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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

FOMO disappears when you know you're where you're supposed to be.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

My heart is with the Bronx during this difficult time.

GravitysEnemy

@GravitysEnemy

5 years

This really a tragedy

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Black women twerking with their classical instruments is a fucking mood.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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A quick reminder that the "b" in black is capitalized when talking about Black people.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Because protestors from Ferguson keep showing up dead.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

I am Gabrielle Union nodding on my woke white friends using their platform to make the world better.

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ellen pompeo SNAPPED

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Pro-tip: You will be finding your way until you're in your grave. Mentally prepare.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

A classic bisexual Bob moment. We stan a bi-con.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

This is how you soothe a baby. The only people babying Black women is other Black women and we need that shit.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

This feels like a horrible dystopian future. The guy who wrote the definitive nazi fiction is being erased for checks notes... Calling out nazi behavior? This is a very bad look for Marvel.

Newsweek

@Newsweek

5 years

"Maus" author removed from Marvel collection for calling Trump "Orange Skull"

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

The Black face was satirical. Very specifically making fun of Hollywood actors who go to extremes, berate cast and crew, and are viewed as heroes despite being vile humans. Gotta watch for context, Megyn. Be a critical thinker.

Megyn Kelly

@megynkelly

4 years

R. Downey Jr: wears blackface for Universal w/o regret bc it “sparked a necessary convo.” Univer.: yay Robert!👏🏻 Me: Never worn blackface but had one of those “necessary convos” re how standard seems to have changed over time.NBC-Univer: F.U.! Cancelled!

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

This is beyond cruel. He has not murdered or harmed another individual. There's no reason he should be deprived of basic human contact and interaction.

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@Complex

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21 Savage's co-manager shares update on rapper's detainment. "He is in lockdown for 23hrs of the day no tv or any communication besides our 10 min phone calls"

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

It's so clear a woman is the showrunner of The Witcher. Witches in school, equal opportunity sexiness among men and women, a dragon who just wants to be a good dad, so many cool mean girls with hearts of gold. I love this series.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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Every assistant in Hollywood has been verbally abused, physically assaulted or sexually harassed on the job. PAs are often the first to arrive, the last to leave and the only ones on set without a union so it's their wages, time, and health sacrificed first.

Myk - 🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 - Here To Help

@mykola

4 years

Please quote this tweet with a thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

White people. I'm begging you to learn the story of this young man, and stop using this image as inspiration. It encapsulates the problem, not the solution.

Jennifer Hart drove her six children to their deaths as her wife looked up how much they would...

As a drunk Jennifer Hart drove her six adopted children in their family SUV, her wife, Sarah, sat in the passenger seat looking up different ways to end a life.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

fuck that. This is how you turn struggling kids into actual criminals. When the system admonishes you for nothing, you give them a reason to lock you up. Shame on these folks.

The Appeal

@theappeal

6 years

In Riverside County, California, law enforcement is putting kids on probation for bad grades. A new lawsuit says that the county’s probation officers threaten to prosecute kids for “pre-delinquent” behavior. by @CarimahWheat

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

He said he received a phone call from the studio’s HR department. “A pleasant-sounding young man said, ‘Mr. Mosley, it has been reported that you used the N-word in the writers’ room.’ I replied, ‘I am the N-word in the writers’ room.’”

Walter Mosley Exits ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Writers’ Room After N-Word Complaint

Author Walter Mosley says he recently quit a television series after another writer complained about his use of the n-word

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Give them a show. Pay them double.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

It's going to be a long day. Wrote about Tarantino using women being murdered and turns violence into a punchline throughout his cinematic career, why some folks choose to avoid experiencing it, and how it can still be cathartic to watch bad people get what's coming to them.

The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

5 years

'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood', Tarantino and when violence against women is a punchline

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Hey, No matter what I say about a movie you should absolutely A. Still see the movie B. Form your own opinion C. Be comfortable with how you feel about the movie I'm just sharing my opinion. Its 1 in a million opinions. If you dont agree, that's not a judgement against you

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Educate yourself: Daughters of the Dust The Piano Selma The Rider American Psycho A League of Their Own Eve's Bayou The Virgin Suicides Monster The Babadook You Were Never Really Here Cleo 9-5 Monsoon Wedding Yentl When Harry Met Sally Clueless Love and Basketball The Bigamist

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

Fuck. You. Straight kids aren't... Killed for being straight. Kicked out of their home. Forced to live on the street. Banned from their proms. Sent to torture camps where the name of God is invoked to cause them pain. Forced to lie about their identity. FUCK YOU!

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Vice mayor proclaims July “Straight Pride American Month"

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

Short supply?! Bitch where? I can have you a list of 200 non-white writers by tomorrow with the skills and resume to be hired.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Has someone restricted his ability to make movies?

IndieWire

@IndieWire

5 years

Antonio Banderas Says Quentin Tarantino ‘Should Be Free to Make His Art’ Amid Backlash

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Easily one of the best pieces of art on Twitter. An incredible thread.

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@pollynor

5 years

You don't know him like i do

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Three women, forty and over, leading a super hero show. It's a landmark moment for the super hero genre, make no mistake. #WatchmenHBO

Jamie Jirak

@JamieCinematics

4 years

I can't believe we were gifted with an entire scene of Jean Smart, Regina King, and Hong Chau just sassing the fuck out of each other. #WatchmenHBO

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Trans women are women. They are my sisters. I love them for existing. They taught us how to riot for change, they've greatly improved are beauty regiments, and they are vital to our growth as a society. We are so lucky to have trans women in our lives.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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This is a small thing that makes a huge difference. Im an American. My ancestors were brought here as slaves, they fought many war. I cant point to which West African country we were torn from. I cannot hold African-American. I dont have the knowledge. Im a Black American.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

One more thing. Look at me when I'm talking to you is the new battle cry.

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@PoliticusSarah

6 years

Jeff Flake gets held accountable by sexual assault survivors in an elevator after he announces his vote for Kavanaugh.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

So many white men have made careers exclusively in horror. On top of that Peel has put work in on animated projects, farces, comedies, and action.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Look at all these retro Black nerds😍 Just happy af for their new Star Wars. 😔 Will we ever be this happy again?

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Applied for four jobs today. 2 would be a dream come true. 2 would be saving graces. Put out a good vibes for me, please.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Just stopped some old dude from materbating in front of a young woman in a Starbucks. Guy didn't acknowledge me, but he did leave. Then, sat outside and stared at her. Had a male friend walk her to her Uber. So that was fun and not at all horrifying! Leave women alone!!

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Yas! Make it a lead up to Last Jedi so we can have her sister.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

5 years

Lucasfilm is reportedly considering developing a Rose Tico TV Series. (Source: )

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Wow. Ok. Let's address. First, PAs work with producers, directors, actors, camera, costuming, and every other department available on set. I didn't accuse YOU of anything, but if you feel called out, maybe confront that feeling. I'm talking about first hand experiances.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

PETA gotta stop comparing marginalized humans to animals.

PETA

@peta

5 years

Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start ‘bringing home the bagels’ instead of the bacon.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

I have ascended.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

This is HYPER uncomfortable to watch. The lack of eye contact, the silence, I don't understand how you can't be excited that you didn't appear in a film next to a sexual predator who preys on children in a movie called Predator that heavily features a child actor.

LAT Entertainment

@latimesent

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7) #ThePredator Olivia Munn: "I don't accept Shane's apology. It wasn't given to me personally... A real apology has to be done privately — not just read publicly"

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

There's a manic pixie dream girl AND a magical negro in 2020?!

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Cops made the LA streets dangerous today. When I left the ralley as the March began it was a peaceful, positive environment.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Several notes: 1. I am queer. 2. Ariana is not queer 3. This is a song about a straight woman getting over her 4 straight exes. 4. Dirty Computer came out in 2018 5. See original tweet.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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“I want to live in a world where children of color don’t spend their entire adolescence wishing to be white. I want to live in a world where women are not subjected to scrutiny for their appearance, or their actions, or their general existence." Kelly Marie Tran

IndieWire

@IndieWire

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Kelly Marie Tran Speaks About Online Harassment for the First Time: ‘I Started to Believe Them’

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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This is a reboot that understands why reboots should exist.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

@haaniyah_ Just like that, another star off the playlist.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Bisexuals! Gather.

Deadline Hollywood

@DEADLINE

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Gina Torres To Headline ‘The Brides’ Dracula Reimagining ABC Pilot

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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I know the Grammys is shit because they ain't give Janelle Monae ANYTHING for Dirty Computer.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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Sis, sometimes I wanna watch two women fall in love, so I go to the gay section. My guess is sometime you wanna watch former inmates find god and a light skin wife. They got sections for everybody. It is not that deep.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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I have the number 5 podcast in the world!!

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

That is Gillian "Queen of Cold Looks and Deep Thought" Anderson. Put some respect on her name.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

I just applied for a job I want real REAL bad. If y'all could put some positive currents in the air I would be real appreciative.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Mama is rocking jade box braids. This is the look this winter season. Bet

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Omg. Omg. Omg. I dont have words. Except to say, @JordanPeele is single handedly bringing back a cinematic experiance I thought was lost to time. Whole swaths of the population, not just film junkies, being hyped over a non franchise film.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

If Lizzie ain't fucking, I don't want it.

Disney+ News

@MoreDisneyPlus

4 years

The reason for #LizzieMcGuire 's showrunner exit is because Terri wanted to use more adult themes for the revival series and #DisneyPlus is more invested in "family-friendly content". There's a chance the series might not happen at all.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Between this and the Esquire piece, the entitlement within journalism is leaping out. For these very reasons we need more poor people, more people of color, and more women in the news rooms across America. What a fucking mess.

Flavia Dzodan

@redlightvoices

5 years

I’ll save you a click: no, it’s not

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

It's Beyoncé's birthday, Black Panther is on Netflix, and the Democrats have located their spines. This a 4 day weekend now.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Andy Serkis as The Penguin is genius casting.

Forrest Satchell

@EnchantdForrest

5 years

Oh how I wish this was all real !!

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

WILL WOMEN BE ALLOWED TO CREATE ANIMATED PROJECTS FOR THE NETWORK NOW?!

The Dot and Line

@thedotandline

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: Mike Lazzo, creator of @adultswim , has retired from the company. He was instrumental in its rise, and in the success of @cartoonnetwork in its earliest days.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

Viola Davis always plays women on the edge. She is great at it, but my god do I want to see this woman clown around with her girlfriends in a movie. Let Viola smile.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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I really hurt that white lady's feelings. She's demanding an anapology. She won't get one. She said she wouldn't hire me or anyone on her block list. I think we're all better off. It's clear she has no interest in hearing an experiance other than her own.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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Marvel has a responsibility to protect the brand image, but my god, y'all began w Captain America stomping Nazi ass into the ground. Now you want to censor a pretty mild joke at a tipping point in political pop culture? Art's responsibility is to hold up a mirror to society.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

5 years

@B_Ehrenreich Marie doesn't need your permission to speak her language or share her knowledge.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Kelly Marie Tran and Naomi Ackie discuss their own privillage, pay equality, and tarot in this incredible interview.

'Star Wars' Roundtable: Naomi Ackie & Kelly Marie Tran On Privilege, Jealousy, & Being Likable

The Star Wars cast is close. They post tributes to one another, sneak selfies on one others' phones, and give one other piggyback rides. But among the one millionth of 1% of the human population that...

www.bustle.com

Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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Tomorrow!! Big interview. HUGE. Necessary. Important.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

4 years

Here's my very emotional recap of the latest episode of #Watchmen where I talk about how the show embraces intersectionality and what it means to me as a Black queer superhero fan.

Watchmen embraces its noir roots and Black trauma

Tonight's Watchmen is both a technical marvel, and a most ambitious exploration of Black trauma.

www.avclub.com

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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I've just learned of @JonSchnepp passing from this mortal coil. It is strange to be at SDCC surrounded by the essence and impact of the artist, writer, and director. Today we celebrate his sweaty fucking awesome spirit. I'll see you on the other side Schnepp.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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What you need to know about #BlackPantherSoLit 1. The movie is designed for your Black reaction. Be as loud as you need to be. 2. Grown men will weep. Hold them. It's a story we all need. 3. Every song is a bop and that soundtrack will go fast. 4. Black women fucking rule.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

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@DennisPerkins5 @ABC7Chicago He told this baby she's the reason their aren't grocery stores aren't in Black neighborhoods. I just can't fathom what possesses someone to be so cruel to a child.

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Joelle Monique ✍🏾

@JoelleMonique

6 years

Tell me again how naming an ab user ruins their career. Explain it to me because...