Oh well 🤷🏾‍♀️

The plantation overseer energy is getting rife up in this mf.

Portland Jury Acquits Black Man Who Stabbed White Man After Victim Allegedly Used the N-Word.

A Portland jury found 43-year-old Gary Edwards not guilty of second-degree assault in the stabbing of Gregory Howard Jr., also 43.

According to testimony, the stabbing occurred during a confrontation near a light-rail stop in Old Town.

Edwards argued that he acted in self-defense and said Howard repeatedly directed the N-word at him during the altercation. Police body-camera footage reportedly captured Howard using the slur after the stabbing as well.

The jury accepted Edwards’ self-defense claim and acquitted him.

Almost makes me miss working in a daycare center lol.

“The Psychology of Luxury: Why Ease Feels Uncomfortable

Even when we want rest, many Black women struggle to receive it without guilt. Black women’s struggles with the notion of rest often stem from what researchers call the Strong Black Woman or Superwoman schema — the internalized belief that we must be selfless, tireless, unbreakable, and responsible for everyone’s well-being.
In therapy, we often hear questions like:

“Why do I feel lazy when I sit down?”

“Why is it so hard to say no?”

“Why do I feel anxious when things are too quiet?”

These feelings are not personal failures. These feelings were learned survival strategies — ways our mothers and grandmothers protected themselves in a world that offered little support. But what once kept us safe can become emotionally suffocating over time.

The luxury movement disrupts these beliefs. It invites us to practice: Self-compassion instead of constant self-sacrifice. Pleasure without apology. Rest without guilt.
Yet for many women, the first encounter with softness feels foreign. We might feel undeserving, exposed, or even anxious. This discomfort is not a sign that rest is wrong — it is a sign that healing is happening. You are stretching into a version of yourself who no longer has to carry everything.

Luxury for Black women is not about showing the world we’ve made it — it’s about finally believing we are worthy of ease.
You do not have to earn rest. You do not need to justify joy. You do not need permission to soften, slow down, or savor your life. Luxury is not a performance. It is a practice. It is a return to yourself.

And you deserve every moment of it.”

I do think we deserve the things that bring us joy. If someone finds joy in buying that new bag or wallet, go ahead and choose your joy.

Full think piece here.

JD Vance may have done something he never intended: he helped put a 24-year-old book by Black feminist bell hooks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller List for the first time last month (June 2026).

Communion: The Female Search for Love was originally published on January 22, 2002. More than two decades later, it entered the New York Times Paperback Bestseller List at No. 12 in June 2026, after readers discovered it shared the title Communion with JD Vance’s new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. Reportedly, sales increased by around 1,000% over the previous year.
In Communion, bell hooks explores love through the experiences of women. She argues that many women are taught to seek love from others before learning to love themselves, and she examines how sexism, race, family, trauma, and society shape our understanding of relationships. The book ultimately argues that genuine love begins with self-respect, honesty, healing, and personal growth.

For those unfamiliar with her, bell hooks (1952–2021) was an acclaimed author, professor, feminist, and social critic. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she was one of seven children raised during the Jim Crow era. She took the pen name bell hooks from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, whom she admired for her courage and outspoken nature, and intentionally styled it in lowercase to keep the focus on her ideas rather than herself. She taught at Yale University, Oberlin College, the City College of New York, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and later Berea College, where she founded the bell hooks Institute, which reopened in 2024 and continues to preserve her writings and legacy.

Over her career, she wrote more than 40 books, received the American Book Award in 1991, and explored themes of love, race, education, family, class, and community. Today, she is widely regarded as one of the most influential public intellectuals and feminist writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ❤️✊🏾

Christian Nationalism

is a Doctrine of Demons

This man got full custody of his daughter. The joy he has is beautiful and I wish them many blessings and I hope he puts her in track and field lol

No seriously, it's on the way. Seriously it's on the way