My mom and I were talking about reproductive rape and we both have experienced a man slipping the condom off during sex. She got pregnant and ended up aborting it. The man was disappointed bc he intentionally wanted to impregnate her bc of her “good hair” That man went on to have children in the double digits. I’m sick at how common this is, and also I wonder how different my moms life would have been if she was unable to access an abortion and carried that rape baby to term

Nah because wigs are a clear first step into hardcore drugs, rock and roll, and pre-marital sex.

https://twitter.com/blueraydre/status/1190658015176859649

Atleast, this was my moms logic for why I couldn’t wear wigs at 16... And it’s why my wigs still aren’t expertly applied, I started too late 💀

I’m realizing that something socialists and prison abolitionists have in common is a desperate belief in the innate good in people, or the belief that people can change with enough encouragement. I believe hella people are not innately good, not capable of change, & greedy I was reading some literature about restorative justice (still tryna be convinced on the abolitionist front) and a recurring theme is “making people admit” and “acknowledging that something happened” so ppl can be held accountable and it’s still not clicking for me

“Remaining childfree was an easy choice for me, but my decision is often written off as selfish, childish, or premature (I'm only 30). Because of all the good reasons out there not to have kids, one remains taboo: I just don’t want them.”

https://twitter.com/laurenstrapa/status/1187021489901621249

Just had this conversation with my mother last night. I don’t really want kids unless the situation is perfect (I’m married to the financially savvy love of my life). She doesn’t understand I am 100% ok with the high likelihood of neither of those things happening lmao

Salty as fuck because a few months ago the IRS told me they never received my payment check so I sent another one, they cashed it, everything was fine.

I checked my account this morning and they just cashed the original check I sent. my biggest fear when filing taxes was that my money was going to be lost in the mail and that I’d incur penalties. Wholetime my biggest fear should have been this entire scenario

Many people believe that pointing out differences among black people is divisive, but there is value in doing so. We can’t keep assuming we all want the same things or even see all the same things as problems. Perspective affects priorities. I want to look at how diverse the black experience is through six categories: region, occupation and education, class and income, politics and ideology, religion, and lastly, sexuality and gender identity.

If you’re a writer who wants to complete projects you gotta get off twitter for a while sometimes On days you feel like tweeting instead of writing (and you actually haven’t written in a while) write those tweets down instead and go from there.

A Short History of Incels An analysis of one of the most popular incel sites found that 55% of the users are white and the rest are a diverse group. It makes sense for white men to be incels (because white supremacy rests on racism AND sexism), but what about black incels?

I don’t know who grandma just approached me in WalMart to tell me my shorts are unbecoming for a woman of God but she needs to chill and mind her business The invasiveness. The assumption. The audacity. The time of my life that I will never get back, thinking she was about to tell me something important or relevant

I want to talk about zip code, poverty, abortion access, and the sterilization of black and indigenous women. So we all know that throughout the 20th century, neighborhoods were segregated. But how does zip code intertwine with employment, poor credit scores, and lack of adequate housing to keep the cycle of poverty thriving today?

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Black women are over twice as likely as white women to have a pregnancy end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Georgia just effectively made abortion illegal AND wants to punish women who miscarry with charges of 2nd degree murder. I have been disgusted by this news, but not surprised. We’ve been warning folks about this for years

https://twitter.com/lexual__/status/1106655760795070464?s=21

Fewer than 6% of children in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are poor, but these countries have higher birthrates to single women than the US, where over 20% of children are poor.

JSYK: Can The Nuclear Family Save The Black Community?

loving the responses to this bc research I’m currently doing says a lot of domestic violence is rooted in men losing jobs, making less $$, or feeling unneeded bc we live in a patriarchy (and men are expected to be breadwinners) its a blow to their status among friends & family

https://twitter.com/triniswe/status/1118189287932157954

So while people are saying women are shallow/toxic for not wanting to “date down” (even though the majority of educated black women do, for example), is it really? I think it’s just yet another way of trying to avoid triggering the wrath of the male ego.

Right Wing Terrorism: A Thread In 2009 the Department of Homeland Security released an internal report saying the future of terrorism was homegrown, and most perpetrators would be white supremacist lone wolves. But are they really “lone wolves” when they’re enabled by the political right?

I’m looking into the murder of #DanyeJones. But I can’t find the original Facebook post, a personal page of his, or any coverage from an news outlet declaring his death was a suicide, or that it even happened. Can someone in Missouri please share information The murders of Ferguson activists:

DeAndre Joshua was found in his car with two gunshot wounds to the head the night of the Ferguson verdict in 2014.

In 2016 Darren Seals found dead in his car w/ two gunshot wounds to the head

Both cars were set on fire

Poor White Loyalty to Wealthy Whites: A Thread Have you ever wondered why so many poor white southerners endear themselves to wealthy whites under a perceived shared pride of race? Even when many wealthy whites see them as poor white trash, or just pawns to a political victory?

Reminder that wealthy white slaveowners and secessionists galvanized poor white southerners to fight in the Civil War with a mix of the bootstrap narrative and the threat of being inferior to free blacks Sounds soooooo similar to how modern day poor whites are manipulated to put race before class at the benefit of wealthy whites, huh?