If you want music that’s better than Shania Twain to listen to, Dom Flemons dropped his album Black Cowboys today. It’s a historic look at black cowboys and western culture. Fun fact: the inspiration for The Lone Ranger was black:

Oh, yeah. I remember that. Back when she was just coming up in the mid-90s, she really played up her stepfather’s First Nations ancestry, which was the apparent source of her stage name. I never heard anything about that afterwards. I wonder what, if anything, she’s done in the years since to help First Nations/Native…

A lot (most?) bisexual folks don’t subscribe to a binarizing definition like that, and instead define bisexuality as “attracted to my gender and other genders.”

Just because that is the only song of his you know does not mean he is not famous...

Sadly there are plenty of other people - including black women - that are more than okay with viewing these girls and women as, at best, willing participants and at worst sluts and gold diggers.

His victims are mainly Black women and girls, so the national media didn’t have much interest. They don’t even care when we’re murdered. It has taken Black women like Tarana Burke and others calling him out for them to take notice.

Ugh, I’m so sick of this being the butt of jokes for the last two decades. The girl he pissed on in that video was a minor, but the pissing is the big takeaway. Not directed at you, I will just be glad when this fuck starts being thought of as a criminal instead of just a joke.

It makes more sense if we consider cults like this extreme examples of things that happen everyday. I mean, there is a possibility that you might be in a cult. Consider for instance: there are companies out there that require people to work really long hours, deal with all manners of abusive behavior from their…

It really helps to victimize the kind of children and women about which dominant society cares little. That’ll get you pretty far even if you aren’t famous.

Identifying and targeting the victim.

Hm . . . what you say makes sense. Suddenly I am glad that I am a cold-hearted, paranoid bitch.

The the only thing that will redeem these people will be if they spill the tea to the cops and tell something that will get this man put in jail.

You and me both, pal. It is weird, bad garbage, and it stays with you.

I can’t decide which comment to go with— Do I commend these women for finally walking away from R Kelly’s employ, which may signal an impending end to his years unchecked sex abuse of women and girls?

That too! I got to go through that when I found out he was fucking a ton of other people and he told me I was a manipulative abuser like his mother was for being angry at him, and all I wanted to do was get in the way of his happiness.... FUCKING INSANE.

gaslighting can make someone doubt their own sanity (been there!)

Not that I’ve fallen prey to a cult, but in any manipulative situation- socially, work stuff, relationships - if you have a doubt in your head you say whats going on in the situation out loud. It helps you realize/clarify if something is ridiculous or stupid and can help others realize it too.

I can tell you this happens with grooming, trust-building, and time... Not the same exactly, but my ex husband very slowly groomed and manipulated me into some really dark shit that I can see now that I didn’t want any part of (Related to the sub/dom type shit). Our relationship started out completely normal and…

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