Unchained Black Girl

This girl is free from mental slavery

[unmundodediosas]

[saltoncity]

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

[biglawbear]

Sometimes it feels like my entire lawyer job is just telling people they're being fucking stupid

[nocturnaltigerrevelation]

I dont want a job

[womenstruation]

One of the biggest ways young girls are exploited in the global South is via the “house girl” culture. I’m speaking on how it works in Nigeria as that is my experience but I know it happens all around the world.

“House girls” are domestic servants, usually late teens though I have seen girls as young as six or seven, employed by middle and upper class families. They do everything from cooking and cleaning to caring for the elderly and young children and get very little wages. Most times these girls never see a penny of their wages- it’s all sent to their families. In Nigeria, these girls tend to come from very impoverished families living in border towns and often times do not speak the language before being sent to these families that exploit them.

Due to their young age, lack of any family nearby or money, poor education, and Nigeria’s legal system, these girls are overwhelmingly subject to sexual abuse at the hands of their male employers. In fact there is a common trope in media of the “husband cheating with the house girl and replacing the “madam” of the house. And when these men impregnate these girls, they are sent back to their villages in shame while the cycle continues.

They also face lots of other abuse. One of my mother’s friends was a “house girl” in the 70s when she was just thirteen and she was only given mouldy food and left overs to eat for most of her childhood. she once told me of a time where she was so thirsty, she drank the dirty water her abusers had used to wash their hands. I have also seen “house girls” physically beaten by their abusers and subject to horrific punishments- once as a child I saw a very young girl forced to ride in the boot of a car while all the employers children threw their imported backpacks at her.

There have also been situations in which families immigrate and arrange to bring their house girls with them. They continue to abuse them and when these girls manage to break free, they face deportation and further exploitation.

Of course such experiences are usually less common but the hiring of house girls is not viewed as the exploitation it is. Some people, my parents included, seem to view themselves as saving these girls from their lives in the village where they would get married young and live in poverty with lots of children. But how is it saving them to deprive them of education and enslave them? It is said that it is easy to recognise a house girl: shaven heads, old and dirty clothes and a scarily small stature. They look nothing like girls who have been saved.

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

This is very prevalent in India and other south asian countries as well. They are usually sold off by their fathers or they are child brides trying to make a a living. They are treated worse than cattle and sexually abused by the male "employers". It's sad that the fate of young girls in villages is either get sold to be abused by one man as a wife or multiple men in a brothel.

[hyperdemona]

Our landlord and his wife (a couple in their 70s or smth) had a servant girl like this. She was 14, two years older than I was at the time (in India it's legal for minors to work from fourteen years of age). She washed the family's clothes by hand, cleaned the house, helped cook etc. I was rude to her once and she walked off in a huff and I felt kinda bad after that.

She was there bcs she'd been kicked out of her church-run boarding school and my mother speculated it may have been because she had a boyfriend. She had her first period at that house and they gave her a few days off to travel home with her parents to celebrate (some Indian castes celebrate a girl's first period). She didn't really get paid, her parents just wanted her employers to help pay her dowry when it was time for her to be married off. I think she worked for them for like a year or two.

[sprinkledsalt]

10 Undeniable Facts About the Michael Jackson Sexual-Abuse Allegations

The author, who spent more than a decade covering the scandal for V.F., shares the key revelations and insights that viewers of the new HBO

As the title suggests, this article presents just straight up facts about Jackson, and I think the facts alone are damning

His stans look at this like “welllll an adult man repeatedly slept in the same bed as random children and probably showed them porn for totally innocent reasons. One of the boys was also able to accurately draw the man’s penis for totally innocent reasons, too.” Do you hear yourselves? Would you ever make a fool out of yourself defending a guy who was accused of the same things if you didn’t like his songs?

Then his stans are like “ohhh, multiple people came forward with child sex abuse allegations that detail a similar pattern of behavior? Well that’s cuz the later accusers just studied off the previous ones—“ when in the fuck does that ever actually happen? Just come on. People need to be honest that they simply don't want to believe this is true

I think what's depressing is that this documentary didn't actually have the effect the Jackson estate feared it would. Like so many other abuse stories, enough people shrugged and moved on. It definitely gives you whiplash, though, to go on some people's social media pages, see them post things about how horrible Epstein was, and then turn around and earnestly say all of these child sex abuse accusations against their favorite wealthy, influential pop star were false. Oh, and did you know there have been new accusations made against Michael Jackson just this year?

I’m muting this because like Johnny Depp defenders, Jackson stans are just black holes of victim blaming and unpaid mouthpieces for their fave’s PR team

[sharmeeyn]

[dark-skin-fem]

Few things bring me as much joy as seeing black women reject eurocentric beauty standards and messaging around our hair. I love seeing black women putting down those damn wigs and taking care of our own. Short, long, locked, braided, twisted, doesn't matter. I think it's beautiful, and even if others don't, we don't have to perform socially acceptable beauty to move through this world. Makes me so happy.

Anyway, here are a few samples of my favourite natural hairstyles.

[skarabrae-stone]

[magiclilybean]

I think this might be the most beautiful meme I've ever seen. I just spent five minutes extolling all its virtues to my husband:

It doesn't even mention Julius Caesar or the Ides of March.

It's from a very different segment of the play

It's not even the famous part of that segment that everyone knows by heart

The "I'm just sayin'" attitude of all the Seinfeldians in the screenshot (although if memory serves, what they're actually saying is, "not that there's anything wrong with that")

It just comes at the whole situation in such an oblique fashion

I don't think I've ever seen an Ides of March meme do anything like this before

I love it and I love you for bringing it to me.

[same-shit-different-century]

When I say I love jkr this is what I mean. Queen of comedy.

[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[blondedboy]

St Lucia

[macrolit]

How many of these have you read?

[bethanydelleman]

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy being like, "I am 100% committed to respecting your 'no', but I heard you wouldn't promise my aunt not to marry me so I had to come and check just one (1) more time."

[bethanydelleman]

[capacity2]

There is no one happier than Erika Kirk after that boy died. Talking like fuckin Batman you are having way too much fun with this maam

[tropic-havens]

Pitons of St. Lucia

[johnnycrass]

unethical rich person selfish nonsense ASIDE, the vibes on mount everest cannot possibly be good. like theres no way its poppin up there, everyones dead and dying and u cant shower or nothing like that. drinking snow water, shitting urself, no airpods. i dont know why anyone would ever attend such a venue