EMPOWERed: A Healing Collective

EMPOWERed focuses on amplifying the voices of experiencers of abuse, increase access to helpful resources, info & community || #OurEmpowered #SupportSurvivors

[EMPOWERed: A Healing Collective @OurEmpowered]

EMPOWER is a resource focused on our communities of color that have experienced abuse. Our Voice, Our Resources...

[!Nspirenaire〽️ @Inspirenaire]

A perfect response to debt collectors and scammers

[proud black gringa 🦋 @phonywizard]

aretha franklin is one of the main reasons mainstream vocalists after her breakthrough began embracing powerful chest-dominant & mixed-register belting. she also played a pivotal role in bringing elaborate gospel melisma into mainstream popular music & influencing generations.

[Autosexual❤️🪄 @suzy__annn]

Being opinionated, disagreeable, unyielding, confident, vocal, financially responsible and self loving.

[Reagan Gomez @ReaganGomez]

Looks like my girl is *finally* on vacation & got some room service, iktr 😂🔥

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

MPU is doing the best journalism on the planet right now.

Banger after banger.

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

Some Black gay books/stories published in 2026

[Frost of Rivia @TheOtherFrost]

When did directors stop using blatant metaphors? They're a treat even at the most basic level.

Red clothes, red car. The driving force.

Blue clothes, blue building. The structure.

We're told from the start who's going to take off and who's going to stand his ground.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

You have no idea how much respect I have for this person who has systematically archived every piece of evidence from the Gaza genocide.

This is how history refuses to be erased. Thank you for your extraordinary work. ❤️🙏🏼

[ibeemakingstuff @ibeemakingstuff]

I highly suggest reading her essay A Few Rules For Predicting The Future, especially if you’re not able to get into her fiction work. So many ppl told me they thought Butler wrote about hopelessness. They always change their minds after reading this essay!

[ki at the garden. @ChasingKia]

I love when filmmakers challenge themselves to showcase Black stories in unique ways. Greek mythology meets neighborhood storytelling.

and not the trailer making me emo lol.

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

My male coworker told me women shouldn’t be angry when men stare because “you can’t expect men not to notice attractive women.” I asked him if noticing something and staring at it were the same thing. He said yes. I asked if that meant I could stare at his bald spot for twenty minutes because I noticed it. He covered his head.

[Emil DeRosa @emilderosa]

Very pro people making tiktoks showing people how to act in public. Do how to put headphones in on the train next.

[lina | لينه @labushouk]

in Citizen, Claudia Rankine removes the body of a lynched black person to afford them dignity in death. in the absence of the black body, what you're confronted w/ is the unbearable whiteness of the scene/violation. the lynch mob is now the subject of scrutiny, not the deceased.

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

What an awful, and terribly predictable, tragedy.

The original charge against Jason Arday was that he had plagiarised another academic’s work in his PhD. He denied it, Liverpool John Moores University investigated, and it upheld the award of the doctorate. That should have been the end of it.

But the witch hunt simply moved on: to his charity fundraising, to his long-distance running, to details of his early life, none of which had anything to do with his academic career.

Whatever Jason Arday did or didn’t do, which other professor has been subjected to this level of forensic public investigation? Academia is not exactly short of embellished CVs and creative grant applications. But as far as this country’s institutions and media are concerned, the rules are different if you’re black.

This is the reality of liberal white supremacy. A young black professor gets appointed, and Cambridge congratulates itself for being wonderfully progressive (of course not acknowledging this as the result of decades of mass anti-racist struggle). But it’s only a loan and can be taken away at any time, on the basis of an overtly racist press campaign designed to undermine the legitimacy of all non-white intellectuals and send a message to all young black people: you are not as good as us, and you’re only here under sufferance.

Racism killed Jason Arday. As capitalism moves deeper and deeper into long-term crisis and as living conditions continue to deteriorate, white supremacism will play an increasingly important role for the ruling class, dividing the oppressed and isolating those communities that are least invested in imperialism. This is the trajectory – unless we do something about it.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

The girl in this photo was doing her PhD and when she told a fellow student her dissertation was on The Boondocks, the student replied: “your existence in the program devalues my degree.”

15 years later her book based on her Boondocks dissertation made her the first Black woman to win an Eisner award at San Diego Comic (the Oscars of Comics), her folllow-up book on comics was a clue on Jeopardy and she's sold nearly 1k copies of her dissertation this year.

Her name is Dr. Sheena Howard.

[full slack @fullslack_]

Ta-Nahesi Coates is one of the few Obama-era liberal darlings who really grew because he did the reading and understood that he was embedded within a much more insidious machine than he even originally thought.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kamala Harris’ 2024 Presidential campaign:

“And yet… why are we here? Are we here to just act like white men have acted everytime before?”

“The struggle means to me not just that we would get the boot of our necks, but that we would destroy the boot, that this would not happen to other people.”

[Rob Lopez @r0bato]

The Rugrats movie got this HEATER from Mya, Mase & Blackstreet produced by Teddy Riley

[SOLAECLIPSE™️ @DrinkSolaPop]

"Don't Sell Grandma's House" is immersive exhibition by Whaffle, Andre, and I where we turn Gallery Sinclair to a 1960s/70s living room with an archival library of Black and NYC history. It will run from 8/16-9/6 at Gallery Sinclair. RSVP for opening: https://t.co/vEKjzvw1qP

[Angel ✨ @wild__hart]

Guys, please watch Black Burns Fast. It’s a local cute queer coming of age story! It was hilarious and heartwarming.