genderkills:

white women in many ways hold privilege over men of color (especially black men), hate to break it to you but if your feminism doesn’t acknowledge this its shitty

being seen as masculine is not always beneficial for men of color and is often weaponized to justify their deaths, if your feminism doesn’t acknowledge this its also shit

adriofthedead:

pissyeti:

makeitagoodoneeh:

mm-imagerie:

do-you-have-a-flag:

technology related sensory memories from my childhood

• sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
• the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
• ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 
• rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo

The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint

Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked

The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass

The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover

The sound effects in kidpix

Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands

Manually rewinding cassette tapes by spinning them around my fingers

Playing with the rubber casing of the buttons on a Walkman–pulling them away, rotating them, slipping them from side to side on the stiff posts of the buttons

The audio and visual static at the end of a videotape

The satisfying thwap-thwap-thwap as you page through a well-filled CD sleeve book

How weird and small and light the first cordless phone felt

Feeling the warm smooth sides of our first computer monitor in the early 90s to find the knob to manually adjust the colors on the screen (talk about old school)

The electric whine and hum of the elementary school printers as they processed our print requests and spit out miles of matrix paper

The noise that a VHS tape made when it was being rewound

Flipping the cassette around in our hands until we found the right way for it to fit into the receiver so that it would be accepted and wouldn’t get stuck

The Windows 95 start screen intro noise

Every single sound effect for the kitschy screen savers that we downloaded (haunted mansion, flying toaster, baby dance, underwater, Macarena macaroni, etc)

Holding your CD player just right so it wouldn’t skip and rattle the cd inside

The ka-chunk of the VHS player spitting out the videotape, the registering noise as you pushed it back in