HI, today is Tuesday and I am supposed to do link roundups on Tuesdays and Thursdays while Nicole is gone. I forgot to do it this morning because yesterday was a holiday, so here it is now. Sorry!!!
I feel like I have to link to the old lady who lives without men, even though you’ve all probably read about her at this point.
The old lady I REALLY want to talk about, though, is the old lady who lives on a dang cruise ship and sails around the world with her bags of money and her perfect life:
“When my children were all young, I took them on cruises many times. Now they have families of their own and do what’s right for them.
“The day before my husband died of cancer in 1997, he told me, ‘Don’t stop cruising.’ So here I am today living a stress-free, fairy-tale life.”
She estimates living the good life on the Serenity this year will cost her $164,000. That’ll cover costs of her single-occupancy seventh deck stateroom, regular and specialty restaurant meals with available lunch and dinner beverages, gratuities, nightly ballroom dancing with dance hosts and Broadway-caliber entertainment — as well as the captain’s frequent cocktail parties, movies, lectures, plus other scheduled daily activities.
NEVER STOP CRUISING, CRUISE INTO THE AFTERLIFE YOU WONDERFUL OLD LADY
How To Leave Your Job Gracefully: A Step-By-Step Guide
From Afrolicious:
Would you rather your story be mistold or untold? Now that is a difficult question when you are western facing, when you approach foreign-to-you struggles with the same language, lens, power, with which you approach domestic struggles. They are the same and they are different and it is the difference that will trip us up every time.
When we ask for western media to cover Baga, what we’re really asking them to do is to send their journalists, and the backing of their empire to a volatile region that has been disenfranchised by its local governances. We’re asking a force that doesn’t recognize Black humanity to please, please, please, see Blackness because we’re incapable of doing it ourselves. We’re not asking for resilient communities, secure families, or restored lands. We’re removing agency from local organizers because we simply can’t see them. We’re moving with the force of an empire that demands to know even if knowing may not be its right.
If we truly want justice for the innumerable Black human lives wasted at the hands of terror, we must question our right to exact said justice, and entrust the work of justice to those who are closest to it.
For my Nigerians in diaspora and at home, we do not need anti-black western media to shame us into fighting for justice. Nigeria’s responsibility for its citizens cannot be emphasized enough. Not one Nigerian outlet reported the Baga deaths as breaking news, a testament to the Nigerian democracy. From my personal experience, numbers from these tragedies are always off, tending towards the greater. 2000 dead. 250 abducted. Convenient numbers for context-less coverage. Unfortunately, even my Nigerian-based sources are too far south to give verifiable reports, so I have no way of discerning what to consider as truth or almost-truth.
Whichever part of the world we find ourselves, we have to keep organizing, keep pressuring our aging governments to change, to at least see its Black citizens as humans worthy of being defended, of being grieved, of being protected. We have to map our power across time, space, and borders, and prepare our machetes to do the work. We’ll find power is volatile just as it is predictable. When we recognize the imperative for a just and free Nigeria lies with us, we have no excuse but to move accordingly.
well this was just straight up heartwarming
Inkoo Kang reviewed The Nightly Show and I’m pretty jazzed to see it.
Everything’s real bad, sounds like
sorry dudes
