Ya Aunty’s “Friend”

Oretha She|her Queer & black af |London| Spirit colour: #fb5a04 also at www.black-whole.info

[strawb-aries]

pov: you’re a small woodland creature sitting on a moss-covered rock, listening to the stream without a worry in the world

[amortizing]

“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

— Dalai Lama (via amargedom)

[neshamama]

isamu noguchi, “love of two boards,” 1950, seto stoneware

[cr333st]

What language are you fluent in?

silence 

[lezkissgifs]

[xiaq]

Ever since I found out that earthworms have taste buds all over the delicate pink strings of their bodies, I pause dropping apple peels into the compost bin, imagine the dark, writhing ecstasy, the sweetness of apples permeating their pores. I offer beets and parsley, avocado, and melon, the feathery tops of carrots.

I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar—though now, it seems, they bear a pleasure so sublime, so decadent, I want to contribute however I can, forgetting, a moment, my place on the menu.

Feeding the Worms by Danusha Laméris

[kaalboishakhi-deactivated202505]

i love how we pick up habits and phrases and songs from people we love and it sticks with us for so long it becomes a piece of us making us a museum of all the people we've ever loved

[garfield-lasagna]

[oooretha]

coming back to tumblr every once in a while and getting a warm familiar feeling... glad you're still here.

[eatmangoesnekkid]

Normalize being your own lover first. Speaking love into your skin cells. Slow bathing your body with reverence. Handling your hair gently with care. Consciously saying kind things about yourself. Mindfully cultivating a beautiful expansive mind and thoughtful heart. Own your need for good rest and exercise. Take care to regulate your nervous system. These are natural beauty tips that will improve your physical appearance. Your efforts will become more visible with time, especially the older you get. Your unique physical features become more enhanced from being infused more with love, softness, sweetness, reverence, grace, and gratitude over the years. It's never too late to start normalizing new ways of interacting with yourself, your actual cells. Start today. Begin where you are. You loving yourself changes the energy of your internal waters-- how you look, feel, taste, sound, and the quality of life around you. Hating yourself, hating the body you were born with, as modeled by this world, does the same. In other words, fall in love with your own image.--India Ame'ye, Author

[sym-biosis-deactivated20260215]

bell hooks said “we are sustained by one another’s testimony when we find ourselves faltering or falling into despair.”

[shounendyke]

hey. dont cry. one million dykes in the world okay?

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Lesbian; Sacred Sexuality- by Diane Mariechild & Marcelina Martin

[michelleumunna]

Portrait of a beloved, 2019 by Chioma Ebinama

[distantvoices]

Destiny Adeyemi by Ethan Hart for Document Journal

[ukpuru]

Uli designs that would be drawn on the chest of a young man. c. 1933, Igbo region of Eastern Nigeria.

[toneflesh-deactivated20211019]

June Jordan