🏟️ 𝙵𝙸𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝚅𝙴𝙽𝚄𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙽𝙵𝙸𝚁𝙼𝙴𝙳 🏟️

The stage is set... and it’s 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 that will host this year’s cup finals.

📍 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 – Saturday 16 August
📍 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 – Sunday 17 August

#ISC25 #NC25 #LoveCricket

Ending on this: Black womanhood is not a monolith. It’s survival, creativity, grief, joy, rage, resistance. It’s sweet and sharp. It’s silence and song. It’s all of it.
@vdotfdot.bsky.social #NC25

the quiet, the angry, the exhausted, the fed up. What these works give us is a blueprint: passing is not liberation. Presence is. Black women deserve to exist in their fullness—dark skin, loud voices, trauma, beauty, rage, softness, resistance. All of it.
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She’s light-skinned, desirable, and used to being seen through whiteness. But Simone doesn’t let her escape either. Desire comes with danger. Doechii flips the narrative completely in “Black Girl Memoir.” She owns the rage, the trauma, the volume. Her song doesn’t pass—it crashes through.
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“My skin is brown / my manner is tough”
Peaches can’t pass. She’s too visible, too angry, too unyielding. She’s the response to the silence that passing demands. In contrast, “Sweet Thing” in Simone’s song is the closest to Stella.
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In The Vanishing Half, Stella passes for white to escape the limitations of Blackness in America. But her passing doesn’t bring her freedom—it fractures her family, isolates her emotionally, and traps her in a performance she can’t escape.
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What does it mean to pass? And what gets left behind when you do? In this thread, I’m putting Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Nina Simone’s “Four Women,” and Doechii’s “Black Girl Memoir” in conversation to explore how Black women survive, shapeshift, and resist.
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Some workplaces banned them and even schools implemented certain policies, yet Kardashian recieved praise and trendsetter approval for those same looks. In 2018, Kardashian was credited by outlets for starting a “new” trend, despite Fulani braids being worn by Black women for centuries. #NC25

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#NC25 is nearly done! What a great day👏 🥐

not a prank: The new @NickelCreek album A Dotted Line, is out today! here: http://smarturl.it/nickelitunes #NC25 http://t.co/j1jtfl3iyd