chiquita pero gordita

proud tejana, from Houston-ish, first-gen, history, she/her, BLACK LIVES MATTER

[chiquita pero gordita @brebrahh]

Had my degree audit (all is well), called my mom to say I’m just about done with my degree and instantly was overcome with emotion. I just spent 20 minutes crying because it’s real, I’m real and I made it here.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

Harris County: pays $860k annually for Flock mass surveillance, doesn't have money to send a voter guide in the mail to registered voters

[🦂THEE Auntie with no kids♏️ @prmade313raised]

Happy #Juneteenth ✊🏾

[Angela Rockford @angie_goodwood]

Yall don’t know a thing about Texas so I’m not surprised that you wouldn’t know anything about black Texans but Black folks from Galveston and their descendants in mainland Houston deserve to be heard and they can teach u a thing or two. Cause they are black history ✨✨

[bria celest @55mmbae]

First in my bloodline to be 31 with no kids

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.

[GEe Dutreix @Gee_Dutreix]

I aspire for my aura to be this powerful

[Houvale @lepa_vale]

Some news

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Trayvon Martin should be turning 31 today. He should be surrounded by friends and loved ones celebrating him.

He and his family were robbed of that because a grown man stalked him and killed him.

Without accountability.

[la lesbian fight club @unloversciub]

thank you for the love, humanity and care you showed to those around you and thank you for the impact you will have well beyond your too short life.

rest in eternal peace shirley raines 💔

[aves @WNBAPILLED]

unrivaled being the first professional sports league to take a public stance against ICE... itll always be the female athletes

[Houvale @lepa_vale]

Spent the last 3 days at W. Gray warming center, including during the closing today. I have a lot of thoughts of what I saw & how the city operates during emergency weather. But before anything else I just have to say the Parks dept & Health dept people are very good people.

[Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes]

If you saw Tate McCrae’s show last week, you were exposed to measles https://t.co/8XkPJ5Qyyn

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

Apparently, some ⚪️ folk think that ⚪️ women were too maternal beneficent to own or mistreat enslaved Black people. I’m gonna try and clear up that misconception with the help of numerous sources, including the book below.

[Peter Wood @notPeterWood]

Congratulations to Washington, DC, home of the world's largest pupusa ever made

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

Just your regular reminder that the $15/hr debate has been going on for so long that the actual living wage is now around $26/hr.

[Houston Education Association-TSTA/NEA @houston_tsta]

Remove Floyd Mike Miles as Superintendent of Houston Independent School District - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/HIiDSpZx5I via @Change

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

He went with HIS father😭

[Houvale @lepa_vale]

They’re not native, they do not provide shade, & a good amount of them are sick & dying already.

Please please go down Montrose Blvd & see for yourself. We cannot impede an important, monumental public safety project bc of them.

[Andrea Roberts, PhD @FreeBlackTX]

Inside a controversial auction of Gullah-Geechee homes: ‘This land needs to be protected’ https://t.co/LbMFtqnMAi