✨my first peer-reviewed academic publication, “catchin’ strays: on pet negroes, the black domestic, and the politics of comfort,” is now online on @SCquarterly https://t.co/w0x7xWpjkK…
On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC.
They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served. #BlackHistoryMonth
Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just 12 years old.
She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person.
A THREAD!
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin
The past was a rough draft.
Appreciate yourself for having the courage to start over.
Enjoy the masterpiece of these new pages - not perfect but beautifully authentic.
Celebrate yourself for moving on.
You stopped waiting, hoping, contorting yourself.
You accepted, healed, released and got free.
I’m so glad to see you made it.