The Sardonic Sistah

[aubrey-plaza]

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY - I AM:

BESSIE STRINGFIELD FRIDA KAHLO JOSEPHINE BAKER NAWI, THE LAST DAHOMEY AMAZON

[lovecraftcountry]

Lovecraft Country + titlecards

[rentec]

When the prayers for Trump hits Jesus’ ears in heaven

[whitepeopletwitter]

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I have learned my lesson. Each month is progressively worse

[zarrypoet]

[rentec]

I cackled!

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(Wake up in the middle of the night)

Me: do I have to go to the bathroom? Was there a noise? Is my arm asleep?

My brain:

[rentec]

[collectorsweekly]

The Old Public Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, built by J.W. McLaughlin in 1874 and demolished in 1955. (Via the Cincinnati Public Library flickr)

[cinemaspam]

Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee

[zalrb]

What are the best movies/series with main black characters in your opinion?

Some of these are movies that I think are brilliant movies and some of them are just fun and they’re, like, 99% African American so it’s a goal of mine to look at different movies/shows from different countries.

Moonlight

If Beale Street Could Talk

Fences

Do The Right Thing

Love & Basketball

Black Panther

Boyz N The Hood (there is problematic treatment of black women)

Rafiki 

Carmen Jones

Malcolm X

Selma

The Color Purple

Lean On Me (a lot of respectability politics in this)

Coming To America (contrasting views on it ofc)

12 Years A Slave

American Gangster (yeaaaaaahhh I’m including it)

Get Out (i’m including it)

Us (I’m going to be honest, I didn’t particularly like Us but it should be on this list)

The Barbershop

The Barbershop II

Crooklyn

School Daze

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Waiting To Exhale

The Best Man

Set It Off

Friday

Shows

Awkward Black Girl

A Different World

Living Single

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Girlfriends

One on One

Insecure

Queen Sugar

[rentec]

Some of y’all would flunk the marshmallow test and it shows

“You can have a summer now but if you wait you can have more summer later”

[rentec]

When my endocrinologist asks me to check my blood sugar more than once a day

[sseureki]

I love TSA bae 😂

[rentec]

Do you attend a church like this?

[bellsandforks]

“It’s the nation that does not permit you to live.”

Death by Hanging (1968), dir. Nagisa Ōshima

[cincylibraryteen]

The drawbacks of wearing a mask