Brianna Mercado
@BriPositive
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#BriPositive | Dance Artist, Choreographer, & Educator | @TEDx Speaker | @UCBerkeley Grad | Grad Student in Mind-Body Medicine @SaybrookU
New York City
Joined July 2011
Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America? , by @RBReich
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To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller - The Atlantic
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Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance.
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The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here - The Atlantic
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The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
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"The aim of all #education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves." Arnold J. Toynbee
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"The world’s poorest countries will suffer the most from climate change despite being least responsible for it."
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As Hurricane Melissa threatens island nations across the Caribbean, many are already burdened by debt from a string of climate-fueled crises.
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At Stanford, amara tabor-smith Explores a More Expansive Vision of Dance Education https://t.co/gkfxVT1iHJ "My greatest hope is that people are teaching in ways that are liberatory and contributing to social transformation, recalibration and collective well-being..."
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An award-winning performer, choreographer, artistic director, and educator, amara tabor-smith taught at University of California, Berkeley, for more than a decade and, since 2017, has been an artist...
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“I’m trying to shift from extrinsic validation to intrinsic validation, the belief that I am using my skills for a worthy purpose.”
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How can we stay happy in an age gone mad, when it feels as though all is unstable? A study out of Cornell suggests a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a happiness hack for our...
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“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” Baldwin's timeless advice on writing, which applies to all creative work
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“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
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“You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.” - #AudreLorde
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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -#AudreLorde
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When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love https://t.co/0wtW0wYfZU via @brainpicker
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“All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms.”
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The Israeli military is bombing Rafah, the most densely populated area in the world, while Americans watch the Super Bowl. This is intentional. This is genocide. We're demanding the world watching the #superbowl turn their eyes to #Rafah. #alleyesongaza #CeasefireNOW
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"Whatever one’s views on the fairness, or lack thereof, of individual cases, the evidence now clearly shows that, in many cases, talent and power have been valued over acceptable human behavior." https://t.co/fjiu5DhJsK
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In an interview given in support of “Michael Jackson’s This is It,” the 2009 documentary about the London concert series that was never performed due to Jackson’s death week…
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When the abuser is the job-creator, speaking out becomes harder
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In an interview given in support of “Michael Jackson’s This is It,” the 2009 documentary about the London concert series that was never performed due to Jackson’s death week…
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Society is made up of you, me and many other people. The practice of seeing another’s suffering and opening our heart to them is one that will help create a positive and peaceful ripple in our society More on this topic in the first piece on our substack: https://t.co/a4VmhVcocE
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This film is nothing short of a masterpiece. An intimate observation of the symphony of life told with such an assured and honest lens by Mathew Heinermann And as for @JonBatiste and the hypernova that is @suleikajaouad , your love is the prototype. We are all so lucky to be
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