Black coming of age movies that actually focus on them being kids with hobbies, growing pains, crushes, that don’t solely focus on racism and we get to see black kids be teenagers and children
Exploring sexuality, gender but also just plain having fun
Life of a 2000's born:
-Pandemic at the age of enjoyment
-Ai implementation at the age of employment
-WW3 at the age of finally getting my shit together
I’m generally opposed to milking these franchises dry until they’re nothing but a shriveled husk, but if this movie is going to villainize iPads and scold parents who use screens to babysit their kids then I wholly support it. This may be the only “part 5” movie that has ever had a valid reason to exist.
“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.”
When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough.
Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?”
Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime.
He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks.
That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.
My friend was blamed for being infertile. They’d been married six years. No baby. So obviously, according to everyone around them, it had to be her. They kept seeing the same doctor, older male, very confident, the kind who barely let you finish a sentence. He ran tests on her over and over. Bloodwork. Scans. Hormones. Put her on pills that made her gain weight and cry at random. Every appointment ended the same: “Your body just isn’t cooperating.” “Some women have weaker reproductive systems.” “Your husband is perfectly healthy.” Her husband never got properly tested. Just one quick analysis years ago. “Normal,” the doctor said. Case closed. For years, his family made comments. Told her to pray harder. Lose weight. Stress less. Be more “feminine.” She apologized for something that wasn’t even hers to carry. One day, after another failed cycle, she secretly booked an appointment with a different doctor, a female fertility specialist. That doctor reviewed the old reports in five minutes. She looked up and said, “Why was your husband never re-tested?” New tests were done. The results? Severe male factor infertility. Low count. Poor motility. It had been there the whole time – just ignored. My friend wasn’t infertile. She was just easier to blame.
Allegedly Macaulay Culkin once said Michael Jackson saved him from getting on a plane to go to some island.
Apparently Michael always wanted to save the children. It’s rumored they flipped the script on him to have a scapegoat for what they were doing.
NeverLand = Never go to the Island 😳🙉
SPOTIFY WILL COST YOU THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OVER THE YEARS
CDS ARE CHEAPER AND THE ARTISTS GET PAID, RIPPING THEM IS EASY, LEGAL, AND TEACHES YOU ABOUT USING COMPUTERS AND DATA PROTECTION
I WILL NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS
En 1990 les femmes restaient ds la voiture pendant que leurs imbecile de maris soulevais une voiture à deux mains pr changer la roue alors que maintenant si une drag tombe en panne une lesbienne a moto s’arrête pr l’aider jsp g pas compris
"Everything is more expensive because people want higher wages!!!"
No. Everything is more expensive because the elite group of super rich boomers who control literally everything don't pay taxes and demand ever-increasing profits so they can buy private islands where they do unspeakable things and bribe world leaders
Dear old people, waking up at 6am, tending to a garden, eating dinner at 5pm, reading books, and going to bed at 9:30pm feels amazing.
I was wrong. You were right.
People always ask for Black Queer stories with two Black men.
Welp.
Here’s ya chance to support a Black Queer male author. Here’s a Great Gatsby retelling but with two Black Queer boys at the forefront.
The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan Douglass
> be born in 2002
> pandemic takes your high school years
> ai takes your uni years
> unemployment takes the rest of your years
it's all over