Hey, What If We All Shifted Tonight?

Today someone said to me"not everything is about colonisation" and all I could think about was the irony that they were wearing a bikini swimsuit.

Bikini is a colonial misspelling of the indigenous name for the Pikinni atoll. It was one of the many places in the Pacific where Western countries tested atomic bombs. In order to carry out the nuclear testing at Bikini, the USA relocated the islanders to an atoll with no shelter, inadequate fresh water, and so little food that some islanders starved to death. They were exposed to radioactive fallout anyway. Castle Bravo, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the USA, was tested at Bikini and sent radioactive particulate as far away as India, the USA and Europe. After detonating 24 atomic bombs on and around the atoll, the US told the islanders that it was safe to return despite knowing that radiation levels were (and still remain) dangerously high. Generations of islanders are still paying the price with their health and their lives.

The guy who created the bikini swimsuit named it after Bikini Atoll. He said that he wanted it to be "a bombshell" and "explosive" on the scale of a nuclear bomb. He said that "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating" and "atom bombs reduce everybody to primitive costume."

The point of this post isn't to suggest that we should stop saying bikini. It's a word in our language now, for better or for worse. My point is that colonialism and white supremacy are in everything. How do you heal, how do you move on, when the violence is embedded into our very vocabulary?

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

you see how we all shift realties so effortlessly? very cutesy. very mindful. very demure. 💋ྀིྀི

reasons/reminders to be excited to shift (for those who need motivation!)

⭐️ GIRLY EDITION ⭐️

- getting/having your nails/hair/lashes done 24/7

- getting to eat bigger meals than nikocadoavacado and not gain weight

- the skincare days 😵‍💫😵‍💫

- the luxury shopping spree’s

- FACE CARD BEING ON 10 EVERY PART OF THW DAY EVERYDAY NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO

⭐️ feeling beautiful in your skin and finally being with yourself (which you should be even before shifting, you are loved and you are beautiful)

being a hopeless romantic when society is fixated on hookup culture, “situationships” and emotional unavailability makes me feel like I'm in the bottom pits of hell. i yearn for pure romance. waiting for the fairytale I have always dreamed of to come true. but also thinking I won't be loved the way I love is a curse.

The fact that I been in love with this man since I was 8...

I'm 19 now...

I love receiving my desires instantly all the time

Because I’m actually so stoked about the new Batman and Robin issue DR. WAYNE‼️‼️

I’m so happy about the possibility that Damian who comes from a place of violence and murder grows up to save people and not through violence as well but through medicine and empathy

everytime i try to shift i actually shift this isn’t even funny like EVERY SINGLE TIME.

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