So much life happened the last few days, but this was one of the only pictures I took. A camper dragged her feet in front of the dining hall to etch my name into the gravel before I left. I’ll always remember the kids, the beach, the redwood trees, and all of the vastly interesting people camp brought together. Camp was an amazing chapter of life I’ll never love less, but it’s time to start the next one. I 💗 you, Camp Phoenix.
Jul 06 2016
Laying out like a monk seal, sand all up in all the places, tangled beach knot hair. Happy place. Thanks, San Diego.
Jun 15 2016
Two of our ten butterflies that we hatched in class died. So they wanted to have a service for them in the garden.
This week, I’ve worn a football jersey with my last name on it, a giraffe onesie, and a cupcake on my head to school. Spirit Week lets me be my inner fool. Haha.
Damn this hit me hard , I needed this talk as a little girl. s/o to her mom for destroying the self hate in such a great way
This shit almost made me cry lol
Love this
You know I always think about how I’m gonna address this problem with my kids especially my daughters. I know if someone sat me down and told me things like that at that age it would had spared me so much trouble. The way she handled it was perfect especially because its not the easiest talk to have. I love this ❤
Crying cuz it’s unbelievable we have to tell our kids this and at such a young age they are perceptive of anti-Blackness
I’ve reblogged this before and I will probably continue to reblog it every time I see it. This woman is such a good mommy. Not only did she explain to her daughter in clear and digestible way why she was beautiful and worthy but she smashed down the tantrum without talking over her daughter. She gave her the opportunity to speak in a way that made her feel respected and responded in kind. Her daughter left this conversation with her self esteem intact and a whole new take on how she feels about her skin. Good job, mommy.
Jesus Christ, I teared up. What an amazing mother, she even got her to realize her friend was brown and beautiful too.
it hits home how hard we have to work for our little girls to know they're’re beautiful because the media doesn't do it for us, visual representation is everything. paint every cartoon black, every princess black if you have to, let them know they’re amazing and important.
White people don’t go through this, and they think racism, the whole system, is something you can just get over. “Oh don’t hate white ppl that’s bad” but bitch my daughter hates herself because of you fuck outta here
i fucken loved this
i cried I cant even lie to you!
weeping
Embrace it booboo!!!
Shit made me cry
Always rb
My goodness. That got to me. Every time I see someone handle this situation with such expertise I take note because I’m going to have dark skin brown kids and I KNOW I will have to have this talk with them.
