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@ishenarobinson

🇯🇲 Jamaican, writer, advocate, currently based in Chicago. Co-Founder || Bylines

Chicago, IL
Joined January 2017

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  1. When I got to page 5 and had already counted 10 uses of the word ‘savage’

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  2. I dropped my post colonial literature class cuz today we had a 3 page academic essay analysing Conrad’s Heart of Darkness due and sometime over the weekend I heard the voice of my ancestors say “What we’re not gonna do is start Black History Month off like this” and I listened

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  3. Also because Champeta originated among inhabitants of African descent of the Colombian cities of Cartagena de Indias and Barranquilla, and was linked with the culture of the Palenque of San Basilio district. ✊🏽

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  4. It’s imperative that I train myself to be less amenable.

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  5. The good news is she’s probably not into him at all and was just tipsily allowing his adoration for the super bowl weekend. He isn’t the first industry dude to be enamored with her

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  6. Please stop listening to Jay-Z about social issues when capitalism has been and will always be his guiding moral principle, what he organizes around, and what he aims to protect. You’ll be a lot less disappointed.

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  7. Feb 1

    that modern american politics is both murderously violent in its outcomes and devoted to politeness in its affect rightfully drives any thinking person a bit mad

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  8. I remember listening to this album for the first time and this song specifically and crying ❤️

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  10. Again, if “censoring“ = a white woman getting $$$, movie deal & #1 bestseller despite plagiarizing & culturally appropriating Latinx writers... ...what is the word for Latinx writers NEVER getting published at all b/c they’re shut out by a white dominated publishing industry???

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  11. Feb 1

    When I reminded my mum about what she said to me in anger years ago, she was shocked. I was 16 at the time. And over a decade later, I still hadn’t forgotten. The person saying the words always forgets. It’s the person the words are spoken to, that’s burdened with the memory.

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  12. This also reveals what many of us have long known, which is that Yang appeals to libertarians and even right-wing voters who aren't interested in structural change or even necessarily ousting Trump.

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  13. Feb 1

    Insecurity and a history of trauma will try to talk us out of our wisdom. As we heal, we relearn to trust the voice within.

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  14. “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” -Assata Shakur, 1988

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  15. Jan 31

    Normal people: Can I get two of those cheese trix? *Gets two* This taste good, thank you. Jamaicans: beg uh two a dat nuh *gets two* Suh a two yuh really look pon me and gimi??

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  16. (Opens Twitter) (Sees Sanders-Clinton feud entering its fourth year) (Closes Twitter) (Walks into the ocean) (Embraces the sweet release of death)

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  17. YALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!!!HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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  19. Reminds me of when lil Nas x hit number 1 on the billboards and a music journalist on here basically said the second spot would be the new number 1 in his eyes as long as Lil Nas X was there. Smh

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  20. Last night I was struck for a moment by the terrifying fact that my life is completely up to my guidance and direction. It’s exhilarating, but also scary as shit.

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