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Danez

@Danez_Smif

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Black Person/Poet (they/them)

East of where Prince hooped

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Joined April 2009

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Danez

3 months

Attention young poets and teachers of MN: @TruArtSpeaks is getting ready to begin the 2024 BeHeard Poetry slam, where winners will receive a $500 scholarship, go on a few national trips to rep MN, publish a chapbook and mentorship from yours truly! First prelim is next weekend!

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Danez

5 years

No one has had a bigger glow up in the last 10 years than cauliflower. It went from being ashy broccoli to being the Mystique of vegetables, always coming at you with a new shape. You want rice? Mashed potatoes? Pasta? Cheese? A man? Low cost housing? Make it from cauliflower.

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2 years

Keke Palmer not knowing white people is my political party.

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"And who the hell are they?" MY FUCKING STOMACHSJFJDJSJS

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4 years

Ok listening to Harry Styles and y’all’s white king kinda did that.

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6 years

Two dark skinned people in actual love in an actual movie?!

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Shadow and Act

6 years

'Queen & Slim': #JodieTurnerSmith lands lead opposite #DanielKaluuya in Black love story from @LenaWaithe and @MelinaMatsoukas

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5 years

Varys in heaven like #gameofthrones

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4 years

I wish “gender-neutral clothing” didn’t always mean “tunics for the apocalypse” and sometimes meant “femme shit for your big ass shoulders, bitch.”

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Sunday is both Easter and Trans Day of Visibility which means BEHOLD! THE LORD HAS TRANSITIONED FROM DEAD TO ALIVE! JESUS’S PRONOUNS ARE HE/LIVES!

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Victoria Monet is 34, 4 projects deep, a mom, a grown woman and just won best new artist. Listen to that speech she gave. Don’t stop believing in yourself. Don’t stop watering your dreams.

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2 years

Living right by the grocery store has turned me into a French woman just going to the village market to get what I need for tonight.

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2 years

The baby poets are our greatest. Remember when Nael, age 6, wrote once of the best poems of the 21 century?

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2 years

A Korean actor mispronouncing white names and presenting a deaf actor with an award as he accepts in ASL is an amazing moment for language in a country where we think spoken English is a global standard.

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6 years

Turn your enemies into lace fronts.

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3 months

We not gonna “We Are The World” outta genocide, you fuckwad. Free Palestine and hold Israel responsible for their crimes against humanity point blank period.

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4 years

My boo’s bff posted this summery of what’s really going on in Minneapolis and it’s so clear. This is what it’s like. Bump what the media or the mayor or the governor is saying.

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Just so we’re clear: taking a neutral position in a genocide is taking the side of genocide.

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5 years

Surprise! I lied when I said my book was called HOMIE. It has a title for the world and a title for my people.

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🇯🇲Candice Carty-Williams🇯🇲

5 years

Nobody—NOBODY— does it like @Danez_Smif does it

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3 years

It is safer to be a white man who just killed multiple people than it is to be a Black person in a traffic stop and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about how abundant, unflinching, and grounded racism is in this awful country, I don’t know what to tell you.

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9 months

It’s always “Indicted” and “charged,” never “jailed” or “assassinated.”

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4 years

Stop thinking if you should apply for the thing and just apply for the damn thing. Give people a chance to tell you yes.

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10 months

Murdered for voguing. For being himself. For not dulling his late for anyone. What a sick and horrible world. May his killers rot and wither.

@MxAbdulAliy

𝘢𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘺. AH-LEe

10 months

Rest In Power O’Shae “Sage” SIbley.

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3 years

Y’all have babies with people you don’t even like...

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2 years

Get your back BROKE like a school budget, Janine!

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2 years

Oh why my water just broke…

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3 years

“You will learn that Derek Chauvin did exactly what he was trained to do” and that’s exactly why we don’t need cops.

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1 year

Idk why all of social media has turned into Mufasa in the sky telling white girls “Remember who you are”

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why did white girls stop getting this cut

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3 years

I don’t care if he can’t log into Facebook, when is he going to jail?

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4 years

My 26 year old cousin died Sunday from Corona. The myths that young people and Black people “can’t get corona” are fatal.

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5 years

If your “masculinity” won’t let you embrace femininity without reframing it as masculine, ain’t shit new.

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GQ Magazine

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. @Pharrell covers GQ’s New Masculinity issue, an exploration of identity, culture, and style in 2019:

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4 years

Us: Riri, we hungry. Rihanna: It’s albums in there.

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6 years

The sweet silence of not listening to it.

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5 months

The journalists, the poets, the babies, the women, the men, the trees, everyone. The genocide must end. Israel must end the genocide and apartheid of Palestinians.

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Rami Jarrah

5 months

BREAKING: Journalists Hanan Ayad and Ahmed Abu Abseh have both been killed in Israeli airstrikes on southern Gaza.

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2 years

what a way to go, you pass on to the next and everybody talking about love, love, love, love, love.

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5 years

I’m pro-black until yo black ass is transphobic or homophobic, then I’m pro-yo ass can go too.

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4 years

My god. That fuck knew him.

@MSNBC

MSNBC

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Andrea Jenkins, vice president of Minneapolis City Council, says George Floyd and Officer Chauvin worked at restaurant near Third Precinct. "They were coworkers for a very long time."

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6 years

If you not trying to be the Beyoncé of what you do, what are you really doing?

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6 years

WHAT ARE YOU ANTI-MAYO PPL PUTTING ON YALLS DRY ASS SANDWICHES? DREAMS OF MOISTURE? TEARS? THE IDEA PF RAIN?

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6 years

This scene - it’s silences, it’s quiet, it’s calm, and all the noise underneath - cuts thru me each time. Crying, obviously, cause of love.

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2 years

5 mass shootings over the weekend & the powers that be aren’t going to do shit about it but tell you to vote.

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2 years

GIVE HER A GRAMMY FOR THIS TOO SINCE Y’ALL ACTING RIGHT ABOUT JAZMINE NOW!

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7 years

"I'd prefer not to touch but if you could hurry back with that juice i ordered that would be great. Thanks, Nate!" Blue Ivy

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4 years

The owner of Cup Foods posted this and THIS IS IT FOLKS. Wrecked me. This is accountability, this is change, this is the narrative that we must make the elected officials and media bend to, that it is the police and white supremacy that we want out of our city.

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4 years

The dragging of Tyler Perry and his “work ethic” has entered day 3, longer than any of them scripts took.

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3 years

The price of a white man’s “bad day” is too high. Nothing is safe of their good days either.

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1 year

I hate when folks talk about cops like it’s an identity or they’re an ethnic group.

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2 years

I’ve now cried twice during an MCU film and both times it was Tom Holland’s fault.

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2 years

At the next diaspora meeting we need to discuss y’all having whole conversations on speaker phone in public.

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Danez

6 years

Your trauma isn’t what makes you a poet. Your trauma isn’t what makes you a poet. Your trauma isn’t what makes you a poet. Your trauma isn’t what makes you a poet. Your trauma isn’t what makes you a poet. Your trauma isn’t what makes you a poet.

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5 years

Finally had a reason to text both my parents at the same time (back story: I am the child of a brief cuffing season fling) and I can’t stop laughing at “Hi Al” and “Hi Barbara” Lololololol

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2 years

Anybody else never had covid (thank god), but living in constant fear that you’re next?

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1 year

I said “si” 👨🏿‍🤝‍👨🏾🥹😭💜

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4 years

The Real White Men of Washington is great tonight.

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6 years

Y'all really gotta stop sexualizing children and burdening them with your heterosexual anxiety and straight identity crisis.

@Essence

ESSENCE

6 years

What one mother saw as #BlackBoyJoy others deemed sexually inappropriate. This video of Ashlee Muhammad's twin sons kissing is creating quite a stir:

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5 years

Dancing to the goddamn percolator like it’s a witchy indie jam? Taste.

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Aubrey Page

5 years

i don't want to talk about anything except this video of sandra oh getting her life on the dance floor

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2 years

Someone at Parkwood shoulda called Kelis. Pharrell and Chad deserve a mighty ass whooping for how they played her. It’s that simple. I’m glad Beyoncé credited her so she’ll get a coin, but I think what Kelis is asking for us simple: respect, consideration, & maybe a lil revenge.

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5 years

Listening to ANTI and you know what? This shit still sustains. Take ya time, CEO. Fuck it. I’ll listen to a bra. You gave so much already.

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3 years

If you going out there, be careful of angry cops y’all. You know how they riot.

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1 year

@JBW90

Migo-sama

2 years

If you were Jesus, how would you have came out the tomb? Memes/Gifs only.

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2 years

Beyoncé didn’t release her toxic trade nor her job. Don’t listen to her, just dance.

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4 years

Queer ≠ Ballroom Queer ≠ Ballroom Queer ≠ Ballroom Queer ≠ Ballroom

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Danez

4 years

Y’all love your black women in the key of slave narrative over there in Hollywood. Lupita was sitting right there playing 2 goddamn roles.

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3 years

Nah someone nominate her for the MacArthur. She is a leading historian, ethnographer, and archeologist.

@Obeyy_Monaee

Shay Moore

3 years

Always askin yo neighbors bout they yard💀 #itsjustshaymoore #Arkansas

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6 years

Dear POC, We are going to see #CrazyRichAsians and we are going to see it a few times. This is about to open the doors for more asian stories to be told on US screens and we will make it a hit. Sincerely,

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3 years

Even if it’s a hack, love the vision boarding going on at the state department right now.

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Danez

5 years

Toni Morrison came down and lived a mighty life. I’m sad her family and the world has lost her. Glad she gets to return home. May we live and write in ways that honor her love for us, her demand that the world see black people wholly, her rigor, her genius, her play, her legacy.

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4 years

We’re gonna do it y’all!

@citypages

City Pages

4 years

Minneapolis City Council members consider disbanding the police

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1 year

Finally broke down thinking about the Colorado Springs. That story about the parents, how much hope and love they had for their son. What madness to live in a country, a world that moves on, that finds reason and normalcy in such vile, intentional and yet random killing.

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Danez

3 years

White people gonna be their maddest ever when we go from 3/5ths to 5/3rds tomorrow.

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5 years

Little did the str8s know that the yee-haw agenda was just the gay agenda with a hat.

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Danez

3 years

A giant, wet rock orbiting a more giant fireball and we invented...money? Debt? Police? Throw us away. Start over back at germs.

@lloydtheabstrac

lloyd

@lloydtheabstrac

3 years

we really on a floating rock paying bills...

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6 years

how long does it take to write an email? 3-5 weeks to stress over it and spiral, 2 mins to type and send.

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7 years

PBS: and I said Hey Me: HEY! PBS: What a wonderful kind of day

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2 years

@quintabrunson Quinta, move out the way I’m talking to Janine now. Janine, this is your 2nd chance to get some rapper peen and this one has a job. Let’s plan.

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7 years

Picking sides at a soul food restaurant is a live version of the "one gotta go" meme.

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Danez

5 years

... I don’t think 21 Savage being arrested by ICE is funny at all. None of the terror and motives of ICE are funny.

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Danez

5 years

Fam, New York just like... flirts with you? I don’t ever think about moving here until I’m here and then it’s like “Don’t you wanna pay $2000 a month to live on a bench?” and my dumb ass be like “maybe so.”

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Danez

4 years

Everyone deserves a father like Dwyane Wade. It shouldn’t make me cry so hard to listen to him talk about the simple act of loving his child.

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2 years

Pic of my mom being casually fine and 59. I love when she pulls her hair off her face. So gorgeous.

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4 years

We need an update. Has Lizzy come off that pencil? Where are Lizzy’s caretakers? Who is the teacher? Does this angel have her pink perfect attendance pencil? What is Canada’s response?

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Danez

6 years

They got this new thing called “friends” and I hear they’re lit.

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Danez

5 years

Never forget: On 9/11/2001, the current president hopped on the radio to talk about how excited he was to once again have the tallest building in NYC.

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Danez

7 months

Been thinking a lot about how insidiously soft the word “settler” is when in order to “settle” you must unsettle, disrupt, and destroy so much.

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Danez

4 years

My name is Danez. Been poz since 2014. My meds, without the manufacturer’s coupon I got, cost bout 1.3K for 30 pills. Giliead is the devil. Insurance is the big devil. Y’all still don’t know what undetectable means. Some of you prep girls are stigma all stars. Happy #WorldAIDSDay

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2 years

I think real love is someone you like doing the regular shit with. I just cried a little cause I was having such a good time & so at peace just cleaning up the room with my boo. We went to the movies and I love him. Went to the gym and missed him while he swam.

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Danez

3 years

Very wild to see Noname catching so much smoke for opening a library and sending books to emprisoned folks.

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5 months

Long Live Lesbian Love

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6 years

glad to see my ex is out here thriving.

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9 months

Poets after spending years writing and editing their magnum opus

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2 years

Miss Honey? Miss Honey!

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3 years

If seeing that young, powerful, brilliant young Black woman up there reading that poem - standing in the middle of all that pressure plus history of what this nation done to us and still asked us to perform well - made you feel anything besides love/grace for her, quit poetry.

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Cause we need to know: who cooked, who did the body, did they look like they self, did the lady who be carryin on carry on, did that one negro with the nerve have the nerve to show up, was Johnny there, what folks have on, can you bring us a plate, etc, etc

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BritBrat 💛🌻

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1 year

Why do black people ask how was the funeral. BITCH WE CRIED 😂😂 it was sad asf

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Danez

5 years

So are men who get vasectomies in GA gonna get life in jail? Are condoms legal or are they weapons against the unborn? Is the pull out method punishable? Is oral sex attempted murder? Is jacking off assault and battery?

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6 years

Happy Pride Month! Just remember you wouldn’t have this month without the work of black trans women and act as such 🙃

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2 months

You better zoom out and that flag better be on fire at the top

@Beyonce

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2 months

act ii COWBOY CARTER 3.29

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3 years

Rare photo of Adele age 7

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Danez

5 years

Good morning to one of the best poems to ever poem.

@POETSorg

Academy of American Poets

5 years

What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? —Robert Hayden

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So I paid for my mom and her husband to go to New Orleans for their anniversary so they could go someplace different than Memphis or to visit fam. They are loving it and I wanna cry. Thanks, poetry, for letting me slurge on my mama! Hard work & good luck pays off.

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“Our blackness and womaness is not trustworthy if we allow ourselves to be conscripted into positions of power that maintain the oppressive status quo…”

@micahinATL

#StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Professor Ruha Benjamin ( @ruha9 ) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

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The one with music.

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like a war so extreme 🖤

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in what universe is Janet Jackson the queen of pop while Madonna exists?

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4 years

1 story from last night: a neighbor shouted “fuck 12” at cops from their home around 4am. Police ran up in their spot, maced everyone in there, then bounced. It’s not about protecting shit, they are about retaliation, escalation, and rage.

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Danez

6 years

Poems about flowers? Political. Poems about moms? Political. Poems about death? Political. Poems about poems? Political. Poems about politics? Political. Poems about dreams? Political. Poems about... you get it. It's how you read them. It's how they effect and infect the world.

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Danez

9 months

I’m That Cow Cowy Bovine Superstar Hoof It Calcium Steak My Soul Cow Girl Lactose Out The Milk Virgo’s Moo Moo Milked Stique (of butter) All Up In Your Farm Old McDonald Has A Problem Pure/Dairy Utter Renaissance

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CVNT TO THE FEMININE WHAT

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