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James Baldwin, who left us 35 years ago, in Turkey
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“Joy is not made to be a crumb”
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My story of medical misogyny is going to the doctors 5 times with "side pain" and being told it's "just period pain" or "IBS". When I finally got a scan it was an "ovarian cyst the size of a potato". By the time I was booked in for surgery it ruptured. Believe people 😕
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Feeling extremely seen in this thread as someone with chronic migraines.
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I want to follow an abled person around for a week and veto random things they can do easily.
“Okay so I’m just gonna run by the grocery store—“
“No.”
“W-why?”
“You have a migraine now. You can eat crackers and lay in bed.”
“Well, I’ll just order—“
“Phone call? No.”
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Happy 80th birthday Jimi Hendrix 🤍
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“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
Bruce Lee, who would've been 82 today, on life
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“We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold.”
— Audre Lorde
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— alice walker
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✊🏾💜🙏🏾
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My wife @LeelaDaou and I feel immensely honored to be among incredible people like you.
Whether or not it's #GoodbyeTwitter, we will keep fighting for a better world and against the toxic systems of oppression that crush so many people.
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THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU 🙏🏽❤️
If it is indeed #RIPTwitter, I don't want to leave without expressing my gratitude.
I've learned so much from each of you. I appreciate you more than you know.
If you want to stay connected, I'll be on Substack.
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Yes, Lucille Clifton!
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MUTUAL AID
NEED HELP TODAY?
Post here and I'll retweet for exposure.
#MutualAidRequest
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the audre lorde questionnaire to oneself 🌱
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Find a quiet moment today to celebrate the person you're becoming. Amid everything—all the pain and heartache—you're still here. Sacred, wondrous, beloved.
"You are your own best thing." - Toni Morrison
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Insulin is grown in huge vats by modified bacteria for basically no cost. It was the intention of the people who developed this technique that no one who need it ever be without. It does not have any justification costing any amount of money.
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Daily reminder that a vial of insulin keeps me alive for a week and, in the US, costs the same as an Xbox Series S. Imagine being forced to buy an Xbox every single week for the rest of your life in order to not die.
This is reality for 7 million insulin dependent Americans.
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This is a historically unusual autumn. But the next time it happens, it will seem less extraordinary - a phenomenon known as 'shifting baselines syndrome'. What seems normal now is very different to what our parents were used to. We are, essentially, boiling frogs.
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We have never observed warmth like this in Europe so late in the year.
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“I would argue that people don’t tune out of climate coverage because it’s too big of a problem, they tune out because it’s presented as yet another problem. But it’s not. The climate crisis is a deeply intersectional problem” my latest in
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We don’t talk enough about the anticipatory grief of watching your parents age.
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There is only one question:
how to love this world.
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If you are a trauma survivor, chances are you have a hard time seeing how much you mean to people. You live with the painful experiences that alter the way you see yourself. Others live on the outside of your experiences, & see you as the irreplaceable gift that you are.
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From the use of hot combs to straighten our hair to the use of chemical agents to lighten our skin, the interplay of capitalism and anti-Blackness continues to harm Black women's health.
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MUTUAL AID
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Post here and I'll bump for exposure.
#MutualAid
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I guess I wanted to share this simply because it reminded me of how harmful racism is to your health. How those rising cortisol levels can kill you if they're triggered too frequently. How my body's response to this woman's single word was evidence of what too many still deny.
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If you are still observing #ColumbusDay instead of #IndigenousPeoplesDay today here is your annual reminder of what you are celebrating...
CW: violence, sexual assault
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i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton
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Feeding children is an essential part of educating them. You can’t learn when you’re hungry.
Universal public education requires universal free food. Period.
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Kids are still in cages. Hundreds of thousands are homeless. Millions lack health care. Tens of millions live paycheck to paycheck. Entire cities don't have clean water. The climate emergency threatens our existence. But hey...
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Get in, folks. We're building a better America: JoeBiden.com
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"We are together in a galaxy called Loss."
— Ellen Rachlin
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No matter how you pronounce "content", this works. 😅
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YOU ARE NOT CONTENT!
YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING!
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Alethea and her family are doing incredible work on the ground in some of the hardest hit communities in SWFL. #HurricaneIan
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2 day we have @Cindy_Banyai_FL delivering to #PineIsland, @d4dswfl is in #Fortmyers, @ces921 was in Naples delivering food & supplies. Now I’m on way 2 #capecoral to assess & deliver more food. Plz continue 2 donate gofund.me/fc8c28ff @ChristineforFL is on her way to #Naples
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Always reminded of bell hooks' words: "Understanding that death is always with us can serve as the faithful reminder that the time to do what we feel called to do is always now and not in some distant and unimagined future."
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And it takes real intention to see Alice Coltrane's hand in the development of free jazz, cosmic/spiritual jazz, fusion...and black Detroit gospel; she was a perfect match for Pharoah's and John's ears. They heard Alice.
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The fact that Pharoah Sanders was part of a movement that turned to yoga, breathing, and other practices to create a new jazz genre is powerful. From his work with Alice Coltrane to Phyllis Hyman, he blew that horn alongside Black women for decades. As a peer and collaborator.
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