Takeah writes to . . . 🎶 🤎 👩🏾‍💻 #blackbooksky

I know we all obsessed with Aaron Pierre rn, but I have to say, he gives ‘Gowns. Beautiful gowns’. Cuz baby is beyond jejune when he speaks.😅 I be yawning.🥱 Plus, he truly doesn’t answer interview questions, but it goes unnoticed cuz them looks! Them looks be looking! Gowns. B-E-A-utiful gowns. 👀

This Luther doc got me emotional 😭

I purchased sooooo many books. Will I read them all? Yes. ✅ Will I read them all, quickly? 👀 Find out on the next episode of: ADHD Baddie. 🤷🏾‍♀️🤯💅🏾

The latest Short Takes forum, on Kali Gross's Vengeance Feminism, explores the role that retribution, anger, and violence have played in the lives of Black women. Read @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, Joy James, Koritha Mitchell, & @feministajones.com, + a response from Gross.

Get out of here

Today is the perfect day to give a Pisces woman whatever she wants.

Y’all. I’m baking cookies. Been baking them for like 3 days in a row. Like I’m Mrs. Claus or sumn holiday hoe. All to avoid dealing with grief. 😅

Check out my feature for Soft Rows where I talk about illness, hair loss, and power. softrows.com/editorial/th...

Once Upon a Time, media companies promised to do better with their diversity efforts and a brave, experienced journalist told them to put their money where their mouths are so they launched a Black parenting verticle to show go faith. Since DEI isn't cool now, they swiped the entire platform.

if anyone wants to read my now deleted article you can here: web.archive.org/web/20220712...

It’s a scheme that Todd set up…

Facts. But Richie Rich was decent on “Ratha Be Ya Nigga”. And the Death Row receptionist shorty, Virginya Slim, was PHENOMENAL on “Me and My Girlfriend” too. 😍

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI. Dr Timnit Gebru, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Buolamwini And many many more within/outside academia. Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1... 👑👑👑

When my mom was sick & in pain, she was…restless. (That’s the tamest way to describe it). The ONLY song that completely calmed her down was Beyoncé’s “MY ROSE” 🌹. Idk what angelic serum Beyoncé injected into the melody, but it lulled my mom’s spirit whenever it played. So I played it. She received.

I don’t know how else to convey this, but: THIS IS VERY VERY BAD FOR THE COUNTRY. 😬

We call this a catalog ✨ amzn.to/3X86LEl

As he should! Bout time we had some decent R&B duets again. Since Bryson ass wanna play video games and hermit out. 🙄

With all the dead homies niggas stay having, you’d think they’d be WAY more spiritual. Not like in the stereotypical sense. But more intentional with their words and actions. More considerate of life and ordering their moves. Their recklessness is fascinating. 🧐

So I’m re-listening to Friday Night Lights by J. Cole, and it is so good. Like 14 years later, it’s still so goodt! 🥹The production and lyrics are extremely theatrical. Like Cole, (if he weren’t such a stubborn & raging misogynoirist) should compose musicals.

Travis Lazarus McCoy and his Gym Class Heroes really said: 🎶 I know I'm young but if I had to choose her or the sun, I'd be one nocturnal son of a gun🎶 And y’all ain’t hear ‘em. 🥲 Y’all rappers ain’t real lovers! 😭 Y’all don’t make music like that no more!🙃 Hate it here!😡

Because why would any sane doctor pursue graduate medical education in that state? Also, a 56% spike in maternal mortality is egregious.

When I was 8 I flew with my mom. I snuggled up to her like I always did. A flight attendant commented “Aren’t you too old to hug your mom like that?” My mom told her to mind her business. My mom passed this year. Twenty years later. I’d give anything to hug her again. Hold your baby too much. 💐

Have you checked your emails? The Legacy Academy starts in January. I know how much you want to work on your mental health.. join the Legacy Members Club so you won’t miss out! Https://www.legacymembersclub.com

That “We Listen and We Do Not Judge” challenge is diabolical. Some of the confessions? Especially with the heterosexual couples? Atrocious what some will allow. Y’all’s partners actually HATE y’all. And you’re giggling???🥴 I judge. I jury. I executioner.

My next job could be on your timeline. Repost please 🥹 #blacksky

A Day Of Remembrance. 🕊️

Kendrick???

Home Alone 2.✨ The Preacher's Wife.✨ Dreamgirls (Yes it is, I checked).✨ Last Holiday.✨ The Grinch. ✨

This era is truly about finding your people and making meaning with them. What is coming is designed to disrupt, deplete, and disintegrate the masses. But despite what may be done to us, we have a say in what we allow ourselves to receive. Do NOT comply ahead of time. Do NOT concede in readiness.

Seeing the comments and quotes to this makes me so happy, we’re really not on that other app anymore. 😭

Black women must be continuously interrogated to be considered legitimate victims. The fact that we still need to dispute these ridiculous claims from this open and shut case! I wrote about this 2 years ago and it’s still true nsjcp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/de....

Yes and if you have United healthcare or Humana (Medicare supplement plans for dental), you esp need to get moving. Max it out this year because it very likely won’t exist by 2026.

oh I love that bilateral scribbling filing that away!!!!

So I was reading bell hooks describe conditions of enslaved Black pregnant women during the transatlantic slave trade. As in what life was like for pregnant Black women aboard the ships? And BIHHH! I’m livid. It’s things you don’t ever consider. Like malnutrition & labor pains without community. 😢😭

Community should really look like getting together and forming task forces to: - jump ✨ - beat down✨ - apprehend✨ - and seize all assets from all deadbeat parents✨. Allowing deadbeats to lay their head down peacefully on soft pillows is sacrilege.

Even if I could see you with my dilated pupils, I can’t hear you over the loud music. 💃🏾🪩🕺🏿🤭

And the drugs! The drugs were sumn serious. Helped them make 14-minute long iconic disco tracks & contagious funk bops. What an era. 😅

Thiiiiiisssssssss! It’s love stories within love stories. Between the characters, between me and the characters, between me and the readers I have in my mind when I’m writing… yes!

Romance writing is about falling in love on multiple levels. 🥰🥰🥰

Post one of your favorite R&B/ Soul/ Funk songs from the 70s only. Let’s find the real music lovers. #MusicMonday open.spotify.com/track/6C7WlM...

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

Both tall, lightskinned, musically inclined, with lion-esque large heads to match. An ancestry test would be understandable. 🤷🏾‍♀️😭🤭

This is very important to me. 🤭

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

Repost a GIF describing your exit from Twitter✌🏾 (End Of A Chaotic Era)

Discovering producer Pillow Da Don is a Trumper is such a random and unexpected match for my bingo card. 😭😅🤣

Download HUNDREDS of free books by Black authors during the Black Readers Appreciation Event November 12-16th here: brae.website Including, my book, SPIN THE BLOCK, available free this week only here: amzn.to/4fkneeN #BlackBookSky #BlackAuthors #BookSky