cherrys-acid:

Lets talk about how hard it is to open up to someone about being sad for no reason. Lets talk about how hard it is to explain to your friends and family that you have this heavy feeling in your chest for no reason. Lets talk about how hard it is to understand why you’re having a panic attack while just taking a walk back home. Lets talk about how hard it is to understand your own self and how scary it is to feel like the whole world is falling on your shoulders and you have no idea why .

subbieblackgrl:

ithelpstodream:

Activist Brittany Packnett kicked off the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork on Tuesday afternoon in response to the disrespectful ways in which two prominent black women were treated by public figures throughout the day. 

On Tuesday’s morning episode of “Fox & Friends,” the network’s Bill O’Reilly mocked Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Ca.) by saying he was too distracted by her “James Brown” wig to listen to anything she had to say about President Donald Trump. He has since issued an apology, claiming it was all “a jest.”

Later in the day, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer scolded White House correspondent April D. Ryan and told her to stop shaking her head. This happened before a room full of journalists, and it was televised and broadcast on national TV. 

I appreciate this because people have no idea how common this is.  I can think of times I got my hair braided and cringed thinking about how annoying it was going to be to have every coworker in the office comment on what it looked like or try to touch me.  

I can remember a time when I suggested a solution in a department meeting and was told that it wouldn’t work.  The white guy across the room made the exact same suggestion and presenter thought it was perfect.

Oh, and all the times I was a manager and people asked me who was in charge. 

lesbianplantlady:

lesbianplantlady:

lesbianplantlady:

acting gay is trendy for straight celebrities because they know it will gain them fans and money. gay people will buy things simply because the person making the product is gay. we hype other gay people. this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it opened the door to straight people profiting off of gay people by partaking in overperformative allyship. allyship so extreme it seems that the ally in question is gay. this is manipulative and homophobic. and it hurts to be fucking honest.

like… I can’t get over the fact miss Lipa wore a shirt with “homo” bedazzled on it as a straight person. All of the flags, and the rainbow clothes and all the kissing her friends was because she wanted our money. I’m disgusted.

It’s so frustrating how celebrities think 2 women kissing is a game or some joke. It’d be real nice if female celebrities would stop trivializing gay affection. It’s so fucked. It is also fetishistic. Like they act as if 2 women kissing is some spectacle… something sexy and exciting to post on Instagram or Snapchat. I’m really fucking glad my love is a joke and seen as ~exciting~ and sexy for others consumption. I’m real fucking tired