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I really think transphobia is a poisonous brainrot as a unique type of hatred. It just takes over people & mangles their minds & it's like...what the fuck be going on in your brain that trans people live there rent free 24/7 & you have all these weird fantasies about them & ways you want them hurt?

"Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...

Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103 (Gift Article)

Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.

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This week, Grammy-winning singer SZA, née Solána Imani Rowe, shared that she had received a formal autism diagnosis. It may help more Black women and girls see themselves in a community that often overlooks them. https://bit.ly/4wyEgxP

SZA’s autism diagnosis is a familiar story for many autistic Black women

Black women and girls on the spectrum have long been under-diagnosed and overlooked. A diagnosis arrives late for many of them — or not at all.

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