Gotta brave up and share my stuff. Open Water CHANGED me. "Thank God, I changed my mind and decided to live. Open Water feels like a reward for giving it: Life, love, hope, and effort . . . one more try." littleran.substack.com/p/open-water...

*Mike kisses me. Drew is disgusted * Mike: Drew all husband’s desire their wife’s kisses. That’s something I want you to hold on to as you get older. Drew: I can’t. I’m too busy holding on to my lunch number. Me:

This man’s long game of making me an anime girl worked. So far during our maternity/paternity leave, I’ve watched: - Dragon Ball (twice) - Demon Slayer (which really deserves all the things) - Frieren - Apothecary Diaries and currently - JJK I’ve been lost but now I’m found and hooked 😭.

I had a good ass birthday. Thank you God! I’m so proud of myself. Here’s to 33 🍻.

I really want to understand why babies have beef with burping. Like omg.

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

Antics should cause us to deeply consider ... the quality of care we bring to intentional communities. If you love Black folks... why do you mistreat Black Souls?

Ahhh! Yes! Me me me! lol. I love Nnedi’s writing and I trust it. Pick me! 😂

Happy Black History Month

I got this weighted sloth (stuffed animal) last year. When I tell y’all I am ATTACHED. I finally get the stuffed animal craze. Little Ran is very happy 😆.

I’m still working to find the words, but there is something very sinister about people saying—“This is what your conscious voted/didn’t vote for, so enjoy.” And it’s Black people too. I’ve seen this largely from Black people. I need to journal this out.

Not the sleep paralysis demon 🫢😭😂.

😂😂😂😂😂 This the one.

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Screaming at the police first.

EVER!

70,000 people in a stadium yelling "a minor." Christ

This man looked DIRECTLY at the camera.

Astrology.

A lot of Black people used honorifics & jewels/gems as a first name for the same exact reason. Mister, Sir, Countess, Ruby, Pearl, etc..

Post a gif we can hear

In case they skip over it in the obituaries, Jimmy Carter was the first and so far only US president to name the oppression of Palestinians as apartheid. He even wrote a whole book about it. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...

A lesson from horror that is also applicable in everyday life: we can’t fight a thing if we won’t allow ourselves to see the thing. (This GIF is from The Outsider)

It's not going to work for everyone, but grassroots ideas that are going to improve your community is the sort of thing Awesome Foundation chapters fund. www.awesomefoundation.org/en

I sent this book and page to every daughter I knew that could relate.

And so many of us can absolutely tell. The amount of tent cities that have popped up in our neighborhood alone is . . . Devastating. It’s all shameful.

please stop arguing with white people about anything, actually. ESPECIALLY music. we know most of their culture comes from stealing from others.

The early days of Covid showed us that if the government wanted - they could take care of everyone. They could provide a universal basic income, accommodate the needs of disabled people who had been pleading for remote healthcare & other services for years. They could keep us fed, safe and housed 🧵

Tattoo Appreciation Post. Quote this with your fav tat. I’m due for another one!

My 5 year old just started a conversation in the middle of a sentence. Talkin bout: “And girl when I woke up from my nap.” 😂😂😂😂 Ma’am. What?? 😂😂😂

That didn’t exist for me. I served the old gods. Did we break wrists? Did we sacrifice the skin of our extremities to the gods of play? Yes. BUT WE LIVED, DAMMIT!

PET by Akwaeke Emezi. Should be required reading.

The parents. As we got older we realized we all treated each other how our parents treated us. Our baby brother was the sun and moon, okay? But me and sis couldn’t STAND each other. We’re super close now though. Lots of grief work. Going no contact with some of the fam also helped to clear the fog.

I love my local library. About to curl up with one of my books, The Reformatory, right now. My favorite library is the Timken Science Library at my almer mater, the College of Wooster. #BookSky #BlackBookSky

😭😭😭 you ain’t gotta spread my business everywhere, damn.

"Being scared won’t radicalize you. Being angry won’t radicalize you. Radicalization, real radicalization that lasts and can create real change, requires both learning and unlearning." - Ijeoma Oluo ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/did-this-r...

I really am feeling a way about wasting my time and reading this book. Lmao I’ve been fuming for days. I skipped a *chunk* of pages and still didn’t miss anything. I- Has anyone else read the Canopy Keepers? #BookSky #BlackBookSky

The modern superhero narrative, particularly those that centre around white male billionaire protagonists, was a Trojan horse of gross economic inequity. We were cleverly groomed for the present socio-economic climate.

This photo is filling me with so much rage 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

"In the question of weight my womanhood is fulfilled. It seems any answer I give that is not rolling over and starving is a wrong one. And maybe most of all, I no longer want to be wrong." - Paris Mwendwa parisgitobu.substack.com/p/ive-gained... MY GOD. Catching up on my RSS feeds and phew.

Ahmed and his fiance are having an emergency that they don’t feel comfortable publicly sharing but if you can help donate it would be very appreciated. ❤️❤️

Got on the bad place's site, for only God knows why, and got nauseous.

Everybody was talking about how Meg did the pink lady with that one bar from Hiss…but the way she did Drake was crazy asf 😭😭😭

A visual representation of the peace you feel when you say ‘okay’ instead of arguing.