the EXU squad have my heart and Orym calling Fearne “Fearnie” just gave me so much joy (squeezed in a quick doodle tonight, I haven’t had much time to draw but hopefully I can go wild soon >:))
in los angeles, the historically Black community of altadena has been decimated by the ongoing eaton fire.
afropunk has created a spreadsheet of gofundmes of displaced Black individuals and families affected by the current los angeles fires. the list is constantly being updated.
please donate what you can and share widely.
gay, straight, whatever. we all want someone to take us to the aquarium.
website
Alright it's Black History Month and I'm tired of white people seeing this holiday as "just something black people celebrate." If you're white and you actually care about racial equality in this world then YOU SHOULD CELEBRATE TOO!
HOW? Donate to black organizations, shop at black owned businesses, take care of the black people in your life, make conscious choices to deprogram yourself from white supremacy, read and share black history, listen to black voices, and follow black creators.
Here's a list of black organizations that you can donate too:
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The IOF has given my friend Abed @mohmad5 and his wife @safa-abed seven hours to leave before bombing starts.
They are crouched in the rubble of their former home waiting to die.
The road costs $1000 per person. I have no hope of getting him this without help. Please do what you can for him.
Vetted #47 (his wife is also vetted)
tagging for visibility. (sorry if you get a lot of these and this is annoying, i just need to try circulate this as quickly as possible)
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before i get hate about it yes transhets experience transphobia, yes they're lgbt, yes they're oppressed, no that doesn't make them immune to being just as homophobic and shitty as any other straight person
in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february
non-fiction essays/memoirs:
all about love: new visions by bell hooks
black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell
sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde
mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones
blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis
does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore
fiction:
the color purple by alice walker
loving her by ann allen shockley
the gilda stories by jewelle gomez
in another place, not here by dionne brand
pomegranate by helen elaine lee
the summer we got free by mia mckenzie
these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere
dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn
young adult:
escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney
this ravenous fate by hayley dennings
faebound by saraa el-arifa
so let them burn by kamilah cole
where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé
adult:
honey girl by morgan rogers
the deep by rivers solomon
sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh
come back (love concealed) by terri ronald
house of hunger by alexis henderson
short stories:
girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo
the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw
additional info:
-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria
many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!
please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month