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We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.
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This made my whole day. LOVE Community!
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*goes to find a change of underwear*
only wanna give it to you: b.steady (elle varner cover)
Yaaaaaas B.
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She is breathtaking in person. Her aura.
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True story (minus the bestiality)
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Had to Smile
Today, something great happened.
A while ago, while working as a server, one of my tables was so taken with me that the customers both handed me their cards and assured me that a position was mine should I need or want it. Mind you, it’s not a research position or anything I’d like to make a career, and indeed such words can mean painfully little nowadays. Even so, I was flattered and kept said cards. As my admittedly rash (yet justified) resignation from my job means that I am again unemployed, I figured that I’d give the numbers a call.
I did, and as soon as I said my name, the woman squealed “ALLEY! My server?! YEA! I’m so happy you called! I was just telling Brad how upset I was that I hadn’t heard from you and that I was going to go back to convince you to come in!”. People, it’s been damn near 3 months since I saw these people. Long story short: I have an interview on Thursday, am pretty sure I’ll get it, and am EXTREMELY happy that I won’t have to sell my flesh, hair, or eggs to make ends-meet until school starts.
GOOD DAY!!!!!
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I MEAN, YOU KNOW ME AND YOU KNOW I’M NOT RACIST BUT I WOULD NEVER LIKE, DATE A MALLARD, RIGHT? IT’S COOL THAT THEY APPRECIATE SOME WOMANLY CURVES BUT I CAN’T HANDLE ALL THE MACHO POSTURING AND THE SEASONAL MIGRATION. HE KEEPS ASKING ME OUT, THOUGH, AND I’M RUNNING OUT OF EXCUSES.
STOP STARING. KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME. I DON’T WANT HIM COMING OVER HERE. THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY AWKWARD.
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Black, Lesbian, Womanist: The "Good" Black Woman vs The "Bad" Black Woman
The dichotomous and oppositional (either/or) construction of the “good” Black woman, always referenced as, “queen”, “sista,” and the most often revered and respected “mother” and the “bad” Black woman, most often referred to as, “ho,” and “bitch,” has prevented Black women from coming together in sisterhood and solidarity. Dichotomous and oppositional thinking allows African American women who view themselves as “good” to create a distance from the insults, violence, and threats that are often jeered at African American women, who have been deemed as “bad.”
However, it was not too long ago for us, during the time of our grandmother’s grandmother, that White American slave-owners used the same dichotomous and oppositional construction of the “good” woman and “bad” women to justify the rape and sexual violence often visited upon African American women, who were inherently “bad” and to justify the murder of African American men participating in sexual intercourse with white women, because white women were inherently “good”.
*The term “dichotomous and oppositional thinking” is referenced from Patricia Hill Collins work in Black Feminist Thought.
This is a lot funnier when read with a British accent…le sigh, I miss British TV. As addressed in the gif, the nation is not immune from the sexist messages of commercials and media. Even so, it has a LOT more full frontal male nudity, which I think counts for something.
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I’ll take “outside” to mean not only the outdoors, but also outside of situations that have confine…Speaking of which, I quit my job.
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