irie

20-something! reader, editor, archivist-in-spirit. constantly questioning the canon.

[irie @iridessante]

irie’s intro ♡ for studytwt !!

⋆ 22, she/her
⋆ incoming masters student
⋆ english major

♡︎ / ↻ to be moots !!!
#archivetwt #studytwt #lifetwt #gradtwt #phdtwt

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

It is so interesting that as a brown woman @vauhinivara didn't consider the ethical implications of feeding AI with 25 years of African literature, copyrighted works and without author permission.

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

“i stood at the border, stood at the edge and claimed it as central. l claimed it as central, and let the rest of the world move over to where I was.” - toni morrison

[judith iscariot 🇵🇸 @eleanorbebop]

Crying fat hot tears because I saw a video of a bear being released to the wild and all the rangers are yelling and setting off fireworks so the bears won’t think humans are safe, because we aren’t.

“As my last act of love, I will make you hate me”

[ًً @girlsonfillm]

her glam and the way her braids are styled…beautiful classy lady

[Polodetti 🇵🇸 @polodetti]

@gladbloods Milton Nascimento be like

[witchdoctor @esinakooo]

zora!! she's a much more difficult writer too. she was an anthropologist. i remember reading abt how she'd be so broke and then she'd find a fellowship in jamaica or something. just a black woman living. fr.

[chimera⚕️ @nitrotheegod]

I think writers should be permanently exiled from the dating pool. Every single one of you

[Michael Benjamin @mfbenji]

I worked at Apple when this happened, and we spent weeks getting yelled at by customers, we had to make a table in the Apple Store dedicated to helping people remove the U2 album.

[R.A @unavainapudin]

It's part of white latinas' culture to have poor black women do the braids for em lol.

Meanwhile in the actual culture where it's from the mom does them for their children.

[ai’ @weltiitaa]

mind you, Africans will actually shame you for denying that you’re part of Africa, so idk why non africans wanna force their opinion on us

[ຸ @jpnmightbegod]

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[★ gecqua fans nyc @sarpongz]

katseye is kinda the worst thing to ever happen like… nothing but race wars and eugenics conversations happening on the internet ever since their debut

[foxygen @foxypiano]

it's all written in The Book of Margins. any of the parallels; the beloved, the book;

[m @MUHLEEKUHH]

Omg I love "belle" as a term for black femmes that's so cute

[prin 𖤍 @velcrolezbo]

why did this genuinely make me tear up lol

[mariah⚢ @femm3barbie]

black femme lesbians being called belles

[♡ @annabcthchqse]

en Colombia, el segundo pais con mas diversidad negra de latam, en 2016 se tuvo que emitir una sentencia penal para proteger el cabello afro como identidad étnica luego de que un colegio le negara la entrada a una estudiante por aquello. tan solo hace unos meses se hizo

[foxygen @foxypiano]

reading any of these for the weekend.

[irie @iridessante]

@foxypiano every time your posts cross my timeline we’re riding the same mental tracks