Mind blown!!!!

@wakandama2

Bruh wtf

Someone call CPS and the FBI

Oh my fucking lord.

Summary of TikTok: some Instagram lady in the US is running a roaring trade in fake vaccination cards with real lot numbers possibly pointing to stealing and fraud and other illegal activities and potentially introducing serious discrepancies in COVID data too

Update she and others, including the woman she had direct contact to generate these cards/numbers and buyers, have been arrested. The fact that they were willing to contribute to the mess up of correct vaccination records for the state.

@wakandama2

Bruh wtf

Someone call CPS and the FBI

Oh my fucking lord.

Summary of TikTok: some Instagram lady in the US is running a roaring trade in fake vaccination cards with real lot numbers possibly pointing to stealing and fraud and other illegal activities and potentially introducing serious discrepancies in COVID data too

you guys hear abt this jewish journalist who got fired from AP for being antizionist today

This has been on my mind all day like oh my god Israel BOMBED THEIR GAZA OFFICE and AP still let conservatives weaponize the “antizionism is inherently antisemitic” smear against a jewish woman anyway? Fucking incredible in the worst way possible. It’s true that the mainstream discourse surrounding Palestine is starting to change, but being pro-Palestine is still a fireable offense

being a brown girl and growing up w white friends was so painful, when i have a daughter im going to do everything i can to make sure she grows up with other brown girls 

there’s so much shame and humiliation in being a brown teenager surrounded by white girls. when i went through puberty it wasnt same as my friends

like they just…..grew, they got breasts and hips and kept it moving. i got facial hair before any of the boys we knew. my body hair was (and is still) dark, thick, prominent and all over. 

my closest friend saw my pubic hair in the girls changing room and told the entire school about it. someone asked me if i was secretly a man. i went home that day, my 12th birthday, and held back tears as my family cut my cake. i leaned too far over my work in art class causing my shirt to hitch up and my back to be exposed, i didn’t notice until the laughter of the group of boys behind me was loud enough. 

there’s so much shame in being brown and having body hair. there’s so much self-hatred towards the natural state of our bodies. so when i see white women (whose bodies mine has always been dichotomised against) partaking in body hair activism that doesn’t acknowledge this, when i see those tiny tufts of wispy thin blonde armpit hair dyed bright pastel colours, i feel no empowerment and no liberation - just the pain i’ve always felt within my own natural body. 

i screenshotted this cos the actual comment they made is like 800+ words but imagine seeing a post by a brown girl for other girls of colour who struggle w body hair and thinking ah yes this is the perfect place for me to interject my congealed mayonnaise opinion that op is totally wrong about her own lived experience 

i’m not black. not every black girl has “dark” skin. people with deeper skintones - black or not - have darker hair to match you racist dumb ass. be QUIET for two seconds. white people are banned from doing anything but reblog or like this post from this moment on, commenting rights have been revoked and you have not-your-everday-geek to blame 

Literally almost every comment is white people going “yeah I’m blonde buuuuuut…” or “I’m white and I blah blah blah “ like damn nobody cares wtf y’all look like, for once stop talking over WOC!!! Not every narrative is yours to interject// claim!!!

[ID: Two screenshots of comments. The first reads, “Okay no. This is wrong. Before I say anything else, know that I am the whitest white you can be, as in I’m so white, typical “white girls” look at me and gasp. No, I am not albino, I’d just extremely pale and burn easily.”

The second reads, “I’m sorry you went through that, but don’t make it out to be like black girls are the only ones who go through this. At least your skin was dark and hid the hair better. I stopped shaving my legs awhile back, learning to accept it instead so I-“

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Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.

Angela Davis actually touches on this in her novel Women, Race, and Class.

Essentially, she says that Black women may have been considered genderless because we did all the same work as men but then weren’t considered men when it came to sexual abuse, suddenly being forced into these feminine, submissive roles that we clearly didn’t fit into. Once the Atlantic Slave Trade was banned, Black women were then seen as breeders to provide for slaves since they couldn’t be imported. Despite this, Black women, even if we were pregnant, still had to work in the fields and suffer the same punishment as our male counterparts.

Angela Davis goes on further to say that since Black women were never seen as housewives, Black men were in turn never seen as family providers or heads of households. By this point, Black women had acquired an abundance of traits that didn’t fit into 19th century perception of what it meant to be a woman. Also, with the rise of industrialization, white women never experienced that same intensive labor which further pushed them into the housewife stereotype. Essentially, there was this white feminist movement to erase the housewife stereotype but it didn’t include the struggles of Black women because we were never seen as housewives to begin with.

All of this to say: We were genderless and outside of any gender norm within the white supremacist framework.

Reminder that we offer the novel mentioned above, Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis, as a free PDF for anyone to read under our social justice resources. Please share so everyone has equal and equitable access to education and activism!

Several recordings of Davis can be found on Spotify as well not just Women, Race and Class and are highly recommended

Wow,vi never thought on this.

The mayor of a city in Texas reportedly wrote a Facebook post telling residents it was not the government’s job to care for them during trying times, telling them “the strong will survive and the weak will parish [sic]” as an unprecedented winter storm leaves millions without power.

Mayor Tim Boyd of Colorado City, Texas, appears to have made a post on Facebook complaining that his constituents were calling on the government to help them as Winter Storm Uri leaves tens of thousands of people across the country without heat and electricity.

“Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!!” Mr Boyd said in his post. “No one owes you are [sic] your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!!”

He then complained that residents were looking for a “hand out” and told people they should have been personally prepared to deal with catastrophic circumstances like the massive winter storm that struck the region, leaving Texans in some areas without heat in single digit temperatures.

“I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal without and think outside of the box to survive and provide water for your family,” he wrote.

Mr Boyd then accused people of being “lazy” because they are waiting for their power to come back on. He did not offer suggestions as to how individual people could restore Texas’s failed power grid amid the devastating storm.

“If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are waiting for someone to come rescue you because your [sic] lazy, is direct result of your raising!” he wrote.

Later, Mr Boyd blamed people’s expectations that the government would serve its basic function and provide services for residents to a “socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW will work and others will become dependent on handouts.”

It is unclear which government he was referring to, as he is the head of the local government and Donald Trump and the Republican Party ran the country for the past four years until less than a month ago.

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former mayor now, apparently

Beloved Community,

At 9:27 p.m. tonight, the United States federal government executed Brandon Bernard.

In the thirty years prior to 2020, three people have been executed by the federal government — the last in 2003. After a 17-year hiatus of the federal death penalty, in the midst of a pandemic claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, the Trump Administration and Attorney General Barr decided to resume capital punishment.

Trump and Barr, like many of their predecessors, prioritize incarceration over restorative justice and rehabilitation. In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads calling for the state of New York to resurrect the death penalty for the Exonerated Five. Trump's appointee, Barr, wrote the handbook on mass incarceration — literally. His report, The Case for More Incarceration, gave rise to the 1994 Crime Bill, which granted states billions of dollars to build prisons, authorized the death penalty for a number of “crimes,” and erected the infamous three-strikes rule that fed so many of our loved ones into the prison industrial complex. Barr has also fiercely advocated for the expansion of pretrial detention and the termination of parole.

Black people, including Black disabled, LGBTQ, and low- and no-income people, are disproportionately incarcerated and sentenced to death in the U.S. We must abolish the death penalty, life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), and death by incarceration.

Our “Defund Police” chant — which rose from the streets this summer to the podiums on the presidential debate stage — is about so much more than policing. It’s about abolition. Abolishing police, ICE, the prison industrial complex, and the death penalty along with it.

We need to divert resources from capital punishment and policing and invest them in our communities. We need more than reform. We need reparations, transformation, and restoration.

Brandon Bernard was the ninth person to be federally executed this year. Unfortunately, he won’t be the last.

Take action with us:

Learn about Brandon Bernard's life and legacy

Sign on to the #BREATHEAct, which calls for the abolishment of the death penalty

Help dismantle the ‘94 Crime Bill

Tell Congress to #StopExecutions

In Power,

The Movement for Black Lives

Remember when the white girls used to call black girls and Latina/Hispanic girls “ghetto” for having long acrylic nails & intricate designs on them and now they’re doing the SAME shit.

White girls just look better 😂 Some Latinas can pull it off 🙂 and black hoes just look disgusting and loud 😬

I can’t even take you seriously cuz I’m one of the black hoes you just called disgusting and loud and you fucking followed ME, you freak.

this is the shit that black girls ALWAYS go through.

black people are ruled by saturn

venus = girls + women

saturn = black ppl

for black women, our looks (venus) are always shunned (saturn) & disrespected (saturn) by others (venus = rules ‘others’)

saturn is also about comparison, to see who or what is behind in someway.

black girls ALWAYS get their looks + everything else about us compared to other races. it happens all the time. we end up being overlooked, disrespected, and dehumanized in the process.

the small bright side to this is that black women are innovators. literally everything we do is eventually copied & duplicated by other ppl, even tho when we do it, we get shunned & disrespected.

traditionally, saturn rules the sign aquarius

aqauarius rules over innovations & setting trends

in derivative astro, aqua is 7H away from leo

aqua = the trends we create

7H = to be duplicated by others

leo = recognition

the trends black ppl create are always duplicated by others & OTHERS are the ones to get the spotlight + recognition from it. (just like when that guy earlier said ‘white girls look better having acrylics’ when in reality, black women are the ones who made it popular. yet people think it is ‘ghetto’ when we wear it just bc we are black :( will never make sense to me, ever)

since aqua is ruled by saturn + leo is ruled by the sun, the things we create seem worse on us in comparison to when others do it, then it just so happens to look “great” on them, they get seen in a better light when they do it 😒

I love this Astro breakdown but also fucking hate it too.

Thanks for this

This is informative and infuriating

Beyond infuriating. “All my life I had to fight” is literally a quote we all live by. It’s a curse.

How are even the planets conspiring against us?

I would love to know. I hate this shit.

I love the breakdown but i’m not sure why saturn was pulled in to rule black ppl? @moonlightastro do you have time or energy to elaborate a bit more?

gotchu. i learned this a while back from another black astrologer, her @ is @iJaadee on twitter.

so saturn rules over the color “black” & even tho black ppl aren’t the actual color black, its in our name so its one of the reasons why saturn has rulership over us

saturn represents things that need to be controlled, confined, structured, harshly disciplined, etc. this can be correlated with black people bc

also:

in derivative astro

cap = black ppl

is 2H (taurus = posessions) from

aqua = large groups

capricorn is synonymous w/ the 10th house, the highest house in the chart. rules over ppl w high positions & who oversee everything.

slave owners literally “owned” large groups of black people.

& taurus rules over agriculture & these MF’S LITERALLY HAD US PICKING COTTON 😒

taurus also rules over $$$ so they had us do it for profit

*note: i’m not saying all of this happened BC of astrology, i’m saying that there is a symbolical correlation between the two

saturn naturally conflicts w/ the planet venus so the way we dress, our hair, our nails, our entire physical appearance is always up for some kind of debate all the damn time.

saturn also represents ppl who are older & authority

this is why literally black children are seen as older by other people all the time (even in our own community). we get adultified so early in life it’s ridiculous.

this is also why most times in black families, the oldest sibling will end up becoming an extra parent.

leo is inconjunct capricorn

capricorn = parent, responsibilities, burdens

leo = children, the child

inconjunct shows a problem where something isn’t fitting, so it doesn’t work out well & comes w/ problems

like trying to use your key into your neighbor’s house, it doesn’t fit & just doesn’t work.

no child still growing up should be having responsibilities like that of a parent & taking care of the whole family as if they are the parent. its not right (inconjunct) & it just doesn’t fit.

saturn also rules over high expectations & working twice as hard

the saying always goes that black ppl have to work twice as hard for everything.

there’s so much more i could go on & on about but that explains some of it. its tiring that we can’t even catch a break in astrology but like w/ all things saturnian, the rewards will be reaped. it will still take a lot MORE time but it’ll show out. especially over the next couple of years when saturn moves into aquarius.