Women spend an average of 6 years of their lives bleeding but are still stereotyped as not being able to handle blood.
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If most parents knew how to create lasting meaningful connections and communicate effectively with their children, therapists would probably be in much shorterdemand and charge a whole lot less. (source)
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Cars have become extremely technically advanced, and yet do not display the battery level. (source)
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The longer you only hear a single point of view, the more likely you are to think it’s the only point of view (source)
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It’s probably a good thing we don’t live forever given how much humans procrastinate (source)
“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”
-Malcolm X (1962)
The world would not turn on it’s axis if it were not for Black woman and it’s so tragedy we aren’t treated as the goddesses we are. 👑
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Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925. Malcolm would have turned 90 today.
Here are some of my favorite Malcolm X quotes to celebrate his birthday:
“I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.”
“My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“Stumbling is not falling.”
“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.”
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
There’s probably a homophobe out there whose showed up to more gay events than an actual gay person.
A bit of November 22nd history…
1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to 1st voyage from Europe to reach India
1934 - “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” 1st heard on Eddie Cantor’s show
1954 - Humane Society forms in Washington DC
1955 - RCA Records makes its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract
1963 - US President John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open topped motorcade in Dallas, TX (pictured)
1965 - “Miss Goodall and Wild Chimpanzees” broadcast on CBS, watched by 25 million, brings Jane Goodall to international attention
1968 - 1st interracial TV kiss - Star Trek, Captain Kirk and Uhura
1995 - “Toy Story”, 1st feature length film created completely using computer generated imagery (CGI), is released
It’s important to acknowledge your attachment style. By doing so you can understand how you respond to others. Being aware of it, can allow you to start healing and improving your relationships.
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From George Stinney (June 1944), an innocent 14 year old child who was put to death in an electric chair after being wrongly convicted, to George Floyd ( May 2020) a father who was killed under the knee of a white police office, to Breonna Taylor’s (March 2020) killers still on the loose, and to Cornelius Fredericks (July 2020), another innocent child killed for throwing a f*cking sandwich.
When will this stop.
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@brina.illustrates
The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series) (2015)
In this delicious and devastating first novel, which The Guardian named one of its ten best contemporary African books, Caine Prize finalist Tendai Huchu (The Maestro, the Magistrate, and the Mathematician) portrays the heart of contemporary Zimbabwean society with humor and grace.
Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows up one day for work. Despite her resistance, the two become friends, and eventually, Vimbai becomes Dumisani’s landlady. He is as charming as he is deft with the scissors, and Vimbai finds that he means more and more to her. Yet, by novel’s end, the pair’s deepening friendship—used or embraced by Dumisani and Vimbai with different futures in mind—collapses in unexpected brutality.
The novel is an acute portrayal of a rapidly changing Zimbabwe. In addition to Vimbai and Dumisani’s personal development, the book shows us how social concerns shape the lives of everyday people.
by Tendai Huchu (Author)
Get it here
Tendai Huchu’s work has been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Italian. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Interzone, Wasafiri, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the 2014 Caine Prize.
Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer aged 43
“The actor has been battling colon cancer since 2016, and died at home with his family and wife by his side, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account.
He was 43, his publicist, Nicki Fioravante said in a statement.
“A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much,” his family said.
“From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilsons Ma Raineys Black Bottom and several more – all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honour of his career to bring King TChalla to life in Black Panther…”
