#BLACK

Heather Thompson Day

HeatherTDay

One time in math class a boy passed me a note that said “are you White or Black?” & then laughed when I opened itI’m biracial & every biracial person,

Arrogantly Black: The Negro Subversive

negrosubversive

...A good example: someone took a picture of a writer’s room where everyone was Black and highlighted the Hennessy on the table as being Black AF. Another example was Elon

yasmin🦋

balanbaalis_

Happy Juneteenth! today especially, i want to see my fellow black immigrants decenter themselves & actively dismantle the anti-Black American tropes our communities live by. we black immigrants use the

Sahar (she/they) سحر

Gulujoon

As a non-Black POC, I have absolutely no idea what the Black experience is like and will never equate how I move through the world with how a Black person

Michael W. Twitty

KosherSoul

I often get asked about code switching.African DiasporanBlackSouthernJewish Gay, Kinsey 6Big, Stocky, Meaty, Heavy, Bear Slightly Gender FluidMale, cis maleAmericanDMVerEmpathicGeneration XIt's like a ton of gears you have to playBut

Corey Richardson

vexedinthecity

Write this down: Black "progressivism" is not the same as white progressivism and, if you listen to black academics and intellectuals over black politicians and businesspeople, you'll never have a

LL McKinney says pre-order Nubia: Real One

ElleOnWords

Thinking about how publishing purposefully positions Black authors to be in "competition" with each other while simultaneously tying us together so that if they sink one of us, they sink

LL McKinney says pre-order Nubia: Real One

ElleOnWords

I don't support shows, movies, books, comics, etc. created by Black people just because they're Black. That's the surface level, quick to say reason that's understood by people aren't racist

swann

findswvnn

Cole’s not wrong. There’s always that “woke” person in the room that looks down on people and doesn’t want to take the time to help educate people.I look at people

lyd

thegirlwithfood

The more I’ve been learning about intersectionality the more I’ve really had to grapple with my perceptions of The Black male experience. It’s much more complicated than what I think

BW Scribes - doing too much and yet, not enough...

BWScribes

Let me just say one thing about non-POC writing POC POV characters and thinking it's ok as long as they aren't writing "our stories" or "centering" our race/ethnicity/culture I'm Black.

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

So this issue actually strikes at the core of how racism works.The character is half-white/half-Black.Common sense would say that either a black or white actor would be equally valid to

Southern Meff

misanthropicc92

A Black person doesn’t commit crime against another Black person because they’re Black. Conflating all interpersonal crime as “Black on Black” is how socioeconomic factors alongside contextual details related to

cyrée jarelle

cyreejarelle

i’m sorry but part of the harm of the Tuskegee Experiment was that a cure (in the form of penicillin) *was available* and they let black men suffer without itto

#BreonnaTaylor

IndyaMoore

A lot of white folks are asking me how they should respond to black trans lives in black liberation. First of all I just want to say that I am

Katie Barnes

katie_barnes3

Black women and gender non-confirming people have led and been leading the activist movement seen in sports. What I find most disappointing is that even in a year filled with

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