How has the Black Chicago accent retained its Southern roots? There’s a Southern twang in the Black Chicago accent, even though many Black Chicagoans are generations removed from the South.

How has the Black Chicago accent retained its Southern roots? www.wbez.org/curious-city...

I don't want my worth celebrated by how much I provide for others. I want to be acknowledged first & foremost as a decent human being. I say decent because good is subjective & there is no such thing as perfect. We are all flawed, even you. Yes, you are. Keep going anyway.

a man in an orange sweater says no in a yellow sticker Alt: prince wearing an orange sweater and saying "no!"

i can't believe it's been 10 years already. 🥺

#dammitashley

me: your kid is 18. you have an adult. how did this happen?😭

friend: technically *we* have an adult because you've been around the whole time.

me:...SHIT. you're right. 🤦🏿‍♀️

friend: how many other kids have you watched grow up & become adults?

me: please respect my privacy at this time tysm 🥹

having a nightcap & some aunties are discussing buying (more) land because their fathers taught them to always try to have some land in their names.

there are so many of us who received similar advice but couldn't/can't act on it for various reasons. i'm not hating but i'm definitely side-eyeing.🙄

the number of things i've had to say no to because i was already booked and busy is ridiculous but i kinda love it for me 😫😂

there are some connections with all of these productions that i hope i'll be able to process once my brain cooperates. in the meantime, though, i might've underestimated just how much all of this would affect me emotionally.

it's fine. i'm fine. everything is fine. 🥲

saw ma rainey's black bottom at goodman a couple of weeks ago. saw windfall, which is in its world premiere at steppenwolf, wednesday night. seeing safronia, which is in its world premiere at lyric opera, tonight. seeing alvin ailey dance theater at the auditorium next week.

yes! i'll send you some dates before the month is out

Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón

shouts to the mca for putting together a playlist for their new "dancing the revolution" exhibit. i haven't seen it yet but it's definitely on my list 💃🏿

open.spotify.com/playlist/4kS...

lord, we see what you've done for others...

the pope? he's going after the pope? the only catholic thing about me is my first name, but it's forever and always #allchicagoeverything over here and if it wasn't already on sight for that orange fucknugget, this would do it.

a 375ml bottle of a limited release passion fruit margarita made with hornitos by on the rocks

science juice! this ready-to-drink passion fruit margarita is dangerously smooth; tastes like juice until the booze kicks in towards the end. purchased at the jewels a couple two tree weeks ago.

the label says "4+ cocktails" & i wonder how they measured, b/c this is usually two cocktails for me 😂

a different doggo waved at me and @tatispumati.bsky.social from a rear window and the driver was definitely amused when we both said hi, lol

to the driver with a rear window cracked open so their corgi could hang out of it while wearing sunglasses: i hope you and your doggo have a great day.

i was too young to read seventeen as a 12 year old. as my father put it: "when they make a magazine called twelve, you can read that."

but sassy (iykyk) was somehow ok? go figure. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Black Professor Sews Quilt Honoring Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer J. Janice Coleman, an English professor at Alcorn State University, has sewn several quilts honoring Black women, including one of Toni Morrison.

newsone.com/6855006/blac...

a bag of nacho cheese flavored protein doritos

lolwut

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

performing capitalism is challenging enough on any given day, but today in particular? we are not ok.

i had a really nice weekend and managed to fall asleep before 1am for the first time in a week, so i knew today was gonna be some bullshit. i didn't think the sky would have me cussing them out first thing in the morning, though. nice things? what are those? 😡😭

Never Shop The Same | “It’s All Coming Back To Me” (full) YouTube video by HomeGoods

no because it really was though!

youtu.be/r9qxiVYt0PU?...

there's a homegoods commercial using celine's "it's all coming back to me now" and if that isn't tailor-made for me and @tatispumati.bsky.social, then i dunno what is 🤣

"yeah, aight. anyway..."

this gif is sending me 😂

them: ugh, i'm sick of seeing these kids in the streets all the time

me: where else are they gonna go?

them: well, we had (insert 5011 third spaces here)

me: cool story, but where are these kids gonna go since those places either don't exist or are so hostile that they might as well not exist?

happy (first/easter/resurrection) sunday, y'all.

congratulations! 😍

@schwarziest.bsky.social happy birthday! i'm sorry your illini lost, but hopefully this means your other wish comes true sooner rather than later.