Applications for the 2024 Granum Prizes open May 1! A $5K Prize will be awarded to a writer to support the completion of a poetry, fiction, or nonfiction manuscript. A $1,500+ Translation Prize will be awarded to support a work of translation. Read more: granumfoundation.org/granum-prize.

The fact that Pilates was rebranded into a workout for healthy/wealthy yt women is...

Joseph Pilates created Pilates in a prison for sick prisoners. AND it was his understudy, Kathy Stanford Grant (a black woman) that refined it. She was an acclaimed choreographer.

When I visit schools, the most common question children ask me is “What’s your favorite picture book?” My answer, without hesitation, is always Tar Beach. Rest well, Faith Ringgold 💐

United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.

“Our Blackness and our womanness are not in themselves trustworthy if we allow ourselves to be conscripted into positions of power that maintain the oppressive status quo.”

When I was a kid I thought Will Smith was the coolest black dude there ever was

We’re less than a week away from our Design Gym opening on Wednesday, April 17th, and sooo excited to share our upcoming Design Gym classes, beginning on April 29th 🎉

Which of these classes speaks to you?

white people will invade and destabilize your countries for decades, fund genocidal apartheid states, and then call your people 'hostile and insane' for the fallout of the mess they created

queer southern writers, this one is for you!

How do we complicate the “southern-ness” of antiqueer violence, familial rejection, and narratives of escape to the northern metropole and other diasporas? How is the “queer South” complicated by the larger South?

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I just saw a TikTok that basically said women don’t have maternity leave in America because companies like Nestle lobby against those laws cause their profits for baby formula would tank as mothers would be home to breastfeed their kids 😬

I need more raps about displeasure about infrastructure. Gimme diss songs to the transit director because the bus route don't go by your granny senior building. Beef with the school superintendent because they the same math books you had. Gimme MORE

In the 1960s & 1970s in the absence of mainstream publishers many Black voices would never have been heard if not for small independent African American publishers. How do we keep the work alive now that the publishers and poets themselves are passing on?

chappell roan being a lesbian icon for 46 seconds ✨ straight ✨

this flipped a switch in my head

“Here come Angela Davis.” YEAH HERE I GO

Good morning lesbians-- what's your villian origin story and why is it a situationship or that one ex-bestfriend?

people have rediscovered my article about Kendrick's 'Auntie Diaries' & are sending weird messages thru my website! fun!

if u are not a bigot & wanna read an actual trans person's take on cis male rappers covering trans issues, check me out💋
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Her granddaughter is crowdfunding to finish a documentary on her excellence too: gofundme.com/f/help-country…

Courtesy of @igototherapy on IG.