Black Feminist.

“Don’t frighten me like that colonizer!” - Shuri, a true royal

[casualcarma]

Amanda Rosenberg for Vulture

[ancestorswatching]

In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.

In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.

Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.

Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.

[babyanimalgifs]

Bunnies flop over when they feel completely safe 

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[iknowyouloveme-thanks]

Rachelle Hampton analyzed Twilight’s murmurs so we didn’t have to.

[iknowyouloveme-thanks]

Bonus:

[cosmicangst]

i wish i had this man’s “dick out no pants” approach to his work

[chthonic-isabelleadjani-deactiv]

Bro İ hate being an academic they're making me write shit 😭 İ thought İ was just supposed to sit in an old chair smoke & say something french every now and then 😢

[jinx-my-beloved-deactivated2023]

when someone reports a body

[profeminist]

Josh Orton: “I’ll never forget how @BernieSanders answered when people said the Green New Deal was too expensive. “Expensive as opposed to what?”

Responding to story: “The Bidwell Bar Bridge is surrounded by fire in Lake Oroville during the Bear fire in Oroville, California, as dangerous wildfires rage across the state. https://abcn.ws/3bFsIka”

Georgia@nationalparke: “the sky is literally the wrong color and they’re still asking how we can afford a green new deal” 

Maximillian Alvarez: “the Green Dream or whatever they call it” - @SpeakerPelosi”

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Why everyone loves Megan

[spiderstape]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[ruinedchildhood]

[johnnyssilverhand]

But here’s the thing, you put a bunch of rich people together, oh, there’s gonna be some murder. 

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

🌌

[kristina100000]

as if this corona shit wasn’t enough these celebrities had to remind me john lennon was a real person i hate yall.................

[7842758406546745643087-deactiva]

practice social distancing by going to one of those vampire castles where the vampire will encourage you to stay for dinner but you have to sit at opposite ends of an extremely long table

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