only the guiltiest.

The waiting woman was still clearly pissed but she didn’t say anything because she knew I wouldn’t have her back. That’s all it took to keep some poor lady just trynna scrub up from getting harassed.

“In Nepal, 150 people have been killed and 90,000 homes have been destroyed in what the UN has called the worst flooding incident in the country in a decade.

According to the Red Cross, at least 7.1 million people have been affected in Bangladesh - more than the population of Scotland - and around 1.4 million people have been affected in Nepal.

International aid agencies said thousands of villages have been cut off by flooding with people being deprived of food and clean water for days.”

* these go into an emergency fund ** for residents of india. otherwise you have to input passport info

edit: updated links

In romcoms. In coming of age stories. In dramas, fantasies, scifis. 

Romance. Black. Women. 

And not just the same ones we see all the time. The ones fit for white consumption. Romance tall ones. Romance darkskinned ones. Romance fat ones. Ones with no eurocentric features whatsoever. Ones that look like GOAT Serena Williams. Ones with natural hair. Ones that combine any of the features shown above. 

Romance. Black. Women. 

Let us be damsels in distress. Let us wear beautiful dresses only seen in the most epic fairy tales. Let us be looked at as if the whole universe would fall apart if we did not exist. Let us be ethereal.  Let us be the inspiration of epic ballads and poems. Ones that stand the test of time. Let us have multiple suitors, of every race and gender, vying to be our beloved. 

Romance. Black. Women. 

We are not just sidekicks. Or mammies. Or background characters. Or sacrificial pawns. We deserve respect. Reverence. Devotion. Love. And we deserve it now. Not some trickle down left over piss that it will take 20 years to get to. NOW.

Romance. Black. Women. 

Paris mayor denounces black feminist festival because it is “forbidden to white people”

In a series of tweets on Sunday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo condemned a black feminist festival planned for July. 

The three-day festival, she said, is discriminatory because it is “forbidden to white people,” the Associated Press reported.

The Nyansapo Festival, slated for July 28 to 30, aims to “put the accent on how our resistance as an Afro-feminist movement is organized.

 The festival is organized into distinct spaces: 80% of the venue is reserved for black women only, another section is open to black people of any gender and the third section is open to all. 

“We aim to build long-term strategies and solidarities, and that is why it is important to meet, to share so we can keep fighting,” its website states. Read more (5/30/17)

(1) Your Employer Might Not Offer Health Insurance Anymore

Under the Affordable Care Act, companies with 50 or more employees were required to provide affordable insurance to those who worked at least 30 hours a week. This might not affect full-time workers, since many employers have traditionally offered coverage for employees who work 40 hours a week or more. However, ACA repeal would allow companies not to provide coverage for those who work, say, 35 hours a week.

(2) Preexisting Conditions Could Keep You From Getting Coverage

“Under the ACA, employers cannot impose a waiting period for coverage of a pre-existing condition,” writes JoAnn Volk at Health Affairs Blog. “Prior to the ACA, individuals who became eligible for an employer plan—for example, once hired for a new job—might have to wait up to 12 months for the plan to cover pre-existing health conditions.”

Volk adds that coverage under another plan might “buy down” the waiting period, with certain restrictions. But if we return to pre-ACA rules about pre-existing conditions, losing your job and not being able to afford COBRA might mean going a whole year without coverage once you find another job with health insurance benefits.

(3) The End of Coverage for Dependents Until Age 26

Obamacare extended health insurance coverage to dependents until age 26. Currently, this means that if you’re under age 26 and your parents’ health insurance covers children, you can stay on it until your 26th birthday. That provision is likely to go away under a replacement plan, meaning that if you’re covered under your parents’ insurance — or your adult kids are covered on yours — you’d have to make other arrangements.

(4) The Return of Lifetime Caps

“None but the very rich can afford to get seriously ill in America and hope to pay for it themselves,” wrote Roger Ebert at The Guardian in 2010 after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law.

Before Obamacare, even having health insurance was no guarantee. That’s because many insurers instated annual and lifetime caps on how much they would pay out. Get a serious illness requiring extended hospitalizations, repeated surgeries, or expensive medications, and you could wind up going bankrupt.

(5) More Out-of-Pocket Costs

Obamacare put a cap on how much insurance companies could require policy holders to pay out of pocket. The end of ACA likely means the end of this protection, meaning that you could have continuous coverage and still have trouble paying for your medical care.

(6) Access to Birth Control

ACA mandated that insurers provide birth control, e.g. the pill, IUD, implants, etc., free of charge (with a few exceptions). Partly as a result, abortion rates fell to their lowest since 1973, when the procedure became legal in every state. Replacement plans probably will not provide cost-free birth control.

(7) You Might Wind Up Stuck in Your Job

PLEASE HELP MY FAMILY GET OUR WATER BACK AND KEEP US OFF THE STREET.

hello all, i’m sorry to ask this again but i’m sure, as most of you probably already know having seen all of my annoying posts begging for money, know that i am currently going through extremely hard times as my water has been turned off (if by some miracle you know nothing of this, refer to THIS POST) and the fee that they are charging me to have it turned back on is extremely outrageous and way way out of my means.

unfortunately, DONATIONS HAVE COME TO A COMPLETE STOP FOR AT LEAST FIVE DAYS. i am not even a third - maybe not even a fourth of the way to getting my water turned back on and as a lot of you know I’m sure water is kind of super important to pretty much everything survival related. we are currently on the last bit of our emergency water reserve (which were kept in plastic jugs and rubbermaid tubs so…not the most clean or sanitary water for drinking) and we have had to spend a portion of what has already been donated to buy fresh water from the store for us and our two emotional support dogs to drink, the reserves have been used mainly to wash dishes and maybe three loads of clothes, wash up my mother and i, give the dogs one joint bath because it was less water consumed to wash them together, and now it’s almost gone. 

i have been doing all i can do on my own to secure more money through my commissions and by other means but it is simply not enough and i CANNOT do this alone, and i am terrified that i will fail and lose my section 8 and become homeless along with my disabled mom and our dogs and that is probably one of the scariest possibilities anyone could ever be faced with. i 

really cannot thank those who have donated and reblogged enough. you have done for us more than i could ever put into words in a way fit for y'all. but again, i am being forced to live without water or pay $784 - over $800 after all the fees they’re pinning on me due to my landlord allowing a leak to skyrocket my water bill. i am also now forced to cover the cost of hiring someone to fix the leak as my landlord will not accept responsibility and section 8 (at least my local housing authority) will not do anything (likely because they have been known to accept bribes, the apt i live in is not in any way shape or form “livable” or even mildly “acceptable” in the condition it is in and it has been this was since we moved into it, yet it has passed three years of inspections without a hitch? 🤔) 

THIS WILL RUN ME BETWEEN $200 & $300. 

i am begging for your help. any help. this situation has caused me so much heartache, i have several mental illnesses including bpd, clinical depression, intermittent explosive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, & more. unfortunately, my mother also share a good few of those same illnesses along with her physical disabilities which include fibromyalgia, spondylosis (c4/5/6/7 vertebrates are rubbing against each other causing chronic pain and bone degeneration), peripheral neuropathy, sciatica, osteoarthritis, the list goes on. 

if you can donate, PLEASE do. if you can’t, PLEASE reblog, i can do nothing but beg in hopes that the kindness of both strangers and friends in this community will be able to help us, and if not for me, at least for my mom and two dogs. they do not deserve to live this way and they do not deserve homelessness (and being put in the shelter in the case of my dogs who are my literal babies.) please help. 

i know this is annoying for some people to see and i know i am asking A LOT, but i am desperate. please help my family. we are scared. i am scared.