Afromative Action

via http://browngirlsdoballet.com/

done by Tony Green.

baduuuuu.

Kosisochukwu Nnebe' work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Black History Month program.

#itooamharvard.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

happy birthday harry belafonte

Abortion for black women has always been a revolutionary rejection of patriarchy, white supremacy and forced systems of oppression. The great scholars Patricia Hill Collins and Angela Davis have explained that throughout slavery and into the 20th century, self-abortion through herbal remedies, hangers, hatpins and pencils were a way out of slavery and poverty. Our ancestors fought hard to refuse to carry the children of their master rapists and rear another generation of slaves, even when it meant that “barren” women were deemed worthless chattel and sold between plantations. From generation to generation, stories and recipes were passed down to ensure that women weren’t forced to carry pregnancies they never desired or weren’t able to carry healthily. For as many powerful women that raised children in the worst conditions imaginable, so there were those who refused.

-Zora Neale Hurston