Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month ✨ Celebrating all of our AAPI siblings across the Asian diaspora 🖤
✨In this beauty pageant, young women are paying tribute to Fiji’s traditional afro hairstyle, the Buiniga
✨ That’s common sense I fear…
✨ Did you know that Naomi’s iconic hair flip was inspired by her mentor?
✨ This friendship would set the stage for nail salons across the country
✨ We all love South Asian food, but why is there so much stigma about the smell??
✨ Meg Emiko and Blair Imani help us get #SmarterInSeconds with an overview of Japanese American Incarceration
✨ Music of Water from Vanauatu
✨This informative graphic breaks down the origins of the term Asian-American
Remembering the MOVE Bombing
On May 13, 1985, the city of Philadelphia bombed its OWN citizens, causing the destruction of nearly three blocks and leaving 250 people unhoused.
MOVE was a revolutionary communal organization that advocated for nature laws and natural living, founded in 1972. Philadelphia officials tried to evict MOVE from their home many times, resulting in clash in 1978 that led to the death of a police officer and the unlawful arrest of 9 MOVE members. After many attempts to evict them from their home in 1985, the city of Philadelphia bombed the MOVE headquarters killing 11 people, including five children.
Today we remember those killed and those unlawfully jailed because as always, anti-Blackness operates in everything.
✨Ramona Africa on her upbringing and becoming a true revolutionary as a member of MOVE
✨ Ramona Africa on the unlawful arrest of her MOVE siblings
✨ Kahlil Greene gives an overview of the tension that gave way to the MOVE bombing in 1985
✨ Son of MOVE 9 members Mike and Debbie Africa, Mike Africa Jr., speaks on the on MOVE bombing nearly 40 years later
✨Ramona Africa, one of the only survivors of the MOVE bombing, unpacks the unjust treatment of MOVE and the lack of accountability for Philly city officials
✨ Mothers of the children lost in the MOVE bombing are rightfully angry that the city of Philadelphia desecrated the remains of their children by having them on display and using them to teach students
✨ Members of the MOVE family, 1978
You know. . . Black people 🤣😂
You know…Black people 🤣😂
✨ Sometimes you gotta improvise 😭 @obey_tiana12
✨ Moms love telling people about their dreams! @shop_aif
✨ It’s the worst when you already had your jacket on too 😒 @eliwon.a
✨ And will still buy the card on the way to the function, now what? 😂 @mo.jeaux
✨ It will always be FASFA!! @saharaeden._
✨The first drink be hot, it's science @_trulyangel
✨ You BETTA NOT split that pole! @jordan.dagoat
✨ Snacks are always necessary @mariko_lenae
✨ Now the question is who has the best napkins 👀 via letsjustbfriends on TikTok
✨ Not the target basket… via clearlyitski on TikTok
HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY!
Shoutout to the sapphics we hope y’all felt the love this week ✨✨
✨ Lesbians showing up to work during Lesbian Visibility Week 😂 @autostraddle @forthem
✨ It’s not even June yet… @killakungfuwolfbxtch
✨ Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans, the Black Queer couple at the forefront of marriage inequality
✨ There was no one like Stormé DeLarverie @queer.cinema.archive
✨ Are you a Suburu Gay at heart or in spirit? @shop_aif
✨ For the Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays, But Wish They Weren’t So Blatant, Pat Parker
✨ Happy Lesbian Visibility Day to ALL the Lesbians 💜 @jetthejam
Happy 4/20 😌
May your blunts be tight, your edibles delicious, and your highs the best they could be 🍃🍃
✨ You know the drugs are working when the munchies kick in 😭
It’s Black Maternal Health Week!
“Reproductive liberty is essential to women’s political and social citizenship.” - Dr. Dorothy E. Roberts, author of “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty”
✨ Shortened maternity leave? MUAH 💋 BLOCKED!
✨ Joel Bervell breaks down the discrepancies in Black maternal health
✨ Dr. Dorothy E. Roberts on body autonomy and the issue of compelled births, Democracy Now, 2023
✨ “There are instances where abortion is quite literally a life-saving thing”
✨ Everybody say thank you, once again, to Black women Black Mamas Matter Alliance
✨ Dr. Brittney Francis pinpoints some of the origins of medical racism within maternal care
✨ Membership to the clinic like it’s Costco, okay! 😂
✨ Dr. Roberts on the myth of race and reproduction for Henry L. Gates Jr., Lecture at Yale, 2017
🪩 Do you think people in positions of power are AFRAID to use their power for change OR are they high off of the PRIVILEGE that got them there in the first place?
Watch the full convo on Patreon.com/teawithqj
Happy Birthday Dr. Maya Angelou. We’re forever grateful for your wisdom 🖤
“Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.” Maya Angelou on fear and ignorance for One on One, 1983
HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 🥺💐🫶🏾
Shoutout to the pioneers, the innovators, the amplifiers and the people that love on our community.
✨ Coco Gauff, our 2023 U.S. Open Winner 🙌🏾
✨ TS Madison on feeling seen by Beyoncé on “Cozy” 🪩
✨“Black women’s existence tends to be a threat to the blandness of America” Michaela Angela Davis with Tea with Queen and J. at The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR, 2018
✨ Celebrating all the wins 💅🏾 Alazaiah via TikTok
✨ Vanessa Nakate, you will always be the main attraction OkayAfrica
✨ We at The Met! With model Aaron Phillip🥹
✨ The violence of the damsel Ms Vixen speaks on The Grapevine TV
✨ “Okay…” Whoopi Goldberg will forever be a mood
✨ Tracey Africa Norman on being a trailblazer within the fashion industry
Happy Birthday to one of the greatest multihyphenates the world has ever seen, Queen Latifah! 🥳✨
✨ 🥹💐The crowd sings Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” (the only version that matters) to Queen Latifah at the 2024 NAACP Image Awards
“Radical feminist approaches allow us to understand that issues that might appear initially to be minor and marginal have major, central, vast implications.”
Dr. Angela Davis for the UCR 2018 Inaugural Lecture: Feminism and Social Transformation in the Era of Tr*mp
“You think Harriet Tubman was a walking around with a f*cking nice shiny f*cking dress on with a f*cking crown on her head when she was taking the slaves…TO FREEDOM?!??” - Nicki Minaj
Happy Harriet Tubman Day to this badass, formidable ass woman!
January lasted two years, but it’s been February for two days and we’re already halfway through the month. HOW!?
Anyways, we have a date, so y’all better be prepared!
We deserve joy, we deserve rest, we deserve love, we deserve liberation! Now and always
We deserve joy, we deserve rest, we deserve love, we deserve liberation! Now and always
Happy Kwanzaa!
Happy Kwanzaa! Habari Gani?! Y’all good?
Whether it’s with friends, family, chosen family, or reconnecting with yourself, we hope y’all are finding joy this holiday season ❤️✊🏾💚
