As I’m sure is true for many, many, many people, Tina Turner’s life story has been a source of strength and inspiration to me, ever since I learnt about it.

As Michelle Yeoh said in her Oscar acceptance speech: Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.

How the Word Is Passed is one of the most important books I’ll get to read in this life. I’m looking forward to more of Clint Smith’s work: written with so much heart in such magically beautiful English, cutting right through the bullsh*t, all the way to the bone.

I didn’t have the luxury of pretending it didn’t happen just because it made me uncomfortable.

Guess who made her parents stop using the German equivalent of the n-word at 11 years old? This one right here. If it made them uncomfortable, I certainly didn’t care.

Right? It just hurts. Whatever the eff happened to de-escalation training? How is it even possible that in a so-called “civilised”, “democratic” country this should not be the first choice of action? - Oh. Of course. Fucking guns everywhere.

Holding one’s wedding reception at a former concentration camp isn’t a thing in former Nazi countries, for example (I’m Austrian). I would not for the life of me want to celebrate at an “antebellum” estate, either. Because who built that house again, and under what conditions? - Exactly. Takes the joy right out of it,…

There... there were slave cabin rentals????

I’m 100% with you. Haters gonna hate, and God knows right wingers love to hate. For those amongst us walking around in human skin with an actual heart underneath: one woman is free after her ordeal. Would it be better if everybody deserving of freedom had it? Hell, yes. This is still one more human being who has been…

Yup, fuck him. Some things, you cannot atone for.

TRANS IMMIGRANTS, NO LESS!

People also don’t seem to understand that tax evasion and misuse of government funds cause plenty of deaths in a circumventory way.

I highly doubt that those who were outraged by Roe being overturned, voted Red. Them’s the “apolitical” ones, the “Christian” ones, and/or the full-blown cultish ones who let their husband tell them what to do, including how to vote.

It forever breaks my heart that Whitney Houston sang the lyrics of The Greatest Love of All, which has helped me power through on more than one occasion, only for her to never reach that precious place for herself. Whitney deserved better. Bobbi Kristina deserved better.

Someone who will jump at any opportunity to “get one over”, i.e. hurt a Black person. A hateful, racist, misogynistic POS.

Narcissism is a hell of a drug.

Is it yet another glorified screen bio about a rapist? - Yes, it is. Is this part of what we call rape culture? - Yes, it is.

Beautiful.

I think that asking artists not to put out content that is bound to hurt people is not censorship but freaking basic human decency. It’s an extension of asking the hoi polloi to refrain from using racist/ableist/misogynistic language.