Media That Matters Film Festival: Why Do White People Have Black Spots?

Ghana’s secondary school children ask poignant questions:
“Why do you like to go and work in other people’s countries. But you don’t want them to come to your country. Why?”

Posted on May 19, 2012 via Decolonize Yourself with 18 notes

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Child’s Own creates custom plush toys based on children’s drawings

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Posted on May 14, 2012 via Wild and Peaceful with 592 notes

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linearskin:

last night.

linearskin:

last night.

Posted on May 12, 2012 via All the words I don't say with 888 notes

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Africans Against Appropriation: When I went to Europe

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thisisnotafrica:

I have to start off by saying it was a tough decision to make. I’ve never left my my friends and family to embark on a journey to a place where I knew no one. But my world as I knew it was too tiny and there’s so much out there I…

Posted on May 10, 2012 via Africans Against Appropriation with 1,088 notes

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But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via loveyourchaos)

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Posted on May 8, 2012 via l o s t with 13,375 notes

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moon&moon: from the love letters of Zelda Fitzgerald, Part IV — Since you are...

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from the love letters of Zelda Fitzgerald, Part IV

— Since you are slowly dissolving into a mythical figure over the long period of years that have elapsed since two weeks ago, I will tell you about myself: I am lonesome… Life is difficult. There are so many problems. 1. The problem of how to…

Posted on May 6, 2012 via VALUSKA with 162 notes

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