Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.
Planes just falling out of the sky is like one of the top clichés for showing the collapse of infrastructure in apocalypse movies, too
Black as fuck. I love it.
I don’t get a lil participation treat?
Beach swirls for your anxiety
This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else.
Constantly reevaluating and learning.
Black peoples lack of alarm is really getting to other communities. We were born in the face of adversity bitch. This ain’t nothing new to us. We tried to tell yall. Yall didn’t listen. Now we looking after us cause we gon be alright. always have been. always will be🫶🏽
As long as we Black, ain't shit canceled! We gone make shit happen everytime 🖤🤎✊🏽
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Happy Black History month !!
Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
mary shelley’s frankenstein is a timeless classic that dares to ask the question which one of these mfers is supposed to be the monster.
Why do my cats pose for photographs like they’re 18th-century aristocracy?
We’re back! 💛🧡
January 20, 2025
As we move closer to Inauguration Day I think it’ll be really important that I spent more time offline. During 2021-2023 it felt important to be connected during the wildest of Covid times, but now it feels like I’m ingesting other people’s mental breakdowns. It’s not good.
Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. Can admire with two eyes the mountain, actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles. Can make black-eyed peas and collards. Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding. Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light. For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, then to the question. The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, and still they surprised. I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something. Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. Today, I woke without answer. The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend don’t despair of this falling world, not yet didn’t it give you the asking
I count, this first day of another year, what remains.
—Jane Hirshfield
God bless.
Libraries are pure magic. They’re more than books—they’re portals to other worlds, safe havens for curious minds, and the heart of every community. Whether it’s a cosy corner to read or a digital catalogue full of endless adventures, libraries have it all. Support yours today
May delete this later, but here goes:
I'm up for sabbatical in 2027. That's when I hope to launch a writer's retreat and residence in Detroit. Focused primarily (not exclusively) on Black children's authors & illustrators.
Do I have the money? Or a building? No, not yet!
But I do have 🙏🏿 & A Plan!
What’s on your 2025 Bingo Card?
Over 70K men in a group chat discussing how to r*pe and abuse their sisters, mothers, and other women in their family... yeah. It's time to flip this shit into a matriarchy because yall clearly don't have the genetic makeup to exist in peace and true order
Mine as well start the year off right… #Blacksky
just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! many also have dvds, cds, video games, internet hot spots, grindr hookup spots, chupacabras, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, skibidi toilets, gateways to the shadow realm, and so much more! maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚
NYE SUPERSTITION REMINDER:
Your laundry doesn’t need to be done
Your house does not need to be spotless
The point is NOT DOING CLEANING/WASHING ON NY *DAY*
Give it what you got and stop. Don’t do nothing til January 2. You’ll be fine.
