“I accept my emotions and I allow them to serve their purpose.” – Tiana Major9
That’s all, that’s the whole post.
Elizabeth Holmes
Andrea Circle Bear
Diana Sanchez
If your feminism doesn’t acknowledge how gender based oppression is compounded with racial subjugation, then equality is not what you’re really about. That’s all.
For Messy Girls
“Then of course there’s the gender piece of the way that I was shamed for just living in chaos all the time. Because there is this idea, and this is why I’m such a good feminist, because I’m such a bad woman, there’s this idea that if you’re a girl, if you’re a woman, you’re just naturally tidy.” – Kimberly N. Foster
Check out her full video here:
I got dragged on Twitter because I’m a hoarder. Let’s discuss it.
Thinking of Amanda today
It’s now a year on since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down major cities in China, and that same pandemic & its tandem economic downturn has led to a lot of talk about Medicare for All and cancelling student loan debts during this past election cycle and in the middle of our transition into a different White House administration. I think my sister would have been very glad to hear these stirrings. For one so burdened by how broken our educational and healthcare systems are, I imagine news these days might be very exciting. Thinking about what a phone call might be like, I can almost hear her voice again.
The Truth in Black and White: An Apology from the Kansas City Star
So yesterday the Kansas City Star shared a monumental piece, the first of many they hope. This is how it began:
Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.
For 140 years, it has been one of the most influential forces in shaping Kansas City and the region. And yet for much of its early history — through sins of both commission and omission — it disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians. It reinforced Jim Crow laws and redlining. Decade after early decade it robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition.
That business is The Kansas City Star.