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Lover of photography, art, various music genres & fashion, and gemstones & crystals.

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Speaking an additional $3500 in my life this week

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Every time you see Gucci mane on your TL you have to reblog for good fortune, growth, transformation and positivity.

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The Good Fortune Wop

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This shit makes my day EVERYTIME

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This was so fucking satisfying to watch

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WOW

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WTF

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I love science

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It’s not just 11 years. An elephant never forgets.

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

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A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

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I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

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[molothoo]

Enough of us do not even realize how much of a post-colonial white-supremic world we still live in. Things like racism, the gender binary, homophobia are all concepts and inventions of the european influence on us globally.

Too many times I have read about a pre-colonial culture (the fact that I even have to say pre colonial 🙄) where I read that certain things were or were not common practice until Europeans arrived and forced their culture on everybody and then used Christianity to justify it while they were enslaving, raping, kidnapping, and committing genocide. And there are actual poc who can’t see pass the eurocentricity of literaly EVERYTHING because it’s what we were raised to think and believe and were never exposed to anything that would suggest otherwise.

[kwehnyah]

Always reblog and remember: gender fluidity and homosexuality is not "crap made by the left" they have always been here, but christianity and colonialism set them as bad and wrong, they did their brainwashing so good that made A LOT of people believe and enforce their bigotry.

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

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A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

[oshuns-ambience]

I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

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[molothoo]

Enough of us do not even realize how much of a post-colonial white-supremic world we still live in. Things like racism, the gender binary, homophobia are all concepts and inventions of the european influence on us globally.

Too many times I have read about a pre-colonial culture (the fact that I even have to say pre colonial 🙄) where I read that certain things were or were not common practice until Europeans arrived and forced their culture on everybody and then used Christianity to justify it while they were enslaving, raping, kidnapping, and committing genocide. And there are actual poc who can’t see pass the eurocentricity of literaly EVERYTHING because it’s what we were raised to think and believe and were never exposed to anything that would suggest otherwise.

[kwehnyah]

Always reblog and remember: gender fluidity and homosexuality is not "crap made by the left" they have always been here, but christianity and colonialism set them as bad and wrong, they did their brainwashing so good that made A LOT of people believe and enforce their bigotry.

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if you're black, reblog this

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you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

[hersheyhipster]

Couldn’t risk it.

[justjengie]

didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.

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THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT

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We have to be precise when speaking about this. The narrative matters.

Especially because this celebration is something stemming from the experience of Black Texans and their enslaved ancestors. I would hate to see that legacy and the voices of Black Texans removed from the conversation. It's important to note that even after being freed, these ancestors still had to fight to even celebrate Juneteeth the following year.

Many cities banned then from using parks for celebrations, but refusing to be stopped, freed people eventually crowdsourced amongst themselves to buy land JUST to celebrate

For Black Texans, this is an Independence Day and for the rest of Black America, we would do well to remember that we ain't free until we are all free 🤌🏿

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Truth! But I will say this, many of us are brought up in religious homes where we are born into worshiping a deity/God first (Jesus, Allah, etc) so we look for these same types of relationships when we leave our religion. Because we feel a need for a god to protect us not knowing we already have a whole team ready to take care of us and answer our prayers.

It took me awhile to comprehend that my grandparents are powerful. I had this old way of thinking of those that passed as being just nice and looking down from the clouds all proud - untouchable like that image of god in a robe in the clouds. But they are here with me, 24/7, within me. With a wealth of knowledge and power to clear the way. Now that I know I go to them first with questions and desires and I mostly only offer thanks to the deities that I have relationships with. Because they have a hand in it too of course.

I also keep a “thanks only” relationship with my deities because where I live I do not have access to an elder who can properly initiate me into Ifa. Just because I’m black, and they come to me in dreams does not mean I can just enter into this religion without knowing how to properly respect and venerate my Orisha. 🙅🏾‍♀️ So I only offer thanks and don’t ask them for things because I cannot properly fulfill my debt to them if I do. But I know they are there, and I hear them speaking. So I just listen and say thanks. I cannot enter into this half assed reading info graphics on Pinterest. I need to be initiated properly and until then I will respect them and thank them, but I will only go to my ancestors for help directly.

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Facts! I am thankful for Oya, Olokun, Yemanja, Sango, and others, but I stick to my ancestors more because there’s so much with Ifa that needs guiding.

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

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A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

[oshuns-ambience]

I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

[oshuns-ambience]

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

[oshuns-ambience]

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A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

[oshuns-ambience]

I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

[oshuns-ambience]

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

A thread written by @IzmsHasRisen

Black Is King/Black Is Q(ueer)ing A Thread on queerness in the African tradition. https://t.co/kRAqBHX3S5

[oshuns-ambience]

[oshuns-ambience]

A thread written by @Blaise_21

Many Africans have been told that Queerness isn’t indigenous to African. This rhetoric has led to several homophobic and transphobic laws an

[oshuns-ambience]

I want to be clear that these posts are not perpetuating the false idea that precolonial Africa was a Utopian paradise without issues of class or hierarchy. Precolonial African traditions of gender & sexual variance still had its issues. I also want to be clear that certain African peoples, both pre and post colonialism, do not have the same language for gender as Western or other societies do-for ex: the Yoruba people.

Here is a wonderful thread addressing these topics in addition to confirming the presence of people in precolonial Africa who were not what we consider cisheterosexual-filled with book recommendations, full PDFs and various text resources

A thread written by @AbolitionF_ists

We have asserted that precolonial African traditions of gender/sexual variance are not ideal/utopic—that they still involve labor divisions,

Men can be wives and women can be husbands. Here’s what that teaches us about gender today

The European gender binary reinforces sexual dualism based on genitals. In Ifi Amadiume’s seminal work, we get a glimpse into how a society

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Aaliyah (2000)

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[frankensteins-mt-dew]

OK, so about a year ago, I got a job doing housekeeping at a hospital, and on my first day walking through the front doors there's this giant banner that says "We are so grateful for our superheroes" ( or something like that.)

and I just had to stop and look at it, and I thought " Why are they superheroes now? Did we not need them before this?"

And a year later, I know that none of us feel like superheroes the days after holidays when tons of people who thought they'd be fine to go out and celebrate like they always had are now filling up the ER and ICU because they're covid positive. when the room that had a covid patient in it for almost a month is now empty and you're praying that it's because they improved and are not part of the death toll that keeps climbing.

I may not be a nurse myself but I have gotten to know so many of them and I know that they have been superheroes all along. We need to remember that when this becomes a topic in the history books we skip over like we have all the other pandemics in the past.

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Anyone who thinks this is unlikely

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56313199

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-nhs-pay-rise-b1813594.html

Though that may change as the completely predicable outrage expressed by pretty much everyone who isn't Boris Johnson or in his Cabinet is forcing a rethink.

[chewie-rhwn]

Of course. Just like employees at restaurants and grocery stores are deemed “essential workers” and have to be exposed to dozens upon dozens of strangers every day (I personally work with 3 different people who got Covid and know another one passed away from it), and yet we don’t deserve anything above minimum wage according to certain people.