning of the genocide, turkey—cultural and political heir to the ottoman empire, whose leaders perpetrated the armenian, assyrian, and greek genocides—has done everything it could to pretend that what happened to anatolian christians between 1915 and 1923 was not genocide. 

here is what you can do for armenians. 

  • learn about the genocide. here is a list of books about the armenian genocide. read them if you can—some are available online for free, at least in part—and if not, make use of the internet, or my blog.
  • talk to your friends, especially on and around april 24. encourage people to do independent research; share with them the tools you have used to do your own learning. 
  • demand accountability. confront genocide denial in your own community. ask cenk uygur why he denied the armenian genocide, and why he named his popular tv news network after the men that committed it. if you’re a citizen of a nation that denies the armenian genocide, harass your representatives. 
  • attend vigils and protests organized by local armenian, assyrian, or greek groups. lend your voice to a cause that is in sore need of (persistent) attention. do not be silent. 

please do not allow our genocides to be forgotten. please learn from and talk with us. please, please share your knowledge with your community. please remember with us. 

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the-feminist-spring:

A black kid was shot dead by Brazilian police in Rio de Janeiro on thursday. Could you guys fucking pretend you care about anything that does not happen in the US or in the Europe and make this fucking viral????

His name was Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, he was sit near his house at the Complexo do Alemão, reading, when he was shot dead by a cop that later said he thought the boy was holding a gun (it was in fact a smartphone). Said cop later treatned Eduardo’s mom.

Eduardo was just a boy; he had only a decade of life and probably many dreams that will never come true because he was a poor black kid, standing in the wrong place at the wrong time, and because there is a Black Genocide happening in Brazil for centuries and nobody seems to give a FUCK about it. He was killed; his mom, Terezinha, has lost her son and, as she said, “she wouldn’t care if that cop killed her because he had already ended her life”.

PLESE GUYS… MAKE THIS VIRAL.

PLEASE.

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW IT IS TO LIVE IN A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE  BRUTALLY KILLED EVERYDAY AND THEN FORGOTTEN THREE DAYS LATER, JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR OR BLACK.

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because-blackgirls-duh:

Please do not try to omit why the 147 people in Kenya were killed. They were singled out because they were Christians. And to casually erase that fact is wrong and disrespectful to them refusing to denounce Christ. A big part of Christianity is to never denounce Christ, even in the face of the enemy. They did just that. They could have lied, they did not. They stood in the name of Christ and stood in the name of their religion and erasing their bravery because it does not suit your original narrative about Christianity is wrong and disrespectful to their memory.