Illustrations from The Black Cat magazine, vol. 16 (1910-1911). From this post ♡

 I swear to God, when people here talk about academia they’re honestly thinking Harvard or Oxford in the 50s. Guys, I’m sorry to break it to you but academia is PhDs students who don’t even get a desk to work in their university and overworked lecturers who are forced to do tons of unpaid work to “get ahead”. i’m begging you all to educate yourselves.

i’m also imploring you to do some research on the importance of universities as cultural and political hubs that bring actual, concrete change to underdeveloped communities, by providing poor and marginalized kids with an education and by actually conducting vital research meant to improve people’s lives. Please remember that there are places in the world where people do not pay thousands of dollars for an university degree and that for many people Universities ARE institutions that considerably improve their lives and not just a place you go after high school because that’s what you’re supposed to do.

your Lord has neither forsaken you nor hates you.

— Qur'an {93:03}

like a dove 🕊

Lion.

According to the AI photo editing software I use.

my sanctum where I study,contemplate and exist ..🏹

“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”

— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Anne Carson, from Red Doc>

help a broke depressed student out <3

hii! im collecting donations again cause i’m broke af and i can’t afford to pay rent and medication for depression, which is making everything hard for me. i can barely get out to go to uni and im missing out on so much study. i also feel physical pain which is making it really hard for me to just do normal tasks.

my parents will probably have to pay for university fees because of me not completing my exams - due to depression and depressive episodes - so if u have like 2$ to spare id really appreciate !! even a tiny reblog counts.

also shoutout to all the people suffering from mental illness or any kind of physical pain and disorders. i feel you. i know what it feels like to just not have the strength anymore to do simple stuff, like getting out of bed and staying hydrated, or even eating. i know how hard it can be and it makes me sad to know that most of our sanity depends on money - money which people in some countries don’t have access to. so i feel you, and i really hope we’ll get out of this !

please stay strong and don’t forget you’re not alone !!

here’s my p^ypal <3

Every Palestinian I know is exhausted, we are all exhausted. Everyday I’ve had to wake up sick and traumatized and hopeless at the sight my people being beaten and brutalized and killed. 

We are up against a US backed nuclear-armed state that has been killing and oppressing us for decades with billions of dollars in support. White Americans and white brits? It is your job to advocate against this seeing how your governments are both what created and funds our ethnic cleansing.  You cannot be neutral on Palestine, you cannot be silent with Palestine while your elected government officials support our murder, you cannot refuse to acknowledge us while we are shot at and ethnically cleansed from our homes. 

Stop electing politicians who support Israel, stop letting Palestine slip from your mind. This is NOT a conflict, it is a genocide. 

every single day i think about how horribly rumi’s poems have been translated from persian into english & how they’ve been turned from gorgeous poems abt islamic spirituality into these… pithy vapid little quotes that white people post as instagram captions. white scholars & translators straight-up falsified and misrepresented the essential themes of and islamic mysticism inherent to his work in favor of turning it into easy-to-consume love poetry & it never fails to make me angry

peter brown / marcel rieder / sally storch / edward hopper / philip geiger / warren chang

When you make a reference and someone actually gets it

i think that all stories are about consumption, performance, and/or narrative, and the best combine elements of all three