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“AFRODHIT” by IZA

Album Art shot by Mar+Vin

I’m back in tumble

I literally can’t get up and decide what to wear when I need to decide when I’m gonna redo this lady’s website and when to get tested and when to clean my room and when to finish this art project and if this lady is getting upset and if she even still wants me to finish and if it’s too late and if I have any matching socks and how much time is this all gonna take

#currently spiraling #need someone to finish my work for me #having a very hard time #halp

Y’all know why I’m here

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sampladelics

WORK IT OUT (2002) Beyoncé

alishawasnthere

This era was IMPORTANT FOR ME

twixnmix

Vintage Black Music Magazine Covers

Marvin Gaye

Albert King

Tina Turner

Curtis Mayfield

Roberta Flack

Betty Davis

Barry White

Bob Marley

Chaka Khan

Louis Johnson

uzumaki-rebellion

Betty Davis y’all…

micdotcom

Kamilah Brock spent 8 days in a NY mental health facility because she owned a BMW

Kamilah Brock, a former New York banker, has filled a suit against the city after she was detained for eight days in a mental health facility against her will. Brock says she was committed after trying to pick up her BMW, which skeptical police did not believe she owned. To add insult to injury, Brock was then charged a hefty sum by the hospital.

dariadorms

WHAT THE FUCK

kittiesatemypronouns

WTF!!!!!!

mars-the-4th-planet

That is disgusting and grotesquely unfair. This exactly why we still need to strive for equality.

8thwonderful

And they still have the nerve to say there are good cops. This is one of the most “ progressive” cities in our nation. We are living in the midst of insanity

Feels like my brain in melting and I’m losing all cognitive abilities

beckyloveslife

I work retail, and have for many years now. I'm not an easily fazed person and have a Talk No Shit, Take No Shit mentality. However, I also have a pretty intense anxiety disorder on top of other mental health issues and when I started 6+ years ago there were some customers who got to me.

So, to all the workers facing Karens and Kens out in the wild, here's my advice - cry.

If you have the type of relationships with your coworkers and managers that will support you, don't try to hold it in. Cry like the overworked, underpaid peon you are.

Nothing terrifies an asshole Karen like the indisputable proof that their actions/words are affecting you as a real live person. They feel perfectly entitled to cuss out a cashier over a wrong order/no cash policy/ face mask mandate but when that person starts to cry and asks them why they'd say such mean things? A whole other story, my friend.

There's no way to make that situation look good to the manager they demanded to speak with, either. My manager literally got a security guard fired for being so verbally abusive he made one of her employees cry.

This strategy has multiple benefits -

1. You're not standing there trying to pen up your emotions, crying is a great physical release for negative emotions and you may very well feel somewhat better afterwards.

2. The person who precipitated the situation is forced to not only see you as a person with feelings, but also has to confront the fact that their abuse has consequences beyond themselves.

3. It can actually give your higher-ups leverage to address these situations. 'They yelled at my employee' is one thing, but 'They yelled at my employee until they were in tears' is a waaaaay worse offense. A good manager can use that. Hell, it can get a security guard fired!

tl;dr: We live in a capitalist hell but we can work the system and cry at work to shame awful customers

amarguerite

stream

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) dir. George Lucas

“Africans go to jail for poaching, white men go home with trophy”

maganayakare

I’ve been thinking about this photo. The truth is that Africans don’t only go to jail for poaching (and I think anyone who poaches should be jailed tbh) they are also going to jail for hunting. Basically indigenous people hunting for food are being treated as poacher, while white people are allowed to hunt for fun on their ancestral land. Just read about what’s happening with the San people in Botswana. It’s outrageous.

patrickat

The royal family of Dubai just “bought” a large tract of land for their own private trophy hunting purposes and thousands of Masai are going to be evicted from their ancestral lands. Foreign money is more important than native people or conservation, apparently.