Carriongrrrl - 🖤

Michael K. Williams for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (2010)

the feminine urge to buy an overpriced beverage and an overpriced pastry to go with said beverage

yo being black and depressed is hard as fuck. being black with anxiety is hard as fuck. being black with a chronic illness or disability is hard a fuck. everybody expects you to be ‘strong’ at all times and no one sees black people as complex or nuanced enough to be capable of suffering. no one ever thinks we could possibly need help. and if you’re a black woman, the moment you stop thinking about others and try to tend to yourself you’re a selfish lazy ungrateful bitch.

support black people, esp women, who need help. don’t just call us strong or tell us we’ll get through it, help us. protect us. uplift us. allow us to be beings capable of suffering. give us the same space you’d give white women to express our pain and be there for us like you would for anyone else. 

Ganja & Hess (1974)

Izumi Suzuki (鈴木いづみ, Suzuki Izumi, July 10, 1949 – February 17, 1986) was a Japanese novelist and actor. In 2021, her collection of sci-fi stories, Terminal Boredom, was translated into English.

Nobuyoshi Araki From “Izumi Suzuki This Bad Girl” 2002

Black women deserve to be taken care of vs always being the caretakers.

Read that again.

Isabelle Ikpeme (2022)

We need to dismantle the systems in place that allow white people to get away with offering black people sub-par services based on the excuse that our bodies are more difficult to work with. Black hair is not more difficult than white hair, it simply requires a different skill set. Tattooing vibrant tattoos on black skin isn’t more difficult than tattooing white skin, it simply requires a different skill set. Photographing black people isn’t more difficult than photographing white people, it simply requires an understanding of photography. Doing makeup on black skin isn’t more difficult than doing makeup on white skin, it simply requires different products. Working with black people is not more difficult than working with white people you’ve all just been taught that it’s not valuable and therefore not worth learning how.