Playing Taboo with these kids and this child just said, as a clue, "Old people Netflix...."
The word was "Blockbuster."
Deesha Philyaw
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Deesha Philyaw
@DeeshaPhilyaw
Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: bit.ly/firstladyfreem…) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
- Instant block for anyone blaming that child for her own murder.
- I'm relocating in 2022 to someplace Blacker with a thriving arts (including literary) community. Please sell me on your city.
- “You live in an echo chamber” isn’t the insult some people seem to think it is. By engaging people who believe monstrous things as if it’s just a difference of opinion, you dignify those monstrous things. White supremacy isn’t an opinion.
- Start a history fight in 6 words or less: The Suffragettes were racist.Start a history fight in 6 words or less I’ll go first: Military history is gender history
- "When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” -- Toni Morrison
- Just saw a tweet from a healthcare worker in isolation for Christmas because a patient’s family was refused entry b/c they had COVID. These ppl waited outside, then spat in the hcw’s face. My sister is an RN, and she carries. I don’t even know what else to say.
- Her status as a mother is irrelevant here, except in service to the myth of white innocence.#BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge ruled that Rachel Powell, the Mercer County mother suspected in the Capitol riot, may be released pending trial with restrictions. pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/02/11/jud…
- HARSH WRITING ADVICE that a Black woman writer gave me nearly 20 years ago: Stop worrying about getting your writing published; worry about getting better at writing.
- Are you a writer who falls in love with other writers on the sole basis of their writing? Finna start a support group.
- Replying to @DeeshaPhilyawYesterday, a dear friend was trying to understand why someone was being abusive toward them, and I said, “It doesn’t matter why.” I wasn’t trying to be dismissive. But that’s my m.o. now, romantically, platonically, and professionally. Zero tolerance for disrespect and abuse.
- Replying to @DeeshaPhilyawJames Baldwin said, “I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” He was talking about racism and hypocrisy in this country, but I lean into his words as a reminder and a safeguard.
- Today, I had a choice to make, and I didn’t settle. Please clap.
