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I just learned that Hawaiʻi is the #1 occupied state in imprisoning women. Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander women make up the majority.
Depressing.
Continue to wear your mask & wash your hands, continue to wear your mask & wash your hands, continue to wear your mask & wash your hands, continue to wear your mask & wash your hands, continue to wear your mask & wash your hands, continue to wear your mask & wash your hands.
Salt and vinegar wings
Plaid shorts wearing skater holding and ukulele
Cotton candy colored sunrises
Kūpuna inching along the sidewalk together
Reggae jam competing with birds returned home to nest
Air so thicc the rain is near
Currently reading "Uses of Anger," by Audre Lorde
At work there's a guy who's been harassing staff for years. In the last 2 days I've listened to him scream with cops present for 20-30 min. It amazes me what non-Black & Brown people can get away with.
You and your people have been able to whisper sweet things and grit revolutions through their teeth in your mother tongue.
What does that taste like?
Freedom?
Another author who speaks about their complicated relationship with their mom - Janet Mock.
We often avoid talking about how many of us were raised by everyone BUT our mom.
I love hearing about her experiences on Oʻahu. The juxtaposition of being raised in multiethnic homes.
Saying “aint” doesn’t mean I’m ignorant, it means I don’t code switch
Saying “son” doesn’t mean I’m ignorant, it means I’m from Brooklyn
Speaking Spanglish doesn’t mean I’m ignorant, it means I’m bilingual
Policing my language doesn’t mean I’m ignorant, but it does mean you are.
@GodsGift1229@Skool_boi Hey, I'm 13 yrs locd.
@GodsGift1229 is right. This is a good. Be careful of too much oil build up. Use a clarifying shampoo twice or so a year to help your locs breathe after dousing it with oil regularly.
Also, do a deep conditioner treatment so that moisturizer soaks in.
Nina Simone – child prodigy, singer, songwriter, activist, and civil rights activist – was born #OnThisDay in 1933. Simone composed music that expressed the best and worst of the human condition. #BlackHistoryMonth