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the bold type

The truth is, I have too often not risen to the occasion of myself. I have too often draped myself in the cloaks of softer, quieter. Fine. But I am not fine. I laugh too loud and fight too hard. I cannot manage a low key entrance and instead show up to trumpets. I like my sex rough and dirty and my love right at the apex of peaceful and passionate. I drink too much bourbon and say too much when…

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all my boring lives.

all my boring lives.

last year i wrote about running. how i have worn out many a figurative sole by simply disappearing, removing myself from the life of whomever i was currently sharing it with.

i don’t think i’ll ever not feel the itch to just run, when things look funny in the light. but now i understand that i have been running from those future versions of me, the me that would form from being fused to that…

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4. Mother's Day

4. Mother’s Day

Sometimes it’s easy to forget it ever happened, to go about life and and never have it come up to the forefront of my mind. even when i am reminded by my naked reflection, the now barely-there line of a scar etched below my pelvis, a slight kiss from a scalpel in yesteryears past, the small Bs that were big Cs, before. In the early years post, I’d think about it all the time; i could still…

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3. run

run away. my strongest instinct, one dwelling in the back of the mind for most of my life. a coward’s term for victory. i have always been a runner. an active runner. 2004: the boyfriend i have spent most of the last six years with, following, leading, loving, fighting, cheating, healing, mothering, pulls out a ring, an old one, a small diamond at the apex of two helixed gold bands, pushes it on…

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2. Rocket Love

this essay is late. i was traveling for work all last week and foolishly thought i’d be able to write while doing so. i was mistaken. thus, there will be two essays posted this week. staying on task. i started writing this a long, long time ago. probably a year ago. glad this challenge is forcing me to finish what i start. ** a female Shakespeare of your time with looks to blow Picasso’s mind you…

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52

1. i’ve gone and done something foolish. on par with my typical running and leaping, jumping head first into a challenge, then looking down, noticing the height, the potential hard landing, and realizing it’s too late to rewind. flailing or otherwise losing interest, i usually abandon these things. this time i won’t. 52 essays for 2017. 52 opportunities to reach in this rubbled mind and unearth…

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as i sit here writing at 1:26am.

There has been many a 2 am.

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love it

This has got to be the picture of the day!

Original caption:  Before graduation… My Grandpa 95 Years old & still strong!! God bless him.  (I didn’t know how to tie a tie.) 

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My love, energy and prayers up for the family and friends of Domineque Banks. She lost her battle against Lupus at the age of 27. One of the first natural hair YouTubers, LongHairDontCare2011, I ever watched. Losing a young and creative peer who was destined for greatness is a tough one to swallow. At least you’re no longer in pain. Safe travels, beautiful one.

If you can donate and help her family with the funeral costs, please do so here.

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love this girl. coincidentally earlier i bought a swimsuit from nasty gal because i got an email from them with all her gloriousness in the suit and i couldn't stop myself. 

blog.nastygal.com/beauty-news/beauty-role-model/2014/03/jeneil-williams/

Did you always know you wanted to be a model? Always did. I used to dress up in my mom’s clothes. I used to do weird stuff. I always wanted to be a model, but then I started doing track and field, and I got distracted...

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Gentlemen. This is what rape culture is like: Imagine you have a Rolex watch. Nice fancy Rolex, you bought it because you like the way it looks and you wanted to treat yourself. And then you get beaten and mugged and your Rolex is stolen. So you go to the police. Only, instead of investigating the crime, the police want to know why you were wearing a Rolex instead of a regular watch. Have you ever given a Rolex to anyone else? Is it possible you wanted to be mugged? Why didn’t you wear long sleeves to cover up the Rolex if you didn’t want to be mugged?And then after that, everywhere you go, there are constant jokes about stealing your Rolex. People you don’t even know whistle at your Rolex and make jokes about cutting your hand off to get it. The media doesn’t help either; it portrays people who wear Rolexes as flamboyant assholes who secretly just want someone to come along and take that Rolex off their hands. When damn, all you wanted was to wear a nice watch without getting harassed for it. When you complain that you are starting to feel unsafe, people laugh you off and say that you are too uptight. Never mind you got violently attacked for the crime of wearing a friggin time piece.Imagining all that? It sucks, doesn’t it.Now imagine you could never take the Rolex off.

The Wretched of the Earth: On Rape Culture (via felicefawn)

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Home invasions are insane and I can’t imagine someone barging into my place and doing something like this. An Amber Alert has been issued for 14 year old Ayvani Hope Perez, who was abducted earlier today during a home invasion at 3894 Brookgate Drive in Ellenwood, GA. She is 4’9, 93lbs, Hispanic, black hair, and was wearing Star Wars pajamas and a Tshirt with “Super Hero” written on it. Her mother attempted to hide her and another child after telling the two men pictured that she had no money or jewelry. They then shot the family dog and drove off with Ayani in a grey Dodge. If you have ang info on the girl or suspects, call 911 or Clayton County police at 678-610-4781. Jesus I hope they bring her home safe!! 😩 please repost, retweeting, and REBLOG!

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omg.

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i remember when i used to spill pain on sheets lined with pretty blue. wrote melancholy between moments of peace like it was my own personal duty to rip apart life clips, shred them for their serrated edges, pick all the ugly, and make it pretty prose on blank sheets. 

between lines of blues i wrote my blues

art was easy then.

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love!

The artistic vision of Xavier Payne—‘90’s black culture icons (music) [source]

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I went to log into tumblr and this came up…

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awesomeness.

Angela Davis and her sister Fania Davis Jordan - then and now - at last night’s premiere for Free Angela!