Even if you don’t live in NYC, please retweet this and get the word out so that the ppl in YOUR city also learn that they too can have politicians who get things done if they mobilize and vote socialist in other elections! 🗣️
Mrs. Opal Lee also known as The Grandmother of Juneteenth … born 1926 in Marshall, TX.
She is the reason that Juneteenth became a federally recognized holiday.
White women have been calling Black women "Shenaenae", "La'Quisha", and "ShaNiqua" in a demeaning manner since the 80's. Latinas were called "Consuela", "Guadalupe", or "Maria" and Asian women were called "Ling-Ling", but the moment ‘Karen’ became a meme criticizing entitled behavior, suddenly people wanted to talk about respect and stereotyping.
The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:
https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ
Memory loss from deep depression and trauma doesn’t get talked about enough. People think it’s just sadness or being stuck in your head, but it goes way deeper than that. You forget conversations, names, whole chunks of your life—not because you didn’t care, but because you were in survival mode. When you’re overwhelmed and just trying to get through each day, your brain isn’t focused on making memories, it’s focused on keeping you going. And nobody really acknowledges that part. Healing isn’t just about emotions—it’s about piecing yourself back together, including parts of you that you don’t even remember losing.
Its so disheartening to see artist use AI to make art when I know they are so talented and could create something better, throught provoking, with feeling, what have you