A More Practical Magic

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Solar Eclipse — August 21, 2017 © Brad Gregory

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this is why we say all cops are bastards. this is why we need to abolish the police. the cruelty is not an accident. it is the point.

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THIS PRIDE MONTH REMEMBER TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR BUILT THIS COMMUNITY

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The only Black medical student in a U of T class of 259, Chika Oriuwa graduates as valedictorian

Says Oriuwa, 26, days before graduation: “It’s not easy representing your race. Being the only Black person, you are acutely aware of race and identit...

As the child of immigrant Nigerian parents, Chika Oriuwa was taught early she had to do more, be much better than the competition and leave nothing to chance — because the odds were not in the favour of a little Black girl with kinky hair, African features, an ethnic name and parents who talked funny.

She had a natural affinity for science. The ability to process and understand medical concepts comes easy. And when that landed her at University of Toronto’s medical school in 2016, hello, she was the only Black medical student in the class of 259.

In Canada’s largest city, with the country’s largest Black population, in one of the world’s most diverse cities.

“It was very uncomfortable, acutely exhausting,” Oriuwa says. “I was going to be crippled or empowered by it.”

On Tuesday, Oriuwa graduates as valedictorian, the first Black woman so honoured at the school and the first woman in 14 years.

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how to tell if someone likes you

1. they don’t

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Jenny Slate photographed by Zoey Grossman for Tidal Magazine (2015)

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she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily i was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath

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not knowing the name of a meme and having to describe it in google like a fucking animal

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wanting to dismantle beauty standards but also defining yourself by them

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