ime, self-hatred stunted my social growth and made it really difficult to find safe community when i was younger. feminism and black consciousness literally saved my life lmfao i’m tellin ya
i had never been depressed in new york before. what are good things to do in new york as a depressed person? im trying to spread my low vibrations around
this is a harsh read but I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think she should’ve never had access to her father’s pills bc it’s impossible for a kid to watch their parent wither away and not worry
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur
the body diversity in the Onyx covers makes me wonder how we’ve managed to backslide so terribly in modern iterations of Black lesbian media. Fat Black lesbians of the 1980s had us beat for sure.
not quite, gotta reread Crenshaw’s intersectionality paper which is literally about Black women in the United States….Paris is incorrect but this response is also inaccurate