The Afronaut Has Landed

just your friendly neighborhood historian sojourning across the futurepast and giving away free(ish) history lessons to upRoot our miseducation and make some good trouble 🍉 my instagram | my patreon

[oliviawhen]

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

[ominous-signs]

yeah.

[padawan-historian]

“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background . . . Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston, 1928

[chilewithcarnage]

this is the second case ive seen of a black child going missing and then found lynched, what the fuck is going on

[glamygdala]

Her name is Juliana Nzita.

[d1anna]

Donate in MEMORY OF JULIANA NZITA, organized by Bueia Umba

Hi, my name is Bueia Umba and I am fundraising for Juliana Nzita. It is with deep sorrow… Bueia Umba necesita tu apoyo para Donate in MEMOR

her family’s gofundme!!

[anxeious]

[padawan-historian]

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 . . . 👀

[padawan-historian]

[padawan-historian]

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)

[padawan-historian]

[padawan-historian]

My kind of Sunday school~

[padawan-historian]

[padawan-historian]

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

[padawan-historian]

[padawan-historian]

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

[padawan-historian]

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

[padawan-historian]

[padawan-historian]

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

[padawan-historian]

“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)