There are no easy answers during this time. Sometimes we need to sit and be present with our sadness and our disappointment. Sometimes we need to channel that energy in to organizing and helping people near us however we can. And sometimes we just need to cry and scream.
She looked all over the place in that last game.
Gentle reminder to anyone who needs it today: The more you use technology to replace the things you used to do for for yourself, the less you will be able to do them. That goes for writing, walking, thinking, communicating, making things, and all the things humans used to be pretty good at.
Nobody exists exclusively through the lens of struggle. Pick the worst eras, the most oppressed people. You will find rich heritages of art, music, fashion, and games that survived it. Were pioneered during it. Thrived in the midst of it. Why? Because these things give our survival *meaning.*
Life is uncertain right now. Find the moments of joy where you can. Even the frivolous moments matter.
Easily the right’s greatest propaganda win was branding DEI as “forcing companies to hire unqualified black candidates” when in reality it forced companies to hire qualified black candidates instead of unqualified white ones.
I've discovered a well-stocked CVS near by that carries Black beauty brands. It's clean and they dont have everything locked up.
For now, they've earned my "I need it now business."
Instead of being able to buy all my family's stuff in one place, now I have to order hair care from different places.
The other day-to-day stuff, like paper towels are more pricey there anyway and can be bought anywhere.
Target destroyed their value proposition on top of cutting DEI.
Minimizing Target came way before they cut DEI
Once they pulled back on Black beauty brands, there was no real reason for me to shop there.
Some Senior VP at Target: Sir we thought The Blacks (TM) would let this go and come back but they haven't come back. They haven't come back sir!
CFO: The line must go up, but it keeps going down!
CEO, wearily removing glasses: It's time
SVP: Sir, you don't mean--
CEO: Get me Al Sharpton
Not respecting history is going to be the end of this place.
Y'all are going to be begging for DEI to come back. Because this is peak whiteness right now, and it's looking pretty damn inept.
We'll have to reuse the grinds. 😭
How many times can we run those through?
So true. 😭/ 🤣
A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
Outside about to cost $800 for every breath
hilarieburton The sweetest man. I played @valkilmerofficial 's girlfriend in a movie back in 2009. The script called for us to have a fairly rowdy love scene that got interrupted by a phone call. I'd just come off of OTH where I was always put in some kind of compromising position....so it was just work as usual. But then I got to set the day we were going to be shooting that scene and there was a scramble happening. "Val wants to change the scene." Huh? "It's not interesting," he said. A gratuitous sex scene with a younger woman didn't service the story or the character. It said nothing about the relationship and why either of our characters were in it. Instead, Val sent someone out to a local restaurant to pick up a huge tub of ribs. And so, as the camera panned up from the floor, our moans were those of two people, comfortable and indulgent, tangled up in bed and unfettered by the mess, elbows deep in North Carolina's finest bbq
It was infinitely more interesting and I felt so safe and cared for by that man. It would have been easy to phone it in and just go with the stereotypical way women have been seen in film. Rather than the scene playing on my naked back, he turned me toward the camera. He made the scene about us instead of using me as a prop. That one day at work rewired my brain. Val was kind to me. A thoughtful artist. I bought some of his paintings a few years back. I hope every young actor has a Val in their life. That movie was a magical experience. #bloodworth
This is such a lovely tribute to Val Kilmer from Hilarie Burton ❤️
The courage vs. prestige inverse correlation holding up pretty well.
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”
She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
They’re all peddling the “belonging” message. I don’t think most of these places were ever set up for most of my people to ever belong.
Everything about this present era is deeply embarrassing
ohhhh noooo
JuJu went down hard grabbing her knee.
Bracket still in tact! 🥰
So many Black and Hispanic vets are buried in Arlington because their local cementaries were segregated and wouldnt take their bodies.
according to the internet I have overlapping indicators of autism, ADHD, perimenopause, late-stage capitalism, being a bad bitch, anemia, intelligence, burnout, and aquarius rising.
