nature held me close + found no fault with me.

all that “i dont wanna be on fleek…i want to be a soft little princess!” “i dont want a hot girl summer! i want a fairy angel dollette summer…” “dont match my freak! match my softness and intellect…” “my body not tea…im actually a little baby deer made of porcelain” “im not a savage! im a lady!!!” shit yall be doing is not subtle at all oh i hate the current culture we in yall needa be jailed

i appreciate that a lot of people under this post recognize this as racism and hyper masculinization / degradation of women of color but i do want to make it explicitly clear all these phrases being touted as lesser / more aggressive / lacking sophistication or “femininity” are all phrases from AAVE, african american vernacular english, this is specifically antiblackness, im seeing a lot of tags using the catch all of “woman of color” when discussing how this is bad but i cannot stress that this is specifically because of antiblackness, black women are denied their womanhood and made out to seem like ‘beast’ more than any other race of women specifically for having african features and for celebrating our own culture, this is called misogynoir, you aren’t hurting us by just saying black, pointing out who is specifically targeted by this rhetoric is important

I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise scrutinized. She brought race into it. A Nigerian man, who was just a person in his country, was healthy as anything. He got to the U.S. and within a year, his doctor told him he was suddenly pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure. He never had those things in his country. He learned that being Black in the U.S. is a very different experience than being Black in a Black-centric country. The author elaborated more about those in poverty, women, and being a minority in general. Having that “fight or flight” triggered in the body, sometimes for hours or days or weeks at a time, degrades the body’s natural defenses, making them more vulnerable to disease.

being poor or a minority literally takes an average 10-15 years off of your life

caste: the origins of our discontent pdf

I WISH THINGS HAD TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY!!!!!!!!! goes to the supermarket

Unfortunately 4 yall it is boner oclock