May 2013
8 posts
“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence...”
– Stephanie Georgopulus (via killergrape)
April 2013
8 posts
“Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via westindians)
“Love is a verb. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will. It is the will to...”
– bell hooks (via ynannarising)
“Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow. The waning reveals a...”
– Free Will Astrology - Taurus (Week of 04.11.2013)
“I really, really like Black people. I like us when we’re making bad decisions. I...”
– - Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry (via theraceproblem)
“it’s the black upon each other that we love so much.” - common
(via jalylah)
March 2013
5 posts
“There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”
– real ass quotes from the bible.
Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive... →
so-treu:
notesonascandal:
theraceproblem:
racismschool:
Just so we’re all clear on what we just read. Black people make up 22% of the poor but only 14% of the government benefits. Meaning, 8% of poor Black people are not taking government benefits when they need them.
While, white people make up 42% of the poor but receive 69% of the government benefits. Meaning, there are white people...
Long Distance Relationships →
gumdropsareago:
elephantsandmangoes:
Everyone asks me about my “long distance relationship.” You see, my husband (and my partner for 8 years) lives in Texas. I, however, live in New York. I used to live in Texas, but had to move for graduate studies. We are both immigrants and have applied for green cards (he was lucky enough to receive sponsorship from his employer). Because we are both...
February 2013
2 posts
“I be knowing”
– Intelligent Black people around the world (via blackproverbs)
I *do* be knowin…
“Just because two people are capable of deeply hurting each other over and over...”
– Andrea Greb, You Are Not Blair Waldorf (via albinwonderland)
January 2013
1 post
i think i know what we did wrong.
warsanshire:
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we loved like two people
who did not know god.
(as if we had not used
every prayer
every surah
every ayah
asking god for
something like this)
subhanallah,
what a shame.
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September 2012
2 posts
5 tags
1 tag
the sky mourns our dead when we cannot.
today marks the seventh day of almost non-stop rains. the rains which was away newly built roads. and the homes of those who saw the rains come but hoped they’d stop short of washing away everything they scraped up since last year’s harvest.
we are not told that we cannot mourn the nine. but we do not need to be told. we know the fate of those who dare to mourn. the ones who disappear...
June 2012
4 posts
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it,...”
– Audre Lorde (via thechocolatebrigade)
3 tags
May 2012
2 posts
“Within this broad transnational context, women of African descent have a...”
– Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990), p. 232 (via so-treu)
when I die
femmesandfamily:
I want everyone in fake eyelashes at my funeral.
I want my loved ones to clean out Sephora and wear every color on their faces.
I want giant ballgowns.
I want glitter all over my headstone and my family.
I want my grave to be pink plastic with rose and unicorn felt cut outs.
I want someone far away to see my funeral and think; A queen must be throwing a party.
April 2012
1 post
March 2012
2 posts
“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the...”
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You (via dearlittleblackgirls)
February 2012
4 posts
4 tags
“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix...”
– bell hooks - all about love, 2000 [*M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Travled, 1978] (via jenniferbundock)
4 tags
come on up to the house: Brilliance Remastered:... →
blackfeminismlives:
Calling all community accountable scholars and visionary under-represented grad students!
Hey there bright thunder!
Do you ever feel isolated and misunderstood in your department? Do you ever feel that the passions that motivated you to get your degree are…
January 2012
5 posts
2 tags
THE STUD MAGAZINE
praisethelorde:
thtqueerlyfe:
genderinfinite:
THe amount of sex just does not make sense!
the air, please… I can’t breathe, too much sexyness.
is that a tattoo of grr from invader zim on their left arm?? yaaaaaassssss.
White people lack empathy for brown people, brain... →
so-treu:
The participants – all white – watched simple videos in which men of different races picked up a glass and took a sip of water. They watched white, black, South Asian and East Asian men perform the task.
Typically, when people observe others perform a simple task, their motor cortex region fires similarly to when they are performing the task themselves. However, the UofT research...
December 2011
1 post
My Life as a Feminista: Feminist texts written by... →
adding some african feminist thinkers to this super amazing list:
Speak Out, Black Sisters: Feminism and Oppression in Black Africa (La Parole Aux Negresses), Awa Thiam
So Long a Letter (Une Si Longue Lettre), Mariama Ba
Other badass African WOC feminists you should know about:
Sylvia Tamale
Pumla Dineo Gqola
Patricia McFadden
Amina Mama
Charmaine Pereira
mylifeasafeminista:
This...
November 2011
4 posts
3 tags
2 tags
“I am the only one out of four children who went to college after high school and...”
– Brian E. in “How do you maintain your manhood and dignity while being underemployed?”
Reading an individual’s story in the context of a great societal phenomenon, such as un/underemployment, allows readers to understand and observe the complexities that manifest in the human experience of failure,...
A fish in an aquarium.: so uhm ... →
i’m a relatively new transplant to cape town, so perhaps not that helpful. but we’re practically neighbors! {except not really.}
praisethelorde:
if you’re a QPOC and you live in Johannesburg, please reblog this so i can follow you, or send me a message, if you want, please??
because I need friends here :) and I also need people to speak english with irl because I’ve only talked/...
October 2011
3 posts
