Post by @blogdiva@mastodon.social

2026-10-04 16:42 UTC

by december, on her birthday, my mother was dead. whenever i see a #NASA LOL-related pic, i cannot tell you the RAGE i get to feel all over again related to my mother. my mother was an unschooler before it was cool. i have a box of her papers i cry over every time i read one because she was such an incredible woman with so much potential who did what she could with the little she had. she researched EVERYTHING and OMG never thought my penchant for file systems came from her…

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 16:49

and, what makes it worse is that, mami was the white, blonde one in her interracial marriage. she was almost 6 feet tall, curves everywhere. blue-green eyes that made men weak. she was a knock out of a woman. so that whole genre of the blonde bimbo? I TAKE IT PERSONALLY. i knew what fetishizing women looked like before i even had a word for it. putting her looks and body on sale was never an option for my mother. she was made to pay for it dearly; all her underpaid and under-valued life…

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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-10-04 17:32

@blogdiva@mastodon.social So sorry for your loss. What a marvellous woman your mother was. Treasure the memories.

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@Bette@mstdn.social 2026-10-05 14:30

@blogdiva@mastodon.social What an incredible story and an amazing woman, thank you for sharing that with us.

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