Mess & Amends

Highlighting strength and beauty across the diaspora. Healing through trauma. Feminism redefined. Read more at herdiamondback.com

[fyblackwomenart]

Esther by Danielle Elysse

[thesaddestchorusgirlintheworld]

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

[vetmedirl]

This woman’s work changed the way we see ourselves in America.

[herdiamondback]

Embrace the mess, and make amends.

[herdiamondback]

Diamonds, this is your reminder to be #Fabulous! #Diamondsareforever #Grace #Queen #Letabrothaknow #Flawless 👑💄👠💎💎💎

[herdiamondback]

I just look like I'm gonna cause some trouble don't I? Lol. #tbt #Iwasagoodkidtho #borntowrite #creative #80sbaby

[herdiamondback]

Revisiting a classic. #TheirEyesWereWatchingGod #Feministsbelike #BookGameon1000 #JanieandTeacake #ZoraNealeHurston

[misterand]

[herdiamondback]

Yep. :)

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Deconstructing Masculinity & Manhood with Michael Kimmel @ Dartmouth College

[girldwarf]

YAAAAEEESSSSSSS

[worldoflis]

You know what I like, and feel is so important? That he doesn’t say “Men thinks those are THEIR positions”. He says “We think those are OUR positions.”

As a male feminist, he still doesn’t exclude himself from the group of men.

[ruckawriter-deactivated20200128]

Damn.

Well said.

[itsjessmehere-deactivated201605]

🙌👏

[herdiamondback]

This is what an ally looks like.

[madlori]

[glockgal]

madlori:

Women firefighters douse flames during the Pearl Harbor attack.

Oh hay look women of colour were an integral part of the ‘cool’ part of history too, how about that.  They were like. Doing stuff that supposedly only heroic white dudes had done. That makes women valid participants in collective history now, right? Right? This is in high school history books now, right? Right? Huh?

[thesylverlining]

It reminds me of that one famous painting/sculpture of the soldiers raising the flag

I like this one a lot better.

[stayxsvckaxfree]

From the Strolling Series by Cecile Emeke

free condoms; pay for tampons, typecasting, “selling out”, rape culture & more

I love this series, and everything she said completely resonated with me, especially when she talked about how black men (#FakeDeeps, as Cecile cleverly put it) contribute to sexism towards black women. I think it’s important that feminism places women as central to the cause, and I loved how she spoke from her who point of view as a black women. 

The Filmaker’s Info 

Website: cecileemeke.com Vimeo: vimeo.com/cecileemeke FB: facebook.com/cecileemeke Tumblr: cecileemeke.tumblr.com Instagram: @cecileemeke Twitter: @cecileemeke

[dynastylnoire]

exposing the ankhs

[herdiamondback]

I'll be checking this. Mhmm. Yep.

[quazimottoonwax]

Grace

Portrait by J. Quazi King

http://quazimottoonwax.com

Instagram = @Quazimottoonwx

[browngirlblues]

Women against feminism are basically just arguing that their individual lives are fine and they don’t care about what other women go through

[herdiamondback]

OMG THIS!

[pigeonskiss]

[ladyazura]

Rape Culture? What is this “Rape Culture” you speak of? Seriously though, this is terrifying. God forbid I wear a skirt outside — I’m just ASKING   to be raped if I do that.

[topdennis]

The 58% statistic actually terrifies me more than any other. Suddenly change the word and you don’t care? 

No one will ever be able to convince me that words hold no power.

[90sprincess]

this makes me sick to my stomach with anger and fear

[herdiamondback]

But somehow it makes sense for to teach women how to not get raped. ugh.

[angiewrites]

Surya Bonaly

 is famous for her backflip landed on only one blade; she is considered the only skater in the world capable of this move

[jettestblack-deactivated2017080]

Why am I just now hearing about her??????

[elfyourmother]

Because you’re young. She retired from amateur competition after the ‘98 Nagano Olympics and never medalled at the Olympics in her career, but she did win gold at Europeans a bunch of times and silvered at Worlds a few times.

The main thing to understand about Surya Bonaly’s career as a skater is that figure skating is racist as fuck and she never fit the image of a skater, to judges or to commentators. Race and colorism were a huge fucking factor in how she was evaluated and discussed—she’s French, born in Nice, but her (white) adoptive parents lied and said she was born off Madagascar and abandoned by her birth parents to make her seem more ~exotic~, to give you an idea.

Commentators were especially horrid to her and loved to praise her for her “athletic” style but would always criticize her for not being ~artistic~ enough and she always got dinged on artistic presentation. She would always do well in the short program on technical marks and then the long program would be her achilles heel because of how heavily artistic presentation was weighted. (For the younger among you, this is pre-SLC so this is when the old judging system was still being used.) 

More proof of how fucked skating is: Surya is also the only woman to my knowledge to ever land a quad toe loop in competition or even attempt one and to this day they don’t want to credit her with actually landing it, because all four rotations were not completed in air. Granted, there is a fair case to be made that it was only a triple, but don’t doubt that race played a role in that. They hated on this woman from the minute she got on the ice.

And yes, she landed that famous backflip on one blade at the 98 Olympics in her long program as one last FU to the system that had been fucking her for her whole career. Which is the real reason you should know who she is, tbh. Never was there a badder bitch on ice.

[errorschacha]

I remember when my mother threw her slipper at a television when Surya was receiving her marks in 1994 at Lillehammer.

[blackfashion]

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[herdiamondback]

Well damn.

[thechanelmuse]

One of the things that I found frustrating in my career was how difficult it was to get a job because I was black and a woman. I see this old image as a ladder where white males are on top, then white women, then black males, then black women at the last row of the ladder fighting to get up.

Cicely Tyson, Oprah’s Master Class (via thechanelmuse)

[sleepydrummer]

“Believe me—the crowd gave me $18 in tips. I ran out the door. Bought a whole chicken. Ran up Seventh Avenue to my home. Mother and I ate that night— and we have been eating pretty well since.” —Billie Holiday, recounts her first paid singing gig

[herdiamondback]

Boss

[lahore2toronto]

Don’t be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

Paulo Coelho (via surbeat)