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“What’s a faggot?” A scene from the movie ‘Moonlight’

This took me back to the 4th grade.

This movie and scene put me in my feels and I Glad it let blackness here be simultaneous with queerness and also let black masculinity and fatherhood be accepting and soft. Fuckkkkk this film got me so emotional

bennyblnco-deactivated20170726

Damn. I gotta see this man

tyleroakley

if you haven’t seen Moonlight yet, go now. it’s incredible, start to finish.

focusongaylove

“What’s a faggot?” A scene from the movie ‘Moonlight’

j-dizzile

This took me back to the 4th grade.

500hedwigs

This movie and scene put me in my feels and I Glad it let blackness here be simultaneous with queerness and also let black masculinity and fatherhood be accepting and soft. Fuckkkkk this film got me so emotional

bennyblnco-deactivated20170726

Damn. I gotta see this man

tyleroakley

if you haven’t seen Moonlight yet, go now. it’s incredible, start to finish.

colin-vian

Lionel Smit peintre , sculpteur Sud Africain contemporain

3rdeyechakra

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bekanicolex

bellygangstaboo

Iconic

explore-blog

Crushes … tell us a story about ourselves and where we come from psychologically.

Terrific episode of Dear Sugar Radio about forbidden crushes – so many layers of wisdom on one of the most disorienting yet most common human experiences. Complement with Heidi Julavits on how crushes fortify your existing relationship. (via explore-blog)

theparisreview

I never knew anyone who had a passion for words who had as much difficulty saying things as I do.

Marianne Moore, The Art of Poetry No. 4 (via theparisreview)

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This gorgeous 7-foot steel-and-etched-glass lotus blossom by cross-disciplinary artist Sanford Biggers, a 2016 TED Fellow, pays homage to the Buddhist symbol for purity and sacredness. But its petals, upon closer inspection, are made of 18th-century diagrams of slave ship cargo holds depicting the configuration of human cargo. Chills.

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Meet the designer bringing mental health awareness to NYFW

blackfashion

Styled by Erykah Badu

blkproverbs

So, want a cookie?

The African American way of expressing they/we are not here for your irrelevant bullshit. (via blackproverbs)

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The Secrets to a Better Relationship

1. Make sure you spend time alone together. 2. Appreciate each other, and express your gratitude. Don’t take them for granted – or you may regret it later! 3. Major on communicating openly and honestly (share and talk about everything). 4. Don’t let offenses and irritations become huge resentments – which build a wall between you. 5. Get a handle on your jealousy. Be open and confront it in a real and honest way. 6. Allow your partner to be a flawed human being. Don’t expect them to be perfect, or to please you all the time. 7. Show affection, and demonstrate you care. 8. Let go of your need to be seen as being right; and don’t be stubborn or demand your own way.

cecileemeke

strolling (jamaica), episode 1 by cecile emeke

“A lot of young people in Jamaica have depression and don’t even know it. Sometimes I have to laugh. That’s probably the saving grace of Jamaican people because we’re so funny. A lot of dem tings. We have to laugh it. We have to laugh… We have to laugh. Because it’s depressing, it really is. I’m not trying to exaggerate. If you’re living here there are things that you literally have to pretend are not happening. If you have something that you need to do, if you have to be mentally well to do this thing, you have to pretend like all these million other things that are happening don’t affect you. Not just in your life but the country, the world in general. You might end up operating like something that’s a little bit not human.” - Gladstone & Kokab

#strollingseries: connecting the scattered stories of the global black diaspora

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allerasphinx

I sincerely love this. It’s not often that I see honest portrayals of Jamaican people and Jamaican society. There’s a lot of colourism, classism, and a lot of residual pain and suffering from being colonised peoples. The older generation doesn’t like to acknowledge Jamaica’s problems (especially living abroad, they tend to romanticise Jamaican life) and foreigners assume we have no problems (except for when they want other countries to ravage our tourist industry to send a message about homophobia). People say that racism doesn’t exist in Jamaica even though the upper class is predominantly white or light-skinned and even though skin bleaching is an epidemic. There’s so much self-hatred (wrt misogyny, homophobia, internalised racism) that goes unchecked because of this romanticised view of the Caribbean.