Inking the inklings of the Sol...

Me: "I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life." ~June Jordan

[pierrebennu]

Al Green and Ann Peebles 

photographer bud wilson 

1971

[vladimir-nabokov-official]

“Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.”

— Susan Sontag, The Double Standard of Aging (1972)

[paullewinart]

New work….

This piece will be showing at Wonderland SF Gallery this Saturday from 6-11pm. Hope to see you there!!

[alovesupremeee-deactivated20210]

UPLIFT BLACK WOMEN.

[zodiacsociety]

[odinsblog]

“Marvin Gaye’s voice was so amazing that even when you strip away all of the musical accompaniment it stops you in your tracks.”

Wow.

[isthistoomuchblack]

WE ARE HUMAN

[blackgirlsreverything]

[singlemumsugar]

Money is coming to me

In all areas of my life.

Money is there in abundance. Every time I spend money, it reappears in my hands, my bank accounts, tenfold.

[purpleandpinkhouses]

Speak on it

and receive it

[postingwhileblack]

Jack Daniels was created by a slave. Bourbon giant finally acknowledges the truth after 150 years.

The story told by the media for centuries appeared to be fake af. 

The story went that Jack Daniels recipe was created by white moonshine distiller named Dan Call who passed it down to Jack Daniel.

Now the brand has revealed it was, in fact, one of Call’s slaves Nearis Green who taught the young Daniel how to distill.

Slaves made up the majority of men working in the distilling industry who were passing ancient African techniques down through the generations.

However, like so much else appropriated from enslaved African Americans - the distillery owners would take credit for their slaves’ whisky.

The fact that Green invented the original recipe has been known to local historians for decades but was only recently acknowledged by the whisky makers and the public.

Another example of what we call “appropriation”. In this case, I would call it “theft”.

I bet none of your friends really know the truth.

Make it Viral

[whoistheoriginalman]

SOURCE: https://whoistheoriginalman.tumblr.com

[universitybookstore]

Continuing the celebration of the photographer’s birthday today, a selection of Carl Van Vechten’s  brilliant color portraits of African American performers: Billie Holiday, Geoffrey Holder, Pearl Bailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Ella Fitzgerald, Joyce Bryant, Harry Belafonte, Ethel Waters, James Earl Jones, and Blanche Dunn.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

And white people refuse to believe they have this privilege.

[eatmangoesnekkid]

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin (via eatmangoesnekkid)

[purplebuddhaproject]

https://www.instagram.com/pbuddhaproject/

[aphotic-eniola]

Important

[astrolocherry]

every man has a moon a side no one sees

mark twain the moon sign

moon in aries: secretly feels unequipped for the world moon in taurus: secretly fears being left moon in gemini: secretly struggles to make sense of her emotions moon in cancer: secretly fears abandonment moon in leo: secretly needs a mother figure moon in virgo: secretly battles fierce nerves moon in libra: secretly conceals emotions and needs moon in scorpio: is secret about emotional disturbances moon in sagittarius: secretly hides sensitivities moon in capricorn: secretly craves maternal guidance and comfort moon in aquarius: secretly fears her own feelings moon in pisces: feels secretly vulnerable without a relationship

(via astrolocherry)

[solworksink]

#teachingbybeing #MamaMayasaidso #ancestralwisdom #womanisms

[lesbianavagardner]

Billie Holiday was performing in a Manhattan club in 1943, and between sets she took a seat at a table and ordered her usual Top and Bottom (a mixture of gin and port wine). Two white sailors from the South, on leave in the Big Apple, approached her, wanting to know where a “darkie” got off wearing a mink coat. When Lady told them to get lost they snuffed out their cigarettes in her mink. Without pause, Holiday told them to meet her outside, if they had any balls. At which point Holiday proceeded to beat them both unconscious with her fists. It was a bad idea to mess with Lady Day.

Rich English on the toughness of Billie Holiday (via lesbianfranksinatra)