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Shook and astounded

I LOVE THIS!  Black Excellence at its finest ❤️

I sat through a class today where the teacher said,

Discrimination happens. I’m not gonna sit and pretend it doesn’t. But also sometimes you have to decide personally when to speak up and when to ignore it because your here to do your job and you can sit and take the nonsense .

I disagree.

If there’s nonsense then it needs to be stopped.

If there’s discrimination of any kind to any degree, it needs to be acknowledged, addressed, and put to rest.

If you have to walk away from 100 jobs because they’d rather have someone who will sit and take it instead of your courageous and worthy work, then you have to walk away.

In walking away you turn tides.

No walking away you leave your imprint.

Who cares if you can take a punch and keep walking

You don’t have to.

You don’t have to let the next person take it.

If you walk away do it with an impact.

Make it known why you walked away.

Let other people know why you walked away.

If they didn’t correct themselves and try it again, that’s up to the next ones to work out.

But love yourself

God will provide

His will is for you to have the best.

You don’t need to push through if you don’t have to.

You’re a human

And if someone can’t see that, or won’t act like it

They don’t deserve you, your time, your energy, or your work.

Point blank period.

•stardust•

I’ve been working with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret for the last two months and it’s allowed me to re-come out. Or just accept that I’m accepted everywhere I go. And the people who see me see me, and love me .

I’ve been thinking about being a mom lately

I don’t know why but I’ve been thinking about my self as a mother.

I always have.

Since I was a baby

I assumed I was everyone’s mom

I would baby kids my age

As I grew I continued to care for kids my age,

younger,

And then older.

I always dreamed about the hobbies they’d have,

The summer vacations,

I wanted a happy family

I wanted to raise kids to be free to express themselves

Free enough to come to me with anything

Free enough to explore their own lives

And free enough to share their greatness with the world

I’ve always done good hoping to lead by example

And I wanted to raise children who would do the same

I wanted boys who knew how to act and treat women

And girls who would love themselves and help others find that love inside as well

I wanted them to be beautifully contagious

I wanted to raise boys first who knew the meaning of brotherhood

And family

To be strong and selfless

I wanted girls who knew how to be little sisters.

Following under their big brothers footsteps enough to know how to be tough and yet step up to be their own leaders.

I’ve been thinkning about being pregnant

And what it would be like to carry a creation to its grand entrance into This life

I’ve been watching my husband

I watch him interact with babies and his nieces and nephews

And it puts me at peace

I watch him talk to them

Play with them

Teach them the meaning of words

I watch him dance like a dad and I know well be fine

He’s not yet ready to be someone’s husband

As I’m not yet ready to be a wife

But I know that together well be okay

I see him yearning to set an example as a father

And I know well be okay

I see myself watching children

Just trying to figure out what they need and how to make sure they know they’re loved

And I know my children will be alright

I’m not ready for diapers and rashes

But I know past that

Are futures

Dreams

Plans

And it’ll be my job to support them

That I’m excited for

We gotta push for the betterment of humanity. We have to push for humans to be treated as humans.

UPDATES ON AMAZON PRIME STRIKE AND PRIME DAY!

The basics:

Thousands of workers in Spain, Germany and the US have been striking leading up to and on Prime Day, Amazon’s biggest sale, calling for better working conditions, pay and health benefits.

Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers (96% of the workers at the San Fernando warehouse) in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company’s biggest sales day of the year

Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the sale in six warehouses.

 Amazon’s website and mobile app crashed for about 45 minutes, due to a computer glitch – the most widespread to date, costing Amazon millions of dollars

In the US, advocacy groups are planning several consumer rallies outside Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, Confederate and white nationalist merchandise through Amazon’s marketplace of third-party sellers. 

Amazon is still expected to profit more this year than last year. Let’s hope we can keep spreading the word about the boycott and prove them wrong. Spain’s strike is supposed to last through the 18th, so keep boycotting

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42 Amazing Books Written By Black Authors

A diverse range of classics, contemporary must-reads, and memoirs you'll definitely wanna fill your time with!

Woo, I’ve got a lot of reading to do…

If you’ve read any of these books please share your perspectives on them - or add recommendations of your own not seen here!

Some particularly potent (and sometimes painful…looking at you The Color Purple) reads I personally recommend from the list:

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X 

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Also, Mod Alice loves and recommends all things Octavia E. Butler.

-Mod Colette, WWC 

Wash Days are Self Care Days I hate using utilities Because I hate having bills But on wash day I can’t help but to take the time I need because I care about me For 30 mins I can focus on myself I can wash away everything Watch the dirt wash away Watch the soap trail behind Sometimes I think I’d be great bald because I could wash my hair all the time in a short amount of time