Layshia Clarendon
@Layshiac
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On this Earth to abolish and imagine what could be! ✨ (I use allllll the pronouns)
Joined May 2013
LOVED chatting with @JulieFoudy & @LynnOlszowy for the #LaughterPermitted pod! Per usual, it’s gets real deep real quick. Freedom always starts within 🙌🏽✨
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I’m usually not scared to share news publicly but the amount of hate, myths & ignorance actually had me debating sharing this joy. I had Top Surgery! I’m feeling free & euphoric in my body & want Trans people to know and see that we’ve always existed & no one can erase us! 🏳️⚧️✊🏽❤️
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I can’t believe I ever stepped foot in Kelly’s house and shared a meal with her. It’s actually really hurtful to see her true colors. I had no idea while I played for ATL she felt this way. Happy to own us as long as we stay quiet and perform 🤬👀 .
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.@wnba orange hoodie is top selling item on fanatics = not rocket science. Its exposure. This is the opening weekend and the most National TV games we’ve had. So we’re getting coverage. Our stories told. And the hoodie is dope. Women ARE capable of selling in high numbers!.
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Congrats to the @UMBCAthletics team joining the Harvard women’s team as the only two 16 seeds to ever to beat a 1 seed! Don’t come at us with that “first team ever stuff people!!!!” First team on the MENS side. NOT IN THE GAME OF BASKETBALL!.
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My deepest fear was that my peers in this league would reject me. On the contrary, I received the most authentic love and support! I’m proud to stand together like we always do. We flip senate seats, we stand on the front lines, we always push forward! Come for one come for all!.
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I love this generation of college basketball players because the fearlessness they have to speak up about injustices is something I didn’t have in college. The “grateful & happy to be here” women’s athlete is a thing of the past. I’m celebrating that fact today! Proud of y’all!.
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Less talk, more visibility. Give her visibility so she can see how unstoppable she is. Give her visibility so she can continue to break barriers. 💁🏽♂️👊🏽 @adidaswomen #CreatedWithAdidas #RepresentationMatters
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Also, if the only time you ever cover the WNBA is when it’s bad or controversial news you’re part of the damn problem! Shout out to the people and news outlets who constantly tell our stories through it all.
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My heart officially beats outside of my body. @jessicadolan gave me the best Christmas present ever! 😭🎄🎁 ❤️ 👶🏽 #BabyC #CallMeBigPoppa
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Dissent is a form of patriotism so don’t at me with any nonsense. I care deeply about this country and the people who live here and that’s why I fight like hell to make it better. ✊🏽🇺🇸❤️
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I want to thank every person who reached out to me, our family has been flooded with an outpouring of love. I’m still pretty shocked and heartbroken to be in this moment. But don’t worry people have tried to bury me before they just keep forgetting I’m a seed 🌱✨😉 I’ll be back.
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Let us not forget that 53% of white women voted for trump in 2016 so. I need my white women to collect their people! 👀.
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Dear Twitter fam, please stop tagging me in tweets post game about pronouns. I use all of them. Meaning no one can misgender me (it’s not possible!) I appreciate the support but/and it’s really disorienting to constantly feel reduced to pronouns. ❤️.
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The amount of black men who drag our league and blame women for their problems while not making the connection to how that’s exactly what white people do to you regarding your race just BLOWS MY MIND. That’s the double whammy of being black AND a woman.
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Wait. we’re having a WNBA season AND we just won the biggest Supreme Court decision AND @TheWNBPA & @WNBA won the Stuart Scott humanitarian award for our historic CBA! I mean. try and stop us! #BlackTransLivesMatter #LFG #WatchMePlay #FromADistance 🌈✊🏽🏀🌈✊🏽🏀🌈✊🏽🏀🌈✊🏽🏀.
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Yes, trans people belong in sports. Yes, I belong in sports. Can we please stop asking if peoples existence is valid cause that’s what you’re doing by debating if we “belong” or not.
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Wow, that Uconn/NC State matchup was one of the best games I’ve ever witnessed!.
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My heart breaks for players getting cut (yes, it’s part of the business) but particularly since there are ZERO developmental opportunities. No G League, no developmental 3x3 leagues, no extra roster spots as Injury reserve/inactive players. How are players expected to develop?.
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Shout out to NBA guys who come to tell people in women’s sports what we need to do to grow the game. Thanks, now we’ll ask for more resources, tell the powers at be to tell our stories more, and generally just start to push things “like the NBA.” Problems solved.
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Aliyah Boston’s face is breaking my heart. The emotion. Wow wow wow what a finish to that game.
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I need more postgame WNBA coverage! The let down after the game is over just hurts. It’s so high then so low as the channel skips over to something else. I wanna see what’s happening in the locker rooms, the joy and the heartbreak, the post game interviews, the analysis.
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No ones body or existence should be up for debate. This is what I mean when saying none of us are free until we are all free. Policing trans bodies also hurts cis bodies. It’s all connected.
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IF YOU’RE NOT OUTRAGED BY THIS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!.
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.@MooreMaya literally fought and got a wrongly convicted man out of prison! Jonathon Irons is f*cking free at last. wow wow wow.
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.@britnidlc wrote their heart out with this piece, wow. To have my story told with such eloquence and nuance is a privilege that should be afforded to all 🙌🏽✨.
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Today I turn 30 yall! Aging is such a privilege. 🙌🏽✨ Some lessons I’ve learned in my short time on this earth. 1) I’ll never regret sticking up for myself. 2) Boundaries are our best friends. 3) I am worthy of love, dignity and respect. ♉️😏.
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Sigh…but pride was a protest against the police 🥴🤦🏽♂️ and the governor of Florida just signed an anti trans bill!!! 🤬🤯 rainbows painted over violent oppressors will just not due!.
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Regarding the news today: I want the shame to not be my own anymore, because it's not my shame to carry, but it's something that I've had to carry. It's a horrible thing to live in silence, to carry that pain and that weight and the guilt.
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Wow, so I was not expecting that level of love and support from everyone yesterday. I’m overwhelmed in the best possible way! 🤯 Thank you to everyone who messaged me publicly and privately. Your love (and @jessicadolan blocking 🙅🏽♂️😂) drowned out the negative noise! ❤️.
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It’s non-binary awareness day so here I am living this wild life outside of the gender binary. Secret to let y’all in on 👀 - the patriarchy doesn’t want you to know - nonbinary people are trying to free us all from gender constraints regardless of how you identify 🤯✨
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Woke up and it still hurts so bad 💔 losing sucks in ways that make everything come crashing down. But/and I am so full of gratitude for my Lynx family. They have been my landing place in a tough season of life. The people are what make the journey, always. 💙💚.
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For Creighton to do that IN IOWA in front of that crowd down 4, down the stretch of that game… GUTSY!!!.
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Shout out that new CBA cause WNBA free agency has been LIT ever since! 🙌🏽🔥🔥🔥😝.
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I’ve also had a lot of best best friends that slept over growing up. I was also a huge Sue Bird fan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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I’ve gotten a few media requests for comments on being waived and my injury. I have no comments other than I am 100% cleared to play and practice. I’m feeling strong and ready to play!.
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” -Maya Angelou . Holy shit I’m on the cover of @ESPN! Story by the one and only @katie_barnes3
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.@SInow messed up by not SOLEY acknowledging the WNBA as the SPORTS ACTIVIST OF THE YEAR! Period. It should have been our whole league(including Stewie) to win this award. The W led this entire sports movement! Disgusted at the constant erasure of black women, queer & trans folks.
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.@minnesotalynx fans are hands down the best home crowd I’ve ever played for! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 appreciate y’all.
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You can’t tell us to stick to sports while a sitting senator owns one of our teams! 🙄 It’s one thing to sell a team, it’s another thing to flip a senate senate seat. @RevWarnock is the democratic candidate running for senate in Georgia.
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A’ja just took out her mouth guard like a black woman taking off her hoop earrings before a fight.
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When increased visibility leads to increased violence it’s not enough to simply say “I see you.” We need allies to fight like hell as if this fight were their own because it is. #TransDayOfVisibility.
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Ive seen people critiquing this & smudging is such a beautifully cleansing practice. When I played for the @ConnecticutSun (owned by the Mohegan Tribe) we would participate in a smudge ceremony w/ members of the tribe at the start of camp & for playoffs. & I smudge at home daily!.
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LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!!! Wow, wow, wow 👏🏽👊🏽 one day women being hired in the NBA won’t be news worthy, it’ll be just another cool person who got hired for an open position. BUT TODAY ITS HISTORICALLY NEWS WORTHY!! This is why we are fighting this fight. Congrats! @CalCoachG.
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I keep watching the video of A’ja having to be helped off the court last night and WHEW 💔you can feel the heartbreak in your soul…when you’ve put you’re EVERYTHING into something and come up short, that’s heavy. That emotion belongs out there just as much as a winning teams joy.
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Woke up and just smiled remembering that one time Kelly Loeffler tried to come for the W and we helped @ReverendWarnock take her senate seat! Winning never felt so damn good 😆🍑🥳.
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Many people don’t understand the mental health toll of playing in a bubble. It’s isolating, lacks boundaries, and has no outlet! Thinking about college athletes in a bubble makes me cringe because there are already high rates of mental health issues in college athletics.
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First day of WNBA training camp!!! Let’s gooooo! 🙌🏽🥳❗️.
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Wow, @dawnstaley completely nailed it here. Looking forward to the many coaches on the men’s side who jump at the chance to publicly support, call out and demand better from the @NCAA. This is not only a fight for coaches & players on the women’s side. @marchmadness @ncaawbb.
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Shout out to @alikershner for blasting the @NCAA for this ridiculousness! Pictured is the men’s vs. women’s ncaa training facility in the March Madness bubble. Don’t ask us how to make women’s sports better when the answers are already right in front of you. INVEST!
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I’m just so happy watching women’s basketball 😭😭😭😭😭!!!!.
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This is why police need to be defunded and ultimately abolished! We time and time again hope for a sliver of justice but why would we get that when the system is designed to protect the very folks that are murdering and terrorizing us. This isn’t a bad apple, it’s a rotten tree.
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I’m not saying this to anyone specifically but I’m saying it to everyone in the athletic world as sports return. Please be mindful of performative activism. Definition “activism done to increase one's social capital rather than one's devotion to a cause.”.
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So I’ve never donated to a presidential candidate before (not even Obama I was in high school, then college lol) but today I donated to @ewarren’s because her message, policies & plans have me fired up!!! For the first time in a while I feel like there is hope again! #Warren2020.
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Watching ATL vs Dallas and emotional hearing the announcers use them/them pronouns with @A_Hooper25. I’ve never got to experience this as a spectator before. It’s a small thing with a huge impact to feeling seen and represented. The @WNBA is so important.✨🫶🏽.
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Today’s ingrained racism. Planes now board back to front. Im seat 2B. I board last & the stewardess is standing in my seat with an open bin above and points to the back of the plane “there’s room back there for your bag. We’re waiting for this person to come to their seat” 🤔.
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Yall…it’s still sinking in…BG is home! *praise dance* 💃🏽. No trolls, bots, haters, can take away that FACT!!!! OUR GIRL IS HOME 🥹😭 my heart is full. So freaking happy for Cherelle to have her wife home. 😮💨❤️🔥🙌🏽.
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My one condition for returning was that I get a jersey that fits this year! 😂.
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I’m so proud to announce that I’m partnering with @adidashoops and the @wnba to give 1,000 adidas legacy student athletes access to WNBA League Pass. We know that representation matters and you need to see it to believe it.
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The way the refs just let DT & Jackie go at it is how we want the regular season to be officiated! Let us talk some shit, bump chests and get a little rowdy 😤. As opposed to everything constantly being a double technical!.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Arizona, Stand up! All yall’s brackets busted. WOW first time ever! Wow wow wow Aari played her heart out!!!.
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Naz Hillmon’s clarity, poise and stature in the moment she was drafted lower than expected speak VOLUMES.
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I wear orange because we’ve lost too many precious lives to gun violence #WearOrange #TheWWearsOrange @TheWNBPA @Everytown
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The anticipation of becoming a parent is 🤯😳😆😅😛😱🤗😍🎁!!!! ALL THE FEELINGS! Any day now. any day now. any day now!!! 🤞🏽 How am I supposed to eat and breathe and sleep and do anything when our baby could be born any minute now!.
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This article 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 ! “Stumbling over Arike Ogunbowale while getting Sabrina Ionescu right is not about the so-called difficulty of a name. It’s about what names are deemed worthy of knowing.” We just have to be better - great piece @britnidlc with some excellent sources!.
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Dijonai Carrington! Loved her game since she was at Stanford. We need to normalize calling athletes in the women’s game “bullies”! We celebrate it when Lebron bullies someone & we critique it or even have to preface it on the women’s side. I want a bully like Dijonai on my team!.
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Take aways from @espn ‘Breakaway’ with @MooreMaya. 1) thankful to be let in on such an intimate story 2) wow, it was beautifully told 3) I believe even more deeply in abolishing prisons 4) there are soo many more Jonathon Irons out there 💔 5) Maya is the goat in all the ways.
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