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Housing Justice & Human Rights Advocate | Equity & Antiracism Facilitator | Director, Advocacy @miriamskitchen

Washington, DC
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@ItsDanaWhite
Dana White
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Working in homelessness, youth homelessness, while watching one man spend $44 billion is…a mindfuck.
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Burnout was months ago. I don’t know what *this* state is.
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I wanted to do ballet as a kid. My parents refused. I cheered briefly in high school. My parents made me quit. I was a high school theatre geek who had potential to study seriously. My parents didn’t support. I’m still gay. Denying me joy and expression didn’t change that.
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*Stares in Puerto Rican*
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JUST IN: White House offers to assist France in Notre Dame rehabilitation
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“I work on my feet for 8hrs a day and don’t earn enough to save for retirement or take a vacation or help my child with tuition or buy a home, but now the same people who dehumanize me while I’m working are dehumanizing me on Twitter.” How’s that?
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"Millennials" is used in the media to infantilize, discredit, and instill distrust of an educated, hard-working, low-earning, fed up generation of 30-somethings living through the worst of capitalism, police brutality, government corruption, and a resurgence of hate violence.
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4 years
Millennials are the generation who realized we don’t have to sit around people who harm us or won’t respect our boundaries just because we’re related.
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5 months
Men do this thing where they speak to their partners with default annoyance. You know what I’m referring to. It’s even depicted in film, across reality tv, etc.. What is that, what is it called?
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9 months
The planet is burning up and you’re mad about who I’m fucking. You’re living paycheck to paycheck and mad about my pronouns. One bedroom apartments are $2k and you’re mad about my mannerisms. No social safety net, but my affection in public sends you into a rage. Pause, indeed.
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It’s funny. The way my partner, a PhD candidate with 3 masters degrees, speaks like a normal person but 25 year old academics on this app pretend they can’t discuss anything in language that the average person is familiar with.
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3 years
Retweet if you understand homelessness to be systemic cruelty and not a failure of people who are unhoused or homeless.
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4 years
If Diddy or Jay Z tells you to get up at the crack of dawn every morning because no sleep until you’re rich, which you’ll probably never be, you receive it. When D Wade says unconditionally love and learn about your kids, suddenly the rich don’t know what they’re talking about.
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2020 has really been a trip for a person like me, living with HIV. So much STD stigma persists and turns out you folks won’t even keep a mask on during an airborne pandemic or stop having parties.
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4 years
Y’all don’t be bothered enough by homelessness for me.
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2 years
Capitalism has too many of you believing rich people are wiser, more disciplined, have something more profound to say than your neighbors and family.
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You’re not only closer to homelessness than being a billionaire. You’re closer to homelessness than to buying any home in many major cities. You’re closer to homelessness than being able to ever actually retire. When you see it that way, the crisis is impossible to ignore.
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O’Shae Sibley was stabbed to death for voguing to Beyonce. In New York City. His older gay neighbor told the Times he warned him about being so visible, saw the looks, heard disgruntled comments about “all the rights” we have. In 2023, that’s how far we are from freedom.
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Learned something about myself in a packed gay bar last night. It’s not that I have much pandemic anxiety, actually, but that I’ve outgrown much of what my social life looked like pre-COVID and I’d rather not be in spaces full of people who treated 2020 like an inconvenience.
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Black people don’t get to be introverts without serious challenges professionally and socially.
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8 months
Can we talk about what happens to your career if that’s company culture and you don’t?
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Y’all go out/party with your coworkers?
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Your friends brag about you, say your name in rooms of opportunity, hold you accountable with softness and love, celebrate your wins as their wins, have more compliments for you than shade, encourage new experiences and growth. This is the basic criteria. Assess your circle.
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People have major mental health conditions and have to go to work everyday. From customer service, to nonprofits, to corporate. Let that sink in. Baristas or servers you bark at or mistreat, your coworker, any of them could have to clock in with their condition. Be fucking kind.
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2 years
Romanticize your life at whatever income level, babes. Sprinkle some parsley and scallions on the maruchan noodles. Take slow strolls and deep breaths through the park with the sun kissing your face. Bubble baths and supermarket bouquets. You are the main character, the moment.
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2 years
When you begin to understand homelessness as the result of many intentional policy choices over generations, you begin to see it as violence. As oppression and not personal failure.
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I used to apologize for becoming distant, especially when my mental health is doing her dance. Then I realized people weren’t saying, “sister, I I’m coming to get you” or “I made us reservations / got us tickets / planned ___.” Just telling me I’m not fulfilling a role for them.
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1 year
Student loan repayment has been paused so long it’s clear they don’t need that money.
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1 year
Housing is not something you should have to earn. If we disagree there, we don’t have much to discuss about any issue.
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2 years
Everything is pointing us to strike, to stop paying rent, to stop paying student loans, etc. We won’t. But imagine that type of collective courage in our being fed up.
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4 years
“Homeless to Harvard” or “homeless to Hollywood” stories in mainstream media suggest that if people experiencing homelessness work hard enough they lift themselves to stability and success. It places the responsibility and shame on people denied their human right to housing.
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3 months
Doesn’t matter how “financially literate” you are, when your rent is half your income.
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6 years
The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in THE 1930s. My grandmother was born in the 30s and is alive. ...for some perspective on just how far removed from slavery we are.
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The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced.
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4 years
Google basically said your world is nothing without Black folks. Search on.
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2 years
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights.” Desmond Tutu Rest.
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Whatever you think inherently separates you from someone who is unhoused or having a mental health crisis, I promise you it doesn’t exist.
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4 years
I’ve been living with HIV since Summer Walker was 11 years old and longer than her career will last. My immune system is stronger than her live performances. Good morning.
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2 years
I need to talk to other “introverts” who have extremely people-facing roles. How did we get here, babes?
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5 years
Anyone else feel like the inevitable collapse of civilization due to climate change and capitalism is ruining their motivation to go to work, have kids, or plan ahead 30 years? Just me?
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Men still lying in their 90s. From womb to tomb, aint shit
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Betty White Opens Up About the Difficulties of Dating at 94 Years Old
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Pete is a white, middle class, Ivy League educated Rhodes scholar, straight passing, war veteran, married and moderate. His rise is unremarkable. He’s the palatable homosexual America tolerates. He happens to be gay, but does not come from or lead from the margins.
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Pete’s rise *is* remarkable. I know some of you don’t care or don’t think it counts, but history will see it as a rather monumental step forward for the perception of how far an openly gay man can connect on a national level. You don’t have to vote for him to acknowledge that.
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If you think and move like “getting COVID is inevitable” stay away from me in my third January without it. If this feels like judgment, talk to your therapist.
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I want homelessness, a crisis created and sustained by capitalism, resolved in my lifetime.
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3 years
People who are experiencing homelessness get to have standards, preferences, and be picky because they’re people and live in a country where there’s ample resources. They don’t have to gladly accept whatever you give them.
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This week, you’ve been shown again that you actually don’t have the right to protest war and genocide. In cities run by Democrats, at liberal institutions, under the lesser evil president.
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Let’s take it a step further and admit that many jobs, if not most, can be trained for upon hire. And everyone deserves a wage or salary that affords them not just the basics but a good life.
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My very Spanish legal name is still on my UberEats, so the non-Black Latino delivery guy shows up with my food and asks like 5 times if I’m sure it’s mine. That’s what being Black (Afro) Latinx is like. Should I have done a little salsa step? Give me the cheeseburger bro.
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3 years
Baby, I be in the house. Highly recommend
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2 years
As a frequent weed smoker, in a nation where white people are making millions in the legal cannabis market while countless Black and brown folks are locked up for it, I can’t even fully express the sadness I feel for Brittney Griner today. And I’m bracing for the hypocrisy.
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A 78 year old white man elected beyond his life expectancy could eliminate student debt, create opportunity for a generation to buy homes or stabilize financially, reducing the racial wealth gap. He simply won’t. If that’s not lifelong commitment to white supremacy, what is?
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Don't defend yourself like that. Don't protest like that. This is not the time or place. Your message is lost in your delivery. - Your Oppressor
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People are bothered by homelessness in the sense that they don’t want to witness or be in proximity to homeless people. The goal is to shift that to solidarity, to disgust at systems that create and sustain homelessness but not their homeless neighbors.
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Over the past 8 months, my goal went from home ownership to doing the best I can with what I’ve got.
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3 years
I’m not masculine or feminine. I’m exhausted, babe. That’s what I am.
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“What’s the point of being on this Earth if you’re going to try to be someone you’re not?” - Zaya Wade
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Most white people are Sydney Sweeney.
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Hear me out, there should be a mass movement of occupying/squatting. Because a human necessity and human right, safe and comfortable shelter, has become unaffordable. Sorry not sorry, Landlord and Airbnb Twitter. I’m not on your side.
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Stop telling people to put their cameras on. Period. Professional peers, students, whoever. You’re already in their homes and, believe me, they would rather you not be.
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Tony McDade, a Black trans man, was killed by police in Tallahassee this week. I've mostly seen trans people discussing this. Black queer and trans people face the same antiBlack state violence, we join you in resistance, but who riots for our Black lives? #TonyMcDade
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Always a good time, but especially now that folks are discussing colonialism, to remind everyone that Puerto Rico (Boriken) and Hawaii are colonies of the United States.
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I’m 36, burned out, and wish I had the type of parents I could move back in with. Deadass. I’m running on spite and due bills.
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Saw a thread yesterday about how dental health is crucial to overall health. So it’s a good time to say it shouldn’t be tied to employment, it should be comprehensive, and it should be affordable if not free. In this country, dental health is a privilege.
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Let me tell you something, I’m exhausted mentally by the state of the world and the expectation I remain productive no matter what. Some days, I’m so overwhelmed I can just barely do the minimum. Just sharing so other people don’t feel like it’s only them.
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I can’t tweet this enough. Present-day homelessness is the result of many intentional policy choices. It will not be resolved solely by working within and in cooperation with a system that sustains it. Homelessness has utility for the ruling class.
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Every single time someone famous dies, folks get online repeating the same “life is short, be kind” and “you never know what folks are going through.” But they’re actually not kind or considerate of everyday people with obvious struggles.
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Woke up thinking about the courage it takes a Black man to kiss a Black man for the world to see. The world. I know Black queer couples who fear holding hands in public, understandably so. Many of us haven’t kissed our partners in front of family. That kiss was for all of us.
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White women do not care, baby. They don’t care.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s time to stack that savings / emergency fund. Just do it.
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This celebration, for me, is about Trump’s eviction and the power of Black organizers to unseat a president.
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Woke this morning thinking of the obscene amount of money this government has poured into failed military intervention overseas, while treating homelessness in the U.S. like it’s too expensive to resolve.
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It’s important that Palestine knows we’re not distracted tonight, that we haven’t forgotten, that we still hear them, that the world is their witness.
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None of us are above colorism and fatphobia. It shows up everywhere and requires constant interrogation, unpacking, unlearning, changing language and choices. We all need to be doing better.
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Did not expect so many people of all backgrounds to be okay with genocide in 2023. I must admit, I’m changed by this.
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Get a therapist, they said. What they don’t say is therapy will undo you and you will still need to manage all your responsibilities as you process your edges being gone.
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Did you manifest it or is it the right mix of privilege, connections, and proximity? Because I feel like we’re lying to a bunch of folks who think they can simply think and speak their way out of some wild disadvantage and oppression.
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You notice how allegedly everyone is a people pleaser, empath, and over-giver but the world looks how it does? How that work?
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Twitter is full of people screaming eat the rich and crossing the street to avoid the unhoused.
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Y’all too old to not be kind.
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You shouldn’t need therapy and medication to cope with your job.
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Fucking people of an oppressed group is not allyship though.
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Maybe your friends say “I’m fine,” because you aren’t going to offer them anything but regurgitated Brene Brown or vague platitudes about *manifesting* that won’t change their circumstances. Does your friendship even for a moment allow unproductive emotion, just feeling?
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When a Black LGBTQ+ person is murdered in the streets for refusing to exist in the shadows, do Black civil rights groups organize? Do Black frats and sororities head to the LGBTQ+ centers to volunteer? Do Black parents sit their kids down to give them a talk about bigotry?
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Employers: “I know you’re burned out, but this how you can be more productive.”
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If capitalism wasn’t a thing and you had all your needs met, what would you do with your life?
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Most people expressing support for a free Palestine aren’t celebrating the murder of Israeli children and you know that. You also know that you aren’t vocally concerned about children or civilians in the region until Israeli children and civilians are being harmed.
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The best part of waking up is Black parents doing right by their queer and trans children. The Wades are a masterclass in acceptance, safety, and support. Love this.
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Fail to see what Jordan's GPA has to do with anything. Why is respectability imposed on dead Black babies? #jordanedwards
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15 years young. 3.5 GPA Unarmed Innocent Killed by law enforcement. #JordanEdwards #Justice
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Not a single white colleague mentioned Daunte Wright or the riots yesterday. Most didn’t seem affected. I actually prefer this to last Summer’s performative guilt and the expectation of “education,” but your email found me disoriented and grieving in ways you know nothing about.
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Today’s private acquisition of Twitter should make one thing very clear. How we’ve used this platform to advocate, organize, inform, influence, and create accountability from the left and working class is a threat to the most resourced and powerful.
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They’re trying to normalize homes that historically have been for everyday people, for families, being over $500k. They’re trying to normalize home ownership not being for everyday people, creating an always growing underclass of renters without any real cap on rent.
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The Supreme Court set Oct. 8 to hear whether workers can be fired for being LGBTQ. The Supreme Court set Oct. 8 to hear whether workers can be fired for being LGBTQ. The Supreme Court set Oct. 8 to hear whether workers can be fired for being LGBTQ. That’s the tweet.
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The rebranding of emotional unavailability and conflict avoidance as “peace” has to be contributing to widespread loneliness as much as it’s preventing radical community.
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Read this as many times as you need. Sit with it as long as you need to.
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Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump all have the same position on Gaza right now.
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I am telling you right now…a god that hates LGBTQ+ people and would be pleased by violence against us is not real. That god doesn’t exist. It’s just you and your hatred.
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I’ve seen Black women and Black gay men devote their life’s work to defending and trying to save a demographic who largely wouldn’t spit on us if we were on fire. And I know this is not a safe space to say this, but I’m not wrong.
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We’re in the era of people wanting to be LGBTQ without actually having to *be* us. The language, the style, the sound, the innuendo, without any of the fear of bodily or legislative harm.
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If your rent exceeds 30% of your income (according to financial experts), you are cost burdened. Understand that as your housing being unstable, that you are a financial emergency away from homelessness. Be humbled, outraged, and in solidarity with your unhoused neighbors.
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In 2020, I didn’t finish one of the five books I started reading. I gained 10lbs. I fell out of therapy. I drank more than usual. I didn’t launch that podcast, start writing that book, save money, or start a side hustle. And none of this is failure. And I’m still that bitch.
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Re-teaching myself that a life I enjoy is well-spent. No higher meaning or profound purpose necessary. So much of my depression has been based in the idea I’m wasting life if I’m not doing something *big.* Joy is big. Love is big.
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No. I’m rooting for Black people who are not homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise bigoted. I’m rooting for Black allies and accomplices to Black queer and trans folks. I’m rooting for Black parents who don’t harm their kids. I’m rooting for Black people who aren’t elitist.
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Ma$on
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Are yall rooting for everybody Black or not?
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I exist in an LGBTQ+ bubble and I intend to keep it that way until I’m off this planet.
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