#bhm 2023

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

PoC is not synonymous with Black.

Read that again.

PoC is not synonymous with Black.

So please stop using it that way. Black is not a dirty word, and it's not bad to say. So say it!! I'm tired of y'all saying PoC when you mean Black. I AM BLACK!! CALL ME THAT!! Not PoC. Not African American.

B 👏🏾 L 👏🏾 A 👏🏾 C 👏🏾 K 👏🏾

[haemocyaninz]

A drawing for @michaels-reality! Their oc, Bea, is super cute i had a lot of fun drawing him ^^. If ur black n u want a drawing from me, click this for info.

[Image ID: A digital drawing of @michaels-reality‘s oc, Bea. Bea has a muscular build, light brown skin, and honey gold afro. He poses throwing up a peace sign as he smiles. She is wearing an orange tank top with a sun on it, pink jeans, a pink fist afro pic, a lesbian pin on her chest, an orange hoop earring and pink stud earring, a nose ring, and a green hair tie on her wrist. They stand in front of a pink stylized sun background. ./End ID. ]

[softietrait]

a semi-long post ahead.

as it's bhm, something i wanna talk about on a personal level is the certain experiences only mixed children (usually) experience.

growing up mixed - having a white mother and black father - i had to deal with a lot of things that i was not fully understanding of until i was in my teens. my mother's family, a good portion of them is extremely racist and are openly so. my biological mother didn't raise me, but my great aunt (her aunt) did - and she did her best to learn about how to do my hair, to take care of it and my skin and to make me remember that i am a mixed woman. my MOM (not my biological mom) would literally search all over town for black women to teach her how to do my hair, what products to use -- all of my braids and beads and cute styles back in the day? HER doing. she did what she needed to and i will always commend her for that.

my father's family, i didn't grow up around them. i ended up officially meeting them later in life - in my early 20s. it was a whole entirely different set of experiences i wasn't aware i could acquire. if i listened to any rap music at all it was "what you know about that cuzzo?" if i knew anything that i "wasn't supposed to because i grew up 'white'" it was like a big shock to everyone. and yet, at the end of the day, i was sort of pushed to the side by both sides of my family.

because, truthfully.... i'm not white enough for my mother's family but i'm not black enough for my father's family. and something that sticks with me to this day is how because i'm biracial, i have no place in either.

but, i've learned to just accept that and live my best life. knowing that i'm beautiful.

[not rebloggable, sorry. i'd rather not.]

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

Dear fat, Black, queer people,

I love you. Your body is beautiful. You are perfect just the way you are. Everything about you is stunning. Your skin, curves, thighs, stomach, back fat, hip dips, love handles, and more take my breath away. And any so-called flaws you might have just add to your beauty. No matter what anyone else thinks or says, you are ethereal 🖤

[haemocyaninz]

A drawing of Sabel’s oc! I enjoyed adding all the details to him (esp his hair)

[Image ID: A digital drawing of @sabels-small-sphere ‘s oc. He wears glasses, locs tied up at the top of his hair that fall into his face, dark brown skin, freckles, and a scar covering the left side of his face. He poses with 2 peace signs up as he looks downward. He wears a white tshirt under a blue plaid shirt, earrings, a choker, necklace, and loc accessories on three of his locs. The background is a cloudy sunset behind him. ./End ID.]

[heartpdf]

also i just became aware that kevin hart has the most ridiculous photographs taken of him in the universe im bout to use them to react to EVERYTHING yall are finna be so sick of me but idc… glory be to god 😂🙏🏾

[gritsandbrits]

Today's Black character is Edward from thomas the tank engine!

I don't care if he's called the blue engine, he is one of us!