As a Black woman and activist, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what happens to us as we get older or sick. Then @sassycrass.bsky.socialblackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/h...

Hidden Black women and their greatness, often unrecognized until death—if even then | Shay Stewart-Bouley

“Unfortunately, she exists in a long tradition of Black activist women who die impoverished, who die sick and alone and scared, because we love an activist until they need something.” – Mikki Kendall ...

Thank you for sharing this. It’s important to remember this.As an old woman myself,I wonder at least weekly if it’s worth all I’ve seen and been through myself.And it seems it’s mostly at night as well that these thoughts 💭 come.I’m mixed but look white.So I recognize it is not the same.Only similar

In my latest piece, I mentioned Barbara Smith. The Barbara Smith of the Combahee River Collective and how a people's pension was created to assist her as an elder. There's actually a Patreon to assist, I'm a supporter. Her people reached out to say they've seen an uptick in support due to my post.