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Black. Femme Queer. Textbook Scorpio. she/her/hers. Graduated high school in 1998, you do the math. #KHive.
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The world is a fiery shitshow. AND You are allowed to be happy. These two things are not mutually exclusive. Clutching our moments of joy with both hands is how we remember what we're fighting for and trying to protect.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

I have a giant water bottle marked with amounts and time of day to remind me to stay hydrated. I'm almost embarrassed by how huge a sense of accomplishment emptying that damn thing brings. That said, go drink something and put on some lotion. It's winter, protect your skin.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Justice is the PEOPLE'S fight" 🧵

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Just a suggestion for Black History Month, especially for WW and "allies": Read Audre Lorde. Start with The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House. Read it twice. Then read Zami. Then her gorgeous poetry. Read the speech again. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/audr...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral. #BlackHistoryMonth www.vox.com/the-highligh...

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I had planned to write a bit about Ruby Bridges Hall this week, but this is a good place to begin.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The mural is incredible on its own, but baby girl walking toward it adds this element of instinctive awareness that the ancestors are always reaching toward us, holding us, and guiding us. Carrying us through.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 13 days ago • 236 comments

Even naming an issue is called "too far." One only has to look at the "the real racism/sexism/transphobia is talking about it," responses that are so frequent on social media. Go back to the post @nathangrayson.bsky.social quoted, because it's illuminating.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

My thought today is that wypipo are mad, not just because the halftime show wasn't FOR them, but in their tiny shriveled racist hearts, they sure knew that it was ABOUT them.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today in Selma, Sheriff Jim Clark & a group of deputies armed with night sticks & electric cattle prods forced 165 Black schoolchildren, who had been holding signs at the courthouse calling for voting rights, to go on a rapid-pace forced march into the countryside.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

To the people insisting Kendrick should have burnt the American flag: 1) Kendrick's clearly proud to be an American. 2) Burning the flag at America's Game is asking to start a riot against you. 3) Proclaiming that American Heritage = Black Heritage makes the GOP angrier than burning it ever would.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments