black they/them 21
Joined July 2021
- Tweets49.2K
- Following267
- Followers222
- Likes198K
lyric retweeted
Blackwashing, disposable partner of colour, white(black) fatigue and so on...
Any time black people have tried to create definitions for the unique discrimination we face, it's always a matter of time before anti-black people make it about themselves 🙄
lyric retweeted
applies to the epstein files but also relevant re: “no diddy” & “baby oil” jokes, incel/blackpill lingo, even responses to the “queer hijabi amputee” drawing + the “lesbian covid-conscious bar” incident becoming ridicule fodder where vulnerable, affected communities catch strays
lyric retweeted
On Monday we pulled my father off life support yesterday morning he took his final breath. I’ve always been pretty bad at asking people for help so if you can it is much appreciated. Even just sharing this would mean the world to me and my family gofund.me/ee02ff7ad
ngl we can rlly extend this to all nonblacks bc the way they never engage with black authors books on their own merit and instead have preconceived notions about what they "thought" it would be about (esp if its genre fiction) is why their ratings be so low and antiblack lol
UPDATED Minnesota @Timberwolves Status Report in advance of tonight’s game vs. Milwaukee Bucks:
QUESTIONABLE
Ball- Right Wrist Contusion
Shannon Jr- Left Hip Contusion
OUT
DiVincenzo- Right Achilles Tendon Repair
Edwards- Right Knee Arthroscopy
lyric retweeted
Barbara Smith said, “Expectedly, the right wing is repulsed by identity politics… more disturbing is that a lot of people on the left also attack identity politics and are similarly unaware of the source of the term or what anticapitalist Black women actually meant by it.”
lyric retweeted
I need people understand that understaffing isn't a bug of where you work, or your manager being a dick, but a feature of a system constantly trying to minimize its biggest cost (labor). Every place I've ever worked it's presented as a perpetually temporary problem. It isn't.
