Today I met her. Daughter of daughter. In her precious tiny face, I saw the all of all of us. Family-future, present, past, intermingling, time matter still soft, fluid. A brand new baby body here, solidly here, yet still a star in flux, gathering earthly strength, retaining divine light. Frankie has made her arrival, and she is GRAND.
It’s been a week much of the ice cream has melted. I wonder how many rainbows have been folded up, glitter swept away ? > 7 days ago I received one of the greatest honors (& mutha is blessed to have a few) > The inaugural “Elle Moxley Starship Humanitarian Award” at @mpjinstitute Revival of Love in the company of other ICON honorees @therealgialove @ihartericka > it is my privilege to be embraced by the progressive loving, community, movement creative consciousness @elle_moxley has created through her human rights organization – Black Trans Rights are human rights – right on? I wonder how many socialites corporations will give money platforms to Black Trans Folk, LGBTQ organizations in July or November? when the floats are broken down, cameras off, Kiki’s are over, is when vulnerable communities need protection, love solidarity the most. I hope we all keep waving flags texting donations year round. We fight for justice joy year round. We practice loving like Love really is Love, endlessly.
It’s been a week much of the ice cream has melted. I wonder how many rainbows have been folded up, glitter swept away ? > 7 days ago I received one of the greatest honors (& mutha is blessed to have a few) > The inaugural “Elle Moxley Starship Humanitarian Award” at @mpjinstitute Revival of Love in the company of other ICON honorees @therealgialove @ihartericka > it is my privilege to be embraced by the progressive loving, community, movement creative consciousness @elle_moxley has created through her human rights organization – Black Trans Rights are human rights – right on? I wonder how many socialites corporations will give money platforms to Black Trans Folk, LGBTQ organizations in July or November? when the floats are broken down, cameras off, Kiki’s are over, is when vulnerable communities need protection, love solidarity the most. I hope we all keep waving flags texting donations year round. We fight for justice joy year round. We practice loving like Love really is Love, endlessly.
It’s been a week much of the ice cream has melted. I wonder how many rainbows have been folded up, glitter swept away ? > 7 days ago I received one of the greatest honors (& mutha is blessed to have a few) > The inaugural “Elle Moxley Starship Humanitarian Award” at @mpjinstitute Revival of Love in the company of other ICON honorees @therealgialove @ihartericka > it is my privilege to be embraced by the progressive loving, community, movement creative consciousness @elle_moxley has created through her human rights organization – Black Trans Rights are human rights – right on? I wonder how many socialites corporations will give money platforms to Black Trans Folk, LGBTQ organizations in July or November? when the floats are broken down, cameras off, Kiki’s are over, is when vulnerable communities need protection, love solidarity the most. I hope we all keep waving flags texting donations year round. We fight for justice joy year round. We practice loving like Love really is Love, endlessly.
It’s been a week much of the ice cream has melted. I wonder how many rainbows have been folded up, glitter swept away ? > 7 days ago I received one of the greatest honors (& mutha is blessed to have a few) > The inaugural “Elle Moxley Starship Humanitarian Award” at @mpjinstitute Revival of Love in the company of other ICON honorees @therealgialove @ihartericka > it is my privilege to be embraced by the progressive loving, community, movement creative consciousness @elle_moxley has created through her human rights organization – Black Trans Rights are human rights – right on? I wonder how many socialites corporations will give money platforms to Black Trans Folk, LGBTQ organizations in July or November? when the floats are broken down, cameras off, Kiki’s are over, is when vulnerable communities need protection, love solidarity the most. I hope we all keep waving flags texting donations year round. We fight for justice joy year round. We practice loving like Love really is Love, endlessly.
It’s been a week much of the ice cream has melted. I wonder how many rainbows have been folded up, glitter swept away ? > 7 days ago I received one of the greatest honors (& mutha is blessed to have a few) > The inaugural “Elle Moxley Starship Humanitarian Award” at @mpjinstitute Revival of Love in the company of other ICON honorees @therealgialove @ihartericka > it is my privilege to be embraced by the progressive loving, community, movement creative consciousness @elle_moxley has created through her human rights organization – Black Trans Rights are human rights – right on? I wonder how many socialites corporations will give money platforms to Black Trans Folk, LGBTQ organizations in July or November? when the floats are broken down, cameras off, Kiki’s are over, is when vulnerable communities need protection, love solidarity the most. I hope we all keep waving flags texting donations year round. We fight for justice joy year round. We practice loving like Love really is Love, endlessly.
My fatherless father was embraced by the North East Band of Cherokee. After completing initiation rituals he married. Mama Carlotta, Pueblo. #AllMyRelations #IndigenousPeoplesDay
@bethannhardison @magnoliapics Invisible Beauty can be seen everywhere tomorrow – in theaters 9/22. The beautiful ones were at the NYC @filmforumnyc premiere 👉🏽 totally geeked, fangirled out meeting muse @moses seeing, Bethann flanked by @tysoncbeckford @kadeemhardison , the people came (only Bethann could get me to leave Sumter in the middle of writing a chapter!) cried carried on .. @aurorajames led a great convo w co-director Frederic Tcheng ..SEE #InvisibleBeauty ..SEE It!
@bethannhardison @magnoliapics Invisible Beauty can be seen everywhere tomorrow – in theaters 9/22. The beautiful ones were at the NYC @filmforumnyc premiere 👉🏽 totally geeked, fangirled out meeting muse @moses seeing, Bethann flanked by @tysoncbeckford @kadeemhardison , the people came (only Bethann could get me to leave Sumter in the middle of writing a chapter!) cried carried on .. @aurorajames led a great convo w co-director Frederic Tcheng ..SEE #InvisibleBeauty ..SEE It!
Godspeed good doctor (little fun fact I learned from her – she was a project manager at Planned Parenthood in Harlem in the late 1960s) #RIPDrRuth
Between two editors. 10 years ago, less even, I wouldn’t tempt my imagination to expect these 2 young gifted, Black & brilliant editors at 2 prestigious PWI – @jenishawattso at @theatlantic & @yahdon at @simonbooks I believe I waited for them, for me to bloom again (pic from a rare night out in a rare gathering of not as rare as before writers editors of color – Harlem Fete 🙏🏽 @jacqueline_woodson #BlackFolkPublishing #GreatBloomer
Queen of Black Women in the. Democratic Party. Since 1994 @sheilajacksonlee wore a heavy elegant crown made of braids advocating for Black folk. Now an ancestor among many Black women who’ve paved the way for this moment. Thank you for your service beloved sister. #RIPSheilaJacksonLee
The Sumter Crown Act Coalition (SCAC) wishes everyone-especially our beloved Sumter, a Happy 5th National CROWN Day! July 3rd is a commemoration and celebration of the inaugural signing of the first @thecrownact (July 3, 2019 sponsored by @hollyjmitchell signed by @gavinnewsom to -“Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair “ Today we celebrate with our Hair Independence in 26 of the 50 states and municipalities that have passed CROWN legislation (or Executive Orders), Tomorrow SCAC renews its commitment to Sumter and all of the great state of South Carolina to protect our children and our community from race-based hair discrimination. #CROWNLove
“On the catwalk she is rooted in a long tradition of dignified defiance. She walks like a warrior, and navigates the territory of high fashion with supernatural flair. She does so in the tradition of a revolutionary, navigating “the only path” up into the shelter of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, and like the spy sneaking through murky trails along the Combahee River in South Carolina, obtaining intelligence to gain freedom. She walks the runway with the confidence of the activist who responded to violence by inspiring masses to march and dance with flamboyance through the streets of Notting Hill. She walks with the soul and power of the Black church. She walks with the creativity and beauty of the ballroom scene. Naomi Campbell walks in the spirit of Black people everywhere throughout time, walking themselves into self-liberation with spectacular style.” I’ve never written about anyone twice -when @lrpeoples asked me to write the @naomi cover story for her first September Issue of @nymag – asking me to locate Naomi in the fashion cultural cannon – it was an honor – though there was something left on the table of my imagination to explore-her walk. When invited to write the cover story for the current @vamuseum Naomi Campbell exhibit – I stepped to it. #Naomi #QueenNanny #HarrietTubman #ClaudiaJones #victoriaalbertmuseum #FashionIcon
“On the catwalk she is rooted in a long tradition of dignified defiance. She walks like a warrior, and navigates the territory of high fashion with supernatural flair. She does so in the tradition of a revolutionary, navigating “the only path” up into the shelter of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, and like the spy sneaking through murky trails along the Combahee River in South Carolina, obtaining intelligence to gain freedom. She walks the runway with the confidence of the activist who responded to violence by inspiring masses to march and dance with flamboyance through the streets of Notting Hill. She walks with the soul and power of the Black church. She walks with the creativity and beauty of the ballroom scene. Naomi Campbell walks in the spirit of Black people everywhere throughout time, walking themselves into self-liberation with spectacular style.” I’ve never written about anyone twice -when @lrpeoples asked me to write the @naomi cover story for her first September Issue of @nymag – asking me to locate Naomi in the fashion cultural cannon – it was an honor – though there was something left on the table of my imagination to explore-her walk. When invited to write the cover story for the current @vamuseum Naomi Campbell exhibit – I stepped to it. #Naomi #QueenNanny #HarrietTubman #ClaudiaJones #victoriaalbertmuseum #FashionIcon
This day 2 years ago Greg Tate entered the ancestral realm. Still unreal and yet his energy, so unambiguously present, as evidenced by this monumental painting by his soul brother Arthur Jafa who correctly put him on the same scale as Miles. Greg’s spirit looms large over us all. AJ @anamibia is an astronaut of an artist #GregTate & #ArthurJafa death did not them part.
Honored to call Jenisha from Kentucky my editor at @theatlantic THIS. A devastatingly beautiful and brave essay by @iamjournalism
On the final day of #TransAwarenessWeek .. I celebrate, even in the face of daily demise how ALIVE the community is especially my Black trans sisters today is a great day to support @mpjinstitute and 👉🏽 get @raquel_willis new memoir “The Risk It Takes to Bloom”
On the final day of #TransAwarenessWeek .. I celebrate, even in the face of daily demise how ALIVE the community is especially my Black trans sisters today is a great day to support @mpjinstitute and 👉🏽 get @raquel_willis new memoir “The Risk It Takes to Bloom”
On the final day of #TransAwarenessWeek .. I celebrate, even in the face of daily demise how ALIVE the community is especially my Black trans sisters today is a great day to support @mpjinstitute and 👉🏽 get @raquel_willis new memoir “The Risk It Takes to Bloom”
