Willow Naomi Curry

@willathewisp

I’ve been on Twitter for 10 years and it’s still overwhelming. Writer, multimedia artist, curator, and occasional model ✨

Houston, Texas
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2009.

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    "Current estimates show it would cost about $73tn to completely convert the world to renewable energy. That is a little less than one year’s worth of the total world economy. The investment would pay for itself in seven years."

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    Not a monarch - a Dictator. We are now an Autocracy. I don't know why everyone in the media isn't talking about this 24/7 - we have lost our Democracy.

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    Wow. Historian John Meacham told Brian Williams, when asked to assess the level of Trump's power after Senate Republicans took step 1 in voting that only the electorate can remove him but he can use his power to rig the election, that Trump is now "functionally a monarch."

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    There is something very wrong when the best way to avoid prosecution for being a rapist, pedophile, lifetime criminal, corrupt politician, and goddamn traitor is to be the impeached Republican president of the United States of America.

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    - POC who are in love with other POC - emphasis on the in-between stages (the mistakes, the heartbreaks, the silences) - dark-skinned Black women who are not the side kick but the center, loved abundantly, and fought for - naked bodies of all diff sizes - bonnets

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  7. 22. pro 2019.

    17/ Words mean nothing unless they are carried out with intent. Want a diverse candidate pool? Don’t just put an inclusivity statement. Change the status quo.

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  8. 22. pro 2019.

    16/ Final thoughts. Recruiters for truly seeking reporters diverse in race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, education level etc must wise up. Our experiences probably have blocked us from getting that traditional experience you require in job postings.

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  9. 22. pro 2019.

    15/ Let’s put all this together. Fear of sexual harassment. The limitations of disability. Extreme economic instability. The very nature of the industry itself, where great new publications fold and longstanding ones can afford to be coy/opaque about pay.

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  10. 22. pro 2019.

    14/ This is not uncommon in journalism, even in established and well respected outlets, which this one is.

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  11. 22. pro 2019.

    13/ It would have been great. I would have gotten beat reporting & newsroom experience AND the opportunity to write a column about one of my favorite subjects, PoC in Houston history. But when I tried to pin down what my role and compensation would be, I stopped hearing back.

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  12. 22. pro 2019.

    12/ I’ve supported myself this year as an independent curator of programming and exhibitions using arts grants that I applied for and won. It’s been an amazing year and I’m excited for upcoming projects. But I want to return to my journalism roots. And in October, an offer came.

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  13. 22. pro 2019.

    11/ I remained committed to writing. I took a (paid) internship at a local literary nonprofit a few months after my dad’s passing. At 22 I started contributing to another online publication (it sadly folded within a year). 23 saw my first publication in a prestigious lit mag.

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  14. 22. pro 2019.

    10/ I’d spent my savings handling my dad’s end of life expenses. I needed the small life insurance payment he left behind to pay for my medical treatments. Living with relatives only got me a roof over my head. Working for free was out of the question,

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  15. 22. pro 2019.

    9/ Aside from the grief of losing both parents in 3 years, I lost any financial safety net. Could not even live in my house—after staying with my dad to take care of him for 6 months and cutting off power at my home, I would have had to rewire my house to fit current code.

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  16. 22. pro 2019.

    8/ So we’ve got harassment and the constraints of disability already in the mix! Still, I wrote. I had essays published in anthologies two years in a row. But in 2017, my father, who was my last surviving parent, died.

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  17. 22. pro 2019.

    7/ Same age, I developed a chronic neurological condition. I’d started contributing to an online mag targeting Millennial feminists (unpaid, but not an issue at the time), but had to leave 7 months in as my condition was not yet medically managed and therefore unpredictable.

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  18. 22. pro 2019.

    6/ The man who worked with me to record my PSA was incessantly flirting with me in the sound booth. My dad even remarked when I came out of the studio that he’d been leering at me. I would have had to work with this man every day. So I turned the offer down.

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  19. 22. pro 2019.

    5/ At 19 I was offered the opportunity to report and do on-air coverage after recording a PSA at a local independent radio station. No pay, but I was still over the moon. But I didn’t take it. Why not? The threat of workplace sexual harassment.

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  20. 22. pro 2019.

    4/ In five years of writing, why couldn’t I couldn’t demonstrate more consistency? Why I hadn’t carved out a niche? The latter is because of great editors who let me write about all sorts of subjects, but that first part? Multiple levels of marginalization.

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