[hideous-armor]

SD LAIKA - Idiot Thug Mix

[pro-royalty]

PinkPantheress

behind the scenes of “Girl Like Me” Music Video

[creatingblackcharacters]

You kill a racist bully that's been long term harassing you and threatening to kill you at school, you get a prison sentence that could span life (Karmelo Anthony).

You put a water bottle back, get hunted down by the store owner and his family who shoot you because they claim to think you were stealing (Cyrus Carmack Belton), and said murderers walk away not guilty. 😐

Days like this I hate being Black. You just supposed to lay down and die. No one wants you to snap, but no wants to treat you better. Sigh. Anyway, I'm sick to my stomach rn. Black boys deserve better. Black children deserve better.

[nittaroze]

i’ll love you forever

[gutterbaby]

Imagine if her name was Lauren Palmer. No one would have given a fuck! Sad but true

[theironhorse]

[dirt-cake-doll]

[kissmarkmakesmesmile]

Buddha Fruit Molds

[milkandheavysugar]

Portrait of American musician and actress Melba Moore (1971)

[olreid]

[ID 1: The house is a site of desire for young protagonists because it displaces their awakening sexual desires and makes female desire both productive and palatable. The servant symbolizes both the protagonist’s desire for the house and her fear of where her own desires might lead her.

ID 2: Domestic servants closely observe their employers, and the writings of servants in history indicate that mistresses closely observe domestics and hover over their work (Katzman). In other words, mistresses and domestics haunt one another.

ID 3: In the Gothic form, in which characters always encounter their doubles such that individual identity is undermined, the mistress and servant become natural doubles, engaged in perverse, erotic, and competitive relationships. They share a privacy and intimacy normally reserved only for lovers. Yet they struggle for power until one or the other dies or leaves the house. end ID]

haunted housekeeping: fatal attractions of servant and mistress in twentieth-century female gothic literature by holly blackford

[unbiddentongue]

akinsanya kambon, yemoja (carrying spirits we lost through the middle passage), 2010.

[myonegin]

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”

— Alice Walker, Living by the Word

[mrsterlingeverything]

[gaytanic-panic]

[aniviara]

seeing keiyaa tmrw and i genuinely don't know what to wear....oh mein gottttt

[dogpuppy]

[jussanother]