[ms-mandy-m]

Herieth Paul in Tibi photographed by Danielle St. Laurent for So It Goes magazine, April 2017.

[blackgrlsaremagic]

@nappyese

[soley-solange]

[alovesupremeee-deactivated20210]

[wnq-anonymous]

You can be a good person with a kind heart and still say no.

Anonymous (via thatkindofwoman)

[dorcascreates-blog]

Adwoa Aboah shot by Jacqueline Harriet for Teen Vogue | Yetunde Pin by me

Pin available here

View the rest of Adwoa’s shoot here

[divalocity]

Model Lilian Uwanyuze

Photography Credit: Jassieuo

[senseitive]

me: im just worried i wont find someone that loves me for me. i dont want to settle u know?

uber driver: we’re here

[katal0gue]

i love my disjointed internet community of young women who feel alienated 24/7 for reasons they cannot always quite fully express

[mournfulroses]

Alice Walker, from Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

[medievalpoc]

Sophie Okonedo in The Hollow Crown

[images via]

Apparently I should be checking out this miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, immediate-style. 

[medievalpoc]

reblog for Garb Week!

[likehercoffee-deactivated202008]

HER FACE IS EPIC I WILL DESTROY YOU !!

[solitarymangoes]

Wait what how have I not seen this?!!!

[magictransistor]

Tijani Àdìgún Sitou. Africa. 1978-1985.

[solitarymangoes]

every introvert ever

after walking through the door into your home: *loud exhale* finally

[africashowboy]

HERBAL MEDICINE EVANGELISTS I overhead them hawking this cream that cures “white” and gives “down there” a nice flavor.

Photo and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkaphoto.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2016). #Ghana #Accra #kokrobite

[yagazieemezi-deactivated2022030]

Who steal my bleaching? My precious bleaching? I buy am for shopping For forty naira How I go yellow? How I go find out? I go die o I go die o - Nigeria has the highest percentage of women in Africa using skin lightening agents in the quest for ‘beauty’. As far back as the 1960s, 60% of urban African women reported to using skin lightening formulas. The use of such can be linked to colonial history. Lighter skin came/comes with the perception of higher social standing, better marital prospects and a range of increased privileges.

[threesideddream]

004. 

the most accurate statement i ever heard about my relationship with body image and food was my dad saying, “you don’t have a problem with your body – you have a problem with how other people see your body.”

[blackwomenconfessions]

C: I realized that Black men don’t hold one another accountable and I’m frankly tired of it.

No more excuses.

Start shaming your buddies who like to skip out on their kids and not pay child support, don’t allow toxic indivuals like that in your circle.

If he’s constantly disrespecting Black women and children then you should rethink your group of friends. Sticking around while remaining silent makes you complacent, makes you a coward.

Enough with the excuses. Any Black man who can sit there and justify allowing the mothers of their children to struggle, allowing their kids to grow up fatherless l, and the constant disrespect for Black women is trash.

“Black men have it hard” well Black women have it hard too. All this pro Black talk is empty especially if you are out here slandering your own race. Get over yourselves. It’s only a “gender war” for lazy, worthless men that remain stagnant in their minds, bodies, and souls. We can’t unify when so many of y'all are not living up to your duties. An absent patriarchy demanding to be taken care of, respected, and loved is ridiculous. Time to shape up or remain in the same place.