The Afronaut Has Landed

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If Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and Tommy Tuberville had a tumble, I wonder what’s in store for the guy who uses Air Force One . . . 👀

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Never forget that, at the end of the day, Charlie was a mediocre college dropout who mocked Black lynchings and got his neck blown out in front of a bunch of Jim Crow crooners and groomers.

(Original Post from June 2025)

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My kind of Sunday school~

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Important wellness information for colored girls, women, femmes, and pregnant folks.

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Solidarity with Palestine is to stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

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(Dis)ability scholarship challenges how we move (and don’t move) in spaces of collective liberation and responsibility ✨📚🌿

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Rebel carrying her baby & rifle at a UN disarmament site Tubmanberg, Liberia (2004)

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“Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them . . . In this way also men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.”

~ Audre Lorde, from “Manchild” in Conditions: Four (1979)

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When Nikos Kazantzakis said “Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

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“green sprouts are drowning in mud and blessings”

~ Audre Lorde “From the Greenhouse” in The Black Unicorn (1978)

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Space is so creepy and wonderful. Who the hell needs hell when there’s space.

Like there’s an old constellation called Eridanus that you can see in the southern sky, and its not a very interesting constellation. It’s a river. It’s actually the water that’s pouring out of Aquarius, so in the sky it’s kind of boring. It’s a path of stars.

But within Eridanus, in between the stars, there’s a place where the background radiation is unexplainably cold. Because after the Big Bang, there was all this light that scattered everywhere, and it’s the oldest light in the universe, but we can’t see it. It’s so dim that it only shows up as a glow of microwaves, so to us, it just looks like the blackness of the night.

But there’s this spot in Eridanus where that little glow of ancient microwaves isn’t what it should be. It’s cold and dark.

And it’s enormous. Like a billion light year across. Of mostly just emptiness. And we don’t know why. One theory is that it’s simply a huge void, like a place where there are no galaxies. Voids like that do exist. Most of them are smaller, but they’re a sort of predictable part of the structure of the universe. The cold spot in Eridanus, if it were a void, would be so enormous that it would change how we understand the universe. 

But another theory is that this cold spot is actually the place where a parallel universe is tangled with our own.