ADULTHOOD IS A S#!%SHOW
Love these renditions of Mona Lisa as a cool, glammed, gangster black woman. Alter ego Mona Leisha has officially stepped into the building. Clock it. You’re welcome, to anyone who just found their new hip decor. Which one would you display? Artist: Ebonic Embrace
“Whites thought Negroes were dumb because they didn’t let them say their piece—or didn’t listen when they did—but Haddock had been working alongside Negroes hi whole life, and any white man who underestimated one might end up with a bullet in his back. Negroes were talented pretenders.”
Via: Artsy
Artist: Adenuga John Opeyemi
“I could see books in front of me. I had read them secretly, but this time, in this fever dream, I was able to read without fear of being discovered. I had wondered every time I sneaked in there what white people would do to a slave who had learned how to read. What would they do to a slave who knew what a hypotenuse was, what irony meant, how retribution was spelled?”
Artist: Siphesihle Ntsungwana
“Nothing could have prepared me for what she said next. She said, ‘Miss Watson told Judge Thatcher that she was going to sell you to a man in New Orleans.’
‘What’s that mean?’ Lizzie asked. ‘Papa, what does that mean?’
I walked to the door and looked out.
‘Jim?’ Sadie said.
‘Papa?’
‘Did she say all of us or only me?’ I asked.
‘Just you Jim,’ she cried. ‘What are we going to do? They’re going to split us up and we won’t know where you are.’
They were going to rip my family apart and send me to New Orleans, where I would be even farther from freedom and would probably never see my family again.”
Photographer: Bre’Ann Whlgn
“Gore was bored, that much was clear. Despite the amenities and pleasures of the twenty-first century, he was bored. He had been handed a plush-lined life, with time to read, to pursue thoughts to their phantasmagoric end, to take in whole seasons at the British Film Institute, to walk for miles, to master sonatas, and paint to his heart’s content. He did not need to work, to exchange the sweat of his brow or freak of his mind for board and bed. And yet, he was bored of having no purpose.”
Artist: M.James Cooper
Like the rainbow
After the rain
Joy will reveal itself
After sorrow.
Artist: Toby D Photographer Insta
“I’m a black woman. I came from a black woman, who came from a black woman, who came from a black woman and I’m going to give birth to a black woman. It’s a no-brainer. That’s who I am. It’s the core of who I am in spirit and DNA. We are impeccable, we’re special, and the world is going to have to deal with that.” Artist: Amacie Forever
Artist: Cale Blee