Raven πŸ’‹'s Avatar

Raven πŸ’‹

@bornaraven

wannabe writer, avid reader, Black, woman, fat, Christian, me.

738
Followers
313
Following
452
Posts
08.07.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Raven πŸ’‹ @bornaraven

A wild nclecta staring nclectally

A wild nclecta staring nclectally

I believe it

19.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what Shafiqah (may she RIP) and Ra’il were warning us about over a decade ago. This is what started to show up more in 2016 and 2020 as general elections drew nearer. This is what got exposed on Twitter a couple months ago.

19.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
Cover of The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad. Snake winding around a songbird perched on a leafy branch. Square spiral surrounding them.

Cover of The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad. Snake winding around a songbird perched on a leafy branch. Square spiral surrounding them.

Cover of Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne. Black woman with an Afro in the foreground and Pinoy man in the background. Rendered in a pencil sketch. Bordered by flower sketches and sprinkled with splashes of red and purple.

Cover of Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne. Black woman with an Afro in the foreground and Pinoy man in the background. Rendered in a pencil sketch. Bordered by flower sketches and sprinkled with splashes of red and purple.

Cover of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. Profile of a Black woman with braids with a wavy pattern of aqua and coral, with intermittent computer chips throughout. Top says β€œTHE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING IS HERE.”

Cover of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. Profile of a Black woman with braids with a wavy pattern of aqua and coral, with intermittent computer chips throughout. Top says β€œTHE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING IS HERE.”

Cover of Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton. Backdrop of a dark body of water and a stormy cloudy sky. Black woman with shoulder length loose curly hair stares into the distance, holding a candle, her eyes glowing golden or amber.

Cover of Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton. Backdrop of a dark body of water and a stormy cloudy sky. Black woman with shoulder length loose curly hair stares into the distance, holding a candle, her eyes glowing golden or amber.

What I’m currently reading at this very moment.

You know… I can post what I’m reading.
I can post my book ratings.

But when it’s time to write these REVIEWS, chile? 🫠πŸ₯΄

Imma figure it out πŸ₯²πŸ˜‚ #books

19.02.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Common advice: If you want to be successful, make sure to carefully proofread your emails and speak in a professional manner.

Every single email from the richest people on the planet:
"jeffrey.. Thank u for crzy party. Loved the hotdoggs. Lets talk biznss ideas. Maybe make monies tgthr???"

04.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Doggies gonna dog πŸ₯°

05.02.2026 11:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with an hourslong swim after the family was swept out to sea off the coast of Australia.

04.02.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 99 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 22

Millions of documents are showing multiple well-known public figures associating themselves with him. Trying to minimize the impact of those associations is feeding into maintaining the oligarchy, not dismantling it

04.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Four artistic affirmation cards featuring Black women arranged on the ledge of a keyboard fashioned after a typewriter. Affirmations read, from left to right:

1) There is something in this world that only I can do. That is why I am here. 
2) I am here to share my gifts with the world. My voice is important. 
3) I release everything in my life that blocks my growth. 
4) I belong in any space I walk into. I know my worth.

Four artistic affirmation cards featuring Black women arranged on the ledge of a keyboard fashioned after a typewriter. Affirmations read, from left to right: 1) There is something in this world that only I can do. That is why I am here. 2) I am here to share my gifts with the world. My voice is important. 3) I release everything in my life that blocks my growth. 4) I belong in any space I walk into. I know my worth.

Scanned through my Queen Loany deck for some much needed encouragement/affirmation today.

And hydrating.

And tea sipping.

And stepping away to breathe/ground myself.

04.02.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My children. My niblings. Their friends. Neighborhood kids. Kids across the globe.

04.02.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Feb. 3, 1948 | Black Woman and Her Children Sentenced to Die for Defending Themselves Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.

03.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 451 πŸ” 228 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 30

Journalism doesn’t make TL β€˜s easy …but social media did

And all of the shock is this cutesy way of admitting that they watched these people be awful at almost uniformly

- Black people
- uncontrollable women

And go β€œwell yeah they are annoying” and then be β€œshocked” they get worse

04.02.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can we just think about what history could have been if we stopped these creeps at their entry level racism and misogyny?

And we stopped excusing the people around them

04.02.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Video thumbnail

for the girls and the gays

a message.

03.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 48

An icon. Cute and cuddly. Truly. πŸ₯Ί

03.02.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this all the time and people always jump on me when I bring up that the ops can see who you’re not getting along with when you fight on social media and actually that matters

03.02.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 319 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
a close up of a woman making a funny face while sitting in a dark room . Alt: a close up of Michelle Obama, former US First Lady, grooving to a song and dancing at a Kennedy Center Honors ceremony

India Arie’s cover of The Heart of the Matter will forever be immaculate

03.02.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have two vintage wedding dresses that I still haven’t found a home for. Wonder if I can send them her way.

02.02.2026 10:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s now Black History Month so the provocations are going to skyrocket exponentially.

Hold the line.

01.02.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Crying about being lied to, it seems πŸ₯΄

01.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œNormies” are doing what a lot of β€œactivists” are talking about

You are enough . More than that you , are exactly who we need

01.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Shelter, provision, and justice for the vulnerableβ€”immigrants, children, the disenfranchised, the incarcerated, targets of gendered violence. That call for action has never changed.

01.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The founders of this nation were deists and atheists, but they borrowed heavily from religious frameworks, bastardized them, and marketed them as natural law. The church permitted it so long as those wealthy coffers remained open.

Eyes to see and ears to hear identify the true moral imperative…

01.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The verse says that everyone will not have the same level of provision. It’s articulated in a framework that repeatedly emphasizes aiding people who are disadvantaged.

Is that the same as saying there should be a permanent, oppressed, exploitable underclass? To the oligarch or capitalist, maybe.

01.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mudsill theory reminds me of this Bible verse because it sounds like a perversion of it: β€œFor you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.”
‭‭Mark (Mrk)‬ ‭14‬:‭7‬ ‭CJB‬‬
bible.com/bible/1275/m...

01.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Anthony Joshua with a kufi and full Nubian superpower eyes, preparing to break someone’s jaw

Anthony Joshua with a kufi and full Nubian superpower eyes, preparing to break someone’s jaw

Can’t believe today is already February. Tis the season to be Black and active.

01.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This Black History Month (and beyond) : I ask that you please:
- stop posting AI videos from Instagram and TokTik. Y’all know it’s fake. No, you do not need attention that badly.
- stop using AI images
- stop using ChatGPT. Delete it.

01.02.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

And then the cyclical disenfranchisement, and pointing to the outcomes of that disenfranchisement as justification for continuing it.

01.02.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally overhauled most of my Meta accounts. As normal when I try to make it a clean sweep, one deletion always has complications. It’s my bookstagram account, and I think I will keep it.

01.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?

24.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1684 πŸ” 410 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

16.11.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 59626 πŸ” 36463 πŸ’¬ 1307 πŸ“Œ 2907