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Camonghne Felix
@CAMONGHNE
Poet. Prof of Creative Writing. ✍🏾
@theCut
. Rep’d by
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@TuesdayAgency
. My nonfic debut DYSCALCULIA is out, 2.14 ❤️
Unceded Piscataway-Conoy Landpenguinrandomhouse.com/books/671602/d…Joined February 2009
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Camonghne Felix
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Overwhelmed. People are going to suffer tonight, and for a long time, as superpowers use their land and lives as chess pieces to advance state power. Imperialism is an old sin with the same old consequences, no matter how much our planet ages.
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Yo I just wanna say, what white people will never experience is being a debated demographic in a presidential debate. Nobody debates white people and how to control white people or whether or not white people deserve rights!!! This is SO uncomfortable!
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"I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." - Toni Morrison
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chag sameach everyone! My *shocking* yearly reminder that not only am I jewish, but am NOT a convert and YES there are black people born into judaism :) If you ask me how I'm jewish I promise I will block you.
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Hello from a girl who just picked her mom up from union station after two years of not seeing her and did not expect the deep guttural cry that just came out of my body. If you were in Union Station and heard a girl crying everything’s fine sorry
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If one more person tries to explain Kanye by pointing to the fact that he is bipolar I swear to fckng god. Me and my bipolar friends have never had an episode & then suddenly became perpetual misognysts who slander Planned Parenthood & have tea w/ Donald Trump!
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Elizabeth Warren just called me to congratulate me on the book deals and to tell me how she loved the idea of leaning on Black poetics traditions to expand the possibilities of our politics and i swear to GOD you cannot tell me I picked the wrong fighter!!! 🗽🗽🗽
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It’s the fact that we woke up to no consequences. That my peers have faced more consequences for protesting. That Kaepernick lost his career for participating in peaceful discourse. I do not have the intellectual space or emotional space for whiteness today. I just don’t.
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The governor of Alabama is a woman. A woman will be signing a bill into law that will make the status of Roe v Wade more vulnerable than ever. Just a reminder that we really do have to evaluate our representatives on who and what they advocate for, not just who they are.
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So if workers are being forced to take unpaid leave, we need a rent freeze. ASAP. Not enough to halt evictions if, after it lifts, folks will be facing eviction or other actions from unpaid rent.
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Day one of freshman year of high school, 2005, I entered 9th grade homeroom with 39 other children and sat on the floor. On day two, my friend and I shared a seat. And by day 5, we both stopped going to school altogether. No one noticed until January.
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Bloomberg said: “Double the class size, with a better teacher, is a good deal for the students.” This is wrong. And dangerous. twitter.com/organizetheppl
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When the 🐐 LPW called and said we were a go, life was doing me in. Loss, exhaustion, all that. But the chance to tell the story of how a brilliant black girl gets her body back from a world that asks for too much of it felt like a chance to tell a lot of our stories at once. 🙏🏾
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For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation. She told the story of her Tokyo Games to @CAMONGHNE nym.ag/3m74k0F
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Aight since we’re just gonna disagree let me say, personally, if you have the unfortunate luck of dating one of my exes and learning about me and then research my life with the intent to write a fictional version of me and my ex’s relationship and publish it I’m pulling up on you
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My grandma died yesterday morning. Grief is exhausting, and losing a matriarch is hard to navigate, but when you lose a matriarch you gain an ancestor so I'm looking forward to getting to know her this way. Rest in peace to the original baddie, the fearless rock. Forward.
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One important thing the last decade of dating has taught me is that a cis man pretending to be unimpressed with my work/achievements is a big red flag. Women, this summer, please avoid giving men who are too cool to geek out on you the time of day.
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The 36th street stop was my train station for almost three years. I took it every morning during rush hour. It services hundreds of people every hour. There is significant police presence in that area every day, especially during rush hour, usually to catch fair evaders.
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Watching ppl like Rep. Porter, Rep. Pressley, Rep. Underwood, and Sen. Warren work is the thing that keeps me in politics b/c they are my reminder that there are folks out there who fought to take power in order to look out for the rest of us and get real shit done in our name.
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the obvious solution to many coronavirus related problems is “give people money to stay home” but “give people money” is actually the solution to many social problems, period.
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Replying to
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It should concern you that that police presence results in fines, fees and removals of/for hundreds of commuters every day, but that that police presence could not prevent, anticipate or efficiently respond to a mass shooting during rush hour.
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"Usually, unify the Black community, means unite Black men and bring Black women and even trans women in to support Black men." - Dr. Angela Davis. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
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Shit as far as I'm concerned Elizabeth Ann Warren wouldve made the best president in history but you don't see me crying on the timeline do you? no, because I'm working.
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She been fighting this shit non stop from the minute it popped up, no sleep, just for it to take her brother. The ironies of public service are unending
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When I got on the train just now a white woman asked me if I voted and honestly y’all I said, “did you vote? Because it’s not my 53% that got us here.” Tensions are HIGH my friends, I’ll keep it cute if you do
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Lmaooo “trump would have won Nevada...if people hadn’t voted!” I’m SCREAMING
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Fmr NV AG Laxalt: ‘No Question‘ Trump Would Have Won Nevada ‘Convincingly‘ Without Mail-in Voting breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/ via @BreitbartNews
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I'm very heartened to see the timeline standing in solidarity with Palestine, so loudly. As a black jew, it's been lonely and violently uncomfortable to try and have discussions about Zionism and settler colonialism in Jerusalem. Stand w/ Palestine because you must.
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And lastly I’m deeply disturbed by the suggestion that sexual assault survivors are not able to properly discern healthy behaviors from predatory behaviors after an assault. We are not hyper sensitive, we are hyper aware, and the ability to see a predator coming is a super power
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Ms. Avant-garde has had me in my feelings all morning, b/c to know how black kids are treated in our education system, how they are targeted by our carceral system -- when we get to see a sliver of that innate genius break through unmitigated, it's easy to see why we're hunted
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You know when I became an abolitionist? 4 yrs ago I was in France and at a dinner with Dr. Davis and we were having a pretty casual discussion when I asked her what made her become a vegetarian? "Well I was in prison, and they were trying to kill me by poisoning the meat."
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In the end, this will be an unsuccessful coup, but regardless, there are a lot of ppl who need to offer explanation for how this was POSSIBLE, & furthermore, explain how ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ALIVE WHEN TRAYVON MARTIN IS DEAD, WHEN AYANNA JONES IS DEAD, WHEN ERIC GARNER IS DEAD
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😩🥺🥺...and then there’s Elizabeth Warren. I know what a good boss feels like. I know what being respected and seen feels like. I’m fighting for all of the black girls I know to get the chance to experience leadership that makes them feel bigger than they’d ever been, not tiny
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Just found a photo of my maternal grandmother wearing a t-shirt that says “healthcare for all” while changing my diaper. Start em young, stay with them always
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Tired: poor people should eat healthier foods Wired: our local governments should be working with local community orgs to bring farmers markets and better produce to our food desserts instead of working with private monopolies like Whole Foods to drive up revenue and gentrify
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From campaign staff to community organizers, Black women are doing everything they can to fight for a democracy that works better for every single one of us. We may choose different paths, but the goal is the same. There is no room for misogynoir in this movement.
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cis women are so terrified of having their understandings of femininity complicated. Girlhood isn’t a universal experience, it’s different for every single on of us, regardless of what you were assigned. just start there and work your way forward.
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there is something about the urgency and futility of trying to save someone’s life before a federal execution that makes me sick to my soul, makes me feel like I can’t breathe. Every human being deserves redemption and the state is not God.
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A reminder that Instacart workers are supposed to be striking today for better work conditions, so please don’t order from there today. Don’t cross the picket line! Take that long walk if you are able to do so!
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At my first wedding in three years 🥺 I would just like to say that “when he made you he must’ve been thinking about me” is a lyric only a man would write
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If you've somehow cheated your way into the priority group to get a vaccine or got lucky, can you not tweet about it? I haven't seen either of my parents in a year and a half and almost lost one of them this year and neither are in the current priority group. Don't be an asshole.
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The "this is not who we are" messaging really isn't working right now, but the "this is sedition and Trump will be held accountable" message might, just an FYI
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People are going to die today -- many people will die today -- and the Defense Department has denied a request to deploy the national guard to the Capitol. Remember this when you say that people who want to defund the police and cut funding to the military are anti-patriotic.
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BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.
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DYSCALCULIA is out today, 2.14.23, available everywhere books are sold. I’ve never been more proud of anything. And as a surprise, catch me on NPR's All Things Considered :) screaming crying throwing up
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Abortions aren’t elected procedures and can’t always be postponed. This is honestly one of my biggest fears coming true, terrified by the idea of state by state shut down of abortion rights by unfairly categorizing abortions as elected/non-essential procedures
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Capitol Insider: Ohio abortion clinics ordered closed by Yost under health director’s order dispatch.com/news/20200321/
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If I were robbing an entire country blind, this headline would have been paired with a mugshot — not a headshot.
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America’s 3 richest people are now positioned to pay zero state income tax on.forbes.com/6014H32Lo by @lisettevoytko
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Idk what to tell the girlies about pop poetry but what I can say is that Warsan Shire is an excellent poet and not all the famous poets can say that! The Rupi discourse has been overdone; talk about Warsan’s consistent, ostentatious excellence instead, I would like that
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Writing a book is literal magic. One day there’s just one page. Then two. Then you look up, and suddenly, hundreds. We got this, let’s fucking go
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I can’t. Yang is a transplant running on the romance of his earliest imagination of NYC: a Batman-era hotel for Transformers, not a home for real people. To him, this is a playground for innovation, not a city in desperate need of sustainable solutions.
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.@elonmusk you would have a very large customer/partner if you want to get into electric buses, garbage trucks and other vehicles that NYC needs. 👍
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My sister couldn’t go back to school this semester after 3 years of busting her ass because we simply couldn’t afford the cost of tuition & she got no forbearance because there is no forbearance policy for a global pandemic. I’m glad to see this and I wish it were true everywhere
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Howard University
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We are proud to announce we will clear the debts of juniors and seniors in need. Students who have an expected family contribution of $0 and an outstanding balance for the Spring 2021 semester will receive a credit to their accounts. 🗞: bit.ly/2WvwbOE
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I picked my fighter. Her name is Elizabeth Warren. We lost. I cried. I’m voting for Joe Biden, because it’s a survival vote. My people always have to pick survival to make it to a tomorrow where we can move from radical vision and not fear. Do not fuck w/ my tomorrow!!!
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Seeing #NeverBiden when trump just tear gassed a bunch of black and brown protestors to WALK TO A CHURCH AND DO A PHOTO OPP WITH THE BIBLE LIKE HE WAS CHANNELING HIS ANCESTORS REALLY MAKES ME WANT TO BREAK SOMETHING
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Leaning into the idea that Nikki Haley’s contrition is real or authentic is actually very bad. We all swore we wouldn’t let republican enablers remake themselves after Trump was ousted, and yet the reconciliation campaign is trending on Twitter
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I’ve been in politics for a decade and spent the first half of that decade as an organizer. Your favorite early write ups about race and gender from teen vogue? I wrote those. POC 4 Solvency? I built that. I May be new to YOU — but I’m not new to *this*.
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Some news: Headed to Boston in 24 hours to join the
@TeamWarren
campaign as Director of Surrogates and Strategic Communications. I’m thrilled to be on this journey to elect our first woman president with a team of such brilliant dreamers. History is ours to make!! 🌈
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Some newz: Elated to say that I have two new books forthcoming from Penguin Random House /
@OneWorldLit
— & both are about poets visiting the past and writing the future. I am thrilled that I get to write during this moment & so grateful to be able to so this w/ a brilliant team!
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My guiding principle: you are not an exception nor are you exceptional. You are blood and guts and glory. You will fail, you will have to edit yourself, you will have to humble yourself, and along the way, you will have to make space for others. A word if you needed to hear it.
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What's hurting me the most about Toni's passing is that she has died during the resurgence of white nationalism -- something she survived, warned us about, fought against, lived in spite of -- and did not get to live to see it reach its final form, and, inevitably, combust.
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No, Angela Davis said SHE is voting for biden because SHE sees it as a vote for HERSELF. She didn’t tell anyone how they should vote. let me find out all the drama on the timeline comes down to reading comprehension!! 👿👿👿👿👿👿👿 t.co/nt5WzLnBZx
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Can’t help but think that this is where the inherent contradictions of the carceral system becomes even more dangerous: prisons are a breeding ground for white supremacist extremism. If we jail every participant of last week’s coup, what do you think happens when they get there?
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