|Black|

Admiring the beauty of black humans.

[teambleach]

[seawitchedd]

Nyong James

[kenfinityandbeyond]

Went to Paris this weekend 💖

[saviorjupiter-deactivated202107]

I usually wouldn’t post anything like this but I’m trying to be more body positive with myself. I’m currently trying to lose weight but I think it’s important that we women find ourselves sexy and desirable at any and every size

[somenigerianbelle]

I’m looking at this picture and I still cannot wrap my head around the fact I graduated. All day, my eyes have filled with tears. It’s so… unreal to me. This degree took me 5 and a half years to get. I failed my first entire semester in 2016. That began a pattern of failure in my schooling. Semester after semester, I’d start, full of hope and optimism. And as the term would wear on, I’d get work and not do it because I’d be convinced I could not do the work. It would lead to anxiety. It would lead todepression. I’d miss classes, papers, even finals, because of how hopeless I’d get. The depression would always get so bad I’d just give up all over again. I’d spend the entire semester hiding how much I was failing until the term ended and I could no longer hide. Then this semester came and I did something I’d never done: I worked. I worked harder than I ever had. I’d been more driven than ever before. Then suddenly, I had no drive. I was depressive again. I missed work and classes again. Then the horrible combination of anxiety and depression was back. It was happening again. After I had worked so hard to. I was done. My brother was looking at ways for me to withdraw without losing tuition at the end of the semester. My parents were ready to bring me back home to work in my mum’s bakery. I was done. I could not push past my cloud of self loathing. One Wednesday in March, I was so done I tried to kill myself (and obviously failed). For a month I could not pick myself up. @afrocentricmathnerd had to cook for me because I could not muster the energy to do it myself. I lived in my filth, watching life go by and praying for the energy to leave and just drown myself or something. And one day, things changed. Inexplicably, I was ready to work again. But this was the end of term. I had a week to complete 6 final projects and study for 6 tests. It looks incredibly impossible. But I got up and tried anyway. I emailed my professors explaining my situation to them. Lucky for me, they were incredibly understanding and gave me a little extra time on the homework. I walked into tests I barely studied for, certain I wouldn’t do well enough to get more than a D. I wrote 6 final papers in a week and a half, shocking myself. Once upon a time I didn’t even think I was capable of writing a single one with weeks left to turn it in. Finally, everything was turned in. Anxiously, I awaited my grades, certain they’ll be a course or two holding me back. But there wasn’t! There wasn’t a single one! There wasn’t even a D. (A couple of C minuses but hey I’ll take it!) Somehow, I had fulfilled the requirements to graduate! Fast forward to today, the day I sat listening to speeches about futures and pasts, forcing the tears back because I could not believe it was happening.

TL;DR: after multiple failures due to anxiety and depression, I finally succeeded.

[bakedkesh-deactivated20191103]

‘Cause I love you, just how you are

[xobeautifiedxo]

Peek a boo 🙈✨

IG @jonaldy_edouard

[iaintkissingnofrog]

Everything you’ve heard about me is true, baby 💛

[leonei-d-deactivated20211128]

[seawitchedd]

[seawitchedd]

Ralph Souffrant

[briamostdope]

[loverofbrownsugar]

GUYS!! I CAN GRAB MY FUCKING FOOT! I have been working on grabbing my foot for THREE FUCKING YEARS! OMG. I’m in awe. When did my body get here?! . . . 42lbs Down 😍❤️

[shesaried]

Was I ever good enough?

IG: Shesaried

Twitter: Sheisaried

[nas-aa]

Lüks

[le-mouton-noir]

Letitia Wright with Solange, Lena Waithe, Chadwick Boseman, John Boyega, Donald Glover, Issa Rae, Michael B. Jordan, Daniel Kaluuya, Tessa Thompson, Kiersey Clemmons, Jasmine Sanders, Cynthia Erivo, Gabrielle Union and more!

letitiawright: what a night! You can’t make this stuff up. So much excellence in one room! #metgala2018

[malinke-lonnaa-deactivated20180]