“Children do not deserve privacy,” and other abusive myths masked as good parenting
Children who are taught that they don’t deserve privacy are in a perpetual cycle of apologizing for receiving it and/or being fearful that it will be rescinded.
The pervasiveness of anti-Blackness in the cannabis industry
Supporting Black dispensaries is a necessary strategy to combat these anti-black policies, demarcations and conferences of respectability, access and performance.
I am unchoosing the academy because I no longer want to play monkey for white validation
This is what the academy wants us to do. Devour with words and hands and thought. Wants us to strip, pull away, entertain. Be monkey.
What is hoarding for Black people who aren’t allowed things?
Why are Black folks only ever allowed to carry what we need, even in death? How are we hoarders if we never get what we need?
No one is obligated to remain: Consent, agency & supporting loved ones who want to let go
Are the ones we “love†able to choose death, or is our relationship with them about ownership, possession and obligation? If it is, we are not allowed living or dying as our full selves.
We can hold Omarosa accountable without throwing a Black woman away
Perhaps this kind of "I don't care what happens to so and so" is also a reinforcement of anti-Blackness.
My womb is not a burial site: What is motherhood to Black women facing abortion & the loss of their children?
By Amber Butts Female octopuses die from anemia and exhaustion 2-10 months after they give birth. They spend those months protecting and cleaning their eggs. They do not eat. As my body spread over a cold chair and a doctor…
