GREY MATTER.

L • She/Her • 30s • ♐️

[froml-withlove]

Last fall, two weeks before me and my brother’s birthdays we learned our Mom had stage 4 ovarian cancer, after having it “ruled out” by her primary doctor.

This past year, my baby has gone to 3 different schools due to bullying and my mom’s healthcare needs.

This past Thursday night, I learned my Dad had a stroke and my stepmother & stepsisters didn’t tell my brother or myself. We didn’t even know what hospital he was in or how long he had been there.

And then yesterday morning, as I was leaving for a two-hour drive to my Mom’s chemo session at 6am, my dog suddenly passed out of nowhere.

I’m so grateful to have both my parents, to be able to have care for their conditions, to have my baby and to be able to care for my family, and I know that things are incredibly rough right now, but it won’t be in vain and it’s not permanent. Things are inevitably going to get better.

I just need a fucking break. I’m doing this all on my own and I’m just at a breaking point today.

[24kblk]

david lachapelle, my house (alek wek). 1997

[ashstfu]

forever rooting for sensitive girls!!!!!! you have big hearts and a poet’s soul i love you

[ultrafacts]

[uptownlowdown]

bee freeman and carman newsome in swing! (1938) directed by oscar micheaux.

source: for history's sake

[toiich]

Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper

[wherepetalsbecomeprayer]

[drksknbrutha]

✊🏾

[petewentzisblack1312]

Reform would deny visas to countries seeking slavery reparations

The party says it wants to put African and Caribbean countries "on notice" after a vote at the UN last month.

i should be allowed to rip white english people apart with my teeth

[petewentzisblack1312]

GO HERE NOW AND YOU BETTER FUCKING REBLOG.

READ BRITAIN'S BLACK DEBT.

READ HOW BRITAIN UNDERDEVELOPED THE CARIBBEAN.

LOOK AT US.

[momoboyds]

i don’t like how some of y’all talk about Black women in fictional media. shut the fuck up about them actually

[lizbehave]

THIS!!! Especially the way some of y'all get online, claim to be Black women, then turn around and stalk the tags for Annie from Sinners just so you can foam at the mouth, call her a mammy, and denigrate her character in the comments/reblogs.

[graceandopulence]

[themakeupbrush]

Aja Naomi King at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

[sartorialadventure]

Designer: Tamara Ralph

[prettynpaid]

Brianna Anderson

[vague-humanoid]

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generati

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ign

Mexico amends its constitution to cut the maximum workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 and gives 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends, in the most significant overhaul of Mexican labor law in a generation.

Mexico has rewritten its constitution to guarantee every worker in the country a shorter working week, a legal right to switch off from work after hours, and a guarantee that no employer can cut their pay in response, enacting in a single legislative package a set of labor rights that workers in wealthier countries have spent decades campaigning for without success.

[faustique]

with love, always

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[creatingblackcharacters]

For anyone looking an explanation of the historical and contemporary tensions between the Black and Asian American community, and how that, too, is structural and fueled to benefit white supremacy. Proximity to Whiteness will never be Whiteness!

[handweavers]

with the fact that the uk race riots are happening in belfast too perhaps white usamericans/canadians can stop pretending that being irish or having irish ancestry inherently makes someone progressive or anti racist lol idk why they became convinced of this but it does my head in