One of the benefits of not posting to Twitter is that when of my weather photos does numbers here, I don't get comments like; "Chicago is being punished for all it's crime"; "God is trying to teach the 'demonrats' a lesson"; "Chicago's guns are louder than thunder!!" etc. You get the idea.
People used to literally catch hands and feet from the community if they ignored a boycott.
IJS.
Firstly, I had to have more experiences. Interfacing w/more ppl and realizing the positive feedback outweighed the negative. Then I had to internalize that. So what if 10pppl thought I wasn’t enough? 100 ppl said otherwise.
Add therapy + spiritual work + mirror work
the box office has really been on life support for a minute. sinners really is a marvel in so many ways when you think about it.
Newer critics lack the foundational knowledge of their industries & genres that would enable them to understand what they are consuming with enough depth to effectively evaluate the content. You can’t celebrate new media as groundbreaking while eye-rolling the ground it was built upon.
Ignore the critical voices (that come from literally everywhere when you're a Black girl coming of age) like water off a duck's back. Understand that when people hate themselves they only seek to drag others down with them. Unsubscribe from the beauty "standards"and become your own standard.
I’m starting to realize how being a nerd can save the youth from systemic bullshit 😭
Pharrel 🤣🤣🤣 the same guy who said I see music, I don't just hear it. Man these imposters will always lie and work with their teams to discredit the real artists. Just a scam artist this whole time.
You can not convince me that those glasses, in this society, are not dangerous as hell.
fuck kelis land grabbing ass too if we being honest. all of em can go.
Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”
And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”
Another “Black excellence” 1% aspirant was outed as a expliotative fraud? Oh wow it’s like there is almost a patten!
Imma say it again:
The US needs the world; the world doesn’t need the US.
The rest of the world will eventually learn they can be totally independent if they really wanted.
The white supremacist arrogance is possibly about to have a very unintended consequence.
The number of people hiding their sexual desires from their partners because they think it’ll ruin the relationship is wild.
I’ll hold your hand when I say this: state your needs and desired on Day1. If it doesn’t align, leave. You don’t want to meet Mr. Right while you’re in the arms of Mr. wrong~
“I like people that like me
I'm not in the business of convincing anybody.” - David
I agree with David. I have no strength or energy for any shenanigans.
The bombing of Gaza alone caused the CO2 output of several countries... As much as we harp about company responsibility the US military is the #1 carbon emitter in the entire world.
This is real talk. Community support and mutual aid networks broke down once we started buying into all that “rise and grind,” nuclear family, rugged individual mess.
Multigenerational households and tightly-knit communities were how we survived. It’s how we’ll survive again.
My answer these days is just okay? I hope they find other books in the POV they like? Sometimes I write first, sometimes I write third sometimes I write in second.
Enjoy. I can't really change the book I've already written and I'm not a burger restaurant so I can't make books to order?
It’s been 6 long years.
The core of imperialists politics is that some group has to be sacrificed for the majority to be ok.
And that’s just a bald faced lie. There’s more than enough for everyone to be fine.
The acceptence of this belief as a fundamental reality of the US is why I can’t connect with most perspectives
Yes, interracial relationships are fine and love is love but sometimes it's internalized anti-Blackness and self hatred.
Anybody would view them as part of the conflict when the news is announcing that Claude(runs On AWS) was used in the attacks
🧵Recently, I’ve been reflecting a lot on the particularity of the tenderness that often lives between Black women and Black gay men. I’ve experienced it as a kind of refuge we’ve built for each other because we know all too well how loud, dismissive, and cruel this world can be toward us.
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You work too hard!!! Hope you enjoyed the last bit of your Saturday.
Sort of ironic that a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt (who famously built and then significantly expanded his Manhattan mansion, which used to sit at the site of the current Bergdorf Goodman) is the one reporting on this issue....... lmao....
People actually don’t like people who know and have accepted themselves. There’s a compulsion to make you doubt this.
The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???
demonizing African and Indigenous peoples’ practices counteracting the benefit of sacred customs, rituals and traditions.
i wish people had the capacity to understand that the deconstruction of Christianity isn’t a stick to persuade the masses of believers of God that God doesn’t exist.
it’s to deconstruct the indoctrination of racism, misogynoir, transphobia, homophobia and pedophilia that drives capitalism.
