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trying some resting • 2022 GA Author of the Year • email for all inquiries, no DMs •
Joined May 2011
Today is my birthday. It is also my last day on social media. I am compelled to move opposite the pace of the State, to pay nuclear attention to my body and the bodies of those I’m in solidarity with. I am being called into slower work.
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@authorbellajay Omg hayyyyy that’s me! Couldn’t find any plus size red carpet wear that worked in my budget and our sis had my BACK. she’s amazing! And the response to my elaborate bullshit idea (lol) has been amazing 🥰🥰🥰.
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Black Queer Children Deserve A Heaven Without Having To Die For It.
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Y’all, Atlanta police have brought out LRAD machines and are tear-gassing a protest group of maybe 200. At 11:30 in the morning. Stop Cop City.
A group of hundreds of Block Cop City activists are marching down Bouldercrest towards a very large line of police
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Mama survived an attempted kidnapping by jumping out of a moving car. Pls send her some love & financial help.
If anyone can help me get my face back, I would really appreciate it. I especially miss my smile. Please RT for awareness.
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Honestly, I wish MORE of y’all would punch people who harm/hurt/malign/demean Black women and femmes. I wish more of y’all did something/anything when we’re used as the perpetual punchline. Also, everyone in that room is rich lmaooo. Chill out.
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I really am just. at a lost for words that 215 bodies of dead children were found at a school in BC, and there's been virtually no uproar from anyone other than marginalized folks. Not even a pretend uproar. Y'all are not well.
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Y’all. So Lizzo… THEE Lizzo gave me a dress for the @outmagazine #out100 gala. It was supposed to come in Friday but arrived literally ten minutes before we left for our flight to New York. It’s GORGEOUS. LIKE???????? . I AM SCREAMING!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT TO SHOW YOU!
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Hi, I’m fat. And hot. Deal with it without making it my problem. Thanks.
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This is why no one should be encouraging legislation on ski masks, kuffiyehs, gang colors, NOTHING. Wearing hoodies and Palestinian colors are getting/have gotten people killed. No more policing our bodies.
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I had a doctor’s visit today where I was told I’ve essentially been living my life with no sleep due to a health condition. When I sleep, my body is in stress mode and not recovery mode. The doctor quite literally looked at me and was shocked I’m a “functioning human being”.
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These are assault strategies we’ve seen in Ferguson, in Atlanta, in Baltimore, in New York, in LA, in Seattle, in Portland, in Baton Rouge, in Chicago, in Philly, in Minneapolis, in Durham, in Birmingham, in Oakland, in every city that has collaborated with Israel. War strategy.
IDF Attacks worshippers during a live broadcast. 🇵🇸🇮🇱. #Gazagenocide #FreeGaza #Gaza #Palestine #ısraelTerrorists
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but police officers are not the authority on police brutality. The People are.
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Oh the direct action STRATEGY is STRATEGIZING!.
One-by-one, pro-Palestinian protesters continuously disrupt a House Judiciary Committee hearing about free speech on college campuses.
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I actually really, REALLY appreciate this. Hip-hop’s primary material is a working class, racialized reality. It is the art-language of a particularly class-oppressed Black consciousness. No matter what Diddy sold y’all, that’s still what drives the genre.
André 3000’s speaks on him rapping at the age of 48. “I gotta go get a Colonoscopy… what do you rap about?” 😂.
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Nah bruh, all I’m saying is Missy Elliot is the greatest music savant and music visionary of our time. It’s not a game. At all.
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Gaslighting is making Juneteenth a federal holiday while banning critical race theory in schools, destabilizing COVID mutual aid efforts, refusing to defund and abolish police, and blocking reparations legislation. Go play in someone else’s face, America.
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Y’all I’m a Black woman from Atlanta, #Georgia. I’ve had a miscarriage in this state. I grew up on the poverty line. I’ve had an abortion. I think this #BoycottGeorgia call is bullshit, and it pushes birthing folks deeper to the margins in the name of what? rage? That’s stupid.
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There's so much I wanna say about the lawsuit against Lizzo, the production company execs, and, primarily, Lizzo's dance captain Shirlene Quigley. I really, really don't agree with the way y'all's fatphobia has swallowed this discourse. AND, y'all have not read the suit. I did.
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.@Lizzo thank you for everything. I love you! I cannot WAIT for the @outmagazine event tomorrow night! Fat bitches winnnnnnnnn.
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St. Louis has halted all court proceedings since the start of the pandemic. That means people have been locked in cages, for over a year, for simply being CHARGED. This ILLEGAL practice further reveals what’s true: prisons are inhumane and obsolete. Our justice system is unjust.
Chairs, TVs, other objects being thrown from the third floor of the jail. Crowd is gathered underneath. No one from @SLMPD or anyone is moving anyone back from street.
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Taylor mother fucking Christopher Columbus Swift. MAAAAAAAM. MAAM.
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“Violence is not the answer” lmao the State is violent and misogynoir is violent. Someone makes my body the brunt of (yet another, one more) joke and they will meet the palms of my boundaries. Respectfully :).
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When Atlanta organizers were "pressing politicians", you told them that they didn't love their city and that they should go home. So. what is the truth, Micheal?.
This bar hurt to rap and hurts to read. Keep pressing these politicians y’all. Shits gotta change somehow. Love and Respect.
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I sat down with this lady, looked her dead in her eye and talked to her about watching the police brutalize children in Ferguson. I knew THEN I would never vote for her, I was just scared to accept what I realized at that moment: there is no such thing as “lesser evil”. At all.
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Like that’s my twinnnnnnn cmon! Clap it up for the girls.
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Black women face so many compounding structural and interpersonal violences, we are the punchline and the punching bag, and you realllllly think TONIGHT is the night to talk about toxic masculinity? Bc someone had enough of his (Black) wife being a joke? Booooooo! Tomato tomato!.
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This literally happened countless times from 2014-2017 bruh wtf.
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An activist from the Atlanta racial justice community— MY community— was murdered by the police as he was running away this week. I sat next to this man on panels, I schooled this man on gender and sexuality. I’m just. y’all I’m TIRED. #OscarCain #shutitdownATL
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It should be said that genocide is *also* a mass disabling event. Victims/survivors come out with significant ambulatory, mental, and emotional disabilities and disorders. Witnessing genocidal acts, too, can be disabling. It’s just… really wild times. Pls care for one another.
for many disabled people, there comes a realization that you would be left during an emergency. fires, school shootings, pandemics, war. it's dehumanizing and terrifying, but it's based in reality. to see the events over the last month play out, to be able to witness the endless
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I’m not really “online” right now but just in case you forgot what kind of time I’m on— before I’d ever won a poetry award, I learned how to soothe burns from tear gas from Palestinian protestors who recognized the tactics Israeli soldiers and settlers used on them. So.
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So, where are @LittleMissFlint’s flowers?.
TIME named its first ever "Kid of the Year.". Gitanjali Rao invented a device to test water for lead at 12, inspired by the Flint water crisis. She says she wants to use science for social change: "There are problems [our generation] did not create but that we now have to solve."
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They got some fucking nerve.
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2020 is one long gaslight for Black folks. We're exhausted + enraged. If every city burned down tonight, it STILL wouldn't be enough. There is no social contract that humanizes us, that grants us safety, that values our life. So, there ain't no social contract. Period.
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Also, all the white people need to shut the whole fuck up. Shut up.
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WAIT SHE IS SIX MONTHS PREGNANT?!?SO YOU TELLIN ME I SAW THE TWINS LIVE?!? DIS TEW MUCH LAWD.
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Y’all love an empty ass metaphorical ass gesture in lieu of fundamental shifts in power.
(George Floyd better get Time’s Person of the Year ).
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“People aren’t mad at Lizzo. They hate fat bodies & the Black girls housed in them. They hate us more when they can’t. dictate when & how celebrate we who we are.” . I talk fatphobia, misogynoir, & @lizzo’s dress in my latest for (EEK!) @TeenVogue:
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What if— hold on this is a ZANY idea— what if y’all didn’t boycott? . What if y’all put money, volunteer hours & resources up to support the orgs in GA who’ve BEEN fighting?! Orgs like @ignitekindred, @SisterSong_WOC, @SPARKRJNOW, @FWHC need your money & bodies more than ever.
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No. Prisons are death camps. Calling this an open-air prison implicates carcerality in death-making. Any refusal to call Gaza an open air prison bc “ppl in prison commit crimes” justifies the use of cages as punishment & approves the racist/classist structure of “crime”.
Someone helpfully corrected my language. I’m no longer referring to Gaza as an “open air prison.” That implies the residents committed crimes other than just being born. It is a concentration camp
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#Hawaii is turning up on settler colonialist violence. #PuertoRico is in the streets fighting against a corrupt government. There millions in the streets, elders. I keep thinking about how we begged for the millions, the elders in the streets. & no one came. Y’all didn’t come.
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Fatphobia is such a sickness. Y’all are sick. Unwell. In one breath, you are telling me my body is rest-starved and overworked. Yet in the next, you recommend major surgery and lifelong health deficits?. Girl. Prescribe me a NAP and a year on a beach. Obviously.
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Bodies under stress respond by pumping cortisol. Cortisol interrupts sleep, eating/hunger cues, and yes, weight. Cortisol kills. It is behind most health complications for Black folks. This world is a fucking death machine. And I’ve been blaming myself?. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!.
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Hi, I got married. What I miss? . Also, pls cry along to this teaser clip our videographer sent us 😩.
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Yo @shaunking is NOT an organizer in Atlanta, nor does he live in ATL. Like Black Womxn have been saying for years PLEASE STOP FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF A VULTURE WHO COOPTS OUR FIGHT AND TAKES CREDIT FOR OUR WORK. The PEOPLE’s Demands can be found here:
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Like y’all can not guilt me into voting for these idiots, I’ve heard their staff laugh or suck their teeth when we talk to them about dead children.
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I have been in pain— untested, unmonitored and unmanaged— for at least a decade. I have been pushing myself, been punitive to this body, and been merciless in my “drive” or “discipline”. I have been unkind. I have been unforgiving. To myself. To me. To this body.
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I learn this while in physical therapy for a debilitating injury that has me literally relearning how to walk without pain, and just after discovering the deep relationship between my panic disorder, autism, and lack of pain receptors.
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@jaszjnes Do I want CLOTHING criminalized in a manner that specifically targets Black people? No, I don’t like slave legislation. So, no.
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I’ll never forget this. I’ll never forgive the your willingness to stand back and let bombs rain down like this on Palestine. I’ll never be the same. Oh Gaza. My heart. I am so sorry for all we didn’t do.
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This convo on fatphobia ain’t fair, y’all. We not actually mad at Lizzo. Our critiques are actually, literally abt systemic fatphobia + how we anticipate Lizzo’s actions will be exploited by that system, against us. Bringing our rage to her door like its for her? VIOLENT. Wild.
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House Representative Salzman says, on the floor, that all Palestinians must die. Our government knows— intimately— that they are finding a genocide. Do not be fooled by the PR, if you could call it that. You are being gaslit. It should be clear: resistance is necessary. Now.
In tears, Florida State Rep @AngieNixon begs for a ceasefire and asks how many dead Palestinians will be enough. Republican @michellesalzman (@FLHouseRep) shouts out, "All of them."
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AMERICA IT IS NOT TIME TO GO HOME. STAY IN THE STREETS.
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I plan on voting in 2020 & I do plan on voting for Elizabeth Warren. In fact, I signed on as one of the 100 Black Womxn in BlackWomxnFor. AND? This essay is CRITICAL. The last thing y’all are gonna do is pretend like ANY candidate is above critique from us. This. Is. The. Work.
yesterday i attended @ewarren's rally here in Atlanta. it was reminiscent of a rally held by hillary clinton, in that it was full of pandering and what felt like empty promises—not unusual for politicians. i wrote about it & electoral politics in general.
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I have let doctors and “health professionals” tell me that the problem is my fatness, that my body is the issue and pain is just a side affect. For ten years (!!) I have let this world be so punitive, so violent, so deeply dangerous to me. On some level, I thought I deserved it.
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Let me say it plain: a doctor discovered today that my body has been functioning like I haven’t slept since Trayvon martin was killed. Since my first protest. Since the first time I realized this world wants us dead, and felt responsible for solving that.
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Re: @kendricklamar & #humble:. I'm tired of Black women being attacked b/c we try to keep up w/ the impossible beauty standards set by men.
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The call to #BoycottGeorgia is more about the ego of white liberals than the lives & safety of working class birthers, esp Black folks who can become pregnant. This is about y’all feeling good, “standing for something” without being inconvenienced. Don’t pretend it’s about us.
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I’m crying bc this is a direct action that is accessible to people with the kinds of mobility disabilities that are similar to mine and oh, what I wouldn’t give for a body of water to disrupt with my body right now. Direct action as world building, forever.
Pro-Palestine protesters on jet skis held the Palestinian flag as they blocked the cargo ship Contship Dax, owned by Israeli company ZIM, from docking at Sydney's Port Botany. Hundreds of protesters gathered at shipping ports to bring attention to Australia’s weapon exports
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At zone 3 precinct. Need Legal observers and bodies here NOW. Cops setting up perimeter and threatening to tear gas. Shooting at us with with . Rubber billets and tear gas. Young teen got shot in back with rubber round. NEED BODIES.
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I'm late to announce:. In 2014, I was kidnapped by police because of my racial justice work. In my latest for The @guardian, I talk with protesters in Portland about kidnapping and police repression tactics, and why now is the perfect time for abolition.
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I haven’t slept yet. Waiting on the white gays who got a Black woman living inside them, to take that Black woman to the protests.
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As a Black Identity Extremist, allow me to just say (quickly) that y’all can fuck right off.
FBI ranks "black identity extremists" bigger threat than Al Qaeda, white supremacists: Leaked documents
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I’m an award-winning poet, essayist, and documentarian. A cultural strategist. Formerly a community organizer, forever in community. I’m never speechless. I stay on my toes. Always ready to seize the damn day. Y’all I can’t even talk, I’m sitting here sobbing. I’m so grateful.
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Come up with a compliment for a Black woman that has nothing to do with a womb, her "strength", her beauty, or her relation to Black men.
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At the risk of being dragged +/or canceled, I want to address this thread bc it's dangerous as fuck imho. 1) Brittney Cooper is Black feminist who has introduced many centrists/carceral feminists to more left-leaning political education. She is *not* a radical leftist.
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@RegalCourtier7 @breakfastclubam queerness isn’t being “forced” on anyone. LGBTQ ppl, esp kids, deserve to be represented in media, esp bc feeling isolated contributes to higher suicide rates. it is natural & every human desires this. Hetero “lifestyles” are ALL over tv & y’all don’t feel like that’s “pushed”?.
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I AM A MASTER MANIFESTAH AND YOU CANT TELL ME SHIT.
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EVERYBODY CONGRATULATE LIZZO ON THE GRAMMY NOMS RN 🔫🔫🔫.
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The dehumanizing media slant against Palestinian people is actually so identical to how they spoke about us during the Ferguson uprising and the 2014 protests. It’s deeply triggering and y’all keep wanting calm and measured explanations. Whew.
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White liberals who’ve never set foot in this state, who look down on the South, who’ve never organized rural communities or been working class are again doing what they always do: making judgments & calls to action w/out the voices/needs of those most critically impacted. Chile.
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I really said no more Black one-pieces covering up all this JUICE. Grateful to the Ocean + Yemaya for affirming the abundance of this body, holding it, letting it shine. ☀️🌙🌊
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HUH? Black activists who organized in the movement for black lives (hi! ME!) were put on an “Black Identity Extremist” list at the fed level and were surveilled. Not to mention, the Philly Move, Black Panthers, and even Occupy groups were/are on terrorist watch lists. Shut tf up.
Black Americans have been through hell and have never started any terrorist organizations yet liberal blacks think it makes sense to compare us to groups who have had several and still do. You gonna false compare yourself right to hell.
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3 white Atlanta police officers shot a man while he was running away from them inside of a Wendy’s parking lot last night. Tons of witnesses, including children. The video is horrific. This is why we say #shutitdown #DefundThePolice and #ABOLITIONNOW. Y’all, shut Atlanta down.
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I’m going mad. I’m going MAD. The things I want to say. The things I feel… will literally get me shipped to Guantanamo.
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As soon as I played Beyoncé's remix of Savage, I got an email with news that might change my life. Like, seconds into the song. Look, I ain't saying the song is magic, but I *am* saying that if you listen, you might get a email too. I can't wait to circle back to this tweet.
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Now y’all know capitalism is a predatory system. It self insulates, meaning folks w/the most capital are protected from tumult. Like boycotts. Guess who isn’t protected? Working class families. Mothers & children. Esp folks of color. In Atl, that very much means Black birthers.
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In the decade since, I have put myself in the line of fire over and over. I have jeopardized my safety. I have ignored my own calls for rest and safety until I couldn’t recognize those cues anymore. And this body took care of me. Protected me. Kept me alive. Kept me breathing.
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So I convinced @deray to watch Dr. Ben Carson's wife sing the national anthem. You're welcome.
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Let me get ahead of the curve: I never told y’all I was non-violent. I shole aint. And no, non-violence is not the only way to be abolitionist. Nor is it the most effective. Aight imma mute the thread. Mind your mouths. 🥰.
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Six years ago today, I was kidnapped by the Atlanta police Department at a non-violent protest against a Ferguson, MI jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown. I was held in a wagon for over 13hrs. I was only 19 years old.
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This body carried me through fire and mud with so few resources, that it thought it had to conserve. And it did. And I’m so grateful. Fuck. My god.
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Even as she delivered the news, the doctor peddled weight lost surgery. “You’re going to need help to lose all of it,” she said, with a pitying smile. Bitch. I should’ve laughed.
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Boycott call us into right relationship with our values. Reminds us that success, ease, and convenience are ideas formed at the expense of someone’s aliveness, under empire. It is an invitation to let go of these ideas and invent glorious new ones….
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I wrote a book, I’ve shown up for my community, I’ve poured into people. I’ve done some amazing shit. And never knew my ass was toeing the edge of a chasm. My body is mighty. Fuck you, if you think upon discovering this I’m finna PUNISH my good bitch for getting me this far??.
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Just had my first “almost got killed by a white supremacist” moment at Target in Alabama. Security had to monitor him bc he kept trying to find me in the store. They ended up walking me to my car. I’m so irritated 😑.
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I’m sitting in this hotel room crying and drinking water bc I drank a lil too much last night lolll. I had the time of my LIFE. I really, deeply thank y’all for that. You made my world, @lizzo. Thank you sis.
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Feel free to lift me up on your altars, send some love my way, and if I owe you a thing PLEASE forgive me… it’s been 8 weeks of health crisis and healing and we’re still learning more shit apparently. Please love on your bodies. In my name, if not yet in yours. 💕.
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I am not a supporter of hers, but it speaks so much of anti-Blackness and misogynoir that KAMALA HARRIS is the first person to drop out of the race, especially at this point in the game.
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.@Alyssa_Milano are you willing to support the organizations in Georgia fighting to keep birthing folks connected to reproductive resources? Are you willing to sacrifice time, money, and resources to strengthen the fight against #HB481? When can we expect your arrival here in GA?.
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Film production companies pulling out of the Georgia, actors refusing to come here, spend their money here, do you honestly think this affects republican lawmakers? . Alternativelyc Have you talked to Black mothers & people who birth here in Georgia? Do you know what they want?!.
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