8 Terms That Are Way Better Than The Slur ‘Anchor Baby’

So mad that when my hair was short and easy to straighten(once you reach mid length with 4c hair, it's just a challenge to straighten for me) I didn't do something amazing like this. 2016 i am definitely doing something amazing with my hair, color might be my weapon of choice. (Not me in pic, but her hair is bomb)

Dumpster Diving: An Observation on Class in Children’s Books

When my sister and I were kids, we used to play next to (and sometimes on) the dumpsters in the parking lot while my mother cleaned offices. At the age of twenty-two, my mom was a single parent of two small children, putting herself through college while working as a waitress and cleaning lady. We were on food stamps and participated in WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) and AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). I had free lunch at school. Welfare paid for our childcare so my mom could work and take classes, and somehow, we managed to squeak by.

 Eventually my mom graduated and took a job as a teacher, and things improved. They improved even more when she remarried and we became a two-income household. My lunches went from free to reduced-price. And by high school I paid top dollar for my soggy pizza and curly fries and had an allowance of three dollars a week. Which wasn’t half bad in the 1980s, all things considered.

I was a smart kid and did well at school. I got a generous financial-aid package to attend Harvard and found myself living in the Yard, taking classes from future and former US Cabinet officials when I was the age my mom had been when she was cleaning offices and struggling to put food on the table. I was surrounded by private school kids and legacy students. To say I experienced culture shock is putting it mildly.

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I Don't always review every book I read but after reading a blog post by one of my fave book bloggers, I sure do plan on going back and leaving a review for every book I've at least read this year😍

Julia Stiles was so good at playing the white privileged moron. Kerry was spitting some real shit right here..

Kerry Washington was spitting the realest shit in this movie man

Cover Reveal: Cheerleaders from Planet X by Lyssa Chiavari

Cover Reveal: Cheerleaders from Planet X by Lyssa Chiavari

Today I’m so excited to help reveal the cover and title for Lyssa Chiavari’s upcoming f/f sci-fi novel, releasing March 28 from The Kraken Collective. Are you ready to learn more about this tropey, quirky and fun book? Check out the cover and synopsis below!

Title: Cheerleaders From Planet X Author: Lyssa Chiavari Genre: New Adult Science Fiction Publisher: The Kraken Collective Release date:March…

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Part ll of #authorlifemonth created by that dope author you keep hearing about @missdahlelama I had two fan art posts and i almost wasn't going to but then i found these awesome photo apps and said wjat the hell? This post features the inspiration for our next messy romance #FTHS in th3 form of our main characters w/ actor Sterling Beaumon as #AsherRose and model Brittany Sky as #TheodoraKing #naturalista #afrocubana #afrolatinx #interracial #InterracialLove #weneeddiverseromance #interracialromance #bwwm #diversebooks #bookstagram #diverse #diversityjedi #booknerdigans #miami #blackgirlmagic #messyromance #naromance #bisexual #FTHS #Friendsthatstill #GLTomas #contemporaryromance #eroticromance

romanticize black girls.

don’t we deserve the fairytale ending too?

So...

My boss just called me to inform me I was let go  .

Not a good time to be unemployed or to find job (I suffer asma so don’t really feel safe going out to look for jobs also there’s quarantine in my city). 

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Cold out this morning! So glad I got this kitty ears headband that doubles as earmuffs. #whathappenedtosummer excuse the brows😂haven't had a chance to clean up😂😂😂😂 #fallisfinallyhere (at New Haven, Connecticut)