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will yall cosign this vision with me? #Repost @with_this_body (@get_repost) ・・・ Between this and @saraiwalkerauthor’s @dietlandamc show, I may never watch anything else again. YES to stories of interesting, bold fat women being told. Now, can we work next on getting @sonyareneetaylor’s The Body Is Not An Apology and @roxanegay74’s Hunger made into tv shows or movies?? Pretty, pretty please???? don't be this person or this bag #toxicrelationships #toxicmasculinity When you are on the land of your enslaved ancestors conjuring Black Love at the Black Love Convergence and you are looking at the community altar and a card so specific calls to you. you pick it up and this card already knew you and just wanted to remind you of who you are. The card says "Your unapologetic existence, standing so strongly in your powers is an act of revolutionary resistance." there is a lover prepared to love me this way i am a whole human being. #intersectionalfeminism #loveradical #TheBodyisNotanApology ・・・ 🙌🏻🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾 Check out @sonyareneepoet's full interview at bodyposproject.com if you haven't yet #bodyposproject #bodypos #bodypositivity #Repost @rdjamielee (@get_repost) ・・・ This morning I quickly, without permission, spiked my son’s hair. He immediately tried to flatten it, which didn’t work because of the strong hold of the product. I assured him his hair was fine and we went to school. When we walked into class it was evident that his hair was noticeably different among the slicked down hairstyles of his classmates. The teasing began, Carson, you have mouse hair. Carson’s face crumbled. He moved slowly to the back of the class where I was standing. Back against the class the tears began to well. I held him and asked what he wanted to do. He wanted to wet his hair down. So, he went to the bathroom and cried while fixing his hair. I felt mixed about the need to assimilate to the “norm” and yet, understood it was what he needed to do to take care of himself. His teacher, who is lovely, affirmed that his hair looked great before and it wasn’t ok for his friends to tease or say otherwise. She encouraged him to take the time he needed, and used it as a teaching moment for his friends. Two friends came to the bathroom to check on Carson and apologized. I left knowing Carson was going to be ok. Yet, I felt emotional all the way to the office. This idea that “different” is wrong is so so PROBLEMATIC in our culture. Little kids who feel different are led to believe their bodies or being is wrong. Carson had the option of changing his hairstyle. Many people do NOT have this choice, nor do they need to, to fit in. As I was driving I was thinking, what is my call of action if I share this? I’m not sure that I need one. However, I am going to ask that EVERYONE who reads this pauses, even for a moment, to investigate how you assign worth and value to people. How do you celebrate differences? From @sonyareneetaylor: …our propensity to shrink human diversity into sameness creates exhausting barriers for the bodies that do not fit our default models. We must move from occasionally celebrating differences (as long as it doesn’t fall too far outside the boundaries of our ideas of “normal’) to developing a difference-celebrating culture. Inequality and injustice rest firmly on our unwillingness to exalt th
 

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