Heads up for Maya Angelou night on #BBC4 starting at 9pm BST this evening.
Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspirational figures through an exploration of the BBC archives.
#LGBTQ#DEI#Women#VotingRights#SocialSecurity#Immigration Our very own #Democracy is at stake, and getting distracted by the War in Gaza being led by entitled anti- Biden rhetoric is designed to remove you from the real threats here in America and suppress your votes while leaving an opening for Trump and MAGA to slip right into the White House, Stay focused and vote with collective power understanding the long game not short term.
"Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.” #MayaAngelou
“I believe it was #MayaAngelou who said, ‘The only thing people are going to remember is how you make them feel.’ We want you to feel precious and priceless because you are significant and meaningful. … It’s important to validate and celebrate you,” said #CarlosSantana immediately after going on a #vile, #ignorant#antitrans rant.
Someone needs to put these crusty old boomer entertainers back on the shelf where they belong.
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.
--Maya Angelou
“Each time we redesign our currency, we have the chance to say something about our country.” Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary.
According to Pew Research Center, the gender pay gap has remained stable in the US over the past 20 years, with women earning 82% of what men earn. Can we not get complacent with putting women on coins, but actually do the work to pay women for their work? #FeministFriday#GenderPayGap#GenderEquality#MayaAngelou#JanetYellen#PewResearchCenter
Born, raised, lived in California over 50 years. I am leftist politically, Vegan because I feel it is wrong for me to exist by the harming of other sentient beings (positive side effect, a smaller carbon & water footprint). I am demisexual & dislike sexual references I filter NSFW, Kink & Lewd + (if I understand them). I read a lot & play board & table top roleplaying games. I am ASD, physical & mental health issues. Apatheist/Taoist, cPTSD
Added: I do not identify as transgender because in my life my gender has never changed, only my sex has changed. I was a girl when I was little and became a woman upon turning 18. I was forced to pretend to be male by society but I never have been.
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.” ― Emma Goldman, Living My Life
"I was sure that no one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integrity or the desire to free people in other lands" - Emma Goldman, Living My Life
"For the government to attempt to control thought, to prescribe certain opinions or proscribe others, is the height of despotism." - Alexander Berkman
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” - Maya Angelou
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou