these two little girls came into work today, both black, both with their hair in space buns. and i went “you guys look like a princess i know” and they sighed and went “tiana?” because they were so use to being compared to the only black princess and i went “no. shuri” and omg, the oldest one lit up like a christmas tree. she was like “shuri is my favorite! no one believes she’s a princess!”
this is why representation matters
UPDATE: The girls came back in yesterday after school got out and I was off. They had their hair in braids and I did the Wakanda salute to them and went “Princesses” and they did it back and went “Ma’am” and I love these girls. Their parents looked so happy omg
After everything that happened in Ragnarok, imagine Thor hearing about Steve and Tony’s fight and being like “Really?! Thats why you all stopped working together?! Just get over it! I did! I’m still friends with Loki and he’s betrayed me three times since breakfast! This petty mortal shit is nothing!”
Loki: “Can confirm, poisoning his mead right now.”
Thor: “Ha! I’ve built up an immunity.”
Now I feel I was cheated on Civil War
Steve: “Well, we disagreed about this big political thing, and I mean big – almost every country in the world was involved.”
Thor: *nodding* “Right.”
Steve: “So we started to fight, I mean really fight. We each had about half a dozen friends backing us up.”
Thor: *nodding* “Always best to bring your friends along”
Steve: “And by the end, it was just me and Tony, and we… we really pounded each other…. no holding back.”
Thor: *nodding* “The most honorable way to fight”
Steve: “So now we’re not friends anymore.”
Thor: “… you lost me.”
Thor just shaming all the Avengers into working together again (”except you, Banner, you fought honorably on another world”) is my jam
I really want to start the discussion on racist dog ownership, and how the current (or almost past) tide of “pitbulls are violent dogs” belief started when black People began using them as protection against white peoples choice of weaponized dog : the German Shepherd.
when i was a child i was sitting in a park with my grandmother. a woman she knew sat by us and a group of kids i sorta knew came by with their dog, a pit.the woman (who was white ) shouted at me , not to go near their dog and they “pitbulls kill children”. my grandmother, a lifetime owner of both Shepherds AND bulls said “ now how did you come to that conclusion? “ and the woman explained all the “stuff she’d read” about it and “heard” about kids being attacked by pitbulls. that “shepherds were kinder, less violent” dogs.
thats when my grandmother turned to her and said “ oh? so you’ve READ about these attacks, and you HEARD about these attacks, but you WATCHED us (black people) get torn to shreds on national television and that doesnt have you thinking Shepherds kill you too, huh?”
the womans face was so twisted it looked like a pretzel. she just didnt know what to say
but all my life i have known about this , and as it’s explained to me, Pitbulls became like the past “Chicken and watermelon” scheme. basically, the dogs got a better bite than the shepherd, and once white folks realized that, they began to feel themselves losing their power again. and since black folks started breeding our own pits, they demonized the dog entirely(just like they did with chicken and watermelon) to keep us from making ANY money.
i’d also like to start a conversation on Hipster “rescues” and their willingness to keep their dogs underweight as to give them the appearance of just being “rescued”.
I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed
SHIT WHAT
Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.
I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.
This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things.
Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.
I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..
Saw this on Essence Magazine’s Snapchat and thought it would be helpful💕
Yeah seriously, sex education never told me any of this in school. Little me was panicked seeing the dark coloured bits and i had no clue that’s just the normal colour blood goes when its clotted or dried.
Also keep in mind that it’s perfectly normal for the blood and tissue to be “stretchy” and feel like there’s mucus mixed in.
Death By Catchphrase 