#because black girl magic

[reasonsforhope]

"A Ghanaian-English entrepreneur has designed an electric bike from the ground up that’s transforming short-range transportation in her home country, proving that problem-solving in Africa can be done in Africa, by Africans.

[Valerie Labi's] company, Wahu!, assembles each bike by hand, and they can travel up to 80 miles [128 kilometers] on a single charge. This means that a delivery rider for Glovo or Bolt can comfortably cover a whole day’s work without refueling.

Anyone who’s visited Accra, Ghana, in the dry season will remember the incredibly poor air quality. Poor roads mean that cars are stuck in second and third gears, and old cars traveling in second and third gears mean plenty of extra car exhaust.

Poor roads also mean exposed dirt, and exposed dirt means fine-grained dust. Combined with a lack of rain, the smog, dust, and car exhaust make the air in parts of the capital unfit for human health.

Wahu! bikes help alleviate all three of these problems, and despite her English nativity [Note: Super weird and unclear way to phrase it?] and education, the bikes were designed and manufactured in Spintex, Accra.

“By introducing electric bikes into Ghana’s transportation ecosystem, we’re not only providing a greener alternative but also offering speed and convenience,” Labi told The Mirror. “Our bikes are a testament to how service delivery can be seamlessly merged with environmental conservation.”

Valerie Labi is a true inspiration, and besides her transportation company, she got her start in the Ghanaian economy in sanitation. She holds a chieftaincy title as Gundugu Sabtanaa, given to her by the previous Chief of the Dagbon traditional area in the Northern Region of Ghana. She has three children, holds a double major in Economics and Sustainability from two separate universities, and has visited 59 countries.

Getting her start in Northern Ghana, she founded the social enterprise Sama Sama, a mobile toilet and sanitation company that now boasts 300,000 clients.

During her travels around the small, densely populated country, she also recognized that transportation was not only a problem, but offered real potential for eco-friendly solutions.

“It took us two years to effectively design a bike that we thought was fit for the African road, then we connected with Jumia and other delivery companies to get started,” she told The Mirror. “Currently, I have over 100 bikes in circulation and we give the bikes on a ‘work and pay’ basis directly to delivery riders.”

According to Labi, each driver pays about 300 Ghana cedis, or about $24.00, per week to use the bike, which can travel 24 miles per hour, and hold over 300 pounds of weight. The fat tires are supported by double-crown front/double-spring rear suspension.

The bikes are also guaranteed by the company’s proprietary anti-theft system of trackers. Only a single bike has been stolen, and it was quickly located and returned to the owner."

-via Good News Network, January 24, 2024

#ghana #africa #black excellence #black entrepreneurship #black girl magic #transportation #ebikes #bikes #delivery drivers #sustainability #air pollution #environment #good news #hope #btw want to say for the record that it is generally considered journalism best practice #to not use a person's name in the headline of an article unless they're already a public figure #partly for privacy reasons and partly because that way the title gives readers more info that they can usefully interpret #so not including her name in the article title isn't inherently a huge snub #though the fact that GNN forgot to include her name until like the 6th paragraph kind of is! #I looked into using the original article this is based on because of that but imho it wasn't as good #it was in interview format and the intro at the beginning had way less info on accra and the bikes/her company/her work

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Me watching the LGBT community who almost never rarely gives black women and girls, asexuals, or aromantics genuine respect, pretend we’re all friends and have always treated us right the minute it’s June 1st and want to use black women(mainly darkskinned) and girls as their little poster girl:

#asexual #aromantic #It’s always coming from the non black people(including other racial minorities) too #and the stuff coming out of the lgbt community towards black women and girls has gotten real nasty #i have seen numerous people(although they’re mainly black) say that black people are inherently queer because we’re unnatural and strange #in the eyes of white supremacy and white people #like are you ok in the head??? why do you want to say that black people are inherently strange and we defy every social standard #as of our existence is a social statement #I personally think the worst thing I’ve personally heard(from yet another black person) #was that black women and girls would get seen as men or trans women because our hair is nappy #what does our natural hair have to do with getting seen as men or trans women?? #and the white lgbt people just applauded them and hearted their tweet #it annoys me how for some weird reason political and social movements will mainly use black women especially darker black women as rep #and It’s almost always by a non black person #like why don’t you use a girl or woman from your own race in your political and social justice artwork #oh wait that’s right #because in general the lgbt community views black women and girls as magical negras who will be their ride or die sista soulja #who will mule and fight for them no matter how badly they outright insult us or sneakily talk badly about us #pride month is basically another black history month when it comes to how everyone reacts to it #every reaction to it is superficial and they’re only celebrating us because they feel like they had to or wanted social points #had it been any other month they would’ve been focusing on the group that they belong to

[saxiphonoart]

Branch Conflict

#original character #magical girl #mahou shoujo #digital illustration #fusion #cmyk palette #oc art #project black gamut #oc: black gamut #this idea for this illustration was based solely on the background spiral #fun fact I actually made it using blender geometry nodes because why draw a sine wave by hand when you can have mathematical perfection?

[prettywarriors]

#mahou shoujo #magical girls #series: magical girl raising project #primary color: black #secondary color: white #i've read through black+breakdown so i'm committed to finishing the last 2-4???? books #but is this like. ultimate pyrithetricee? *sp #i guess spoilers. because it deffo is

[swashbucklery]

Was thinking about fic before bed and my brain fed met the most insane Kit/Jade AU in which Jade was secretly a werewolf and trying to hide it from Kit. And it culminated in the most dramatic scene, where [the danger] was happening and Jade looking directly into Kit’s eyes like, “Whatever happens, remember what I said. Remember that [the monster] was cursed, right? That [the atrocities] weren’t their fault. Remember that I love you.”

And Kit just like, “Yeah, yeah of course. I love you. What’s going to happen?”

AND THEN I WOKE UP but fuck me is that a fic, also @isaidquirky come collect your dream.

#i mean the reason it was a dream and not a fic i'm writing #is because the danger in this case #was that they were at fantasy jurassic park and the dinosaurs were escaping #but other than that 10/10 good dream #and also jade werewolf transformation jet black eyes sharp teeth #can you just? #i know you can #tanthamore #kit tanthalos: girl prince #jade sword: sword lesbian #i don't have a werewolf au tag #writing tag #willow: medium powerful magic once adjusted for inflation

[tea-withnofixinsplease]

I just found black-owned, biodegradable, vegan friendly, allergen-friendly braiding hair made of banana fiber and I am pretty fuckin hype to try it, I love winning

#veganism #vegan #intersectional veganism #solarpunk #ecopunk #the website also allows for returns so they can properly sanitize and dispose of the finished hair in an eco-friendly manner #I may not be 100% zero waste but i am KILLING it so far with these swaps #zerowaste #black girl magic #black panther #(because this used to be a traditional hair extension method on the continent and ik my girl shuri is rockin this in Wakanda

[zenithpng]

just realized i never posted HER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Image Description: A digital drawing of Allura from Voltron: Legendary Defender. The perspective is that of a selfie. She leans toward the camera, head tilted against her right shoulder, smiling and winking. Her left hand is up in a peace sign. She is in Earth fashion, wearing white pants and a pink tank top. Her hair is in pastel blue, pink, and purple box braids and she has gold hoops and bracelets, a pink chain, and yellow nail extensions. The background is pink with flowers and white hearts. End ID.]

#allura #allura fanart #vld #vld fanart #vld allura #voltron #voltron legendary defender #voltron fanart #allura voltron #digital art #matcha miku #allura art #vld art #voltron art #can you tell that i fucking love her #black girl magic #btw #because. she is magical. #jet's talking again

[astraltrickster]

new game reblog this post and put in the tags what fandom or other interest of yours you think is the most baffling to the people who followed you for something else

#tag games #i post this because i KNOW some of my non-type-moon mutuals have been uhhhhh... #a bit. confused. by some of my posts #which between the sex magic elements #and my ''the 'comic relief' character widely known even outside the fandom for memes running the gamut from fun and affirming to uh...Bad #is one of the most faithfully adapted literary characters in the entire series'' reminder posts #and the....[gestures broadly at the entirety of tsukihime] #''blacked out due to anemia and cut a girl into 17 pieces lmao oopsie'' is still weird enough WITH context after all #(its a travesty that i havent seen more memes about the fact that she put herself back together with *packing tape* btw) #i just kinda have to look at the confusion and go ''yeah that's both fair and hilarious'' #for non-fandom interests im gonna have to say it's the math jokes

[mistarover]

i think all of you coming for black women who played roles that were stereotypes during golden age hollywood need to be silenced forever. and i mean that.

"oh but they were perpetuating stereotypes and causing people to view black women badly blah blah blah" those were quite literally the only roles available to them. not every star could be a dorothy dandridge- hell even she was given very stereotypical roles and was only acknowledged for what she brought to cinematic history 20 years after her death during the blaxpolitation era had passed. do you think they didn't know that they were playing stereotypes? obviously they did but stars like hattie mcdaniel still had to make money and fucking eat so obviously they couldn't just wait for a producer or a caster to give them a perfectly non-stereotyping role because that wasn't going to happen.

and even while playing said roles they still broke barriers and made things easier for the nonwhite actresses of today in MANY FIELDS (did you know hattie mcdaniel was the first black woman to sing on the radio in the us? bet ya didn't). so maybe instead of getting pissy at a black actress for playing a mammy role, get mad at the stupid scriptwriters and shitty producers who made that the only role available to her.

#just a little rant because it seems we do not use sense and brains nowadays #idk if this made sense but idc #black culture #black people #black women #black girl magic

[bunnyplushy]

A Spark of Potential... A Brand New Star... Cradled Within the Void of Space...

hi hello, yes i have crawled my way back out of art block and burnout recently and somehow ended up going Feral while making this art, its obvious that i just had to recharge my brain in order to make stuff that is up to my (stupidly high) standard again

this piece is honestly one of my newest favorites, even though it's mostly lineless art with just a ton of shading detail but it really helped me with getting some practice in!! (and also give me new ideas on how to do certain things)

will i do a piece like this again?? yes! most likely in the near future!! (aka i'm already planning another piece in this style right now)

#plushy art #oc #original character #magical girl #magical girl oc #self insert character #self insert oc #digital art #digital artist #this was only going to be a lineless piece with minimal shading but then i blacked out and went wild with it #tbh i'm glad with all the stuff i did because this turned out GORGEOUS to me #i may post up-close shots of my favorite details and the dithering shading style that looks so soft on this #also i did sorta redesign my self insert's design slightly because parts of it were a bit off after a while

[cocofetti]

I hate doing peer reviews for English!

I'm too sensitive for this shit! Plus, my peers are fucking illiterate and dumb AF!

I know it was a rough draft but BITCH IT WASN'T THAT MFN ROUGH! YALL JUST MAKING SHIT UP FRFR!! 🙄🙄🙄

#idk how writers do it #i cant take the criticism #because i don't trust people's opinions #dusty ass heuxs #all the children left behind asses #im an artist and im sensitive about my shit #blktumblr #black tumblr #90s baby #blackgirlthoughts #black girl magic #quotes #self love #good vibe tribe #happiness #manifestingmindset

[enthusiastic-nimrod]

Part 2 of the MSG Color Wheel, with Cheerie popping up! I have mixed feelings about this one, but she makes me happy over all!

#color wheel challenge #color wheel meme #orange #orange aesthetic #yellow #yellow aesthetic #cheerie #msg #magical school girls #cheerleader #cheerleader aesthetic #black #black aesthetic #something that does bother me abt Cheerie's skirt is how it makes legs that look great in the full body sketch sometimes feel off #which can be very frustrating! because that should be right! #also yes I put her into this pose just to draw her prosthetic howd you know??

[kyurilin]

I'm going to Galaxycon this weekend and for the first time I'm going to attempt cosplaying one of the two days I'm going

So obviously that meant rounding up my Aizawa costume (I JUST REALIZED I FORGOT TO PUT THE GOGGLES WITH THE COSTUME) and knowing that considering how hot natured I am I will probably become not Aizawa by the end of the day

#if mom goes to bed early tomorrow i'm dying my hair black even though i also have to pack tomorrow night 😅 #i have a hard time doing things like dying my hair when she's still up because it's so weird to both announce i'll be doing that #i also just really don't like spending like an entire hour in the bathroom when people are doing things outside the bathroom #i'm very excited to die of heat stroke as aizawa #but yeah i'm dying my hair and bring my shirt that looks like the ua gym shirt so at the very least if my long sleeves and wig #get too hot i can magical girl transform into high school lawn mower accident aizawa #since that's what my haircut looks like #my other thought was dying my hair purple again and transforming into shinsou

[takaraphoenix]

Sometimes I find it frustrating that when they designed Tim, they got so stuck on red.

Because damn it that Bat boys design is really really hard to tell apart so the color coding is actually much appreciated!

See blue on the black-haired guy hanging out at the Wayne Mansion? Yep, that is definitely Dickie!

Yellow went to Duke, purple went to Steph, green went to Damian. Okay, so there is a slight overlap since what little of Cass’ outfit(s) isn’t black is also yellow - which is an irritation on the rainbow side, but, uh, Duke and Cass are easily told apart.

But. But both Jason and Tim are red.

ORANGE IS STILL RIGHT THERE. UP FOR GRABS. I wish Tim was The Orange Bat 1.) to make it easier to tell civilian Tim and civilian Jason apart because too many artists make that very very hard, 2.) to complete the Bat Rainbow.

#have I watched too many magical girl anime as a child? #yes. yes I have #am I obsessive with color-coding in a Decidedly Neurodivergent Way? #yes. yes I am #am I still right though? #YES I AM #because the YELLOW? the yellow gets a pass #since Steph and Cass kinda split Babs' costume between them #so it's pleasing in a different manner #also black belongs to Cass #while not part of the rainbow it's a valid coding #but ORANGE IS MISSING #aND INSTEAD WE HAVE TWO RED #AND IT DRIVES ME NUTS #(also this is why my design #for Parker Torres' Batgirl suit includes pink #no overlap. pink is missing still and Parker has Pink Lesbian Energy) #DC Comics #BatFam

[lup-laguz]

so my favorite coworker is this lady who despite being old enough to be my mother, is still someone i was able to say "the autism's hitting hard tonight" to who not only didn't judge, not only Understood, but was even just like "damn something must be in the air because me too!!"

i did not, however, have the heart to point out that part of why i was saying that was cause i spent the entire two hours of my fitting room duty thinking about what ego suits from lob corp i wanna draw various hatoful boyfriend characters in

#magical girl yoshi #the rest of the shift was spent either strategizing how im gonna take on the damn chapter 3 dungeon in limbus #and/or spinning gregor limbus company in my mind because Your Honor. i love my cockroach husband #(to the point where i was listening to the song his va sang at the end of chapter one lol) #the project moon brainrot has returned strongly and ive been wanting to project moon'ify a lot of characters (mostly ocs tbh) plz send help #(anyways thinking about nageki w/ dreaming current ego made me sad.) #(thinking about hitori in dream of a black swan's ego Before the identity theft- #-and maybe changing to void dream ego After the identity theft made me sad.) #(but thinking about shuu in whiteknight ego? Very Funny to me. terrifying but funny :3 ) #(OH and probably silent orchestra ego for sakuya because fuck yes) #(tho part of me kinda wants to go with la luna cause da piano... hmm.) #(can't think of a good one for my favoritist boy yuuya tho u-u )

[umberandmochaagate]

All White + Melanated

#Enposib gets two rows because I'm biased #when I tell you I forgot to take selfies before leaving #so enjoy me lit AF obsessed with the horn filters #blackout #melanin monday #brown skin #dark skin #melanin queen #black girl magic #carefree black queer #all white #el mando ki la #simplest makeup look #but omg Harmonik and Enposib were 😚🤌🏿💙 #amazing as always #khr