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'i am just as committed to expression as to freedom' -canisia lubrin • (they/she)

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@nollywoodstemme
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6 months
a few weeks ago I tore my right achilles. its an injury thats prevented from walking, driving, and working among other things. I'll be getting surgery on it this weekend and could really use some support as I recover.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
parents will tell this to their children and then be confused when the child grows to be emotionally detached from them and cuts them off.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
flint, katrina, & aids have entered the chat
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Just a reminder. NONE of these men would have been ok with losing a quarter of a million Americans.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
if it's one thing i'm gon do it's realize something someone said to me is completely out of pocket 48hrs after they say it.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
angela davis said "there are black people I do not want to be in unity with" & I really felt that
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
they really did something for me
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
so much of the scarcity that we know is artificially organized. there has always been enough for all of us. scarcity is by (capitalist) design.
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Protestors in #Nigeria discovered today a warehouse of Covid19 food aid in Lagos that was meant for people but is locked by Gov. Worsening economic conditions, bad governance are main reasons behind #EndSars movement:
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
I will never shut up about how evil and unsustainable 40+hrs of labor a week is
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
my needs cannot be met if I do not make them known. - a very difficult pill to swallow.
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@nollywoodstemme
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8 months
how conflict avoidant people feel when real communicators step to them
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
when your therapist says "so I'm starting to notice a theme/pattern..." get ready to be read for filth
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@nollywoodstemme
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5 years
i hope the revolutionary that tweeted-- "'ew she fuck the weed man for weed' -a bitch thats fucking the text man for texts" --is having a good day today
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
monogamy vs polyamory superiority debates become less & less interesting to me as I learn that as long as we're living in a loveless culture rife w patriarchy, capitalism, ytness, etc...none of us are really out here cultivating healthy, loving relationships w/ out some deep work
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
"please take the unscanned item out of the bagging area"
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✧ 𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 ✧
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who’s not police but FEELS like police to you?
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@nollywoodstemme
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forever daydreaming about serena's nike denim looks
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
so much of my inner child work has been repairing my relationship with my voice & learning to speak courageously and candidly in moments of tension. too often we tell children there is so much they have no right to say and feel.
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
I love dates. I love getting dressed for them.. I love the "I can't wait to see you" texts before, the "I had a great time" texts after. w/friends & lovers alike, I love intentional, romantic, quality time that brings us closer. its so important to me.
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
very much looking forward to the days that I can express to someone that I'm feeling unloved and not be met with denial & an egocentric self defense
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
I want us to stop praising cishet men for parading around in aesthetics that queer people risk their lives to invent and embody on the daily.
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
this pandemic has truly reconfigured my relationship to labor, pleasure, and wellness.
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@nollywoodstemme
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8 months
this is just santana & janelle monae
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The black community in the future if people keep up this behavior
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@nollywoodstemme
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17 days
I need to know whose responsible for some of this on my 'for you' page
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I miss seeing likes - let’s bring back transparency.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 months
pet peeve is when someone immediately jumps to a bad faith assumption about me because I did not meet their (uncommunicated) expectation(s).
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
it is so disheartening to see protestors kneeling w the police, becoming the police by turning people in, cheering for the police, providing the police w water.
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
if its one thing ima do its kill the mood by saying something is anti black
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
y'all be talking to your friends like "I see you had 3 tardys this month? 😡"
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@nollywoodstemme
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1 year
may I have the ability to discern between discomfort I need to endure & discomfort that is a signal to go in a different direction
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
grateful for the clarity I've gained from reading bell hooks(+others) about what love is...& how it taught me that the feeding, clothing, and sheltering that the father mentions in this scene can be described as care..but care ≠ love.
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@nollywoodstemme
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@mariovldzx
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Me: I’m finally starting to feel a little more confident with how my body looks 😁 My body dysmorphia: look again
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
I rebuke the spirit of diversity and inclusion
@PrayOrDie
Erik Vance
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This is why the Black Church should be a curriculum in every University, Seminary & College. I also believe that African American Worship should also be a course in the music department as an elective for Music Majors. I can’t stop listening to this. These college students are 🔥
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
I do not have to be healed to be worthy of love. I cannot find the healing I need in isolation. I will find healing in practicing love that pushes me to confront & make peace with the most challenging parts of myself.
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@nollywoodstemme
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5 years
distribute your wealth
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@nollywoodstemme
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8 months
what yt people are doing with (ballroom) ebonics (under the guise of "genZ/tiktok slang") is so evil lol.
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@nollywoodstemme
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6 months
my reservations with "casual sex" stem largely from the fact that (for me) there is nothing casual about it.
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
“sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it’s not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can..under completely impossible circumstances" -- Toni Morrison
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
every time people on this app are called in to interrogate their relationship to fatphobia they burst into an enflamed rage lol
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
republicans when affirmative action dropped:
@thebaddiegalore
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖈𝖗𝖞𝖑𝖎𝖈 𝖋𝖊𝖒 🍒
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one day we will have a honest conversation about how certain groups weaponize their identities to get their bills paid and then accuse folks of being phobic when it doesn’t work out for them
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
thinking about all the black children on the spectrum that live through years of criminalization and punishment because their severe distress is interpreted as "acting out".
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
niggas will be gooch deep in some freshly rinsed cheeks and still find their way to patriarchy. I am impressed.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
relevant..bell hooks in Black is Black Ain't (1994)
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
i would like to live in a world where the shaming and berating of a little dark skin trans girl isn't regarded as some necessary collateral damage for cishet people's (vapid) "conversations". I really wish he did not say thank you.
@piscesSZNforeva
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I love that Dwayne Wade said this and he’s right! Zaya’s name stays in people’s mouths. At least it’s bringing awareness 🤷🏽‍♀️
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@nollywoodstemme
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6 months
1 black + 1 queer ginger + 48 yts = a "diverse and inclusive" work environment
@tikli_____
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what is white math
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
imagine someone publicly announcing how much growth and healing they've undergone when it was made at your expense... imagine someone publicly professing how much their relationship/marriage improved when it was at your expense... and not once mentioning that harm..
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
like ppl are still lining up in droves on here to defend beating their kids.. niggas are clinging to cisheteropatriarchal gender roles..still transphobic... idc if you're dating 1 person or 5 are you working your way out of this mess or not.
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
idc if it was just one episode
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@nollywoodstemme
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why don't I "lighten up"? see now you a colorist.
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@nollywoodstemme
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up thinking bout stemme presenting eve
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@nollywoodstemme
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mind you the groceries are like celery stalks and ground beef
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
coming to terms w mental disability as an adult is just waves of flashbacks to moments that I initially reduced to moral failing/incompetence....& realizing my mind/body was really trying to communicate to me that it was in distress lol
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@nollywoodstemme
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10 months
I miss when femme & masc/butch were solely autonomous identifiers, rooted in lesbian gender/sexual performance, fluid & dynamic & queer (& camp even)...I miss when they were not diluted into this bioreductive ciscentric mess that many use today in place of "(fe)male-like"
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
one of the most difficult parts of growing and healing though relationships is coming to terms with the times I have inadvertently collaborated in my own suffering.
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@nollywoodstemme
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expressing its a shame & disgrace for someone to suggest you're trans........... interesting.
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Sulaiman Ahmed
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IMANE KHELIF RESPONDS TO DONALD TRUMP AND ELON MUSK: “I saw that big personalities like Donald Trump had compared me to a man and it hurt me extremely. I didn't understand this relentlessness and all this hatred. I was afraid but I got up again."
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@nollywoodstemme
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11 months
cis women getting caught by the ricochets of cissexism & transphobia (that they often perpetuate) will never be the same as what trans women do to survive...
@UjuAnya
Uju Anya
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This cis woman—like me and others with PCOS hirsutism—spends time, $$$ removing full mustache+beard we naturally grow. Facial hair removal is a gender affirming process we do just like trans women to make our physical appearance match our gender identity.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
I like all love languages in abundance, but I am realizing more and more how much I need words of affirmation. I love to hear how much I'm desired expressed verbally to me with clarity and intention.
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@nollywoodstemme
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atp the only kind of relationships (platonic, romantic, sexual, domestic,+) I want to be in, are ones where we feel a fundamental level of responsibility, devotion, & commitment of care & compassion to each other.
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@nollywoodstemme
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regardless of what you think of people in ski masks, it would be ridiculous to ever think that the state is sincerely moving w/ a genuine concern for public safety in mind
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aqua tofana
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This ski mask discourse is crazy like YES it actually is natural to tense up when men in ski masks approach u. Tryna turn clothing notoriously worn in the commission of a crime into a fashion statement was y’all’s first mistake. shit is unnecessary & unsettling
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
y'all said gender will be binary by any means necessary
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
sensational
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
I am growing wary of this likening of the gender dysphoria that trans/gnc people experience to the gender dysphoria that cis people experience. its a convenient entry point, but if we look at whats at stake, these experiences are a lot less comparable than we think.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 months
I actually love being a walking gender conundrum it is just unfortunate that it's not always a safe space to occupy.
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@nollywoodstemme
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have been seeing this video circulate for hrs now. it makes me feel, amongst other things, rly disheartened our adolescent youth is being groomed into patriarchy through men/content creators like these.
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@nollywoodstemme
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@OGUNGOODZ friends of friends & mutual friend gatherings is where the magic is made
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
I really wish we did not spend so much time trying to harden kids in preparation for some hypothetical pain that the "real world" would cause them. we teach so many kids how to numb themselves to pain in silence when they're much healthier ways cope & heal
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@nollywoodstemme
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feel like a lot of what we attribute to youtube "radicalizing" young adults/children into patriarchy/cisheterosexism was being done by a lot of sitcoms in the 90s/early 2000s.
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What sitcom opinion will have you like this???
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@nollywoodstemme
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wish more people saw communication as a two way street of not only speaking & listening but also of: embodying the courage to share & fostering a space that invites someone to believe that their perspective/feelings are valued
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@nollywoodstemme
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1 year
a lot of peoples ability to separate their general disdain for cis men (which is valid) frm how they treat people who (or things that) seem "masculine" to them is a lot worse than they try to put on.. its sometimes alarming.. always disappointing
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
who has had to suffer for you to be the person you are today? who has had to be the collateral damage for your "growth"?
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
I rebuke the spirit of diversity and inclusion
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@nollywoodstemme
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10 months
posting with pride about how you served in the same country that is generously funding the surging genocide of oppressed people abroad...now of all times...is a choice
@angelicaross
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I will get my discharge restored to honorable next year. I heard they are finally addressing the way “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” terrorized many of us who were willing and able to serve our country. Still I am Veteran and salute everyone who has served! Happy #VeteransDay2023
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
if you're yt i promise you I do not care about any takes you have on gender like at all
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
irresistible
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
feeling unloved is one thing, testing people in our lives to see if they'll confirm this feeling--withholding & pulling away bc they don't meet unspoken expectations--is another.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
I am more interested in black joy that has roots in resistance against the state than I am interested in black joy that serves as a narcotic and leaves us passive in the face of violence. they're so different to me
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@nollywoodstemme
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our progress is really gonna depend on our ability to imagine a world far different from the one we live in now. a world where the title of officer is beyond redemption..where protests against "police brutality" become protest againts policing.
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@nollywoodstemme
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4 years
for every cis straight man in a skirt in a magazine there is a community of people of marginalized genders & sexualities vulnerable to harm... a community of people that cannot jump ship when they decide proximity to queerness is no longer safe/fun for them.
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
people would simply not stop asking me what my race was at work today 😭. just another day in the life being racially ambiguous
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
I been practicing by cussing out random yt folk tho lol
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@nollywoodstemme
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like wtf do this mean
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
it is no coincidence that I've had my greatest creative spurts when my immediate needs (food, housing, safety) were met at minimal cost. the creative mind needs time to be idle & at peace
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@nollywoodstemme
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once I started to meet people w curiosity & learn to explain needs/stakes (instead of immediately assuming poorly of someone's character/feelings towards me) my life got a lot better...relationships improved..I hold onto less.
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@nollywoodstemme
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I see myself in both of them
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@nollywoodstemme
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is it that no one can love you right, or that you refuse to stand boldly in your needs and let yourself be known and seen???
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@nollywoodstemme
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don't really get this thing of going up for people associating themselves with ballroom when they express blatant disregard for the people that make it up
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SEXYY. TOKISCHA. BALLROOM. this my favorite crossover episode .
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@nollywoodstemme
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1 year
to me, there is no difference between tolerating transphobia (or other phobic ideologies) in your friend group and harboring those views yourself.
@Queen_Aeesha
Aeesha of Arsenal🌹✨
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Unpopular Friendship opinions that would get you in this position?
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@nollywoodstemme
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practices like communication, honesty, being safe, are all skills that need to be developed. it was not enough to just say I valued them in theory. I needed to practice, be trained, to study, to unlearn, to fail.
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as you got older what did you realise?
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make me wanna flip a desk
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@nollywoodstemme
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(jayz voice) what you want me to do im sorry
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@AlysonThePunk
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i find it impressive when trans people were hot as both genders. like that has to be cheating no? like you can't just be good at everything.
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@nollywoodstemme
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I want all the cis women on this app to think about why they feel attacked and disrespected when someone suggests they are trans before they go on about some "transphobia effects everybody"
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@nollywoodstemme
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1 year
@ajjumas_child bbymutha the only one I know
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@nollywoodstemme
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2 years
the circulation of "leaked" nudes (and all the commotion surrounding it) that happen w/out the subject's consent is rape culture and I wish we took it more seriously.
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@nollywoodstemme
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having multiple people throughout your life belittle your emotions off some "why you still on that? that was weeks ago" shit does not help with this at all 🥴 lol
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4 years
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real buff girl shit
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@nollywoodstemme
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(time & experience have shown me) there is just too much at stake and I'd like to share that kind of space w/ those that can and want to move accordingly.
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@nollywoodstemme
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3 years
hey y'all. I'm helping a trans man in Nigeria, Gee Jay, get some gender medical care with this fundraiser and would really really appreciate your monetary and non monetary support. help me fund trans life while we're still here.
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@nollywoodstemme
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instead of resorting to a silent treatment & bowing out gracefully, go ahead and cuss them out this one time. I promise you won't regret it. I promise it'll feel good, cathartic.
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1 year
less concerned about y'all's swirl fantasies & more concerned w/ how dark-skin/fat/less desirable, gender marginalized characters are treated in media (as friends, lovers, or otherwise)
@Ari3mu
ari🍎
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who is going to talk about the disposable black girlfriend trope
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3 years
morning from the stemme of ur dreams
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cis women should take notes or somethin idk
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