She was bought at fourteen by a man who assaulted her for five years and fathered two of her children. When she finally fought back and he died, Missouri put her on trial — and the court ruled she had no right to defend herself. Celia. 1855. Missouri law at the time said a woman could use deadly force to defend her honour. Celia's lawyers argued that law covered her. The judge ruled it did not — because the statute said "any woman," and Celia was not legally a woman. She was property. That was the finding. Not that she was lying. Not that it had not happened. That the protection did not extend to her, because she was a thing. She was convicted and sentenced to hang. The state waited until she had given birth — the baby was stillborn — and then executed her in December 1855. She was nineteen years old. Her story is the kind of buried history that we must never forget savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…

Leaving this masterpieces here until my next look!!

FGM is a humiliation & punishment ritual before an imaginary male god and for male societal gaze. It is entirely androcentric So is male circumcision They are done to appease delusions of a deity that doesn’t exist Children are suffering, being tortured for no fucking reason.

This is the most they’ll do btw. #NotImpressed

Protect black kids

RT @michaelmoran: One of the most successful psyops is convincing people that marginalized people are annoying - because once someone’s suf…

She went looking for frogs and accidentally found a butterfly that would later be named after her. 🦋 Here is Tanzania's Dr Devolent Mtui’s story and how she is inspiring a new generation to champion African biodiversity. 🎬 @BrianOsweta 🎥 Yusuph_mazimu & Bosha Nyanje

Stop this nonsense

You don’t know what it was like to be the only Black atheist in your year in secondary school !!!!!

My sister is just so beautiful and perfect. She deserves everything good in this life and I’m going to make it my life’s mission to make sure she gets whatever she wants. My perfect person 💛

Abusers be like why the fuck did you tell them I abused you that’s abusive

I love writing so much, I want to be written.

Sugababes announces new album, ‘SUGABABES.’ Out February 12th.

Since TikTok took this down, #FreeSudan

Anti-Blackness is a global crisis & it kills millions. There’s a reason Sudan, Congo, Haiti & other Black crises barely make global news, bring millions into the streets or sustain global outrage. If your first instinct when Black ppl say this is to get offended, ask yourself why

“Most women, regardless of race, will experience the societal pressure to become mothers. But for Black women, the pressure intensifies. From a young age, many Black women have been socialised to become wives and mothers (specifically in that order).” stylist.co.uk/motherhood/bla…

i take being black VERY serious

I use my bum cheeks to hold onto the middle pole on the tube to keep my balance. … The guy behind me as I type this on the Elizabeth line is reading this over my shoulder and giggling 🧍🏾‍♀️

God is a figment of one’s imagination, that’s why religious people all have such different and personalised relationships with their ideas of it & many denominations Because when you read the word ‘god’, each person thinks of a different one relative to their own imagination.