Had an interesting conversation today with someone who said they pick fast food chains based on whether the workers smile and greet customers. I can't help but suspect there's a throughline from chattel slavery to modern-day expectations of service workers.

and these babies got a grow light too & they perky af now. my chirren happy 🥹

Victims typically know their oppressors and aggressors very well.

Proper Book Etiquette is constant acquisition so you can browse your hoard and read according to your whims from your own stash.

men, collectively… celebrities, collectively… are just…wow.

The shutdown is at 39 days but SNAP has only been cut for 8 and we're already seeing massive demand for food pantries, desperate pleas for direct help and assistance on related things like helping people keep pets. This is precarity at its highest. While the rich get richer.

i ventured into like lil’ America & seeing & hearing white folks is so annoying. skedaddling back to my neighborhood.

i have accepted that my sneakers will get worn living in a big, walkable city. but Caucasians take dirty shoes to unimaginable levels.

i been up for 7 hours because my body loves waking up at 3 AM. well i also be sleep at 8-9. so…

facts. i saw jokes from Black folk stating it’s okay to throw sandwiches & the unspoken part is “FOR THEM” your Black ass best not.

If you see this, quote with a selfie of when you felt cute 🥰

Quiet part is now out loud. This isn’t Covid asymptomatic. Now would be the time to discuss mass vaccination.

discipline and self-improvement is a sneaky like bitch. sometimes sophisticated self-sabotage in disguise that errbody cheer for and support. always gotta examine my underlying emotional state. because perfectionism is indeed my drug of choice.

so i gotta figure out if this newfound discipline is actually control, and depravity. team meeting with my inner family is long overdue, huh?

people: i'm a giver. [the quiet part]: i am entering a transactional relationship with you without your consent or explaining what i expect in return, especially when satisfying my need to be useful and unconscious belief that i am only worthy if i overextend myself. me? i stay far away.

i come from a ridiculous family. my cousin drove my grandma's processional with her doors open blasting i'll be missing you x d*ddy. and we acted a plum fool at the funeral. hey...

my kinda carryin' on. please hoot and holler and carry on when i go up yonder so i know it's real. the devil can't win!

dr. mark greene's story on ER is...omg 🥹

intimacy requires work and vulnerability, and 7 times out of 10 niggas don't be having that.

LISTEN. Brave souls, I say.

canceled all travel during retrogrades after the last retrograde kicked my ass. and yeah, smart move. cancel neow, ya'll. and get travel insurance from here on out.

hanging on to the pansexual label because of my AFAB loves and queer cis men. but i'd rather die than deal with cishet men. because wtf be going on ova there?!

so many stories (that you'd literally have to waterboard out of me) from my hetreo sisters about very sad, sad, sad sexual experiences. idk, i'd pay for stellar performance or just stay celibate; rather than voluntarily deal with niggas with ED and bad hygiene. but i'mma mind my queer biz.

I ask this with all sincerity… Have you tried women, sis?

being somebody's baby has been the most healing experience. i am my baby. i am my ancestors' baby. i am god's child (not the Christian Caucasian one, though) and finally my Mama's. and she doing her best. being cared for and held gently EVEN if IT'S BY ME is hands down a game-changer.

The thing with getting older is realizing how many of your peers are aging themselves beyond their years. No fun. No whimsy. No risks. Rigid as hell. Just BORING beige wallpaper vibes. Omg.

angels by them? tears every day. because wym angels all around me 🥹 and when they get to the day and night. night and day, part? singing to the top of me lungssss. 🎶 they rockin' me in a cradle up there. oh, they're not letting anything happen to me. ;cause i'm god's child 🎶

it is incredibly hard to come out of denial because it means grieving the parent you deserved to have, rather than trying to fix or defend the parent you had. i have so much compassion for folks still stuck in denial.

It takes a shit ton of courage to heal. To confront the stuff that’s been haunting us for years/decades. And it sucks…healing hurts. But if you summon the courage to make it happen, better living is on the other side of your healing.

i remember once i tried to discuss all about love with someone & they said ”how dare bell hooks claim her mother didn’t love her properly“ her mother is an alcoholic. I think about her sometimes & hope she experiences love in this lifetime.

installed grow lights for my plant babie. BITCH I’M A MOTHA. NO DRAMA.

Lol. It's actually funny when someone who follows me on social media, knows my kinda content on here, meets me in real life, and somehow thinks I'm gonna tolerate any kinda bigotry or anti Socialism from them. "I thought your content was just who you were online, not IRL." Yeah, you thought wrong!

i am not eating out but does ordering food TO COOK the same? it's not, right?

you can never get me to think it's a source of shame, weakness, or disadvantage. cause upward mobility and talking to lifelong privileged folks reminds me how ill-equipped they are in most ways.

i want a sandwich, and i know it's because i saw so many on my TL this week. but a BLT would slap right now.

survival skills of the poor are the strength and expertise that the privileged lack, but ya'll never wanna listen.

For us on the margins, we gotta get solid in community to survive the next 4 years to be able to fight another day imo. Community organizing, mutual aid, continued resistance education, and strategic skill building/sharing. Idk how to stop it but our ancestors did teach us how to survive most of it.

how i got my kindle game up. now's a perfect time to step up your political education.

It's why every "celebrity" has a skincare, alcohol, clothing, and perfume line 😂

it's due to covid, and it's the big elephant in the room no one in power, much less society itself, wants to address. It's REALLY bad!

he's welcome.

are you in a cult or..?

using the cultural work of marginalized communities demands a corresponding economic return to those communities; anything less is exploitation, chat.

A lot of people don't hate Nazism, they hate inconvenience and being made to look intolerant. Hitler knew his holocaust would work because of how well the world tolerated the Indigenous and Black genocides in America. You can't solve a problem you aren't willing to look at.

that lady is a cult leader and knows how blindly loyal you are. she cosplayed Black Panthers and revolution. she siphoned from Ballroom & bounce culture. she used Black country singers. and she'll do the same with the rock or gospel album. you projected "Pro-Blackness" onto her she never was

she uses social media lore/rumors + very specific people from the communities that she cosplays (big freeda, honey balenciaga, Black country singers) her team KNOWS the impact of being public with giving back. she's not. and if she is quiet it is to placate the wealthy who also want us to die.

and this is not to ignore folks who are privileged and blessed enough to afford her products. but as a collective, the working class can not afford $70 t-shirts. we can barely afford to eat. it's incredibly tone-deaf and cruel tbh.

she hates ya'll.

LOUDERRRR!