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My book, SURVIVING, is a 2023 Nautilus Book Award Winner. Thank you for reading me, and seeing me.
“Award Winning Writer” feels amazing, ngl ☺️
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- I’ll never forget how my friend, a museum curator, told a guy she’d just met what her job is and he responded with “I’m a curator too.” She asked of what and he said, “vibes.”
- This student loan situation is demonstrating how much people actually hate when good things happen for others, and I want us to really examine that.
- I’d seen a lot of writing about living alone during the pandemic and I felt the weight of that. Now the power is out and there’s nothing - no sound, no light, not even heat. And I’m left only w/thoughts of a federal and state government that has failed us on every level.
- guys, “Fast Car” is about a woman trapped in a poverty cycle and the cyclical melody exists as a musical device to represent that hope this helps
- I miss when men cried in the desert while wearing leather.
- I have a deep respect for Anita Hill and her choice to say "I don't forgive you". There's something subversively powerful to me about that.
- me at the interview vs. me at orientation
Black women with natural hairstyles are less likely to get job interviews than White women or Black women with straightened hair, new research shows. cnn.it/3ajDfAL - The scariest part of Liam Neeson saying he wanted to murder any random black person is that other white people are admitting they've felt the same way.
- Tweet your most random music fact.
- Ya know, insulting southern black people because your preferred candidate didn’t win today is a tell.
- This nation made monuments of slave traders and then told black people to get over slavery.
