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I’m tired of being happy for other people / I wanna be happy for myself
I’m tired of being happy for other people I know that makes me selfish Or maybe human It’s not that I don’t want other folks to thrive / I do I love seeing the joy in your faces & celebrating your wins & I want us all to get ours Get what we have worked for so...
on success, protecting Black women, and ‘what you pay attention to grows’
I'm in the midst of writing the proposal for MAGICAL DEPRESSIVE REALISM and I've been thinking about mainstream success, what it does to your perspective, what it requires you forsake and leave behind. In the social media microwave background are murmurings about...
be as the phoenix
(reposted from instagram for accessibility) The phoenix. A brilliantly colored bird that burns to ash only to rise again & fly away home in an ever-repeating cycle. A resurrectionist, practiced in the craft of making themselves whole after tearing themselves...
when nothing has to give but your back
is this depression? it's anticipatory grief it's the loss of a future it's here-and-now grief it's a pandemic it's anger for having seen this coming it's despair for our chances of surviving it's regret for all i couldn't do it's fear for my loved ones it's deep...
discern the difference between an end and the end
(reposted from instagram for accessibility) TW: death, suicide attempts, hospitalization, r*pe, IPV, police violence -- This moment in time feels like The End for a lot of us. The myriad crises we are facing—white supremacist fascism, climate chaos, ever-mounting...
choose your reality
(reposted from instagram for accessibility) cw: MENTAL ILLNESS, MED WITHDRAWAL -- Consensus reality is a postmodern concept, based in the idea that reality is inherently subjective. What we all “agree” is real, is real. That means “reality” is highly influenced by...