I feel like via my education lately ive taken the red pill.
Now i feel my self leaving the matrix…completely.
I am a “sex-positive” Black woman, and I believe that the sexual empowerment of Black women is essential. Sex-positivity is a movement that celebrates consensual, safer sex and the multiple facets of human sexuality as natural, empowering experiences. As Black women have a complex, unique history of sexual oppression, from the rape of our enslaved ancestors to contemporary double gender standards, it’s important that we main spaces for conversation and affirmation that are created for us, by us.
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The Sex-Positive Black Woman by Arielle Loren
A wonderful piece on the sex positivity movement, and how it can be embraced by all.
(via sexpositive)
To the boy in the library with too few hands and too many books.
Hi.
I saw you glance
At the group of friends
With the cliche laughs
Hopefully, mournfully?
A little bit scornfully.
And I wondered what
Was going through your head.Before I get sentimental
Let me just say
It’s boys like you
Who make my day.With wisps of hair
Unruly, ungelled
With a love for
Atwood, Welsh and Welles.So, despite what cliché
Others may fulfil in their lives
Book brained boy
You’re perfection
In my very own eyes.
Being black gets to be exhausting.
so much racism all the damn time.
