I am super ready to move on from this terrible platform, I am going to see if I can get myself to delete the app, if you want to follow me on ANOTHER terrible social media platform I am the funniest person I know on twitter at @amandamberth
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can't wait until i have a wife so i can say "i love my wife" and introduce her to people by saying "i'd like you to meet my wife" and get out of boring social engagements by saying "i have to go home to my wife" and talk about her to anyone who will listen to me because she's my wife and i adore her
and how could i possibly forget, show my appreciation of her achievements by pointing wildly and shouting "THAT'S MY WIFE!!!" before running over to hug and kiss her and tell her how wonderful she is and how much i love her
damn all you have to do is say "wife" and it's like an incantation for summoning every wlw on this site
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I have another situation at work that’s gotten pretty bad, this time with a coworker, and I just stopped going to therapy for the first time in 3.5 years and so am lacking someone who will listen to every stupid detail, and may I just say 😰😰😰
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Um I think I have some trauma-y stuff around the possibility of being out to students b/c I made the decision to come out to an 11-year-old this morning and I’ve been a damn mess since hahaha good times
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“Black Authors Rec List
YA Novels
“Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi
“Dread Nation” by Justina Ireland
“Finding Yvonne” by Brandy Colbert
“Tyler Johnson Was Here” by Jay Coles
“The Hate U Give” Angie Thomas
History
“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs
“Freedom Dreams” by Robin D.G. Kelley
“The Common Wind” by Julius S. Scott
Auto/Biography/Memoir
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” Malcolm X
“Assata: An Autobiography” Assata Shakur
“Between the World and Me” Ta-Nehisi Coates
“This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins
“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
“Skin Folk” by Nalo Hopkinson
“Mumbo Jumbo” by Ishmael Reed
“Who Fears Death” by Nnedi Okorafor
“Dark Matter” by Sheree R. Thomas
“The Kishi” by Antoine Bandele
“Minion” by L.A. Banks
Comics
“Bingo Love” by Terrence Sage
“Rise of the Black Panther” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Black AF: America’s Sweetheart” by Kwanza Osajyefo
“Abbott” by Saladin Ahmed
“The American Way” by John Ridley
LGBTQ+
“Zami” by Audre Lorde
“Brother to Brother” by Essex Hemphill
“Under the Udala Trees” by Chinelo Okparanta
“Burnt Men” by Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
Poetry
“Helium” by Rudy Francisco
“Bestiary” by Donika Kelly
“How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars” by Alysia Nicole Harris
“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes
“The Black Unicorn” by Audre Lorde
Authors
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Octavia E. Butler
Ralph Ellison
Personal Favorites
“Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
“Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin
“We Were Eight Years in Power” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
Honorable Mentions by People in the Notes
“The Skin I’m In” by Sharon G. Flake
“Jazz” by Toni Morrison
“A Mercy” by Toni Morrison
“The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson
Jesmyn Ward
“All American Boys” by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds
“Just Mercy” by Brian Stevenson
“The Broken Earth Trilogy” by M.K. Jemisin
“Piecing Me Together” by Renee Watson
“Monster” by Walter Dean Myers
“The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead
“Sweet Thang” by Allison Whittenburg
“Shadowshaper” by Daniel José Older
“Dactyl Hill Squad” by Daniel José Older
“Midnight Robber” by Nalo Hopkinson
“The Sellout” by Paul Beatty
Editor’s Note:
If you want me to add one of your favorites, just message me!
So everybody remember the whole “kid tells her mom I put my hands on her, parents try to get me fired” situation?
I mentioned the child to another child, who then said to me, “Didn’t she try to frame you for putting your hands on her? And everybody saw that you didn’t do it and they were all gonna defend you?”
And I am feeling Some Kinda Way about 1) the fact that it was discussed as her “framing” me when I thought she was in good faith feeling like I acted aggressively towards her (and beat myself up accordingly), 2) the fact that the whole school evidently knew about it when I thought it was relatively private, and 3) the fact that the rest of the class, who I was convinced were intentionally making my life miserable for many months because I had gotten off on a bad foot with them, planned to “defend” me.
#the feeling is mostly nausea#what I supposedly did is grab her backpack and almost make her fall over#a moment which I still do not remember#maybe she was LITERALLY lying#what do I do with that information#I felt similarly confused a week or so ago when that class congratulated me on being ‘the only not annoying teacher’
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hot take pride and prejudice isn’t a story about two people who hate each other getting married despite their hate. pride and prejudice is a story about a rich, privileged guy getting called on his privilege and toxic masculinity by the woman he admires and then actually listening to her, taking steps to correct his own toxic masculine behavior, and using his wealth and privilege to rectify the “missing stair” problem he caused by allowing a predator to operate unchecked in his community. he specifically takes action, pays money, and does work without asking for credit or using it to point-score, because he realizes that his job as a privileged person is to protect vulnerable people, especially women. and THAT is what changes his crush’s mind about him, because he does the work and becomes a person she can respect, love, and be proud of. thanks for coming to my TED talk
As someone who has never played Dragon Age and knows nothing about it, the posts about Dragon Age 4 going across my dash seem to be saying that it’s a dating sim in which Humpty Dumpty tries to destroy the world.
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going to the gym scares me so much like it’s so BORING and it’s like entirely not natural at all. and Fitbits scare me like the emphasis on biometrics and “targeted weight loss” and hyper specialized machines like it smacks of ideology like I miss being 8 and getting all my physical activity from running around the schoolyard pretending to be English orphans on a quest
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The holy trinity of good lesbian movies
pretty much the theme of my livejournal
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get the fuck outta here with this “gays can’t drive” and “gays can’t cook” shit i do BOTH. don’t be disrespectful
but can you do math?
don’t. don’t do this to me
I can’t do any of the 3
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There is a mom at my school who is doing her damndest to get me fired and branded as someone who “puts her hands on” kids, and I have to sit in a room with her and my principal today and listen to her berate me, and if I make it to the end without throwing up it’ll be a miracle.
Triggered by this awful situation, my levels of anxiety are off the fucking charts since Monday. I’ve been heavily dosing myself with CBD oil in an attempt to control some of the physical symptoms, but it’s not working. I’m looking for other stuff that I can make happen pretty immediately and without seeing a doctor (in the interest of time—if this doesn’t get much better by the time I see my psychiatrist in three weeks, I’m asking for medication). If anyone has suggestions I’d love them.
There is a mom at my school who is doing her damndest to get me fired and branded as someone who “puts her hands on” kids, and I have to sit in a room with her and my principal today and listen to her berate me, and if I make it to the end without throwing up it’ll be a miracle.
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men who I’ve never met but 100% trust solely based on how I’ve heard them talk about their wives
feel free to add more good boys
