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Disney announced their new project called "Wish" featuring an afro latina protagonist named Asha

She's pretty, but yall this is just Isabela

Disney, if this is still concept art then please give her a different color pallet. Or silhouette

Maybe give her an afro? A short afro hairstyle? Or put beads in her hair? Something

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Fun Ways to Meet Characters

Thieves stealing important objects from the main characters and then being forced somehow into a found family situation

Saving a character’s life by doing something like taking an arrow/bullet

By losing a bet with a stranger and then teaming up

Gambling with a shifty character and getting really mad at them, only for them to later end up saving the other character’s life

Meeting the other in an arranged marriage and actually liking them (or really, really hating them)

Or having a chaotic dynamic where they irritate each other but they’re equally chaotic, so they become the mischievous duo in the found family

By bickering over the last piece of food at a banquet

Getting hired as a servant or maid, or some other serving position

By accidentally almost killing a character, only for them to join the found family and literally never stop bringing up that first meeting

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Don’t worry. It happens to the best and the worst of the empires.

But you can always count on a creative preservation of the whole collapse.

Support your nearest Black artist. We’ll need them.

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She ate his food.

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Seriously??

Can we not have nice things?

did you hear that kipo isn’t actually blasian??

god havent i heard enough bad news

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Removing yourself from shit that repeatedly triggers your mental health and hurts your heart is top tier self-care.

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Time for the annual promo of the Black Artists' server! We've recently updated the server layout to be less cluttered, and would love to have new users! Nonblack bloggers feel free to boost!

*Please note that after you join, it will take a bit for mods to give you full access to the server.

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“but what if my friend gets offended and hates me and refuses to speak to me after i set a boundary” easy peasy! that is not your friend. hope this helps

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100 years ago: Young Langston Hughes publishes his first poem in 1921

Excerpt from his first published poem

"“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1921): Written when he was 17 years old on a train to Mexico City to see his father, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was Hughes’ first poem which received critical acclaim after it was published in the June 1921 issue of the NAACP magazine The Crisis." -From biography.com:

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This is the passage through blood, sweat, and tears.

An open prayer of hearts, souls, and hands.

An offering of melancholic gratitude.

Black truth, black pain, black power, black blues.

I am so proud to present my debut poetry book: So Black I’m Blue. It is angry, it is raw, it is hopeful. I wrote this for me. I wrote this for us. I wrote this for you. 💙

You can purchase it here:

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A poem expressing my frustration with homophobia in the Black community

Black people who aren’t cis heterosexual do not get to choose between being Black and their gender or sexual identity. The idea that “you’re Black before you’re gay” is gaslighting and false.

Contrary to popular belief, we are born with all of these multifaceted parts of ourselves and still have to face the everyday issues of being Black in America, the same way the cishetero members of our community do.

Even if the Western language such as LGBTQ+ identifications have not been utilized until more recent times, the existence of people who identify outside of the rigid sexual and gender binary are present throughout recorded history, including precolonial African.

You CANNOT be supportive of Black lives if you exclude entire groups of people within the Black community. You CANNOT be for Black lives and be misogynistic. You CANNOT be for Black lives and be homophobic-it does NOT work that way, you are just another tool for oppression and our continued enslavement.

I personally have been becoming increasingly disheartened and frustrated with the violence in our community towards those of us Black folks who dont adhere to the sexual or gender binary we all have been conditioned to believe is the only “norm” and also frustrated with the indifference from cis and heterosexual Black people towards this incessant violence and the influencers and activists who are active participants

In the context of decolonizing and abolition, we all have things we need to better with, myself very much included. But im asking cis Black people and hetero Black people to please do better.

There was a video circulating this weekend of a little Black boy being abused and having gay shaved into his head by his own family bc of his sexuality that, I promise you, he cannot control. I have anger towards all the Black women and Black men who agreed with this treatment and even if they didnt agree with the physical abuse, affirmed that they would never “raise a gay son”

If you will not accept your child if they are anything other than straight then you do not deserve children. You do not deserve to be a parent. Infertility upon you until you seek therapy.

For more poetry, music, and energy work follow me on Instagram as well IG: oshuns.ambience

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I still cannot get over people saying it's unrealistic to have black people in lord of the rings because the story is set in a place similar to england but black people were in england even during the medieval period and besides that, the world has dragons and magic rings and floating eyes but black people are "ruining the believability" of the show?

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Lil Nas X did a cover of Jolene and Dolly Parton responded to it on twitter

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[ID: Screenshots of two tweets. The first one is by Dolly Parton and it says "I was so excited when someone told me that Lil Nas X had done my song #Jolene. I had to find it and listen to it immediately…and it's really good. Of course, I love him anyway. I was surprised and I'm honored and flattered. I hope he does good for both of us. Thank you @LilNasX". The second tweet is Lil Nas X responding to the Dolly Parton tweet by simply saying "HOLY SHIT" in all caps. End of ID.]

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Welcome to 2022!

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Hang onto your hats, we’ve entered another solar revolution!

I have no idea what this year has in store, but I can’t wait to dance through the nights and days.

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As 7/11 plays…

I think the world would be a better place if we all just listened to Beyonce more