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hoody hoo
2 years
in 1979, a group of Black feminists, the Combahee River Collective (CRC), organized a march in protest of missing and murdered Black women. I spoke with Barbara Smith, co-founder of CRC, on how Black lesbian feminist socialists cultivated bridges: #IWD
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"I can't believe this is hap-"
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4 years
imagine doing more for your city’s growing housing crisis than your elected officials
@CBCTheNational
CBC News: The National
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This Toronto carpenter is building tiny mobile shelters for people living in tents this winter and he’s giving them away for free. #TheMoment
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2 years
what is your government telling you about the value of _your_ life when it is easier to ask for help with dying than it is to get housing, social services, medical relief, etc?
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4 years
’coping’ by audre lorde (1978)
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canada has the highest social media footprint of right wing extremism. according to this 2020 study in the UK, the presence of hate groups in canada tripled in recent years, and is higher than the US and UK:
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2 years
a fire destroyed Waheen market, a major source for Hargeisa’s economy, on the eve of Ramadan. many of the shops are owned and run by women. 28 injuries so far, millions of $$ lost. this will have a significant impact on the city as a whole. please donate
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spectator
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i’m in shock
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3 years
your favourite “world-class city” is an overly funded police state on stolen land
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4 years
abdirahman abdi, a black muslim refugee from somalia, was killed by police in canada's capital city in 2016. it was filmed and shared across national news platforms for the country's observance. the police officer who killed him was found NOT guilty today. abolish the police.
@CBCOttawa
CBC Ottawa
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BREAKING: #Ottawa police Const. Daniel Montsion found NOT GUILTY on all 3 charges related to the death of Abdirahman Abdi. #ottnews
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@_hudahassan
hoody hoo
7 years
help 20-year-old Deandre Harris, who was beaten by white supremacists in Charlottesville, with medical costs:
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hoody hoo
4 years
eishia hudson was murdered over a bottle of liquor in winnipeg. she was 16 years old. a few days ago, police killed d’andre campbell in brampton after *he* called the police for assistance. anti-Black and anti-Indigenous police violence persists, even amidst a global pandemic...
@APTNNews
APTN News
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16-year-old Winnipeg girl shot and killed by police, reports @bhobs22
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my grandfather was a doorman in 1930's Harlem (like many Somali seamen after the war). by chance, he witnessed a mob murder while on the job and was asked to take a stand as a witness........ that's when he decided it was time to dip back to africa lol
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Amanda Deibert- Comic Con Booth 5552
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What’s a cool bit of family history you know? Can be family of origin of family of choosing.
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hoody hoo
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if you're a black woman applying for grad school & would like a writer+phd student to revise your statement, email me: hudamina @gmail .com
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8 years
one thing clarified tonight: "real issues" for white celebrities = Taylor's feelings, not hundreds of unarmed black folk murdered by feds
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2 years
so far, doug ford accidentally swallowing a bee while talking about privatizing healthcare in ontario is my favourite act of God
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@_hudahassan
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4 years
wow the raptors are doing more in response to police brutality than mayor tory
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6 years
me rn, critiquing beyonce and jay z's continuous ode to capitalism while branding themselves as invested in black liberation, but also really feeling this album so far
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toronto has felt like two cities for a long time. a more neglected side was always privy to the full picture. the other is now witnessing what was already there. it is the latter who are sensationalizing conversations about crime right now.
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hoody hoo
6 years
list of therapists for black women and girls (this is US-based only but sharing anyway):
@DrLaurenMims
Dr. Lauren Mims 👩🏾‍🚀
6 years
[Resource] The @therapy4bgirls directory is a listing of +1000 mental health professionals across the country who provide high quality, culturally competent services to Black women and girls. 👩🏾‍💻: Sending love to everyone on my TL tonight!
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remember when doug's brother, rob, was caught smoking crack-cocaine on video, y'all? remember when TPS invaded toronto's largest somali neighbourhood in response to absolve white men from any criminality while publicly criminalizing a whole black muslim refugee community?
@CP24
CP24
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Canada doesn't have 'systemic, deep roots' of racism that U.S. does, Doug Ford says
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black lives matter—one of the most important liberation movements of our time—started off as a hashtag #onhere (after the acquittal of zimmerman). black queer women have utilized THIS public sphere to organize and shape inter/national discourses about anti-black state violence
@public_archive
The Public Archive
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Say whatever you want about Twitter but without it we would not know the name Michael Brown.
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hoody hoo
2 years
hodan hashi, a 23 year-old black muslim woman, was killed after a vicious attack this weekend in saskatoon. the framing and reduction of her murder to a bar fight absolves the racism and sexism involved in her death. #justiceforhodan
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3 years
the organizers arrested at hamilton's encampment protest are black muslim women. i hope we understand the arrests of anti-poverty activists at peaceful demonstrations are targeted and planned; that these individuals are already subject to hyper-surveillance measures pre-event
@_SJPeace_
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Knee chokehold that killed George Floyd on a black woman. Welcome to Hamilton Ontario Canada!
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canada’s MAiD program—medically assisting people in their deaths—expands March 17, 2023* to include people coping with mental health. this is in the midst of multiple economic and social crises. what is our government telling us about who has the right to a quality life?
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7 years
@AshDiiva delete this.
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east africans really took the dishes of italian colonizers and was like let me work it and re-work it, put my thing down, flip it and reverse it, tii esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gniht ym tup
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7 years
this was the best conclusion to black history month I've ever seen
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these are white times, not dark ones.
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i don't live in ontario. i live at the circus and my premier is doug the clown
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when you are murdering black people in your music video, with no warning, to prove a political point, i really can't help but wonder who your art is for. surely it isn't black folks.
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good morning to the somali youth who told doug ford he is a waste yute to his face at a circle k in 2019 🖤
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the ontario government granted leeway for police to surveil and harass, and all black & indigenous people are at risk. look out for one another folks.
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islamophobia is deadly and trickles into every fabric of canadian society. it permeates through state policies, institutions, media and public discourse, and the minds of many. a 9-year-old boy is going to grow up without his family. innalilahi wa innalilahi raji’un.
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hoody hoo
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a 12-year-old was killed—that is not a man, that is a CHILD.
@CBCToronto
CBC Toronto
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Man pronounced dead at scene of Regent Park shooting
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five years ago today abdirahman abdi was killed by ottawa police in his home neighbourhood. never forget his name.
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boyz n the hood. poetic justice. higher learning. baby boy. john singleton blessed the world with some exceptional black cinema. rest in peace.
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ramadan kareem to those who are partaking in the holy month, especially those fasting without community, through grief, financial uncertainty, and all the other difficulties this pandemic has exasperated. may Allah swt protect you and grant you ease 🤲🏾✨💫
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raptor fans right now
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“I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.” — saidiya hartman (2006)
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this many police responded to a call yesterday because *one* man was standing on a car at eglinton west and oakwood. this was during a peaceful demonstration to fight against gentrification and protect the historic little Jamaica neighbourhood. defund. abolish.
@RibeGom
Wanessa
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Eglinton West e meu galeral. Isso é Toronto
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hoody hoo
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i moved to New York at the end of 2022 to start a job at @mccNYU as a visiting assistant professor in Media, Culture, and Communication — happy to finally share this one✨✨✨
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a dispensary called "hobo" opening up beside sistering, a shelter for precariously housed women in toronto, says more than enough about the compassion in this city
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eid mubarak to you and yours — especially to the Muslim workers in Minnesota currently protesting Amazon for fair wages and the day off work to celebrate eid ul fitr 🌸🌙🕌✨
@chronicalihere
HAYDAR
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The Prophet Muhammad PBUH said “Pay the worker what he deserves before the sweat of his brow dries up.” #MayDay
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hoody hoo
5 years
my queen!!!
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hoody hoo
4 years
you voted for body-worn cameras as a solution to police brutality—a project that will cost up to $50 million—and voted against reallocating a tiny tiny 10% of the police budget to community services stop pretending you care for ”meaningful change” around policing in this city
@JohnTory
John Tory
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In the wake of this very sad event, we have taken action to make sure there is real, sensible, and meaningful change in our city, especially as it relates to persons in distress, the kinds of help available to them in moments of crisis and their interaction with police.
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toronto police services protecting a white supremacist in a MAGA hat at a peaceful anti-racist rally in nathan phillips square...........
@GelekB
Gelek Barleytsang
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the police circled around the MAGA guy to protect him from the crowd chanting at him to leave. we're just keeping the peace, an officer told me. an East African woman was in near tears seeing this. MAGA guy was smug the whole time.
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one of the many things I've learned through caring for plants: when a plant fails to blossom or grow, the root of the problem is not in the plant itself, but its environment. this tweet is not about plants, though.
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hoody hoo
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toronto’s mayor is wrongfully trying to stop a peaceful, anti-apartheid rally at Nathan Philips Square today. she says no permits were obtained for a public space that, as per NPS website, does not need permits for “demonstrations, protests, and marches”
@MayorOliviaChow
Mayor Olivia Chow
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I'm aware of the unsanctioned rally at Nathan Phillips Square today. My statement below:
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@_hudahassan
hoody hoo
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the loss of hodan nalayeh is such devasting news. hodan dedicated her life and career as a journalist to sharing nuanced stories about somalia and its diaspora. let's keep hodan's children and family in our prayers. allah yerhamo 🥀
@SahraCabdi
Sahra Abdi
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#BreakingNew : Hodan Naaleeye @HodanNaaleey , TV journalist & founder of Integration TV, and her Husband Fariid Jaamac, Was among the dozen people who died today's Hotel #Asaseey Kismaayo. Hodan, left from #Canada where she started her TV Diaspora Program. Grant to Jannah
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the awkward moment i have been expecting all summer finally arrived: my neighbours took down their big ”black lives matter & defund now” window sign
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you can thank the jamaican and somali diaspora for giving toronto a majority of it's slang btw
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scarborough to the world 🌟
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ok greektown, go off
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noname dropped one dumb tweet while high and y'all pounced on her quick lmao pls lower your misogynoir and let black girls be blazed in peace
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delegating power to police to enforce lockdown rules in a city with a growing housing crisis is especially concerning. i’m scared for all the unhoused people who won't be able to provide police with an address when harassed.
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you can support Khaleel Seivwright’s tiny shelter project here:
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give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue -- warsan shire
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strachan avenue
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a young somali trans girl in north carolina is in need of support after being outed to her family. the goal is to get her legally emancipated to escape abuse and threat of deportation. please donate/share with networks: via @LGBTQ_Somalis
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hoody hoo
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today i went to rouge valley hospital (in malvern) to discharge a 58-year old family member who is clinically schizophrenic. i arrived at the hospital only to find out they had LOST him because of their neglect.
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hoody hoo
2 years
some news 🥳
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hoody hoo
4 years
nina simone once said that oscar peterson is one of the greatest pianists. it sucks that he isn't celebrated enough. he's from Montreal's little burgundy neighbourhood, where you can find real tributes and murals dedicated to the legend.
@globeandmail
The Globe and Mail
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Montreal unlikely to rename metro station after jazz legend Oscar Peterson, despite petition
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sharing a birthday with the US elections really ain't it
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hoody hoo
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inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. unfortunately, Almaas Elman is not the first somali woman committed to social justice issues, and who was visible in her work, that was murdered in somalia. this trend is alarming.
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🕊 🕊 🕊 🕊
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s/o to all survivors right now. timelines might be an especially triggering place today or this week. it's okay to log off.
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we don't need the police investigating the police to receive justice. we know that there is an inevitable police bias involved with SIU investigations. abolish the SIU. #JUSTICEFORREGIS #RegisKorchinskiPaquet
@CP24
CP24
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#BREAKING : The province’s police watchdog says no charges will be laid against responding officers in the case of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, the young woman who fell to her death from a High Park Avenue balcony in May.
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reer somali diaspora. my abo in boston in 1981
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hoody hoo
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remember when toronto star said desmond cole was being too blackity black with his column?
@TorontoStar
Toronto Star
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"Forever and always, your beautiful Black life matters and you’re loved fiercely, no matter what the world around us tells you." — @AnthonyNMorgan Black Canadians share their stories and words of heartache and strength.
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hoody hoo
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toronto fam, please circulate this. hakeem is from toronto's parkdale neighbourhood and is missing. he's 25, 6 ft, 160 lbs, slim build. he was last seen at king/dufferin. if you have any info, please contact @bliptor or the phone numbers below.
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toronto, let’s settle this once and for all: which subway station has the best beef patties???
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this taylor swift performance feels a whole lot like reading feminist theory
@jamilahmichelle
Jamilah Michelle
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TAYLOR SWIFT JUST BIT TF OUTTA BEYONCE ON THE BILLBOARD AWARDS ... I’m 💀😭😭😭💀💀💀💀 where is the beyhive????
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@faaaaadumo you did that. you really did that.
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hoody hoo
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cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black women. cite black
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depressing to think about all the black and racialized service staff and cooks who will be exposed to covid because dipshits wanna drink and eat overpriced mediocre food on patios
@CP24
CP24
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Yorkville bar sees lineup for patio as clock strikes midnight
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hoody hoo
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hi, friends. vulnerability is something i'm still learning to practice, esp through my writing. it's been years since i've written a personal essay. here's something i wrote for @Hazlitt about depression, anger, and healing through ramadan:
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truth is there are bare lilly singh’s running through toronto, and many of them are the active gatekeepers in this city’s creative industries 🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️
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spread your wealth
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people who do not have to rely on taking transit should not be the one's making any decisions on transit
@TinaYazdani
Tina Yazdani
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“What’s the cost of TTC fare? 3 dollars, something like that?” Councillor Jim Karygiannis, who sits on the TTC board, doesn’t know the current cost of riding transit. This, on the day advocates are expressing outrage about a possible 10 cent fare hike next year. #TOpoli
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hoody hoo
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me on the phone with OSAP
@KylieJenner
Kylie Jenner
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i can name a list of 100 things more important right now than fixating on how much money i have
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hoody hoo
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for @i_D ’s worldwide issue i spoke with @MustafaThePoet about surviving a gentrifying toronto, his tensions with making music as a devout Muslim, Smoke Dawg, and the weight of grief. i hope it grasps just how special Mustafa and his album is:
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hoody hoo
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From Grammy awards/nominations to opening for the Raptors game (with a poem in honour of Mandela) to collaborating with Valentino, Mustafa the Poet stays reaching new levels of Black Muslim excellence with his poetry. This city should be so proud. We say 👏🏾 MashaAllah 👏🏾
@MustafaThePoet
Mustafa
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Collaborated with @MaisonValentino on their new Women’s collection, my poetry & words are embroidered on the clothes, shoes & bags..what an honour, black history all year!!
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when someone in the audience warns you that racism does not exist in Canada like it does in the US
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i really wanna see michaela coel play nina simone in a biopic
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some of y’all are here more for the RTs than survivors, can we be honest
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if i hear another ford brother try to speak patois again in this lifetime my edges might bleed like giuliani’s
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“I’m writing for black people in the same way that Tolstoy was not writing for me, a 14-year-old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio.... The point is not having the white critic sit on your shoulder and approve it" — Toni Morrison in 2015:
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shout out to all the girls who are stuck somewhere between who they are and who their families force them to be
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@BridgieCasey thinking everyone has the same access, resources, and mobility that you do in this life is obtuse
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the people asked for paid sick days and the government amped up the police state instead. i have no words.
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when you're doing readings on the subway and find a copy of Metro news w your face on the cover... and then @Pacinthe & your dad text you
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hoody hoo
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when people say "there's no community in toronto," lately, i get disappointed. there is community here. they're the ones showing up, endlessly, to defend lamport stadium, alexandria park, etc. if it's not at the function go to your local protest because this city is under fire.
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hoody hoo
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just found out my uncle was one of the victims in Mogadishu. please make dua for him. Ina lillah wa inna Illahi rajiuun.
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@imbobswaget love that the man at the computer is working on what looks like could be a better cover
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hoody hoo
4 years
in 2016, while in court for the trial against the murder of my cousin, my aunt held back tears before saying to me: ”i fled war back home only for my children to die here” 💔 #JusticeForAbdirahman
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hoody hoo
3 years
two black muslim activists dropped out of BLM-TO and the broader BLM movement today. please read the statement by Sah Ra and Sarah Jama, two housing activists from Hamilton. the sentiments in this letter echo the message from yusra khogali's exit in 2019. yusra tried to warn us:
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Sarah Jama
3 years
Here is our statement on why we left BLMTO, @bolshevikbaddie "After over a year of struggling within @BLM_TO to improve internal processes, we left the group when, like many other people, we found out about @blmcanada_ $8 million dollar purchase of the @WildseedCentre_ "
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