Black panther poster. Just as relevant today

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED
IT'S NOT BECAUSE
THERE ISN'T ANY WORK
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME. POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE.
ASK YOURSELF, WHAT KINDS OF A WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS? IT'S A WORLD WERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, A WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SAT- ISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.

THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR G6OVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PR0FITS, THE WORK WON'T GET DONE.

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"Why are you making the cool girl cry?"
"It's good to cry! Crying is good."

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A good video that accurately explains why stud is a term used for black lesbians only, not white, not poc, BLACK

I’m not even going to say please. Respect black identities and labels, they are ours for a reason.

Imma need this reblogged by white queer tumblr users since it’s mostly yall who wanna use it or want to know why you or other white people shouldn’t/can’t use the term “stud”

[video description: a tiktok made by @/callmekellin, responding to a comment that reads “what does being black have to do with being a stud …….”

the person in the video is a fem presenting black person in their car. they say “i love that you asked, lemme give you a little history lesson. full disclaimer, no hate to the commenter, i’m just giving everybody a bit of a debrief! now firstly, let’s talk about where the term stud actually comes from.

back in the days of slavery, when people still used to refer to us as animals, black people that were taller were known to be stronger because they could do more work. so down in the south, they started comparing us to horses. that then coined the term[s] studs for men, and stallions for females. like megan thee stallion. it was really big in the south. to compare us to animals.

but enough about the bleach brigade, let’s actually get back into the history. as you know, or if you don’t know, black women were not able to enter the working class until well into the 1960s. before then, there was a small populous of women that were still working, even though they technically were not supposed to.

‘how was it possible?’ these women would be dressing more masculine—using binders in order to help put down their chests, dressing more in a male form—and because of the fact that most bleach bandits believed that we, as black women, were already masculine, they got away with it. thus coining the term, in the black community, “stud.” because all the dudes knew, but she was one of the guys. so what did it matter?

any time the chlorine community would come up to black people and be like “hey! is that a female working!?” the guys would just save her and be like ‘nah, that’s a stud right there.” it was joke to them because they all knew. but as times changed and slang did too, the black community still keeps it close at heart. and yes, it was rooted in racism, but we’re taking it back for ourselves.

so once again, if you’re not a black, masculine lesbian that wants to be called a stud, you’re not a stud. you’re a masculine lesbian. even a butch if you want to. i hope that explained it!” end video description.]

"And so being a Negro in America is not a comfortable experience. It means being a part of the company of the bruised, the battered, the scarred and the defeated. Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry.

It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hater for being an orphan. Being a Negro in America means listening to suburban politicians talk eloquently against open housing while arguing in the same breath that they are not racists.

It means being harried by day and haunted by night by a nagging sense of nobodyness and constantly fighting to be saved from the poison of bitterness. It means the ache and anguish of living in so many situations where hopes unborn have died."

Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King Jr.

We as revolutionaries owe our lives to the panthers a hundredfold. Most of us don't deserve the sacrifices they made when they lived, worked and died for the cause and for a better future. They were hunted and executed enough masse by the FBI for the crime of building communities of mutual aid and protection that exposed the lie of American capitalism. They fed hungry kids and uplifted women while the state shrugged it's shoulders.

That the panthers are back in 2026 despite everything should make you feel lucky, and humble. If these panthers can stand up proud and armed in the face of the state's iron fist, then so can you. It has to start somewhere. What better time than now?

It breaks my heart that so many of MLKs greatest bars are gonna go unread and unsung because they don't fit the bastardized "don't hold white people accountable for their role and their need for true action in this society because that's mean and violent" hand puppet that has been created and force fed to us here.

I don't even always agree with him (though I genuinely believe if he'd lived, his views would have shifted some), but when I do, it's great work. Like, so much of his race-class analysis is just, shoved under the rug!and ofc it is, because they assassinated him before he could actually get deep into talking to us about it. And I can literally apply the things he said in 1967 to today. So many of the things I read Black activists over the last century say, STILL APPLY.

Black Panther Party in Philly at ICE protest ✊🏿