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“I hope you find a girl who can always make you smile on your worst days, and knows that you can’t cuddle while sleeping, and notices little things like your eyes changing color with what you wear or that the only way you’ll drink your tea is if it’s unsweetened. I hope you find a girl that melts when you smile and loves when you drive with your hand on her thigh. I hope you find a girl that never forgets to say I love you and always remembers to thank God for you every night. I hope you find a girl who will sit with you all night in a hospital, holding your hand just to let you know she’s there. I hope you find a girl who loves to show you off and brag to her friends about you. I hope you find a girl that knows your favorite sports team and will always try to spoil you, even when you tell her she’s not allowed to. I hope you find a girl that lives for the playful fights you have together, which always ends up kissing. I hope you find a girl who’s stomach drops when you call her “babe”, whether it be the first time or the one hundredth time. I hope you find a girl that will steal your clothes to keep as her own and sing to you in the car, despite how horrid her voice is. I hope you find a girl who seems to always have a camera out when you two are together…but most importantly, I hope you find a girl that can make you happy.”

— texts to my ex (1/?)

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How you spend your time in a relationship with all 12 signs. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces

Pretty much hits the mark.

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if you're black, reblog this

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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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So real

GRAD SCHOOL AND I

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I'm Gabby. Gabby is me

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After hearing about the passing of North Carolina #HB2, I wrote this in thinking about Maundy Thursday. 

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my bank account now: $5.29

my bank account if I win powerball: $ 1,300,000,005.29

my bank account when i pay off my student loans: $2.64

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Signal boost

For any lesbian, gay, bi, transgender folks alone for the holidays...

http://www.yourholidaymom.com/ is a blog run by a bunch of moms (and sometimes other parents) who will post a letter to you daily until Christmas with words of acceptance and welcome.  It was designed specifically as a project for kids and adults who face rejection over the holidays because of their sexuality or gender.  This meant a lot to me the first year that I was isolated by my family, and I wanted to share it with all of you.

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What about the trap queens, the squad up girls, the round-the-way girls, the freak hoes, thotties, and the bald-headed scallywags with no edges to speak of? Are they capable of being carefree? Do we permit the identity of carefreeness to Black girls that aren’t rocking fros, riding bikes, and wearing flowers? Do we give license to carefree identities to be loud, poor, unpoetic, fat, permed, scowling, no formal education, unkempt, ain’t shit, or ratchet? If we’re not praising and uplifting Black girls that wear quick weaves, have three kids, impoverished, selling rock, doing drugs, do not look like afrocentric-beauty standard Tumblr models, or don’t smile because they just don’t want to, then we’re not giving empowerment to all sides of Black girls. Some of us embody qualities of these stereotypes we’re denouncing. It doesn’t mean we’re failures or one-dimensional in our identities the way anti-Black misogynistic institutions have made it seem. But it does mean that we are complicated and it’s okay to be a Black woman who happens to be angry. Yes, we need to see more than just the Angry Black Woman archetype played on repeat. But what about the complicated nature of Black women who are angry who can also be carefree in those same moments? The sexually liberated Black woman who fucks unapologetically? Or the carefree boss ass bitch who sells drugs to survive and provide for herself? Or the Black girl who works at a fast food restaurant and listens to trap music while she waits for the bus?

Ashleigh Shackelford, “Trap Queens and Freak Hoes: On Exclusivity in the Carefree Black Girl Movement.” (via ashleighthelion)

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Dis. Me.

when i met my academic hero

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"liking things Women who were brought up devout and fearful get stirred, like anyone else. Want men. Want other women. Stink under the arms at the end of the day. Get that all too familiar mix of fear and discontent in the night. Want to do the things that they Must Not Do. Those dirty, bloody attractive things." Start reading this book for free:

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#blackout

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Society is constantly telling us we are not good enough. We are made to believe that we need to achieve a certain things in order to prove our worth. We are told we need to be prettier, stronger, smarter, more productive, etc.

The truth is…you are enough. Who you are is exactly who you need to be. Don’t worry about what the world wants you to be. Just be.

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