CoCo Corrine

I got a tumblr when Blue Ivy got a tumblr. 

[coco-corrine]

it has been a beautiful complicated journey with Lorraine Hansberry’s beautifully complicated work and i have been loving the process. this weekend is your last chance to catch A Raisin in the Sun being performed in the place where it was set, the Southside of Chicago, with a group of Chicago actors at @bacchicago it’s been my honor to bring my own Beneatha Younger to life for new audiences 1. poster and cast headshots @theenvironmentalhottisnee being they adorable self. they play ruth and i could not have made it through this show without them 🥰 2. i cried reading our review in the @chicago_reader comparing me to THEE @traceeellisross…craziness! 3. a gorgeous mural on the side of a building right on 51st and king. i was showing my sister the picture of Lorraine Hansberry that’s also on the side of the building and found this new art! i love the love chicago shows ms. hansberry 💜 4. tech week family lunch with @theenvironmentalhottie, jayden (travis) and a sneaky background appearance from our dope director @speak_of_the_devin 🥰 loved working with these people 5. the pre-curtain call dance ritual to celebrate making it through the show featuring travis and george 🕺🏾 only four more shows! ticket link is in my bio dm me about discounts (at Beverly Arts Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CouwySTJw_z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[coco-corrine]

just a girl and her cat chillin on a sunday night 🌒 @cole.drogo.fierce #blackcatsofinstagram (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZqSnKCL_kLBte9I33DIbCwzJ-9UafTeUHR8zA0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[carrionthird]

“Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I’ve landed on your page you’re most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I’m about to share could help save a black woman’s life.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you’ve seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn’t feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there’s a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people’s kidneys, meaning we’re less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren’t getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you’ve requested, say to them the following:

I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I’ve requested, and the reason you are doing so.”

[dovewithscales]

This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

But particularly women, and especially black women.

[coco-corrine]

Recently got all my old t-shirts from my highschool drama club days back from my dad. Everyone involved in the show would wear them to school on the same day to advertise. I spent pretty much everyday after school from freshman to senior year of highschool in the auditorium or in B116(Theatre classroom). Truly a theatre kid. PS the green one is from middle school https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmtpCPpXwo/?igshid=1qovbma9c2gdk

[coco-corrine]

There is so much energy on SM I need a break. Black people take a break when you need to this fight will mentally, emotionally, and physically exhaust you and that is what they're counting on. Stay safe and protect your magic. #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 #amplifymelanatedvoices https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-0k_AjTZs/?igshid=1mv3nr7oajil9

[coco-corrine]

We Demand Police Free Schools NOW - A Call to Action From CPS Students

It’s time for the Chicago Board of Education and Chicago Public Schools to provide real safety to students and move immediately to #PoliceFreeSchools.

[coco-corrine]

We are resisting violence. #blackouttuesday #amplifymelanatedvoices #blacklivesmatter✊🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8gDWOjEXu/?igshid=tv7xh1wvd4yt

[poppywright]

Little Fires Everywhere (2020) Ep. 4 “The Spider Web”

[coco-corrine]

I made this meme because Fraiser is my sense of humor.

[dopeeeeeeshxt]

Project by: @badgyalcassiee

Song: Assi - Gwara Nao Para ft BM 

[coco-corrine]

The confidence of little black girls that know they can dance is a different type of energy and we love to see it.

[babyanimalgifs]

[switching-to-glide]

Can’t reblog this enough.

[bluestatesaint]

Not the way I figured it would turn out, but I learned something here.

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

This is called Trophic Cascade in ecology.

[coco-corrine]

I showed this to my fourth graders and they clapped at the end

[coco-corrine]

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So unnerving when you are watching TV and start feeling movement coming for inside the couch. WHY is he like this?!? (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-DBT5Bj23H/?igshid=1y0dk2m5oovew

[evilrashida]

Being black is weird sometimes like I don’t think I’ll ever get used to people hating me but wanting to be me at the same time

[pocmemes]

[panthergoddessbast]

This is an instant reblog every time it comes to my dash I don’t care

[candiikismet]

^ right.

[jaeswavy]

You can’t tell me I’m not from the Bay when this song comes on. Idc.

[uzumaki-rebellion]

Yay Area…everytime….

[coco-corrine]

The lockdown: One month in Wuhan

[feelingbluepolitics]

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

100% TRUE

[sallyyates]

Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said “no free articles” into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.

[fail-sage]

also if u press the “esc” (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it won’t load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)

[leoiscold]

I didn’t know this wasn’t common knowledge. Reblog reblog reblog. It should be.

[ms-demeanor]

Hey you know how I said I was going to make a workbook on the kind of bullshit you need to do when someone you love dies? I actually did that.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH LOTS OF SWEARING AT THE USELESS, SHITTY SITUATION YOU’RE IN.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF BLACK HUMOR BUT NO CURSEWORDS.

Featuring Helpful Sections such as:

Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and how to get them

Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone

What the Everloving Fuck is Probate

Some Simple Dos and Don’ts

Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and Memorials

How to plan a non-religious death party

So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some shit

This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.

It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.

I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.

Good luck!

(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)

[djhinnwe]

@ms-demeanor Tumblr wont let me message you privately, so is it ok if I share this to my FB page? The business I am in wants information like this to be public knowledge, but it’s still a business so I don’t want to post without permission.

[ms-demeanor]

YES, please share it!

And actually facebook blocks links to my blog for some reason so I have no problem with you just straight-up copy/pasting the PDF links! Credit me if you want (”@ms-demeanor on tumblr” is fine) but you don’t even have to. Just share it and spread it I want people to have an easier time of things! I’m universally  OK if people share these links so long as you’re not selling the booklet. I’m actually even okay if someone prints up a bunch of these and hands them out so long as they’re handed out for free.

[ms-demeanor]

Also I want to make this point: I was very lucky. I had talked to my mom about her death plans and she and my dad have had their cremations planned and paid for for 25 years (Neptune Society baybee). I got lucky, we had talked about a book like this and she had started writing down passwords. I got lucky, she never took my advice about putting a passcode on her phone.

But things were still harder than they needed to be. We’d talked about a death planning workbook because I’d found one on Amazon and we both thought it would be a good idea to fill it out because she was sick.

I just never scrounged together $26.00 in the time between when we talked about it and when she died.

You know what’s better than regretting that you couldn’t afford a death workbook? A FREE DEATH WORKBOOK.

I mean, I don’t begrudge the authors of other death books their pay. I’m sure the other books are more comprehensive than mine and maybe some of them do a decent job of explaining probate.

But death is expensive and living ain’t cheap.

This is free explicitly because there are tons of people (though certainly not everyone involved) who will bypass compassion in order to profit off of the death industry and I want you to have at least this one thing that’s there for you free, as a gift, as something given to you for the sole purpose of making this easier on you in a time when every step is going to be expensive and difficult.

This is free, no charge. All I ask is that, if possible, you share it with someone else who needs it and that you tell somebody you love that you love them.

[ms-demeanor]

Hey all if you’re new here because of the firefox post or the browser wars post or the bastardous positivity post please consider downloading the free book I made about what to do when someone dies because you know what this is sad and shit but things are going to be much easier for you if you know the level of bullshit you’re going to be dealing with.

[heroofthreefaces]

My wife’s death was about three years coming from lump discovered to the final phone call so I had, like, the Visiting Nurse Association nurses walking me through this. But here’s a signal boost for if it happens to you.

cuz my stepson now has his father living with him and phoned me once recently with a rant that ended, in so many words, “Please, if you love me, take steps so all your passwords don’t get lost.” I told him there’s a section on passwords somewhere he already knows about which I’m not going to identify here for obvious reasons.