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Blackmagic for girls who dream

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Nina Simone backstage at Carnegie Hall in New York City. January 1965. ©Alfred Wertheimer

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i was such a weird lonely little girl and maybe i grew to be a weird lonely woman but idc i built this life for myself and maybe it doesn’t always make sense to others and maybe isn’t always easy or beautiful but it is mine and i cherish it

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Via Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater archives, 1970s

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your vaguely awkward and socially inept vibe has captivated me

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how expensive it is to be anything at all

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Margaret Wallace for Playboy.

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“oh yeah my weekend was crazy”

my weekend:

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ever since I was a little girl I’ve been a bitch

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NME: Listen to Fiona Apple’s powerful first song in five years, ‘Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)’

Fiona Apple said in a press statement: “I was a court watcher for over two years. In that time, I took notes on thousands of bond hearings. Time and time again, I listened as people were taken away and put in jail, for no other reason than that they couldn’t afford to buy their way free. It was particularly hard to hear mothers and caretakers get taken away from the people who depend on them.”

“For the past five years, I have been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I have been lucky to be able to witness the stories of women who fought for and won their freedom with the tireless and loving support of the leadership,” she continued. “I hope that this song, and the images shared with me, can help to show what is at stake when someone is kept in pretrial detention. I give this song in friendship and respect to all who have experienced the pain of pretrial detention and to the women of the group’s leadership who have taught me so much and whom I truly love.”

Donations to help those affected by pre-trial detention pay their bail and reunite them with their families can be made here. Additionally, you can find out more about the Free Black Mamas DMV here, and register here to volunteer for court watching to ensure fair rulings.

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Relief for Rafah is a community kitchen in Gaza in need of funding.

With aid cut off, crossings closed, and prices rising, basic supplies are out of the reach of many families. R4R is buying supplies in bulk and distributing them for free. In the past they have distributed packages including pasta, oil, vegetables, medicine, water, clothing, cleaning supplies, shampoo, toothpaste, dishwashing liquid, and menstrual pads, and provided cash aid to orphans.

They are also helping besieged families in Rafah with transportation costs to return to their homes across the Gaza Strip.

You can help by making a contribution at the link below:

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Might be the year I delete all social media…..I’m tireddddd…too much comparing . I forget that I am cool and beautiful and smart and interesting all on my own sometimes. I think that humans were not made for whatever is happening with technology the past few years

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by Phyllis Christopher

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Amazigh girl from Morocco

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Black Venus; Margaret Burroughs, 1957