#Gen-X women

[fiercemillennial]

Budgeting Like a Boss: My No-Nonsense Guide to Financial Fierceness

Budgeting doesn’t have to be boring, sis! Join me on Fierce Millennial as we explore a no-nonsense approach to financial fierceness. Ditch the guilt, embrace mindful spending, and achieve your goals! #FinancialFreedom #MillennialMoney #BlackGirlMagic #FinancialFierceness #FierceMillennial

Write about your approach to budgeting. Let’s get real: budgeting isn’t always IG-worthy, but for fierce women like us navigating real financial challenges, it’s the key to unlocking freedom and living life on our own terms. Ditch the unrealistic expectations and restrictive rules. My approach to budgeting is all about empowerment, flexibility, and finding what works for YOU. It’s about…

[hamletthedane]

Imagine telling somebody in 1995 that one day, Snoop Dog and Flavor Flav would both be beloved American icons highly associated with the Olympic Games. With Snoop acting as an official NBC commentator and carrying the actual Olympic torch in his 50s.

They would look at you like you were absolutely insane. What an incredible world we live in

[thesoftclubstoic]

Rachel True, circa late 90s, early 00s

[safije]

Not interested in getting into this young vs older women beef that people be having online.

Women young or old are our sisters, aunts, mothers, grandmothers, comrades... not competition.

[jamesdegriz]

A few personal headcannons about Jordan and being in a relationship with them (gn!reader)

There's a smut under this line! MDI!!!!

(GIFs are not mine but found so if you recognise your work and want to be tugged send me a DM 🙂)

- They are the total dom! in their female form. If you want roughness, relentless teasing and dirty talk they are there with the strap-on, fingers and skilled tongue to make you moan, whimper and beg till you can't think straight.

-Male form Jordan is a closetted pillow princess (I would die on that hill). Unless you rile them up or make them jealous so they have to fuck you into the nearest bathroom/closet, they would much prefer to lay down and let you have all control.

- Also if you want to tease them do it when they are in male form, just be prepared for retaliation when they switch.

- Be prepared for bruises, love bites and hickeys.

• The first time they see bruises of their fingers left on you hips and thighs, they feel guilty. That is until they realise that everytime anything brushes over the bruises, you blush furiously remembering how you got them.

• They would also kiss every single one of the bruises, whispering praises into your skin before going down on you.

• They would not admit that they love the small exclamations of suprise and despair when you notice more hickeys on your neck and chest the next morning.

• They would buy you a lot of scarves to cover up as an only half-sincere apology attempt. That's before they realise those scarves can be used to tie your hands while they are edging you. (And maybe chocking if you are into the breath play)

- I also think that they would enjoy edging you all through a movie when you're cuddled to watch something in the afternoon or evening.

• They most probably wouldn't let you cum till the credits roll, but if you do they would make you come as many times as you can handle (and a few times more than you think you're capable of)

• They will whisper dirty praises into your ear, telling how good you are doing and how you can take some more.

• They will rut into you ass or side, essentially dry humping you, while they tease you.

- Intense love/hate relationship with you sneaking under their desk to give them blowjob or cunni as they try to study.

• One time, on a dare, it was under their TA desk in Crimefighting building. It was incredibly lucky that you didn't get caught.

• They blatantly refuse to see the problem when they do the same to you. One time while your presentation for an online class. You had to retake that class.

- More about parties and quickies:

Despite how my ADHD loves to imagine Jordan domming the hell out of their partner. I also like the idea of making the first move.

• It starts with just an affectionate quick kisses here and there, before turning feverish, messy with the hands in each other hair.

• When you're finally alone, you hand sneaks into their pants feeling how wet or hard they are already for you.

- Your fingers run along their slit, the lips puffy and wet. You rub their clit between your fingers watching their face for reaction. Their lips are pursed in what others might assume is unamused expression but you know better. They are just being bratty, not entirely liking that you're taking charge.

- You wrap your fingers around their cock, starting a slow pace. You tease the sensative head with your thumb with every up stroke. They throw their head against the wall, cracking it slightly on impact. They bite their lower lip trying to keep moans in check as their cheeks flush red.

[champagnemoon]

The “bougie evil black woman” being such a big trope in the 90s and early 2000s was definitely a male reaction to black women beginning to seek higher education and better paying jobs more than men in the community like in Soul Food where Terri is the ATM of the family but is somehow still the villain after getting cheated on

[decolonize-the-everything]

Tumblr socio-political observation time

Identifying with fandoms and movements and brands to validate yourself has led to a society where your interests define you and your character instead of your character defining you and your interests and I think as a whole that's why performative activism is so rampant

(and likewise it's probably why people are so protective of the things that bring them a sense of self and why it's so important those things remain politically neutral and separate from politics but that's another post)

I dont necessarily think it's a Bad as in something that makes you evil but it is bad in that we now have a lot of people doing things in good faith that some are doing in bad faith and all these people are being painted the same because as a whole we arent critically engaging with ideas anymore

As a millennial I know am very much responsible for creating that climate. I think a lot of us grew up thinking that we could shame people into being "good" the same way that we were shamed growing up anytime we had an opinion that differed from our bigoted genx & boomer parents.

It manifested in a lot of ways but one of the prominent examples that most of us will remember is doxxing. Now I want to be clear that I never did this myself but doxxing, call out posts, block lists, etc were everywhere from I wanna say about 2007 to 2017 when I'd say it's status as a common social behavior started to be frowned upon and ineffective.

We were trying to hold people accountable with those actions.

I think that very much backfired. Bigots just got better at hiding and they learned to co-opt our language and mental health terms to gaslight us when we did call them out until those words became meaningless to use. It's simple to not appear bigoted now. Just don't share anything from known bigoted brands or companies and don't follow anyone problematic. Easy.

Cuz those define you and your character, right? Isn't that why y'all still put "supports x" as reasons for your own call-out posts? That's what validates or voids your good person card. At least, thats what everyone made it seem like a decade ago.

The millennial failure was how superficial it all was. We weren't dismantling anything. We were shaming support of x, y, & z as a way of shaming bigots and racist comments and calling them out, but we weren't actually learning to recognize or dismantle racism itself and that's how 10+ years later most of us are watching our kids deal with the same shit we did except now they're also struggling with critical thinking skills inside and outside the classroom.

I think a lot of millennials mixed up righteous anger with doing what's right. Thinking that because we were angry about bigotry and taking it out on bigots that meant we couldn't be bigots. I mean everyone is a little bigoted but not like Bigots™ are bigots, you know?

And then we refused to put ourselves under that microscope or think about that any further. We stopped thinking about a lot of things, I think. We started accepting that we would be told what was okay to believe in or say and I think a LOT of millennials esp white millenials still wait for someone else, especially a Black person to speak on something so they can see the "right" side they're supposed to take.

Someone please learn something from this. This is still very much racist and avoiding the issue is still very much enabling white supremacy.

It will only go away if it's directly addressed.

•••

So I'd like to submit a formal request to bring back one good thing from back then. White responsibility for white supremacy.

Some of us may remember some posts that said if anyone should be responsible for engaging with white supremacists and helping them break down their beliefs it'd be white ppl ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that its dangerous work for anyone else to do (for obvious reasons) and besides that white supremacists won't listen to anyone else. And allies did.

Bring that back.

The defensive white retaliation to this idea is seen on any mutual aid post in comments like "fuck your emotional labor, I don't owe you anything" or "idgaf if youre black/disabled/gay/whatever I don't owe you shit." So for the people getting ready to type something similar in my notes: This is a white supremacist defense mechanism that reinforces BIPOC isolation through individualism without seeming malicious on the surface. We all owe each other something tho; it's how a community operates and how humanity has survived for so long. Don't fall for this line of thinking and don't bring that nonsense to me.

White supremacy won't go away on its own and white supremacists sure as hell won't go away by letting them fester behind block lists until they're old enough to run for senator so if you can handle this task then respectfully, do it.

"but white supremacists are a waste of time to talk to" yeah for those of us who they'd rather see dead.

The labor and time it takes to make a white supremacist see you as a human who says words worth listening to so that you can then have a good faith conversation about politics is not WORTH the effort and risk to safety for the people who they hate. Especially not if we're doing it and getting death threats 9x out of 10 or they just wanted us to waste our time and exhaust us out of being effective

So if you are not included in the list of people that white supremacists want dead then it is worth your time and in fact is arguably one of the most productive ways to spend your time.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[ftmtftm]

Would love to eventually write a piece about misogyny / patriarchy / gender performance / feminist + "feminist" practices in woman-made music with a focus on pop and alternative music + the responses to it + how it is often a snake that eats its own tail, but alas...... my time..... it is minimal.....

But truly at the moment I am having many thoughts about the women in alternative music in the 90's (particularly women like Ani DiFranco and artists adjacent to her), Michfest, the evolution of being "not like other girls" ("not a pretty girl"), Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Britney, and Kesha among many other artists.

[pjharvey]

my mom has a giant she/her sticker on her water bottle which is very funny to me bc no one is looking at you and not thinking she/her especially in redacted suburb, utah it’s literally just cos she’s an ally… sometimes i feel i am disappointing her by not having like interesting pronouns but then again probably not cos i am still a lesbian and shes also the worlds first straight woman himejoshi

[thesoftclubstoic]

Fugees on the cover of Front Magazine, 1996

[fionatheicicle]

Love her or hate her if Vice President Harris wins the democratic nomination then a vote for her in November will be a vote against agenda 47, it will be a vote against project 2025, it will be a vote against christian nationalism. A vote for a third party candidate will be a vote for the aforementioned horrors. We can win this!!! Register to vote! Vote in November, vote blue! 💙💙💙

[writeturnlove]

I recorded this video tonight, September 30, 2023. I’m proud to make it to 50 years old. Even though I deal with chronic pain (and insecurity), I’m blessed. *I turned 50 back in May.

I’m Generation X. We’re just built different.

[literaryspinster]

I see like 20 objectively gorgeous new fanarts for the fake lesbians from that Ahs*ka show every day (no hate to the shippers I’m sure they would make excellent real lesbians) but there’s only a handful of (also objectively gorgeous) art for limoreau so far. Why must I always starve? 😫

[seekingikigai]

A video intro from me explaining why I am doing this. I have been disciplined in writing longer form essays on substack, but not yet in the weekly video habit. I'm hoping that if I can get a few more follows, comments or subs that it will give me a motivational boost hehe ❤️ 🌍🧠💰

❤️ What you love, the passions that drive you

🌍 What the world needs, a purpose beyond yourself

🧠 What you are good at, highlighting skills and talents

💰 What you can be paid for, the practical aspect of making a living

[ozymandiasdirge]

i really do like oda i feel like i have to preface this that im chomping at the bit to get the actual plot with ace's execution moving since its been like 25 chapters and luffy STILL doesnt know somehow but im two and half chapters into amazon lily and some of this feels like its so comically misogynistic that star trek the original series in 1966 would have been like okay we need to rethink some of this