Wait....it was a Chinese businessman living in Cape Verde that helped Vozinha's mother to get to the US by paying for her application, and the US gov't had the caucasity to take credit for, when they're who blocked her in the first place because of the US$15,000 extortion fee.
panama has 2 main groups of black folks. those who descend from africans who were enslaved there and those that came from all over the caribbean to build the panama canal (and create reggaeton!)
If you're voting for a party that seeks to delegitimise the personhood and citizenship of your own *grandchildren* - you ARE right wing, you ARE a racist, and you're a fucking moron too for thinking the racist rhetoric won't apply to YOUR loved ones.
Unless I’m working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.
There’s something especially heartbreaking about a naturally vibrant neurodivergent girl learning to dim her light after years of being excluded, misunderstood, or made to feel like she’s too much.
there's something so disgustingly sinister about celebrating bw celebrities' sexual agency when they are in multimillion dollar corporate contracts and the mass consumption of black femininity + sexuality is its own fucking worldwide industry. I won't celebrate it anymore.
Therapy helps but let’s be clear. You can’t CBT your way out of capitalism. You can’t mindfulness your way out of racism. You can’t self care your way out of oppression. You can’t journal your way out of ableism. This isn’t about coping, it’s about deconstructing the systems.
Two things can be true at the same time and i say this because probably a LOT of undiagnosed neurodivergent children (me included) escaped the dullness of life through books.
No. You didn’t read because you were dissociating or had ADHD; you read because books are a wonderful thing that enriched your life. Finding twisted motives for life’s greatest pleasures will make you miserable. We need to quit pathologizing the things that bring us joy.