Fun fact:
If you’re only valued when you’re radiant, sensual and sweet but not when you’re sad, frustrated, or needing emotional depth then you’re being objectified and this goes for friendships too
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
Going out of town and my baby said “I don’t wanna go with you mama I’m staying with my daddy” omfgggg finally like lil girl you are not hurting my feelings AT ALL I’ve been waiting for you to say this your whole life
The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.
This is the loud reality for a lot of Black/biracial families: parents don’t just raise their kids, they pre-empt how the world will judge them and warn them to act accordingly.
Sometimes you gotta remind people... I was already chosen before you arrived. Already blessed. Already building. You was an addition to the frequency, not the source of it.
Millennials survived skincare hell. We were raised on St. Ives Apricot Scrub, Oxy Pads, blotting sheets, and one rule: if you shine, you die.
Now the beauty standard is gleaming rotisserie chicken.
One of the most underrated forms of generational wealth you can pass the down to your children is: Exposure.
Countries, Cuisines, Conversations, Culture, Communities, Curiosity.
It helps shape the trajectory of what they believe is always possible..