Ursula K. LeGume
@whatevertron.blacksky.app
I'm on here more now and I'm not Canadian. Illustrator, They/them
Pinned
Welp: My name is Ayo, and I was one of the 350,000+ Black women and femmes ✨laid off✨ in 2025! I'm a ✨freelance✨ illustrator for hire now, and my work can be found at ayojoy.com
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Hanging this on my door so people know I'm an AI free household
Dragon Ball Z Future Trunks Hallmark Ornament is $12.49 on Amazon buff.ly/GmdbUo3
December 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hanging this on my door so people know I'm an AI free household
OH AND ALSO RUMIKO TAKAHASHI ok I'm done now (this is a lie, I'm never done)
December 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
OH AND ALSO RUMIKO TAKAHASHI ok I'm done now (this is a lie, I'm never done)
Janelle Monáe doesn't technically count but JANELLE MONÁE
Name a woman you consider a genius
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Janelle Monáe doesn't technically count but JANELLE MONÁE
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Name a woman you consider a genius
December 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Thinking back to the times when I would read horror novels to the internet and just stopped reading male authors (because they sucked so, so, badly at it by comparison to their female counterparts)
🗣️THE PEN IS THE DOMAIN OF WOMEN
December 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Thinking back to the times when I would read horror novels to the internet and just stopped reading male authors (because they sucked so, so, badly at it by comparison to their female counterparts)
This responses to this are filling me with joy
Name a woman you consider a genius
December 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This responses to this are filling me with joy
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Once a hidden figure.
December 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Once a hidden figure.
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Reminder that New Years is in spring 🌺
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reminder that New Years is in spring 🌺
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Right.. cuz i’ve heard way more arguments for Kanye being a musical genius than i ever have for Missy Elliot and i feel like that’s crazy
Agreed. But also? A lot of the ppl who call Kanye genius would never call Mariah Carey a genius. And they likely don’t know who Twinkie Clark is. Some only know about Nina Simone because Kanye sampled her. The concept of intelligence, and therefore genius, is gendered and racialized.
PSA: Kanye West is not a musical genius
Stevie Wonder is a musical genius! They aren’t on the same level at all.
Stevie Wonder is a musical genius! They aren’t on the same level at all.
December 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Right.. cuz i’ve heard way more arguments for Kanye being a musical genius than i ever have for Missy Elliot and i feel like that’s crazy
Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, Ursula K. LeGuin, Sheri S. Tepper and Shirley Jackson. Also Janet Jackson, and Leikeki47, and Doechii, and
Name a woman you consider a genius
December 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Toni Morrison, Mary Shelley, Ursula K. LeGuin, Sheri S. Tepper and Shirley Jackson. Also Janet Jackson, and Leikeki47, and Doechii, and
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And if Black women didn't want to work for white women as the domestic help? If they wanted to take care of their own kids instead of white ones? They'd imprison them :))
And, this isn’t a dunk, but I have to point out this is very particular to white women because Black women have always been expected to work.
It's also sort of funny that the argument here is basically "corporate jobs aren't fulfilling" but it's framed as if that's only true for women and specifically because of baby-raising and not just the reality of the workplace
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
And if Black women didn't want to work for white women as the domestic help? If they wanted to take care of their own kids instead of white ones? They'd imprison them :))
Hello!
One of the lasting impacts of William Buckley getting dog walked by James Baldwin in the Cambridge debate in 1965 was that racial conservatism decided it was easier to dismiss Black ideas because they couldn't win the argument.
December 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hello!
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This is very clearly illustrated by political discussions of working class and middle class voters alongside Black voters as if these are mutually exclusive categories
White folks in the comments and quotes see it stated as clearly as this and still aren't getting it.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Issue is people really want to pretend that racism is just color-swapped classism and it’s definitely an element but that ain’t it.
December 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is very clearly illustrated by political discussions of working class and middle class voters alongside Black voters as if these are mutually exclusive categories
And because capitalism is the only part of this colonialism that meaningfully effects white people, capitalism is all they'll ever let the rest of us talk about
White folks in the comments and quotes see it stated as clearly as this and still aren't getting it.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Issue is people really want to pretend that racism is just color-swapped classism and it’s definitely an element but that ain’t it.
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
And because capitalism is the only part of this colonialism that meaningfully effects white people, capitalism is all they'll ever let the rest of us talk about
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White folks in the comments and quotes see it stated as clearly as this and still aren't getting it.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Issue is people really want to pretend that racism is just color-swapped classism and it’s definitely an element but that ain’t it.
December 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
White folks in the comments and quotes see it stated as clearly as this and still aren't getting it.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Racism was the purposeful, deliberate invention of a classification of man that designated SUBspecies - rendering nonwhite people outside of class entirely.
This was necessary for colonialism.
Racism is a nigh inescapable caste system in a way that class has never been in the u.s
Issue is people really want to pretend that racism is just color-swapped classism and it’s definitely an element but that ain’t it.
December 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Racism is a nigh inescapable caste system in a way that class has never been in the u.s
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Canada is hot trash to be a Black American in, I'm not even gone hold you. There is legit no racial cultural cohesion there for us at all, at least not in fuckshit ass toronto
I am thinking about moving to Canada so that I can stay close to my family in the us and take them out of there and give them shelter when things go bad. I am also deaf and communicate using American Sign Language, which Canada recognizes. But I kept hearing all the racism towards Black folks there.
December 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Canada is hot trash to be a Black American in, I'm not even gone hold you. There is legit no racial cultural cohesion there for us at all, at least not in fuckshit ass toronto
You know what. Lemme just
December 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You know what. Lemme just
I just really like kesha idc
December 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I just really like kesha idc
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The current play is to insist we ignore this obvious dynamic in the name of “class consciousness.”
December 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The current play is to insist we ignore this obvious dynamic in the name of “class consciousness.”
Oprah-doing-that-hand-motion dot gif
December 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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*Smiles in Chicago Flag Supremacy*
All the NYC flags are TOO COMPLICATED. LESS IS MORE, 19th and early 20th century designers!
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Flags of New York City - Wikipedia
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December 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
*Smiles in Chicago Flag Supremacy*
Being a voice actor would be sf cool. Is that still a thing that people can get jobs in
December 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Being a voice actor would be sf cool. Is that still a thing that people can get jobs in
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Yes,It was for their own good.. ✨💕
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December 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yes,It was for their own good.. ✨💕
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