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adriennemareebrown

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i want us to want to live. i want us to want to live in this world, in this time, together. i want us to love this planet and this species, at this time.

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@adriennemaree

6 years

things to never be civil about: concentration camps, genocide, white supremacy, misogyny, harm to children, mass trauma, state violence, rising fascism.

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I am so furious about how the president is killing us. and how it is still discussed like it's electoral, partisan differences instead of fascism/terrorism. the only spell I'm casting these days is the truth: this is not an election year, it's a genocide intervention era.

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does anyone else feel like the holiday break (and attempts to return from it) really unveiled how working at anything close to a regular pace during a global pandemic is literally too much?

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@adriennemaree

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words matter. Coup: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. Terrorism: the unlawful use of force and violence vs persons or property to intimidate or coerce a gvmt, civilian population, or segment thereof. today was not anarchy, not protest.

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@adriennemaree

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...but what if he said "I cannot be a president for all. I will not serve white supremacy. I will not serve hatred. I will not serve fascism. The unity I speak of has no room for enabling such political abuse." just dreaming.

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@adriennemaree

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thich nhat hanh has transitioned. the gratitude i feel for his life is more than words can express. this conversation between bell hooks and thây has been so present with me lately. them passing just over a month apart feels like a poem.

Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh | Lion’s Roar

bell hooks meets with Thich Nhat Hanh to ask: how do we build a community of love?

www.lionsroar.com

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@adriennemaree

4 years

universe: please come into the minds and hands of those counting our precious votes. help to fortify their integrity in this historic moment. protect them from corruption within and without.

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@adriennemaree

4 years

y'all.

Kat Ackerman

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Angela Davis and Adrienne Maree Brown in conversation tonight . “Scholars of belonging” My heart is full. @adriennemaree

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@adriennemaree

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if you are a white person, this is a time of intentionally relinquishing power, or having it pulled out from under you. i know it seems fast and everywhere, but it’s actually not a rapids, not a waterfall, not a tsunami.

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@adriennemaree

4 years

maybe if the boats sink at your white supremacy parade and you start fires with your gender reveal party the universe is trying to tell you that your ignorance is not bliss, its fatal? #maybe

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@adriennemaree

3 years

my dear friend @shonalisahamd reminded me of the concept of sleep debt. got me thinking about grief debt. everyone i know is grieving either direct or circumstantial loss, with no time to come apart and land beyond the loss. we need time to grieve, remember, dream, rest, land.

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@adriennemaree

3 years

today it's official: republicans who bet on white supremacy have lost themselves the presidency, house & senate of a system that has never loved us. this old shell is bursting at the seams - the new worlds we are building are the true pressure. center in revolutionary love y'all.

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@adriennemaree

3 years

if you missed Fifty Years of Imagining Radical Feminist Futures with Angela Davis, the recording is here:

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4 years

why isn't there a running fact check across the bottom? don't we deserve that?

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@adriennemaree

4 years

just a reminder: you don't have to watch. you can read a book. take a bath. stretch. get some extra sleep. you can redistribute your most precious resource: your attention.

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@adriennemaree

3 years

I'm on @democracynow this morning discussing Octavia E Butler! they're playing some never aired interview material of hers in a little bit!

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@adriennemaree

3 years

so many feels. mostly variations on overwhelm. I'm sending out good energy boosts to everything y'all are doing to make it thru. the pandemic x political conditions is actually too much, we aren't being dramatic or lazy. breathe, take breaks, ask for help. love y'all.

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@adriennemaree

4 years

notice your ptsd. we've been thru stressful nation nights, and we do not know the future. keep your attention, prayers, spells and acts on victory and genocide intervention! what we pay attention to grows, and right now we need to grow a wide margin. ✊🏽

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@adriennemaree

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this morning it occurred to me again how there are so many more white supremacists now than there were during slavery. and we know white supremacy is antithetical to species survival. detoxing from this delusion is our national and global priority.

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@adriennemaree

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THE AUDIO BOOK OF PLEASURE ACTIVISM IS HERE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"Part of the reason so few of us have a healthy relations with pleasure is because a small minority of our species hoards the excess of resources creating a false scarcity and then trying to sell us joy, sell us back to ourselves."

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8 years

things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. we must hold each other tight & continue to pull back the veil. #blacklivesmatter

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3 years

parables, kindred, wild seed and fledgling all becoming film/tv projects!!this is such an incredible time to love and study octavia e. butler 🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽

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3 years

it occurs to me that perhaps a pleasure activism response to the "Thanksgiving" fuckery is to identify different abundant family feast days. no feast on the day of mourning-unhook the yum from the yuck. I nominate Juneteenth. Or Sept 4. Or both and more, a family feast calendar.

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"we need to examine the pleasure we get from inflicting punishment. the fantasies of revenge when we have been harmed. we saw it in the coliseum, we see it now." - @prisonculture #AMC2020

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@adriennemaree

2 years

i am so proud of my partner, professor nalo. listening to her remote teach these first grade babies is...outstanding!

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3 years

I am soooooo excited about this book. @prisonculture makes it so clear why and how to commit to abolition. let's pre-order this book onto the bestseller lists!

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice a book by Mariame...

A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.

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@adriennemaree

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turning my heart and attention towards Minneapolis and all my loved ones, warriors and organizers there. justice, struggle, love and protection extended.

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@adriennemaree

4 years

#pleasureactivism at the polls

Resistance Revival Chorus

@ResistanceRev

4 years

A whole mood! The joyful defiance of dancing in line at the polls in a “f*** 2020” Tshirt is what voting in 2020 looks like! Nothing and no one is getting in the way of our joy and our vote! #joyisanactofresistance #joytothepolls @JoyToThePolls #vote #EarlyVoting #TurnUp #Philly

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6 years

things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. we must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.

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@adriennemaree

4 years

I'm moved every time people play their position in this massive revolutionary push. It is when the risk is personal, the potential losses significant, that the impact can be accountable to the collective, can be irresistible.

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@adriennemaree

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spent the morning reading through the physical copy of Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation. over 2 decades of my own lessons multiplied by the decades and lessons of each contributor. i am so sweet on this little book!

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@adriennemaree

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we know the difference between a lie & a spell. don't get distracted by the former while successfully casting the latter. shape change with organizing, direct actions, donations, faith and attention. give him NONE. focus on your conjure, what you love, your community, your gifts!

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@adriennemaree

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the difference between protest and terrorism is on display right now. republican shame, too. US white supremacy in policing/security is on display right now. pay attention, stay safe, we will be adapting to the conditions this administration has inflamed for years.

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A few years ago I said ‘things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. We must continue to hold each other tight and pull back the veil.’ I have to revise that. Things are getting worse for most of us...

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the path to a future in which humans can be in an authentic and accountable peace with each other is fractal—we must be willing to practice authenticity and accountability at the small scale of ourselves and our lives, both in ourselves and in our immediate relationships.

YES! Magazine

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Being accountable to ourselves and in our relationships with others helps to create a broader culture of accountability, writes adrienne maree brown.

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OHHHHMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGG omg first for me, first for akpress!!! Posted withrepost • @meansagittarius @adriennemaree book Pleasure Activism debuted at #6 on the New York Times Best Seller…

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2 years

so many people/kids in my life are sick 🥺. physical sickness is one of the ways we process emotional overwhelm (aka the present moment). if you need a break, take a break...don't make the break take you. rest and wellness to you, you, you and you.

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being happy takes a lot of work for someone like me. suffering makes sense to me, the world is hard and unfair and oppressive and dangerous.

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your ancestors did not fight fair, and they didn’t teach you to be in right relationship with anyone. they didn’t give our ancestors time to wonder, ask for help, course correct, negotiate. this is why some say you should be grateful we seek justice, equality, versus revenge.

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and the winner is

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4 years

read this whole thread.

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when you say ‘ok ok so teach me’, we hear, ‘my time and needs continue to be more important than yours. i refuse to google and read, i demand your labor.’ when you say ‘but what do i do?’ it sounds like procrastination, because we have told you a million things.

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a group of virgos is called a victory.

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@adriennemaree

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sustain their best attention and fill them with enough rest and energy to continue until the job is done. if they feel weary or overwhelmed, help them receive the nourishment of our gratitude and faith in their labor. so be it, see to it. ase.

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🤯😍

Dr. Monisha Bajaj

@monishabajaj

5 years

The brilliant Angela Davis taking notes while the brilliant @adriennemaree speaks on an amazing panel #ASA2019 “Build as We Fight: The Revolutionary Legacy of James & Grace Lee Boggs” also with Robin Kelley & Shea Howell @BoggsCenter cc: @orisanmi

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consistent wisdom coming thru right now: be hopeful w/rigor. shape the future w/the strength & creativity of your ancestors. do not relinquish your humanity...do let go of any barrier between you and an ally, comrade, friend, co-operative in the liberation journey.

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@adriennemaree

5 years

the fall of patriarchy is inevitable. it is #metoo , it is #timesup . it is your turn, specifically, to lead by transforming yourself into the kind of man who feels safe. those are the men who will be allowed into the future. this is your invitation.

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I'M TALKING. I'M TALKING. I'M TALKING. I'M TALKING. #kamalaistalking

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3 years

i keep wondering what it would look and feel like if we received a living wage stimulus, and our values meant that all non-essential work stopped and we redistributed labor to offering better support to essential workers.

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Proud to be one of the first 100 blackwomxnfor Elizabeth Warren. She pays attention and responds with solutions. She has the experience and focus needed to understand what can tangibly change in the current system.…

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Nov. 17, 5-6:30pm! PST As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the WRRC, join us for an intergenerational panel conversation with #AngelaDavis , amb, and UC Davis students on how we can learn from past activism while building radical futures. Register at link in @ucdwrrc bio!

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@adriennemaree

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and vulnerable communities are under all manner of attack. it's all unveiling y'all. it's past time to pivot how we spend our time. adjust deadlines, be absolutely sure your work matters. remember that time spent on grief, anger, connecting and helping those in crisis matters.

Christian Davenport

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So to sum up: The West is burning; the Arctic is melting; the National Hurricane Center is tracking eight major systems; and the WHO reports the largest single-day increase of coronavirus cases globally.

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the white people in my life must align with that mandate – put your lifetime in service of undoing the work of your ancestors, earning the respect of future generations, and being willing to be transformed in the service of the work.

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3 years

seriously same. I wake up every day like: I AM IMANI PERRY'S COUSIN.

Imani Perry

@imaniperry

3 years

Finding out @adriennemaree is my cousin has been the sweet part of a difficult past 12 months. 3rd cousins, both Virgos and lovers of Octavia Butler. Connecting with beauty from the fragments 😍😍😍.

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redistribute resources. not as charity, which is just another way to assuage the conscience of privilege. redistribute money, decision-making power, land, time in meetings, visionary space, speaking engagements, benefits – if you can measure it, you can redistribute the resource.

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i want to give deep gratitude to the creators and entertainers who are essential to my survival in ways i don't think i ever fully understood before. thank you to all the people who make excellent things for screens.

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6 years

a. you are the only one who will ever get to love yourself from the inside out. b. be especially generous with loving the parts of yourself no one else knows.

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it's happening! Toshi and I are launching Octavia's Parables on June 22, Octavia E Butler's birthday. this time limited podcast will run weekly through the election as a deep dive chapter by chapter study of what the…

Adrienne Maree Brown (@adriennemareebrown) • Instagram photo

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thank you for giving us every single day, every single moment you could. it's devastating to lose you, knowing you weren't trying to go, knowing how much you protected us. i am so grateful for your service. rest Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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We Will Not Cancel Us is here!!! @AKPressDistro @culturejedi

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- is this the third act or the finale? - right, right, it's real life, and thus continuous. - it's just also Shakespearean, biblical and karmic - ok. i promise to center in compassion. - tomorrow. - spells and prayers sure do work tho! - whew lawd. #TrumpHasCovid

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3 years

i worry our communities (nation, species) will fester beyond function or recognition if we don't learn to honor our grief debt/needs during & beyond this pandemic. i already feel myself functioning thru emotional quicksand. when i get still the grief is sharp, massive & ready.

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just placing on manifestation pile

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9 years

you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land - @warsan_shire

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I love her face. her voice. her ideas. her process. in case you missed this unearthed interview, as we honor her passing today! Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005 Interview via @democracynow

Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005 Interview

As Democracy Now! marks 25 years on the air, we are revisiting some of the best and most impactful moments from the program’s history, including one of the last television interviews given by the...

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what if this body is the ideal body for this apocalypse what if? what if the future is simply all the fat girls outlasting the fools (full text on ig and fb)

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just saw that dan levy hosted snl this past weekend and squealed in response like he's my friend irl.

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how are y'all getting through these days? me, it's: mantras: you need time just to grieve you need time just to breathe prophecy means telling the truth our feelings reveal the future we long for you are not in control. shape what you can touch.

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8 years

i would like to see harriet tubman's face on our policies and politics.

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🙌🏽 grief is love. loving you Michael K. Williams.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCTAVIA BUTLER!! our ancestral gift to you is our undivided attention to your work and we outchea!!! Octavia's Parables Chapter 1 is up in most places podcasts are found (Apple, Spotify, etc)!!!!…

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I feel us today, multitudes, connected and aligned and moving together towards the future. this is flocking. look around you. feel our massive movement. this is a murmuration.

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Our work is to reclaim the full range of senses, of trusted intuition, of bodyscape memory. Our liberation as a species is tied up with the reclamation of what we can actually feel and do, both in our own miraculous bodies, and with and for each other.

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thoughts to self, may delete later: - hope did this. - literally. - stop laughing. - because you said you wouldn't wish this on your worst enemy. and you meant/mean it. - sure, god may be laughing...but that is god's business. #TrumpHasCovid

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Rainer Maria Rilke: “I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves.”

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i want to share that i believe it is a victory that the attention of the nation was on this hearing, and that this brilliant woman stood in her dignity and told the truth. now everyone has to face it.

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Grief is a convergence of love and madness. - La Marr Jurelle Bruce, on his text How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind

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May the demographics be ever in our favor.

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learning (from grief, from being present) that you generally can't negotiate how much miraculous time you get, just what you do with it.

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I feel exposed.

username like who is he?

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Me telling people “we gotta link after COVID” knowing damn well I’m flakey

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I'm sure high thread count is nice. but telling me which side is the short or long side is what I mean by 'fancy sheets.'

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WE WON!!! STAY SAFE!!! I woke up with a transmission for this day, knowing victory was coming. The complete text is on my blog because I can’t quite get the caption option on here working in a dependable way. The basics are:

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SWOON.

A Sunflower 🌻

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Someone commented “ignorant” on my nieces TikTok and baby girl went off

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what we haven't experienced in our lifetimes is this many people from this many communities/nations grieving this many people and changes concurrently, with nonstop tracking/coverage of the losses. we need to learn to grieve together in these conditions. that's a full time job.

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#NewProfilePic

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“we’re all trying to destroy the shittiness of this country while not destroying ourselves.” - @crissles at #AMC2017 closing plenary

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we are not passive observers. we are survivors who have learned and are learning to alchemize our pain into futures that don’t hurt our children’s children. our stories are our slingshots, and we are moving forward. and none of us move alone. #metoo #wetoo

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Me and Octavia and @Nnedi and @AyanaAHJ sitting in a tree 🥳

How Octavia Butler's Sci-Fi Dystopia Became A Constant In A Man's Evolution : Throughline

Octavia Butler's alternate realities and 'speculative fiction' reveal striking, and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. She was a deep observer of the human condition, perple...

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commit to doing your own work without seeking accolades. the point of this moment is decentering whiteness in the story of humanity. that means not centering white course correction w/the attention we give a baby’s first steps. we won’t patronize you…& that should be good news.

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when i facilitate groups, it's clear that we need to honor our losses and name what hurts and needs healing before we can truly move forward. what goes untouched, unnamed, unhealed becomes the festering heart of the group, and blameful dysfunction becomes the cultural norm.

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- ........ - oh yes sorry i started laughing again. - what is it when you're equally amused, vindicated and terrified about a piece of news? uproarious titillation? righteous prayerful giggles? sigh. #TrumpHasCovid

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adriennemareebrown

@adriennemaree

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come out as one who doesn't know anymore what they were so sure about, but is delighted by the mystery. but don't stop there. don't stop now. keep changing. keep going. never aim for normal, aim for you, utterly and dreamily you. #nationalcomingoutday

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@adriennemaree

4 years

for people just entering movement, you don't just get to do whatever you want to do. you have to be willing to be on assignment for a while. - @CharleneCac

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adriennemareebrown

@adriennemaree

4 years

don’t revert to supremacy under pressure. it breaks trust. if you are told you are practicing white supremacy, consider that we see and feel things you do not because they’re weaponized against us, weighted against us, scarring us, limiting us.

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adriennemareebrown

@adriennemaree

3 years

💜

André Trigueiro

@andretrig

3 years

Pura ternura

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