...the divine feminine...

let’s dismantle the patriarchy, shall we?

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Nigerian goalkeeper Maduka Okoye is going viral for being incredibly handsome.

📸 Maduka Okoye | IG

[...the divine feminine... @LetaX]

@kortneyknows My homegirl said she’ll be my guide this year lol so she has a lot of events, shows and gatherings she’s taking me to ☺️

[...the divine feminine... @LetaX]

So hey, it’s my first year celebrating Pride out loud 👉🏾👈🏾

[...the divine feminine... @LetaX]

@zaynasholaja 🥹🥹🥹 you my girl fr, love you downnn

[...the divine feminine... @LetaX]

@msjadamonique12 Love this for us! 🥰

[audrey hepburn enthusiast @darylandfilms]

jeremy allen white get off that bruce springsteen nonsense and come get your oscar fr this time

[⋆ ｡ ° ༺˚ 𖦹 gîchœ łīçbåkt 𖦹 ˚༻ ° ｡ ⋆ @ichriecheblut]

writing about how black women never lost their whimsy y’all just renamed it ghetto

[Ms.K @mskmalibu]

I am simultaneously my family’s black sheep and the gold star, that’s exactly why I am the way I am

[carpen @giovni0]

No one is more convincing with a lightsaber than Hayden Christensen

[Nyra @cosy_love_]

They're finally admitting it.

[✦ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✦🪐 @upshine3]

Calculate time in reverse.
That is, if I have an appointment at 4, I start scheduling my whole day in reverse: I have to be there at 4, so I have to leave my house at 3:15 and be ready by 3:10. Getting ready takes 40 minutes, so I have to start by 2:30 at the latest, so I have to shower at 2. For that, I have to finish my chores at home, which I estimate will take about 2 hours, so I have to start at 12, but first I have to eat lunch, so I'll start cooking it at 11... and so on...

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

garlic is to cooking as vanilla extract is to baking in that the amount i add to my food is guided by reckless extravagance and utter disregard, verging on mild contempt, for the recipe as written

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Holiday weekends are PROOF we can have 4 day work weeks and get the same amount of work done.

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Naomi Osaka on why she chose to host a party for the black tennis players:

“You know I'm seeing a little bit of-
‘Why can't you love everyone for all skin tones?’ and ‘what if someone had an all white party?! First of all I do love everyone for who they are no matter their race + ethnicity, (I'm literally half Japanese lol). I can only speak from my experiences in my own life though, growing up as a tennis player I didn't see many people that looked like ME and I feel like it's important to celebrate them.

Secondly I feel like it's important to note that there have been all white dinners/parties. I don't know how else to tell you this, I literally seen them all the time and never had an issue with it at all. To the people who ask this question I want to ask you this question too, ‘What is it about POC getting together that unsettles you so much?’

I want to end this by saying I grew up watching my dad get discriminated against, having the cops called on him multiple times at the tennis court. There are multiple things I will apologize for in my life but celebrating being black and appreciating who we are will never be something I would consider saying sorry for. Thanks.

Actually I lied, I am sorry. I'm sorry for the people who cannot comprehend in their brains that this is not about exclusion, this is a celebration about how far we have come 🖤”

(via Naomi on Threads)

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

If we're ever in a situation where we're both doing math in our heads, I'm just pretending. It's all on you.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

where are my fellow late-diagnosed ADHD eldest daughter gifted class burnouts with an inconveniently strong sense of justice and an absurd amount of empathy bc I need more of you around