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the reason clothes looked & performed better in the 60’s & early 70’s is because they were being made in more reasonable quantities by union workers who were being paid a livable wage to construct them to human proportions & not slaves who were abused to meet production deadlines

Anti-LGBTQ Bill: Samia Nkrumah - daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana - is urging President Akufo-Addo @nakufoaddo not to assent to the "brutal, harsh, unjust law." In an interview with @Graphicgh, she said "we don't need it" as we need to protect eachother.

Gentle reminder: You don’t have to understand people’s experiences to be kind. Kindness doesn’t require logic, it requires grace.

Kortnee Solomon.

Janice Burgess, creator of The Backyardigans has sadly passed away at 72. Beyond creating that show, she was the vice president of Nick Jr, and had a hand in many Nick/Nick Jr shows, such as Gullah Gullah Island, Bubble Guppies, Tania, Winx Club, and many more. RIP 💚

omg the story of how colman domingo met his husband is just so incredible and precious ♥️

I’ve decided to do upload a video on every book I read for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge. Here is my video for book two of 2024 - Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers #reading #TFBWL #blackbooks youtu.be/gXmS9FeInuA?si…

i dont like this narrative that black people dont like the movie or premise because we’re not smart enough or too ignorant to understand. like i really don’t like that at all.

I’ve been doing natural hair for 23 years. This is a falsehood. A fallacy. Pure mendacity. Most of my clients faced the most pushback from their fathers and Black husbands. Y’all not gon’ start rewriting natural hair history on my watch.

12 books I read for 2023 The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge #booktube #reading #TFBWL Rambly Recap(Part 2) youtu.be/FJ7cgVDrX5g

12 books I read in 2023 for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge #youtube #reading #booklove A Rambly Recap (Part 1) #reading #goodreads youtu.be/iYjJqGEQEVU

TFBWL #READING CHALLENGE RECOMMENDATIONS 📚🎉 A BOOK BY A COMMUNITY ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER: ARE PRISONS OBSOLETE by Angela Davis THE WAR BEFORE by Safiya Bukhari WE DO THIS ‘TIL WE FREE US by Mariame Kaba ASSATA by Assata Shakur A TASTE OF POWER by Elaine Brown #TFBWL

TFBWL #READING CHALLENGE RECCS SEX/GENDER (NF) THE POETICS OF DIFFERENCE by Mecca Sullivan MOUTHS OF RAIN by Briona Jones THE INVENTION OF WOMEN by Oyeronke Oyewumi REFUSING COMPULSORY SEXUALITY by Sherronda J. Brown THE SEX LIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

TFBWL READING CHALLENGE RECOMMENDATIONS 📚🎉 5 MEMOIRS or AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BONE BLACK/MEMORIES OF GIRLHOOD by bell hooks FINDING ME by Viola Davis SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER by Ashley C. Ford THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M. Broome DUST TRACKS ON THE ROAD by Zora Neale Hurston #TFBWL

TFBWL READING CHALLENGE RECOMMENDATIONS 5 ESSAY COLLECTIONS SISTER OUTSIDER by Audre Lorde BAD FEMINIST by Roxane Gay SOMETIMES I TRIP ON HOW HAPPY WE COULD BE by Nichole Perkins CIVIL WARS by June Jordan THICK AND OTHER ESSAYS by Tressie McMillan Cottom #TFBWL

Because it depicts a type of documented Black patriarchal violence in arranged marriages and they are not interested in capturing the complexities of even black mens’ own subjectivity under the racia-sexual contract of modernity

The sad truth is that so many ppl love to try and shade someone on their age when aging as a black queer person is nothing short a miracle if you factor in antiblackness and the violence inflicted on us and if you know your history.

I read 28 books in 2023 for The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge which honestly feels like a low number but I am more so satisfied with the fact that I enjoyed all the books I read. #thefreeblackwomenslibrary #readingchallenge

New additions to The Free Black Women’s Library 📚🥳 GORILLA, MY LOVE by Toni Cade Bambara VOODOO DREAMS by Jewell Parker Rhodes MAGICAL NEGRO/POEMS by Morgan Parker THE LIVING BLOOD by Tananarive Due #thefreeblackwomenslibrary #librarylove