Photos on ‘Healing’ by Raven Necole for Sula Journals: the Collective | I

I apologize to my younger self for thinking European features were the epitome of beauty. 

I should’ve been 22 in ‘78 🤷🏾‍♀️ born in the wrong era, but, I’m still groovy. flares, crop, flowers. feelin golden while I jam to the tunes of Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder. reverencing MLKJ on this beautiful Texas day. I can dig it 😏 -B♥️ 01.16.2017

Outfit poppin 😁

PHLEMUNS for Tocksick Mag by Josh Stewart

‘It’s for us to reach out to other black girls and to inspire other girls’

The girls write about the things they are learning, the places they have been and the people they want to be. (Martin Trainor/CBC)

If black girls were not depicted in the magazines they read, then they should write their own, Bazira-Okafor thought. And so they did. Black Girls Magazine, a bi-annual publication, caters to young girls and is written by them, too. A dozen girls, from the Greater Toronto Area, contribute to the magazine.

“The fact that they can write and they can draw is a way for them to actually put their own stories, their own experiences, their own images and representations into the mainstream and validate who they are as black girls,” she said.

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Currently, the magazine, which started last June, is available at all Vaughan public libraries as well as a handful of libraries in Richmond Hill and Toronto.

#BlackGirlsMagic #BlackExcellence 

Well done!

bringing it back #mlk2017

I know 2015 has been physically, emotionally and mentally taxing, I hope 2016 will be kinder. Wish you all the best, may these words bring you some level of comfort

…. Ok, let’s try this again, I know 2016 has been an utter mess, and 2017 doesn’t look like it’s gonna be that much better, but still, I wish you all a great year, full of good things, great health, and every other thing you wish for yourselves.

Keep on rising, keep on organizing, protesting, resisting, revolting. Keep on being your fucking selves completely, supremely, unapologetically.

Peace and much love to you

We are now accepting submissions for our January issue!

Deadline: January 15th

We are especially looking for VISUAL arts and prose/essays/long-form pieces! Regular contributor applications are also being accepted (though it takes a bit for us to respond to them!) <3

she/her

heyyyy, yall! i’m Le'Andreia.. but y'all can call me Dreia (Drayuh) & i have cancer. i have none hodgkin’s lymphoma. im 22, homeless and my fiancée and i have been living in our car and w friends (neither one of our families live in kansas) our tags expired in august so we’ve been pretty stagnant. we do have jobs but trying to get around and avoid the police is a thing all in itself lol. before anyone else asks, we’re avoiding the police because our tags are bad!!!!!! we aren’t criminals! all i’m asking for is a little help w our vehicle, i need to make it to my last 4 chemo treatments. please help us!!! i’ve created a gofundme in the hopes that people will have a heart & pitch in lol. i previously had an acct but after i withdrew money, it closed out my acct!! please continue to donate, we’re still needing help! 👉🏾 https://www.gofundme.com/2ne7dwk 👈🏾 please donate!!!!

i’ve fallen into a pit of depression. please help me

Ok a white woman used her Black boyfriend as a prop today to beg for money to go to college and is now twice over her limit But this woman has NON HODGKINS LYMPHOMA and is homeless and losing all hope and has barely over $1k and only asked for $6k? Like, officially, do we ALL have to put ubiqutous 22 year old white girl pics up to crowdfund? Because apparently you can even be full of shit and an entitled skunk and get 2-3x what you asked for For god’s sake. This post wont even escape Black tumblr.

And what does she get in the notes? “What if its fake?” oh fuck off

Can I point out that just sharing this on my FB boosted her campaign by $135 and netted about 30 new shares. This aint a humblebrag, just pointing out the importance of getting campaigns for us out of the strict Black Tumblr orbit so I’m suggesting anyone who follows me does the same. Seriously, post this on your FB, twitter, Ello, whatever you can. Write a small amount about it. She needs actual help. Please?

Please please boost guys

Moonlight / 2016 / dir. Barry Jenkins

We are now accepting submissions for our January issue!

Deadline: January 15th

We are especially looking for VISUAL arts and prose/essays/long-form pieces! Regular contributor applications are also being accepted (though it takes a bit for us to respond to them!) <3

We are now accepting submissions for our January issue!

Deadline: January 15th

We are especially looking for VISUAL arts and prose/essays/long-form pieces! Regular contributor applications are also being accepted (though it takes a bit for us to respond to them!) <3

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