#afro veganism

[deeplyrooteddread]

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#vegan #black veganism #black radical veganism #support black farmers #black vegan #afro vegan #afro veganism #black farmers #crowdfunding #liberation farms

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

#nation of gods and earths #supreme mathematics #five percent nation #allah school in mecca #hip hop #5% nation of gods and earths #dallas #dallas fort worth #texas #texican #black women #latinos #chicano #afrocentric #african american #afro latino #locs #natural hair #herbs #vegan #plant based

[mvlkavian]

my bday is on the 13th what should me and emmett make for dinner i prefer vegan but im also ok with vegetarian i cant really think of any like semi fancy/fun meals :thinking: oh also if you have any fav vegan deserts (dessert?)

#ive been really enjoying recipe from my new afro-vegan cookbook so i might just stick w looking thru there.................. #but i thought id ask................

[blackwoolncrown]

Reading list for Afro-Herbalism:

A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Rituals for the Body and Spirit by Stephanie Rose Bird

Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker

African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era by Heather Butts

African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory by Gertrude Jacinta Fraser

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments by Herbert Covey

African Ethnobotany in the Americas edited by Robert Voeks and John Rashford

Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect by Lorenzo Dow Turner

Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples by Jack Forbes

African Medicine: A Complete Guide to Yoruba Healing Science and African Herbal Remedies by Dr. Tariq M. Sawandi, PhD

Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh, African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed by Bryant Terry

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston

Big Mama’s Back in the Kitchen by Charlene Johnson

Big Mama’s Old Black Pot by Ethel Dixon

Black Belief: Folk Beliefs of Blacks in America and West Africa by Henry H. Mitchell

Black Diamonds, Vol. 1 No. 1 and Vol. 1 Nos. 2–3 edited by Edward J. Cabbell

Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese

Black Indian Slave Narratives edited by Patrick Minges

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy

Blacks in Appalachia edited by William Turner and Edward J. Cabbell

Caribbean Vegan: Meat-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Authentic Island Cuisine for Every Occasion by Taymer Mason

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane Diouf

Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life by Emilie Townes and Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman

Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee – An African American Herbal Healer by John Lee and Arvilla Payne-Jackson

Four Seasons of Mojo: An Herbal Guide to Natural Living by Stephanie Rose Bird

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica White

Fruits of the Harvest: Recipes to Celebrate Kwanzaa and Other Holidays by Eric Copage

George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden

George Washington Carver: In His Own Words edited by Gary Kremer

God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia by Cornelia Bailey

Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia by Karida Brown

Ethno-Botany of the Black Americans by William Ed Grime

Gullah Cuisine: By Land and by Sea by Charlotte Jenkins and William Baldwin

Gullah Culture in America by Emory Shaw Campbell and Wilbur Cross

Gullah/Geechee: Africa’s Seeds in the Winds of the Diaspora-St. Helena’s Serenity by Queen Quet Marquetta Goodwine

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica Harris and Maya Angelou

Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers by Charlene Gilbert

Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell

Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisah Teish

Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew

Leaves of Green: A Handbook of Herbal Remedies by Maude E. Scott

Like a Weaving: References and Resources on Black Appalachians by Edward J. Cabbell

Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife by Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes

Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination by Melissa Cooper

Mandy’s Favorite Louisiana Recipes by Natalie V. Scott

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington

Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald

Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story by Onnie Lee Logan as told to Katherine Clark

My Bag Was Always Packed: The Life and Times of a Virginia Midwife by Claudine Curry Smith and Mildred Hopkins Baker Roberson

My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles

Papa Jim’s Herbal Magic Workbook by Papa Jim

Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens by Vaughn Sills (Photographer), Hilton Als (Foreword), Lowry Pei (Introduction)

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Diane Glave

Rufus Estes’ Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef by Rufus Estes

Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans by Wonda Fontenot

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South by Marli Weiner with Mayzie Hough

Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane Diouf

Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time by Adrian Miller

Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition in Social Work by Elmer P. Martin Jr. and Joanne Mitchell Martin

Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo & Conjuring with Herbs by Stephanie Rose Bird

The African-American Heritage Cookbook: Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama’s Renowned Tuskegee Institute by Carolyn Quick Tillery

The Black Family Reunion Cookbook (Recipes and Food Memories from the National Council of Negro Women) edited by Libby Clark

The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales by Charles Chesnutt

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller

The Taste of Country Cooking: The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Classic Southern Cookbook by Edna Lewis

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men by Fred D. Gray

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret E. Savoy

Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine by Bryant Terry

Vibration Cooking: Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

Voodoo and Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners by Jim Haskins

When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by Patricia Jones-Jackson

Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Hoodoo Sen Moise

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michelle Lee

Wurkn Dem Rootz: Ancestral Hoodoo by Medicine Man

Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles by Zora Neale Hurston

The Ways of Herbalism in the African World with Olatokunboh Obasi MSc, RH (webinar via The American Herbalists Guild)

#herbalism #african american #rootwork #african #native american #hoodoo #voodoo

[return-of-a-space-cowboy]

Just wanted to say thank you all for the support on the first chapter, I really appreciate it.

You're just like an angel pt2

You were pretty much stuck in the corner of the room as that spiderman continued whatever he did. It was extremely boring just

stuck in the corner.

"Miguel" a woman's voice called as a pregnant lady entered, she was dark-skinned with an afro and wearing red and black motorbike gear. She was also visibly pregnant. While she waited for the platform she looked around, and her eyes landed on you.

Once the platform finished lowering.

"What's she doing here?" She asked.

"I interrogated her before, keeping her til I get all the information I can about that recent outburst of anomalies" he explained. She looked back at you for a second as she inspected you.

"So what did you call me for?" She asked.

"I wanted to see if you'd be on standby for the next few days, the frequency of anomalies has been on the rise recently and I'm trying to get as much backup as possible" he explained.

"Sure thing, is that all you needed me to come in for?" she replied.

"Yes," he replied.

"Well I appreciate you asking me in person, I'll see you tomorrow," she said before leaving.

"Miguel?" You said his name. His heart stopped for a second as he heard you say his name, the way it rolled off your tongue was almost heavenly.

"And you need to know my name?" He asked.

"Well you already know mine, it seems only fair" you replied. He only hummed in response before his attention left you.

"LYLA how many anomalies are in the facility?" He asked before a small hologram of a lady appeared.

"What else?" She asked smugly.

"Please" he muttered.

"Please what?" She asked.

"Please tell me how many anomalies are in the facility" he replied with a sigh of defeat.

"That's better, some manners get you a whole lot further" she replied, lecturing him like a child.

"Just tell me!" He snapped, causing you to flinch.

"Ok ok, currently we have 134 anomalies in the facility" she replied.

"That's more than we can release in a day, if this keeps up we're going to have to put the machine into overdrive just to keep up with the demand" he muttered to himself before leaving the room.

You sighed, it seemed like it was going to be a while before you'd get the chance to return.

🕷🕷🕷

It felt like forever before he returned with two small cardboard packages. He walks straight to you and stood in front of the cage.

"You're not going to try and run off if I open this, are you?" He asked you in a stern tone.

"No" you replied.

"Good, I'll hold that to you" he replied before turning the cage off and handing you one of the boxes.

"I got you the vegan burger, since I didn't know what your dietary needs were but if it's not what you want I can get someone to get you something else" he explained.

"No that's fine, thank you" you replied as you pulled the burger out of the box and took a bite, it was really good. The patty almost tasted like real meat.

"Mmm this is great" you replied after swallowing.

He sat nearby on the chair you had previously been in before beginning to eat his food. It'd been a very long time since he had eaten with another person, not since the breakfast before the universe he'd been in collapsed. He wondered why he even stayed to eat with you, surely he could have just caged you again and eaten somewhere else but he didn't.

"It sounds like you guys have been busy with all these portals," you said in an attempt at conversation.

"Yes, it's been like this for 3 days now and I'm stuck trying to figure out why it's spiked all of a sudden" he explained.

"Thus is why you interrogated me?" You asked.

"Not exactly, you entered the portal to my universe after another anomaly entered yours. I had to make sure that anomalies weren't figuring out how to communicate between the multiverse" he explained before he finally took a bite of his empanadas.

"So what happens when I do get sent back, am I going to get my memory wiped? Are you expecting me to stop what I've been doing?" You asked.

"We haven't figured out an effective way to erase the memories of anomalies yet and I don't expect you to stop, as long as you're not affecting the multiverse you're the problem of your universe spiderman" he answered.

"So all you Spidermen know each other?" You said before taking another bite.

"Most of us, it was the most efficient way to manage the anomalies" he explained.

"Interesting," you thought out loud.

Then a ringing erupted and he put the box down, he sighed as he looked at his half-eaten food before looking at the device he had on his wrist.

"I have to go," he told you before the cage closed on you again.

"I'll be back later," he told you before he put on his mask and what you assumed was a portal opened. He walked through and it disappeared.

🕷🕷🕷

Miguel returned a few hours later to see you had curled up on the cold ground asleep. He left the room quickly to grab a pillow and blanket from the infirmary before returning and turning the cage off. Putting the pillow under your head and draping the blanket on top of you. A singular tear ran down his cheek as he did so. It took him back to the late nights he'd return home and see his wife and daughter had fallen asleep during a movie. He'd pick up his daughter and tuck her into bed before he'd do the same with his wife.

He didn't turn the cage back on, he should have but instead, he picked you up and took you to a room he'd kept just out of sight from others. It was a small room he'd furnished as a secondary bedroom for when he wasn't able to go back home. He laid you on the bed and walked out but turned back to look at your sleeping form before locking the door behind you.

He realized something, something that horrified him. He was falling for you. It shouldn't happen. He vowed that his late wife was the only one he could ever love. He couldn't be with you, you were from two completely different universes. You were never supposed to even meet. His hands balled into white-knuckled fists by his side talons threatening to pierce his palms.

He should have sent you home, returned you to your own family but his heart ached at the thought of letting you go. Part of him told him to keep you, he'd lost enough already. Surely he deserved to love and be loved once more after all the suffering he'd endured for his life.

He took a deep breath, still deeply conflicted.

#yandere x reader #yandere #yandere miguel o'hara #yandere miguel o'hara x reader #miguel o'hare x reader #spiderman 2099 x reader

[itzsassha]

🚨 NEW OC ALERT 🚨

Meet Bianca Sampaio, a 23 year old Bombshell from Brazil 🇧🇷

Close friends and relatives also call her Bia. She is a part-time model, professional Makeup artist, Social media influencer and a Business owner.. yes 😀 a very busy girl indeed.

Bia is Transgender 🏳️‍⚧️ and her pronouns are she/her 💖.

I'll be shipping her with Mr.Solomon Reed. It is decided.

A tiny bit of Bianca's Lore can be found under the cut for those who are interested to know more about her.

She was born and Raised in Brazil more specifically in the neighborhood of Rio Vermelho, Capital City of Salvador, The State of Bahia.

Since the very early age Bianca knew in her soul that she did not belong in the body she was born into. Her entire family always has been highly accepting and supportive of her gender transition which she has started in her pre-teens with the incentive of her Doctor and a complete approval from her parents who provided her with absolutely everything she ever needed. She is the youngest daughter with two older brothers Caetano and Wagner who are extremely protective of her.

Back in Brazil Bia has been successfully making a name for herself in the Beauty Industry. She has opened her own Beauty Salon located in the region of Bahia with exceptionally vast amount of clientele... her family and friends, people from local communities and lots of fans who follow Bia on her social media accounts frequently visit her Salon as well.

Recently after many months of hard work she finally released her very first line of Cosmetics called " A Baiana" , with remarkably big variety of vegan based products from makeup and skin care to hair products that were specifically developed for afro-hair textures.

Bianca came to Night City in the year 2077 formally for a business proposition on a invitation from a company that was interested in making a financial investment for her beauty brand to expand it globally.

While spending her time in Night City Bia ends up meeting Mr.Solomon Reed and they both develop very strong romantic feelings towards each other ( will see how things go from there.. maybe she will decide to stay in night city.. but her love for home and her family/friends is way too powerful.. so perhaps Solomon will leave Night City instead and go to Brazil with her or after her.. i dont know yet .. ... i need a bit of his info first so can at least have some canon related basis to develop my head canons any further.. yes im already imagining them in my head.. Solomon already living in my brain 😂.. rent free.. lol)

Bia will also be meeting the rest of my OCs as well as some of other canon characters like Susie Q and Claire. My OC Naomi shall be Bia's Night City Bestie 🥰

That's pretty much it for now.. Over time i will add more details to her Lore. Hope you guys liked Bianca, she is my Golden baby and my Very first Transgender OC, I promise to take good care of her.

Thanks for reading 💗

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #oc: bianca sampaio #cp2077 photomode #cyberpunk oc #cyberpunk screenshots #Solomon reed's future wifey 😏 #virtual photography #cyberpunk photomode #transgender oc #original character

[abandoned-quiche]

Hey guys, can I ask for some constructive criticism? I made these images about my take on Mike, but for some reason I feel like they're... bad.

[Image ID: A series of images with drawings and text on a white background. All text is in the Undertale font, Determination Mono.

Image 1: Large text at the top reads "Mike" in all caps. It is light pink with a hot pink border. Underneath it is smaller text of the same color in parentheses, reading "that guy." A squiggly black arrow points from this text to a drawing on the left side of the image.

The drawing is of a skinny man with a giant afro wearing a bulky leather jacket, giving his frame a similar shape to that of a karaoke microphone. He has grey skin, with the afro being a darker gray and having lines along it resembling the weaving of the head of a microphone.

He has large, star-shaped, light pink sunglasses with a hot pink frame. His leather jacket has spikes on the shoulders, and underneath the jacket is a hot pink shirt with the word "Mike" on it.

He is wearing plain grey pants and sturdy black leather boots.

Next to him is a simplistic drawing of Kris, demonstrating that he is significantly taller than them.

Black text on the right of the image reads as follows:

He's a microphone. With a microphone afro.

Mike used to be a big time producer, radio host, and singer. He was a huge star in TV land - with such hits as "Trouble Dingle" and "The Pipis Blues", who couldn't love him?

Mike had a knack for learning things he wasn't supposed to. Maybe because he's a microphone, he picks up on things most wouldn't. Maybe he can connect with speakers and hear what comes out of them. Maybe people would speak secrets into him, not knowing he was listening. Maybe that vegan diet he did for a while gave him the ability to see the future

Whatever the case may be (probably the first one), this got him on Tenna's radar, and not in a good way. He had a tendency to pick up on nasty intel Tenna didn't want getting out there. With a massive target on his back, he suddenly disappeared, and nobody ever saw him again...

Image 2: On the left side of the image is a lineart drawing of mike, who looks as previously described, leaning back into a nonexistent chair and holding a telephone whose wire coils upwards into infinity.

Black text on the right of the image reads as follows:

He was Spamton's producer, too, but also a friend. He and Spamton would chat over the phone about conspiracies nobody else would listen to them about. Mike was the only one who knew about the mysterious entity helping Spamton.

Now, with the creation of a new dark fountain, Spamton won't be the only one Mike's contacting over the phone...

Now that Kris's home phone is in a dark world as well, attempting to call it no longer results in nothing but garbage noise. By using the cell phone, the secret boss quest of Chapter 3 is initiated as Mike guides you along the path to acquire the Shadow Mantle.

I don't know where the shadow mantle is yet

Image 3: Large black text at the top in all caps reads "Mike's hiding place."

Black text below it reads, "The reason nobody has ever found Mike? He's out of bounds. In a "Room between." Without some kind of hint, you wouldn't even know this place exists. The only other one who knows about it is Spamton. He now hosts a conspiracy radio show for likeminded individuals on a secret frequency only those "in the know" can know.

It's 66.6. (The words "It's 66.6" are in parentheses.) Other than that, he only communicates in-person in secret locations or via the phone, as those are the only things Tenna can't track. You meet up with mike here to get an item necessary for acquiring the Shadow Mantle. A key or something I dunno. Before you leave, he will tell you that he saw someone over to the right who wanted to see you."

Below this text is a drawing of Mike's Hideout. It is a circular room located within an empty black void with a pale yellow floor and a path leading downward, off the screen. In the center of the room there is an orange circular carpet with a pale yellow heart in the middle. A crude drawing of Mike sits at the northwest end of the room on a chair similar to Chairiel, giving a peace sign.

To his right, there are three TV screens in a disparity of sizes, aligned as if they were attached to a wall. Their frames are a pale brown and their screens display only static. Beneath them, there is a console of some kind, of the same pale brown, covered in buttons, knobs and levers.

To Mike's left, there is a deep brown table with a pot of golden flowers and a lamp on top of it.

Above Mike's left hand is a white telephone, its cord spiraling endlessly into the sky. To the right of this room, the tree from the egg room has been photoshopped into the black void.

/End ID.]

#deltarune #mike deltarune #my deltarune take

[faecorelifestyle]

From Afro-Vegan by Bryant Terry

#fairycore #cottagecore #grandmacore #vegan #baking #cake #bundt cake

[popculturelib]

In honor of Juneteenth, we are featuring four books in our collection by queer Black and African authors. Descriptions of the books are below the read more.

Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction (2016) ed. by S. Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle.

Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happy Ever Afters (2022) ed. by Jessica P. Pryde

The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative (2011) ed. by Sandra Jackson and Julie E. Moody-Freeman

Meanwhile: Graphic Short Stories about Everyday Queer Life in Southern and East Africa (2019) by the Qintu Collab

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

Lez Talk

A necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes over looks Black lesbian Writing, Lez Talk is a collection of short stories that embraces the fullness of Black lesbian experiences. The contributors operate under the assumption that "lesbian" is not a dirty word, and have written stories that amplify the diversity of Black lesbian lives. At once provocative, emotional, adventurous, and celebratory, Lez Talk crosses a range of fictional genres, including romance, speculative, and humor. The writers explore new subjects and aspects of their experiences, and affirm their gifts as writers and lesbian women.

Black Love Matters

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased in entertainment media. In this collection, revered authors and sparkling newcomers, librarians and academicians, and avid readers and reviewers consider the mirrors and windows into Black love as it is depicted in the novels, television shows, and films that have shaped their own stories. Whether personal reflection or cultural commentary, these essays delve into Black love now and in the past, including topics from the history of Black romance to social justice and the Black community to the meaning of desire and desirability. Exploring the multifaceted ways love is seen--and the ways it isn't--this diverse array of Black voices collectively shines a light on the power of crafting happy endings for Black lovers. Jessica Pryde is joined by Carole V. Bell, Sarah Hannah Gomez, Jasmine Guillory, Da'Shaun Harrison, Margo Hendricks, Adriana Herrera, Piper Huguley, Kosoko Jackson, Nicole M. Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Christina C. Jones, Julie Moody-Freeman, and Allie Parker in this collection.

The Black Imagination

This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Nalo Hopkinson through the lens of ecofeminist veganism, post-9/11 racial geopolitics, and the effect of the computer database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as speculative fiction by examining for the first time the vampire tropes present in Audre Lorde’s poetry, and by tracing her influence on the horror fiction of Jewelle Gomez. The collection moves beyond exploration of literary fiction to study the Afro-futurist representations of Blacks in comic books, in the Star Trek franchise, in African films, and in blockbuster films like Independence Day, I Robot, and I Am Legend.

Meanwhile

The lived realities of young queer people in African contexts are not well documented. On the one hand, homophobic political discourse tends to portray queer people as 'deviant' and 'unAfrican', and on the other, public health research and advocacy often portrays them as victims of violence and HIV. Of course, young queer lives are far more diverse, rich and complex. For this reason, the Qintu Collab was formed to allow young queer people from a few African countries to come together, share experiences and create context-specific, queer-positive media that documents relatable stories about and for queer African youth. We see this as a necessary step in developing a complex archive of queer African life, whilst also personalising queer experiences and challenging prejudicial stereotypes. The Collab is made up of eighteen queer youth from Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, two academics, three artists and a journalist. We first worked in small groups in each country through a range of creative participatory methods that focused on personal reflection and story-telling. Young people created personal timelines, and made visual maps of their bodies, relationships, and spaces. We then had group discussions about themes that emerged to help decide what to include in the comic works. At the end of 2018, we all came together in Nairobi, Kenya, for a week to collaborate on this comic book, and a set of podcasts on similar topics. We worked through various ways of telling stories, and developed significant themes, including family, religion and spirituality, social and online queer spaces, sex, and romantic relationships. Each young person created a script and laid out the scenes for a comic that told a short story from their lives. They then worked one-on-one with an artist to finesse those ideas into a workable comic, and the artists thereafter developed each story through multiple rounds of feedback from the story's creator and the rest of the group

#bgsu #pride month #queer history #juneteenth

[divinegoddess1177]

Hello fam..gods & goddesses eye am going to reintroduce myself, and my likes, interests..

About me…My name is biaca but I prefer to be called divine goddess 40 yrs of age..mum of 1..Atlanta, ga is where am from born and raised..eye am seeking to attract my soul forever love..they has to be spiritually loves too going down the rabbit hole and fuk up this matrix someone that wants to build love nature, into crystals, stones, loves to burn incense, palo santo, candles, work with healing herbs, loves too manifest, someone who’s into their chakras, soul molo, r&b, slow jams, afro, jamaican, music, someone with a good sense of humor…and a little freaky, love learning about different cultures, and tarot cards astronomy, astrology, palmistry and so much more. eye am so here to attract my tribe family as well and build a spiritual community like spiritually schools for our kids, spiritually black businesses, spiritually retreat centers, meditation, yoga.. definitely someone thats on the same frequency as me and very urban with the hippie style, organic, plant based, vegan eater.❤️🖤💚📚👁️Asé 𓋹𓂀

Drop your ankh 𓋹 down in the comments if you like to know more about me and I’ll hit your inbox!😘

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Two trailblazing trans women have been elected to the National Congress of Brazil

On Sunday, Duda Salabert left her home in Belo Horizonte – the capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais – and went to vote wearing a bulletproof vest. A few hours later, she was elected as the congresswoman for her district by a landslide.

In São Paulo, Erika Hilton experienced something similar. Together, they are the first trans women in Brazilian history to be elected as federal deputies. They will face a hostile environment: after the general elections last weekend, the National Congress is more socially conservative than ever.

While Salabert and Hilton are pioneers at the federal level, they are not new to politics. After spending much of their lives as activists, they have been popular city councilors for the past two years. In addition to having been a municipal politician, Salabert was also a Portuguese teacher at one of the best schools in Belo Horizonte. She was dismissed from her job last year, she claims, because of parental pressure and constant verbal threats. Despite this, however, her career in politics has gone beyond the fight against transphobia.

Salabert – who uses her social media platforms to talk about politics and share vegan food recipes – has put the environment at the front-and-center of her platform. When she was elected councilor, she promised to plant 37,000 trees – one for each vote received. In the recent federal elections, she boasted of running the first “carbon-free” campaign in history, without using pamphlets, flags or stickers. Her proposals include reducing the use of pesticides and diversifying the economy away from natural resource extraction.

The death threats that Salabert and Hilton consistently receive, though, have nothing to do with their policies. They are attacked online and in-person almost exclusively because they are trans women. Hilton, who is Afro-Brazilian, has also faced racial discrimination, in addition to transphobia.

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A Worldwide Afro Diaspora Dance Party and Live Music Experience with DJ & Producer Pudgemental, Zacchae'us Paul & Friends

About this event: October 12th

The Jungle is a is an Afro Diaspora Dance Party and Live Music Experience led and curated by DJ & Producer @pudgemental and Jazz Musician @iamzacchaeuspaul & friends to bring you a vibe like no other at @friendsandloversbk 💫 Enjoy Gourmet Caribbean Eats and Doubles by @kitankin!

The Jungle is collaboration of DJ, musicians, and artists to bring you a stimulating sonic experience of art and inspiration across the African Diaspora. Musicians, foodies, crate diggers, dancers, lovers, & friends, Welcome to The Jungle 🌴

Tickets

General Admission - $10

All Inclusive Ticket - $15 (grant admission and 1 OG Double from Kit an' Kin)

Food

Enjoy Caribbean eats by Kit an' Kin. Doubles are Trinidad's favorite street food - two fluffy fried bara (flatbread) with curried chickpea, chutneys, and sauces (vegan, too!)

#thejunglebk #brooklyn #jungle #brooklyn #love

The Jungle is a place to come celebrate the Sonic and Culinary contributions of the Diaspora. The Jungle is beautiful and sexy vibes, embracing liberation with great music. Come Dance, Come Eat, Come Chill!

Door $10 for entry.

Food + Admission $15

The Jungle Wednesdays

[sallymew4]

hiii here are some doodlessss ignore the minor grammar mistake on that one bit lol

i finally drew Lefty so im gonna dump some headcanons here [along with some Pippit and Wolfie headcanons hehe]

ok so Lefty is afro-czech, in its 20s probs, genderqueer, and uses it/its pronouns. it shows its love and feelings through flowers because its really knowledgeable on em, and uses asl because of apraxia causing its muteness. also i believe in vegan Lefty that is so real

Pippit is albino chinese [like Puppet cuz of the copy thing], demigender, cupioromantic, and uses they/them pronouns, has parkinson's disease and sialorrhea. the malformation of their eyes, however, is completely from their father's [FT. Freddy] meddling. also, im unsure what the exact name is but they use the canes that attach to your wrist to help support you !! also also, i headcanon them as like 17 because their arc is kinda teen angst and stuff lol

Lefty sibling adopts Pippit because it can relate to them a lot but Pippit has no clue lol

Wolfie [tw for gore, in relation to the image, maybe ?? its not very realistic though so idk] is brazilian with vitiligo, nonbinary [ok with terms like 'son' though, canonically 16 im pretty sure, and uses he/him pronouns. he used magic for his top surgery cuz i think the idea is neat. also autism and adhd mwahaha

also technically Wolfie and Pippit are step-siblings given they are both FT. Freddy's 'children'. split by timelines, how sad

sorry for not drawing Wolfie's wings btw i was not in the mood :¬(

#the oddities roleplay #tor #minecraft fnaf #mc fnaf #tor puppet #mc fnaf twisted wolf #tor lefty #tor pippit

[pallas-cat]

i just bought the afro vegan cookbook by bryant terry and if i ever successfully make that po'boy i will be insufferable and it will be the only thing i evet eat

#the recipes look SO GOOD but i need to freshen up my pantry #the vegan soul kitchek cookbook is tempting me too

[hedoughnism]

The thing about Cultural Relativism, is that it’s not some belief that Anthropologists and Sociologists believe because it is the Objective Truth and because they are experts in different human societies this one of many things about it they know, It is Fundamentally necessary for Anthropology and Sociology as meaningful scientific fields.

Science is concerned with “ is” what are the facts about the material world? What is true? What can be tested? Question of Morality, or even of things being “ better” or “ worse” , is philosophy or personal preference, not science

It’s not Just that Anthropology has an incredibly racist history based in colonialism and the field has gradually moved away from that as the researchers learned more about the other cultures, embracing cultural relativism was crucial for them to be able to consistently make meaningful findings, and conduct meaningful research, in the first place.

But that doesn’t mean cultural relativism is some objective truth, despite certain people in anthropological or sociological fields presenting it as such to the general public, to dunk on racists, or to make a show of how much anthropology has progressed from its racist origins. To fully internalize and embrace Cultural Relativism is to reject morality as existing entirely.

I think Anthropology as a distinct field is ultimately doomed, the main distinction between it and Sociology/psychology , is wether it’s being looked at from an outsider or insider perspective, ( or I guess a WEIRD vs everyone else perspective, if you buy into that distinction) , and both because you are going to see more researchers coming from indigenous/developing countries/ racial minority backgrounds, and because cultures continue to fuse nationally and internationally, the division is going to be seem increasingly silly and artificial.

Playing the cultural relativism card is going to seem increasingly silly further in the future, as society becomes more and more integrated, Just like how most of us Americans feel fine making fun of of southern Evangelical or Mormon culture even if not of that background.

Some assorted things I saw that inspired this

- Reditters from finland defending The Confederate Flag as Not Racist because “ it has a different meaning in our culture” ( a bunch of America-boos have grabbed onto it like a-bunch of the other worse parts of american culture as an aesthetic quasi-non political but not really thing)

- the perennial discussion on veganism and indigenous people, as well as the discussions about who qualifies as “ Indigenous” in Afro-Eurasia, and how it is biased towards nomadic-pastoralists and hunter-gatherers over subsistence farmers, in a way that reminds me of the Anglo-sphere’s heavy romanticization ( and subsidization of) sheep and cattle herders, also the discussion of disabled or queer rights in minority communities

- A video I saw by some British conservationists working in Brazil, where they paused discussing their activity and started talking about how Rainforest Conservation is often a “ Bourgeois attitude” of wealthy people telling poor people in other countries to solve big problems while they struggle to survive. I stopped watching immediately, this is an insane attitude to have when talking about a country with a higher GDP per capita than multiple European countries, especially when the people benefiting the most from the expansion of cattle ranching and soybean farming are a small minority of wealthy rural disproportionately white landowners, who taking the land of and killing indigenous people( as well as biologist/environmentalist allies) , clear indication you don’t know what you’re talking about, save that patronizing attitude for the DRC or something.