Terrellhowibe

Just a regular scmegular Afro pessimist from the Bronx

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Silly Symphony - King Neptune directed by Burt Gillett, 1932

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Fred, shot by Stéphane Gaboué for Modzik Magazine

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The Witches (1990)

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17-year-old MC Lyte photographed by Waring Abbott in New York City, December 1987. 

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Tricky by Steve Double for NME, April 1995

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I always get so fucking mad when I remember that it’s actually a 16-year-old Algerian girl who influenced BOTH Picasso and Matisse. and. No one gives a rat’s ass about her work which was very focused on women and nature. History -or people dare I say- didn’t bother to remember her name because she was a young Algerian woman and no one cares about Maghrebi/Arab women. unlike P*casso & M*tisse who both became legends, almost gods both during their lives and after their deaths, no one knows her.

Her name was Baya Mahieddine.

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“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.” — Nina Simone

strongblackberries.tumblr.com/archive

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dm for promos

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Salieu Jalloh

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i feel a type of way with non-black ppl partaking in new york jokes that are aimed hood shit and aave. like this shit started amongst black twitter, the fulcrum african americans, joking on ourselves and as usual (aside the trans Atlantic diaspora and our cultural exchanges in the states, and the black africans that engage with us authentically and not that convenient shit + anti black ethnocentrism) everyone else has to try to proximate their damn selves to our humor. esp non-black latinxs that don’t got the proximity they think they have and everything they have is because of their non-black counterparts, afro latinxs being the only reason they even engage with us. but all of these “fucking an nyc girl” jokes is just joking about fucking a hyper masculinized black women. and everyone else who lives in the hood acts like certain things aren’t racialized, coded as black. and they know where shit stems from and who is the source of what they’re imitating cause they distance themselves when convenient OR throw the shit back in our faces with anti blackness, the same shit they think they got personal proximity to.

niggas can’t have shit. and these non niggas are trying to laugh at shit that doesn’t come at their expense. or like they don’t like their lives trying to imitate us, and the very shit they mock.

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Brandon Harris by Greg Vaughan

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Brandon Harris by Greg Vaughan

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ICYMI ... peak lesbian pop culture has arrived

ICYMI: We’re at peak queer lady pop culture! “Lesbian Jesus” Hayley Kiyoko’s prophecy about the power of #20GayTeen is coming true, and here’s some scientific evidence to back up this claim:

1. “Strangers” by Lauren Jauregui and Halsey 

Tbh I feel like this queer lady anthem didn’t get enough love when it came out (pun!), so circle back and bump it again because it really is a banger AND they use she/her pronouns the entire time!! (Also I’m definitely not going to stop shipping these two badass women…)

2. The lesbian plotline in “Blockers”

What a shocker… a trailer for a mainstream comedy neglected to feature the gay storyline! It’s not even just a subplot y’all, it’s a full-on PLOT. Wish I’d been able to see this when I was in high school… Might’ve helped me avoid a lot of awkward school dances.

3. Hayley Kiyoko’s debut album

An entire electro-pop album full of sexy songs about sexing women?! Wayyy too good to be true… Thank you, Lesbian Jesus! 

4. Demi and Kehlani get down and dirty

Okay remember when Demi Lovato and Kehlani started kissing and grinding on stage?!?! I’m still recovering… The best part was definitely when Kehlani cleared up any confusion about her role in the situation. 

5. Janelle + Tessa 4ever

The energy between Janelle Monae and Tessa Thompson in the “Make Me Feel” music video was… electric to say the least. We’re living for this beautiful bi storyline. 

6. Cardi B rapping about threesomes 

I literally can’t imagine anything better than Cardi B’s suggestion in “She Bad” — a threesome with her, Chrissy Teigen, and Rihanna?! Shook. 

7. The dancing girl from Missy Elliott’s “Work It” video came out

Okay so Alyson Stoner (aka “Disney Channel” star and the girl from Missy Elliott’s music videos) came out as bi! Yay! 

8. Lena Waithe’s moment

FYI: Lena Waithe is having a moment. From her Vanity Fair cover to her role in Ready Player One and her incredible series “The Chi,” Lena’s the it girl in the industry right now. And she’s doing big things for black lesbian representation. We see you! 

9. Random queer women everywhere

Is it just me or are there random queer women everywhere in TV and movies these days? Used to be we had to project lesbian narratives onto supposedly straight characters if we wanted to feel represented, but now I can’t even keep up with all the queer ladies! “Black Lightning,” “Love & Hip Hop,” “Grown-ish,” “Jane the Virgin,” “Everything Sucks!,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “One Day at a Time”… We’re everywhere!

What a time to be alive.

What else did we miss? Comment below.

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My funeral is tomorrow. Bitch I’m dead 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

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2020 Census Will Ask Black People About Their Exact Origins

People who mark "Black" for their race on the 2020 census will be asked about their origins. Many black immigrants can cite ties to a specific country, but some U.S.-born African-Americans cannot.

Many African-Americans who have roots in the U.S. going back centuries to ancestors forced upon these shores as enslaved people cannot answer that question.

“If we’re really honest with what hundreds of years of U.S. chattel slavery really meant,” Greer says, “many people had to walk miles and across countries before they were shipped off.”

Sticking with “American”

The enslavement of hundreds of thousands of African people in the U.S. cut ties to home countries for their descendants, including Chris Owens, a project engineer for an energy consulting firm based in New York City.

Raised in St. Louis, Owens says for most of his life, questions about his race were straightforward.

“Either you’re black or you’re white, at least where I’m from,” he says.

But after moving to Boston and later New York, he says he has been asked whether he is of Haitian or Jamaican descent.

“That’s even caused me to try to figure out which island I was from,” Owens says.