Feminist, Critical Race theory, and Post colonial critique of literature: Exists
Everyone who took one lit course in their freshman year: Wow if you’re criticising adult fiction it’s obvious you haven’t read anything
The book, “Chasing the Scream” is about this and how the war on drugs escalated because of her and other Black radicals.
“Holiday, who throughout her career called public attention to the devastating impact of white supremacy, was also a drug user. She drew Anslinger’s notice, and he ordered Holiday to cease performing the song. Holiday refused, and Anslinger ramped up his efforts to silence her.
After one of Anslinger’s men was paid to track Holiday and frame her with buying and using heroin, she spent eighteen months in prison. Upon her release in 1948, the federal government refused to renew her cabaret performer’s license, mandatory for any performer playing or singing at any club or bar serving alcohol.
This utterly undermined her career. Although Holiday was able to perform multiple sold-out Carnegie Hall performances over the next several years, she could no longer travel the nightclub circuit.
Unable to perform regularly at the venues she loved, and to stop remembering a childhood that included being raped at age ten, and working in a brothel with her mother, Holiday eventually began using heroin again. When she checked into a New York hospital in 1959, her liver was failing and cancerous. She was emaciated, and her heart and lungs were compromised. Despite her condition, she didn’t want to stay there. “They’re going to kill me. They’re going to kill me in there. Don’t let them,” she presciently told friends and family.
Indeed, Anslinger’s men, sensing a macabre opportunity, showed up at her hospital bedside, handcuffed her to the bed, took mugshots, removed gifts that people had brought to the room—flowers, radio, record player, chocolates, magazines—and stationed two cops at the door.
Even so, as doctors began methadone treatment, Holiday began to improve, gaining some weight and improving slowly. But then Anslinger’s men prevented hospital staff from administering any further methadone. She succumbed to death within days.”
Wow I never knew any of this…..
(Source: christel-thoughts, via odinsblog)
My favorite Christmas tradition is watching It’s a Wonderful Life, everyone’s favorite movie about traditional family values that was actually investigated by the FBI for being a communist propaganda film because oops it actually totally fucking is.
How is it communist? Is it because he tried to off himself because of low funds?
The bad guy is literally a capitalist who tries to buy the entire town and privatize everything, and he is thwarted by the whole town pooling their money together and sharing their resources. That’s communism.
Sjws pls get out of my favorite Christmas films
…. Are you calling the FBI sjws?
Who knew the FBI had a tumblr
(via jeffbezosdivorcelawyer)
