Inside My Crazy Mind

Reblog to let me know if I should keep posting more.

Black Girl Magic 👑👑👑👑

Sha'Carri Richardson (Track and Field)

Simone Biles (Gymnastics)

Simone Manuel (Swimming)

Black women

Brittniocean x Love, Vera

What do U think of this norm of players being forced to face media before and after a game even after citing not wanting to protect their mental health.

Yes I have seen it and Naomi has my full support. This is a topic that we touched on previously during the height of BLM, and last summer regarding the questions being asked of Black players.

The media has a right to hold press conferences with athletes. It is in athlete’s contracts to attend these, however I believe that the players should have advocacy and ability to step down from a press conference for their health. If Naomi were injured in a freak accident on the court, she wouldn’t be expected to do a press conference with a broken ankle or whatever you know? But if her emotions are hurting, if she has used all of her spoons, then she physically can not be present for an interview that eats at her energy if that makes sense.

And all of these interviews can be done later hours after the match. They can request email comment, voice memos, phone calls at a time specified by Naomi and her agent. The most blatant part of all of this is how ableist it all is, and how it’s been ingrained in players especially players of color that if they don’t comment to the media they are “ungrateful, lazy, entitled, bratty, selfish” when in reality they’re fucking tired. Naomi is being asked questions that aren’t just about playing tennis but BLM; AAPI, activism, Olympics, Serena always- come on.

And to bring it back down to woso I haven’t heard more than a few peeps of a certain Chicago captain not talking to media since 2019 when in contrast a certain Royals player missed a media meeting because she was sick and was labeled as a selfish brat. There’s some differences there you should all sit with.

Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic, 1) (2021)

In the ancient. city of Bassa, Danso is a clever scholar on the cusp of achieving greatness—only he doesn’t want it. Instead, he prefers to chase forbidden stories about what lies outside the city walls. The Bassai elite claim there is nothing of interest. The city’s immigrants are sworn to secrecy. 

But when Danso stumbles across a warrior wielding magic that shouldn’t exist, he’s put on a collision course with Bassa’s darkest secrets. Drawn into the city’s hidden history, he sets out on a journey beyond its borders. And the chaos left in the wake of his discovery threatens to destroy the empire.

by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of fantasy, science fiction and other speculative works inspired by his West-African origins. His latest novel, Son of the Storm (Orbit, May 2021) is first in the Nameless Republic epic fantasy trilogy. His debut, the godpunk fantasy novel David Mogo, Godhunter (Abaddon, 2019), won the 2020 Nommo Ilube Award for Best Speculative Fiction by an African, and was hailed by WIRED Magazine as “the subgenre’s platonic deific ideal.”

His shorter fiction and essays have appeared internationally in several periodicals and anthologies including Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. He has taught writing at the University of Arizona as well as spoken and lectured at various venues in the US and beyond, including schools, conferences, conventions and other institutions.

WHEN WERE WE GIVEN THIS INFORMATION

like six years ago when he was on the wendy williams show

MISTER MACKIE WAS LOUD AND PROUD