Happy Birthday Queen Mother Moore. There should be dozens of books about you. Pan Africanist, Communist, UNIA, Republic of New Afrika, Universal Assoc. of Ethiopian Women, Committee for Reparations. A life dedicated to Black Liberation should always be honored
A few months ago, in that blurry haze of new motherhood, I left my infant daughter Eureka on the couch for just a few seconds. She rolled and slipped and tumbled to the floor, hitting her head, then burst out crying. /a thread to #SaveMelissaLucio
Humanity has been warned many times about the looming food diversity crisis - a threat symbolized by the banana. When humans first encountered wild bananas in Southeast Asia, the fruits were filled with hard seeds which made them largely inedible.
I can promise you that amazon banning these words/phrases from their company chat app just radicalized a bunch of workers who were on the fence about needing a union lmao
i respect anybody who’s pulled an idea out of their brain and fully brought it to life. that shit is spiritual. to know that it started as a thought and you brought it to fruition is crazy. shoutout the ones who see it all the way through. keep creating.
I want to be resilient for things that care deeply about my wellness and pleasure. I don’t want to pretend that the world isn’t falling apart but I want to build community with ppl that are invested in collective wellbeing. Where care and honesty are critical to how we show up.
I'm an incarcerated journalist. I have no access to computers. The only way I'm able to write is on my prison JPay tablet. Today JPay updated their operating system so that you cannot save drafts to edit or make paragraphs. An intentional change to silence those of us that write
It is never black folks job to cape for white women or hold space for them. The empire is kindest to those who are benevolent to those willing to forgive whiteness when it grants them access to resources and when they create work that will never call for the end of domination.
I want y’all to stop arguing with folks who don’t have the range and are committed to misinterpreting what you say. They are not trying to learn, please block these people.