A.J. Haynes
@AJHAYNES
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🖖🏾vox & riddim guitar @seratones
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Joined June 2009
Our beloved colleague, Prof. Willoughy-Herard bravely speaking truth to power. Earlier she was thrown to the ground and violently arrested. Black feminist voices for justice in Palestine will not be silenced! @blkwomenradical @ScholarsForSJ
UC Irvine, one of the most sterile backdrops for a college campus you will ever witness. And a woman with a soul
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Hello! It takes dialogue. Inspired insights from Prof @LorettaJRoss about how to: 🗣deal with controversial topics — 🗣interrupt and #EndRacism — 🗣bridge differing points of view https://t.co/gcZm43Kuy2
@UNFPA @TEDTalks #ittakesdialogue
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We live in a call-out culture, says activist and scholar Loretta J. Ross. You're probably familiar with it: the public shaming and blaming, on social media and in real life, of people who may have...
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Dear Friends Our studio is giving two micro grants to support a software purchase by Black music or art undergraduate students. The application & details are linked below. The deadline is Sept 5th. Please share this announcement. https://t.co/9k5tckDFjD
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66 years ago on this very day, Emmett Till was beaten and brutally murdered. I told my 13 year old daughter the story of his lynching, and explained to her that I am going to replace the U.S. Senator who singlehandedly blocked the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
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When cities closed due to pandemic lockdowns, noise pollution dropped, too—offering researchers a rare opportunity to study how birds are affected by our growing cacophony. One scientist found that White-crowned Sparrows’ songs were 37% softer in her city.
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The relative quiet of the past year offered a rare chance to study how birds are affected by our growing cacophony. But the silence won't last.
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It’s exhausting living in a country where your humanity is constantly under attack.
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Friendly reminder🧚🏾‍♀️❤️ also My One Condoms has customizable sizes that you can have delivered to your home. Happy sexin’, ya’ll!
💛🧚‍♀️💛 For those of us who can’t take hormonal birth control or who are struggling to get access this is a great option. 🎸: @Seratones
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some news: today, i’m excited to launch https://t.co/lznpLOtC9b. this ever-expanding black film archive provides history and context to over 200 black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming. every description on the site is lovingly written & researched by me.
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When Amy Winehouse sang, “What kind of fuckery is this?” I felt that. Still so relevant with so much fuckery happening.
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Social justice lessons from my cucumbers: change CAN happen overnight
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Refugee justice and immigration justice are reproductive justice.
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Working on a chapbook of poetry. Anybody got recs for meditations, reflections, etc. on body memory?
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Black women carry a disproportionate burden in society, facing historical dehumanization, oppression, and violence, while not being able to equally access mental health care or resources. Urge Congress to support the #BlackRJPolicyAgenda: https://t.co/t05dMbPpSF.
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I also don’t like the “social” part of social media. It has created a false sense of familiarity and no boundaries.
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