Derrick Clifton  Verified account

@DerrickClifton

Journalist / Comms Pro: Identity, culture, social issues. As read , etc. Prior: . They/He 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽

Maybe: Chicago
Joined June 2009
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  1. Mar 18

    Just got my group's tickets and am so looking forward to this event. 🙌🏾🙌🏾

    CHI CITY!!! We’ll see you Friday 4/22 at the Harris Theater — get your tix to Book Tour now! 🧠📚
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  2. Mar 15

    My afternoon work soundtrack: Amii Stewart's "Knock on Wood" A classic.

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  3. Mar 10

    Anyway, we got bigger fish to fry than worrying about Jussie's sentence. I hope we can move on from this and let it be already. The whole thing is just ridiculous and a spectacle at this point, and it's sad.

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  4. Mar 10

    Jussie may have done the unthinkable, but at the same time it says a lot about the system that he has to declare something like this. We can critique his behavior while also looking at the system with a side-eye. Periodt.

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    Jussie Smollett after the sentencing: “I am not suicidal. If anything happens to me when I go in there, you must all know that.”
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  5. Mar 8

    The Florida legislators endangering the lives of of queer people, especially queer youth, ought to be ashamed of themselves today. This law is going to cause so much unimaginable and oftentimes insidious harm, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

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  6. Mar 8

    Oh lovely, a downpour of "Spotify is down" tweets! Lemme go on over to YouTube and mind my business...

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  7. Mar 7

    Chicago fake spring was nice while it lasted for a day, and now we're getting hail and snow today. I can't grumble enough.

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    Mar 5

    Several things about Brittney Griner's detainment give me pause. Griner plays for a Russian team in the offseason and has for the past several years. Reportedly, some 3 weeks ago, Russia detained her after allegedly finding hash vape pens in her luggage at the airport.

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  9. Mar 5

    Chicago is absolutely gorgeous today!

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    Mar 3

    “It’s already dangerous to give birth as a Black person, and it’s already dangerous to live as a queer person,” Black LGBTQ+ Moms and Parents founder Mia Cooley says. writes:

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    Mar 1

    A Facebook group called Black LGBTQ+ Moms and Parents is providing community and connection for Black queer parents. spoke with founder Mia Cooley about the necessity for safe spaces like this.

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    Mar 1

    Two women are sitting behind the President of the United States at . Most of the little girls watching won’t know it, but this is a historic moment.

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    Mar 1

    "Cooley, a queer, pansexual parent of three kids, says she started Black LGBTQ+ Moms and Parents out of necessity, after experiencing how mainstream online groups for moms weren’t inclusive of LGBTQ2S+ parents of colour."

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 27

    A Chicago couple was expecting twins in April via a surrogate in Kyiv. Instead, the boys came Feb. 25 — more than 7 wks premature. Now they’re racing to find a medical transport to get their newborns to safety. My latest:

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  15. Feb 27

    Read. This. Column. "Just as DeSantis seems to be mimicking Russia’s so-called “gay propaganda laws,” which bar children from access to content that portrays LGBTQ people in a positive light, Abbott is ripping a page from the dictator’s how-to guide."

    GOP governors aren’t waging “culture wars.” They are codifying hate against LGBTQ youth, especially trans kids. My latest column.
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    Feb 27

    🗣I don’t know who needs to hear this

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  17. Retweeted
    Feb 25

    On "This is not Iraq or Syria, this is a civilized and European country...." As someone who has lived through wars and invasions with the world watching, I deeply empathize with the Ukrainian people. The deeply racist coverage has been very telling as well.

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    Feb 24

    Looks like Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts are on the latest cover of Essence Magazine, “the first same sex couple to cover” the mag. 💜🥲✊🏿

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    Feb 24

    Resist the urge to shame people for not tweeting incessantly about world events. For some, posting inane shit is a coping mechanism, the difference between keeping their shit together and losing it entirely. Everyone processes things differently.

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  20. Feb 23

    This man is demonic for doing this. Protect trans kids.

    Gov. Abbott also implied that mandated reporters like teachers, nurses, or doctors will be held criminally liable for not reporting families whose children are transitioning.
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