aesthete + wanderlust | storyteller + writer ✨
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I published something today that I have never shared publicly.
“Known by Other Names” examines rape culture, male allegiance, and the systems that protect perpetrators.
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Black people are often expected not only to survive oppression, but to turn what we’ve learned from it into something useful for everyone else.
What happens when Black suffering becomes moral availability?
To Pimp a Butterfly
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A young girl on my flight was crying her eyes out bcuz she’s leaving Colombia & will miss her family. I asked if I could hug her, then signaled for the flight attendant to bring her tissues & water. Y did she snap at me for trying to help? @AmericanAir, where do u find these ppl?
The durags and bonnets discourse on threads is very interesting. I think as usual our community is hyper-fixated on the wrong things.
There are brown skin ppl in Thailand. How does @EVEANDBOY have a humongous store in Chiang Mai and the staff just told me they only have make up for white people??? In 2026, and you ONLY HAVE MAKEUP FOR WHITE PPL?? Would not recommend this place to ANYONE!
As an @AmericanExpress platinum customer, I am so incredibly disappointed with the abhorrent level of customer service I have received. I pay $895 annually to be a cardholder and with that comes an expectation of premium level care, service, and support. This has been subpar.
The older I become, the less I seek beyond myself. Not things. Not people. Only alignment. Peace. A quiet fullness that reveals itself in stillness, in solitude, in the sacred knowing of who I am — and in the radical belief that I am already enough, made whole by the divine.
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Bolt looking like a proud dad 🤣🤣
Such an amazing moment!!!
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#WorldAthleticsChamps
Popping in to say thank You, God, for all my blessings—my cup truly runneth over. August has been a month of abundance, the most perfect birthday month. I’m so deeply grateful. Thank You for being faithful and for designing such a beautiful life for me. 🩷
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This ain’t just about talent ..it’s about control.
Shedeur Sanders wasn’t passed on because he lacks skill.
He wasn’t overlooked because he couldn’t lead. He’s being used as a message..sent not to him, but to his father. And through his father, to every Black man who dares to break the system without asking first.
This is narrative correction disguised as draft strategy.
