Me and my dad wen and ate from this cherry tree today. We’ve been making this a regular thing.
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
— Zora Neale Hurston (via grrrlstudies)
(Source: noldarling, via zuky)
.and then your head opens and all your poems come spilling out.
“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.”
— Octavia E. Butler (via girlinboyclothes)
This Happened: Beekeeping and Beers was a Pop-up fundraiser for Shawty Got Skillz. Want to help support a Black beekeeper and an amazing collective of skilled people of color? Donate $5 Today!
Some friends came over to see my hive. Both are generally fascinated by all things rural and agrarian but neither had ever been around a hive. One donned a veil and one went without. One was on smoker duty (gotta keep it stoked) and the other took these amazing photos. They asked amazing questions and we geeked out about bees until almost sunset. Who knew beekeeping was a great way to make friends?
Oh yeah, and we found the queen I had been looking for. I have questions about supercedure cells now. Any experts out there?
View high resolution
Mexican stingless bee-keeper, plugging a tree trunk hive with earth.
I had to look up what Mexican stingless bee-keeping might be about, and it’s pretty interesting. It’s an ancient Mayan thing, and because the species of bee involved is getting overwhelmed by other kinds of bees it might not be around much longer.
What we didn’t hear about was a how an African-American women who in the course of protecting herself from an abusive husband who beat her while she was pregnant, shot a gun that she legally owns into the air. No one was hurt, but she is now looking at 25 years. Yes indeed, you read that right, facing 25 years.. Her name is Marissa Alexander, she lives in Florida, is a mother of 3 and everyone should know her name and her case.The person who prosecuted her case is Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case.
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
—
bell hooks (via grrrlstudies)
.good advice for all folks, all the sexes and all the genders.
(Source: purgingmyguts, via guerrillamamamedicine)
