Hot Girls Wear Afros Too
@teafortolu
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I want black children to live freely || storyteller, advocate || "dynamic, whimsical boho b*tch" || my name is a prayer but keep it out your mouth ||
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@Charles_Bowers3
@lisabevolving
Wore a dashiki to the staff meeting where the Board president gaslit me and my peers for standing up to my emotionally immature and racist /ageist boss. She asked for our word for next year.
I said “DECOLONIZATION”. There was dead silence. ✊🏾
#nonprofits
#mentalhealth
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@Kyla_Lacey
If a friend or random AA woman tells me they're dating a Nigerian... I wish them luck. Wouldn't even recommend any of my brothers who were raised here. Nope. Skip that.
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I can’t put my heart and soul into what I do and regulate my adhd and anxiety and have work in a trauma informed capacity with no training while getting triggered and bullied by nice white women and pay my bills.
I’ll always be too much.
#askadhd
@blkgirllostkeys
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@JulieAnneEsq
@laurenthehough
I was babysitting my friends kids.
5 yr old asks if this studio apartment is my whole house. He walking around saying my house is so tiny. And asking where the rest was...
He came out of the bathroom, looked me up and down & said (w. disgust): "Why you so skinny?!"
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@ttarahaynes
Struggling with loving myself for my mental and physical health and these racist and bullying workplaces are literally beating me down. And the only reason I’ve tolerated the deterioration of my health is because I need health insurance and stability.
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@ambernoelle
I'm Nigerian so I had the opposite. I was told to gain weight and eat more. But don't worry... My white women friends in college eventually drew me into their generational curse of low-carb/salad-eating/calorie-counting/over-exercising fuckery.
#diet
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It’s so difficult to show yourself love when the world keeps telling you you’re too much/not enough.
Today, I’m making a list of places and people that accept me as my whole self. I don’t come in pieces.
#adhd
#askadhd
#neurodivergent
#autsim
#depression
#anxiety
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@theferocity
Visit family in FEB/MAR (worst time for CLE winter). Heated cabin for a weekend in November. Broths and soups. Mani-pedi every 2 months. Yoga in person (3x/month). Gym (5x/month). Cute sweaters. Protective hairstyle. Therapy 2x/month. Homemade bread. Play records in morning.
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@jkirk___
The youths are ruthless. And I'm too corny to be a teacher. Love education. Love kids. But teaching kids?! You gotta be tough as hell.
Motorboat me once shame on you... (Sad but true. He was 8. I'm 5 feet tall. They were eye level...)
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@meIissamichelIe
Unless SHE was also a part of the prank: it isn’t a prank.
It don’t look like she knew about it. She just don’t want her man to end up with charges.
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Black celebs with eating disorders are framing it as getting their body right/tight. Especially after having kids or being over 35. Its starvation and obsession. 😥 Lemon water, ACV, and cayenne pepper to lose weight isnt a healthy approach to life or your body.
Celebs reframing disordered eating as eating healthy 💔
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@Tavietavie
@macccdaddy_
Nigga. Why have I been searching “monsters at night” and was like “from what?!” Lol these shows need obvious ass names again lol
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Idk if I'll get fired or be forced to resign but I just emailed my boss, HR, the Executive Team, and some black Board Members at my job.
This version is less emotional. I changed the email subject from
"I Am Not Your Negro" to
"Stop Playing At Diversity & Inclusion".
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@BCDreyer
I'm a Nigerian from New Jersey that was raised Evangelical Christian and now lives in Ohio--ven I know it's not Yom Kippur.
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@Sheeky_ners
@jkirk___
Yes. I was motorboated in the children's department at the East Cleveland Public Library by a child. I was there to help tutor as part of my work-study job at CWRU. Kid just went right up to me, did the thing, and walked away... I have not recovered.
@FreeGameGriff
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@BeeBabs
One of the best things I did was stop following Christian social media influencers. They're scammers for Christ. That's it. Just righteous scammers.
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@LisaAnnWalter
@alexissTyler
@BurkeTeegan
I always tell people: genes be doing ALOT. Shout out to that lineage!!!
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@SupernovaMomma
I wasistening to songs from Grease the other day and I realize it would've been on HOT BLUE FIRE if black people sang and danced in it. And now I want to know what a fully black cast would've been like!
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@MichelleHux
@MissyElliott
(why I try tagging her as -at-MISDEMEANORELLIOT lol)
Anyways—she ain’t never lie. And her even speaking on this topic AND them is… 😘
We celebrate you. We appreciate you. Your iconicism (definitely not a word) is rooted in love and integrity. 🔥
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@XavierDLeau
No. But my boyfriend is Caucasian. This dog definitely acts like he don't know the black aide of his family.
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@BarghestBlack
Fuck. Just gave up my most recently adopted dog because I cant handle two dogs and my ex didnt take any of them in the breakup.
Miss you Ralph (Waldo Emerson).
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@Kyla_Lacey
My own mother has prayed I don't have a man like my dad. Prayed. He the BLUEPRINT on niggas always niggaing while preaching shit they can't hold.
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@blackforager
Always. I had to ask my bf to escort me to the bathrooms at Findley State Park. It was like they saw a neon kangaroo. Being stared at by white folks around a fire at night, while in the woods is not fun. 🙃😐
You doing THE work. Keep going.
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Something that's helped me since getting diagnosed with
#AdHd
is fully understanding the fine print of warranty and return policies (cc:
@blkgirllostkeys
) 🧵
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So ya'll know how to write headlines again... OK.
A man who worked for a cleaning service at the Naples Zoo in Florida was seriously injured Wednesday when a tiger bit his arm after he went into a restricted area and reached into the animal’s enclosure, the authorities said. The tiger was shot and killed.
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@laurenthehough
YO. I have had multiple peoples dogs attack my dog and they just stood their like Boo-boo the mother fucking fool screaming for their dog to stop. No action. Usually no leash. & it’s usually a petite white woman with a rough and tumble dog that don’t respect her for shit.
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@BNCNews
@MrShannonLanier
It's so weird and refreshing to listen to commentators not... bash... support of black people being free an united.... Wow.
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@lucykhobbs
I 100% interviewed her. Because I know I have been through too many ain’t shit therapists (white women were most harmful but also black women aren’t the savior therapists you think they are if you have certain trauma/patterns).
No time for traumatization via therapy (yet again)
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Background checks are kinda traumatizing if you've moved around a lot, been unhoused, lived in your car, crashed with friends, etc. over the last decade. Having one or two addresses in 7 years would be nice...
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@UncommonTart
@spacebatsonmars
@JulieAnneEsq
@laurenthehough
Omfg. Just SCREAMEDTTTTTT. LMFAOOOOOOOOO..... TRULY LMFAO. JESUS LOLLOL
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@itsKARY_
Omfg how am I just jonly seeing how much TIA has influenced him. Also they are TWINSSSSSS!
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@Kyla_Lacey
Run and block. Scratch your cooter. Don't let them buy anything. But from what my Houston cousin tells me even if you're in a group don't girl gonna simp for him eventually. SMH.
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@tressiemcphd
Kid of Nigerian parents. We spoke alot of British English growing up because that's how our parents spoke. Our friends looked at us like we had two heads.
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@caliphorniaqing
I cannot wait for Jill Biden to sit down with Oprah in 10 years.
Can you imagine parenting a step son like this in his teens?! And then having to support your man that ain’t shit while he run the world at 80?! Your life is a sacrifice.
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A paragraph into Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing (via a stranger from the internet,
@gls309
) and I am hooked.
As a recovering evangelical-Nigerian, there's a triggering devastation yet a sense of rose colored memories reading about memory verses brings me.
@laurenthehough
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@KimberlyNFoster
I just keep in mind that the happiest lights be struggling the most. I wish her peace and joy with or without content creation.
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@Hasserbine
@Sheeky_ners
@jkirk___
@FreeGameGriff
I felt like a turtle being stripped of its shell (dealing with that shock) and then BAM--someone takes photos of your non-shelled back. That's the closest I can come to describing it in text.
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@talleyberrybaby
Masterclass in not putting up with bullshit and calmly stepping to someone with respect when they disrespect you.
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@_raviee
I carried home a used crib left on the curb by a neighbor. I don't have kids. I was gonna donate it. 3 weeks of rain and ruin later... it was shipped & tacky AF. My man finally demanded I throw it out so we don't look like a trailer park. I never shared that on social media.
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@TheQueenofKush
@KimberlyNFoster
My mentor husband did/does this. My mom almost had a stroke watching Nicole sip wine as her hubby packed plates, swept, do dishes, and put the food away. Both work FT but Nicole plans, shops for the house, and cooks international cuisine 4x a week.
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@sarahhollowell
See things like this is why I may need to start carrying a small bottle of vinegar to spray in peoples faces when they doing too damn much.
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@PopCulture2000s
she was only 21. How is this woman sustaining a 25 year + career and isn't even 40 yet?!
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@dorindadeadly
The need for a Cynthia in the group is DIRE! Everyone can’t be enemies and have big egos. You need someone to stir the pot softly, mediate, be a sister, mother, a FACE, and willing to fight if pushed to the edge.
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@lucykhobbs
Learning to not only advocate for myself but to concisely and concretely present the areas I have trauma or am working on or identify with to a potential therapist HAS BEEN EVERYTHING. I had a 16 point list that then became 21 points after our initial appointment.
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Me: I am KILLING it today.
Also me (5 seconds later): Drops ice cubes for iced tea into soup.
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@hell_spawned
@Scorned_Royale
I think he is that foine but the power and high level in their field part is very key.
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@solomonmissouri
Yo cranberries. I can’t have no regular chicken salad anymore. Ima need a pop of fruit. Even grapes.
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@Tavietavie
Also shout out to black men aging and finally getting their shine.
@HaroldPerrineau
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@Luvvie
As a Nigerian, I believe me having 1 for baking and another for the fridge (that I replace twice a year) is breaking generational curses. The fridge one becomes the additional tub/sink seasoning for cleaning once it has retired.
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I really be wanting to give up and not take my meds or go outside but then will casually do THE MOST:
Made my own dog food, calculate the nutrients and caloric intake based on their weight and exercise, then make a written recipe with tips + substitutions.
@blkgirllostkeys
#adhd
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@laurenthehough
It could've happened to any of us. It definitely would've happened to me. You are not alone in this.... except being physically alone in this...
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@therealjpiff
In 2013, I interned at a global Fortune 500 company. My boss wanted us to get polo shirts with QR codes on the shoulders so that college students could scan us to learn more about job opportunities.
I fought for us then. And I’ll continue to fight for us now.
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Just poured 3 hour old Miller High Life into a fresh cold can of New miller high life. Pizza on lap...
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@theferocity
Also: staying in my job during winter no matter how I feel about it.
Trust me: anxiety and depression in a harsh winter does not usually improve by being unemployed. Especially if you live alone/don't have a village who can literally pick you up off the floor and care for you.
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@UjuAnya
This was me as a child and my dad loved it. I was praised for it. Thought it was cute. Then I became a “woman” to him and realize he’s never been held accountable by any woman in his life. Now everyone tells me to unblock him because that’s just who he is.
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This is NOT A DRILL.
@jsullivanmusic
RETWEETED ME. THE QUEEN LATIFAH OF MUSIC. JESUS IS LORD.
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@solomonmissouri
The way mh sister being 7 months pregnant and married didn't stop men from letting her know they'd be a father to her unborn son... Women always have options. When a woman's fed up though... she'll always have options.
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@JamilahLemieux
@VanityFair
Yo I walked into my financial aid advisors office and above her seat is a picture of Dave Chapelle. Like he MLK, Jr... 🙃
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@thecindynoir
My parents were opposed to my bro marrying his wife because her parents and grandparents had been divorced. Meanwhile my parents have never hugged or kissed in front of us—and most of my life they’ve slept apart and worked opposite schedules. 🥴
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@AdultingADHD
He’s Just Not That Into You.
Mowgli.
Lion King 2.
Zootopia.
Up.
Honorable mention: any episode of Once Upon A Time or Charmed.
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Me realizing the Pillbox Water Bottles are dishwasher safe a year after bae purchased it for me...
@blkgirllostkeys
#adhd
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@crissles
@BecomingAshlei
she got a cute head shape. she can go bald... may need a handy man, hair dresser, and dermatologist on deck but... once her burns/patches come in...she'll be good...
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@Powell_DA
Not us
@StripedNarwhal
. We order checks. AND mail them with our cute postage stamps we purchase by the "book".
We did not come to play with these heauxs.
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@msolurin
Every human child who has ever seen a fucking rainbow at some point lost their minds at the beauty and amazingness of COLORS!
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I just mentioned this to my yoga teacher. I love when she tucks me in with a weighted blanket. I definitely LOVE being held. I just don’t feel comfortable being touched by most people. It takes a lot of trust and intimacy to allow myself to be held. I love it.
Lmao. Most of us don’t lose our sensory needs from childhood, we just find other ways to get it. If you like being wrapped as a burrito as a child. Snuggy,weighted blanket, the pressure of a adult partner, pressure of a pet….
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@Leo_Tweets
I usually can't stand male Leos. I want to lavish my attention on someone who doesn't need it and be the most interesting person in the relationship at all times... ✌🏾😐
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@_JeNene
@danny_wh0
@LindseyCreated
It’s more nuanced than that. It was a simple sentence to convey a bigger idea. I don’t dress like that and never have.
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@Tati_spu_mati
Go for the Benadryl or Nyquil. Sleep while you can. Bonus points: avoiding speaking to family.
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@AdultingADHD
In person or quick in bed yoga classes. Walking outside/hiking to a podcast. Nothing at home thats longer than 12 minutes total. Repeating the same simple yoga or pilates sequence over and over.
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Thanks for everyone that has unknowingly supported me to get me here:
@blkgirllostkeys
@AlmaAfroLatina
@DrMonicaCox
@TheNapMinistry
@FeministaJones
@nhannahjones
@KimberlyNFoster
@tlpavlich
@theferocity
@crissles
@tressiemcphd
@StaciJShelton
@desireeadaway
@MelissaCrum
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@temsbaby
@jsullivanmusic
omg she retweeted me. A bitch is SHAKING while pouring another glass of this eggnog. ❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
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@sombodysdaughtr
I will say—one of the 3 BEST therapists I’ve had out of way too many was my one male therapist: Dr. Richard Pazol, Psy. D. (White Male) He on the east side of Cleveland. Former Director of Counseling at CWRU. If your insurance takes him—get ready to take notes.
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Yo! Who trying to sponsor my lodging ticket and flight to see my social Justice crush
@msolurin
and my pastor in my head
@RevJacquiLewis
at
#FREEDOMRISING2023
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@etherea1rae
My hips hurt right now and all I’m doing is laying on my bed. Idk how these hips and knees used to drop it and come back up 10x in a row at the campus bar…
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@GeauxGabrielle
@cocoacamille
Violence against women is literally almost ALWAYS in the history of murderers and predatory people in power. ALWAYS. wtf
What the absolute fuck?!
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@talleyberrybaby
This looks like my first boyfriend before he started working out and got money… based on JM VOICE ALONE… things would’ve been thinging…
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@MrMentionItAll
I miss Shamari. I know it’s not the show for you and your family especially anyone’s marriage but… she was fun and genuine. And could actually throw in a curveball.
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