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Reminder that Queen Elizabeth is not a remnant of colonial times. She was an active participant in colonialism. She actively tried to stop independence movements & she tried to keep newly independent colonies from leaving the commonwealth. The evil she did was enough
She was tortured with axes during Kenya's struggle for independence from British colonial rule.
As Britain celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of its monarch, this old fighter wants to send her a message: "Let Elizabeth bring what belongs to me."
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Therapists aren't automatically good at their jobs or ethical. Some therapists project. And many are enablers. I hope ppl who are seeking therapy can be mindful of this. I wish I had tips for how to spot when it's happening. If someone does have tips, let me know
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My theory about why men hate child support so much isn't about the amount of money they spend but rather because under the patriarchal rules they ascribe to, providing financial support should come with the promise of control. Control they don't have over their exes
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I actually do not find it funny or endearing to ridicule someone for having an accent and entirely too often, Americans do this to ppl from the Global South while refusing to admit that it’s discriminatory
I absolutely love Black people. Not a word was said but everything was understood.
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This makes the way she was villianized for wanting to be free of that show sooooooooo much worse
Constance Wu Says She Faced Sexual Harassment, Intimidation on ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Set: “I Kept My Mouth Shut for a Really Long Time”
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Do not allow anyone to distort this history into claiming that she allowed for independence on the continent. Independence was WON despite her attempts to stop it. In fact, when her father died, she was on a tour of the colonies attempting to discourage independence movements ✨
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Random reminder that "trauma bonding" isn't when you build a relationship with someone because you can relate to some of their trauma (a normal thing).
Trauma bonding is when an abuser forms a bond with their victim through positive reinforcement during cycles of abuse
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Her reign as queen is older than the oldest African colony to gain independence. Her reign is older than Ghana & she'd been queen for ~4 yrs when the Gold Coast gained independence. When Nkrumah was attempting to turn the Gold Coast into the Republic of Ghana she tried to stop it
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If it is mindblowing to you that on of the last actual colonizers is still alive & ruling today, remember that most of our African countries are younger than some of our grandparents. My grandparents became adults while Ghana was still a colony named the Gold Coast.
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Sometimes (often), the reminders of how the world dehumanizes Africans come in the form of seemingly banal decisions like sending vehicles that can't be sold in the West due to safety concerns to Africans
So why is this Suzuki car flooding Ghana if the safety is zero?! What was
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doing ?! Charley Ghana di3 oh naaa!!! 😡🚶🏾♂️😥
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My feminist hot take is that nobody should have a "right" to sex because sex requires consent. We do not need to "develop services" to "meet" [men's] "needs" when we can't even guarantee protection and livable pay for sex workers as we speak.
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This is also why so many men abandon their families after a breakup but become providers to new partners and new kids. Because in those new situations they still have the control they feel that providing material support should guarantee
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This is why asking them why they don't file for custody (which would end them having to make payments) always stumps them. Because being the primary custodian will not fix their problem. Because their problem is a loss of control, not a loss of money
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Every time we ask Biden too many questions he just buys a new pet
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Why did I make that thread? Cos I saw how folks were talking about her as if she became queen after colonialism. Which isn't true. The reminder that African countries are younger than her reign is actually relevant cos it's easy for the timelines to be distorted
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Why did I make that thread? Cos I saw how folks were talking about her as if she became queen after colonialism. Which isn't true. The reminder that African countries are younger than her reign is actually relevant cos it's easy for the timelines to be distorted
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(White) Europeans with accents are not ridiculed or assumed to be incompetent because of their accents. Americans are perfectly capable of understanding accents when the person is from Europe. But anyone from the Global South gets ridiculed & no attempts are made by Americans
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She's a colonizer and I do not mean it in the "descendant of..." kinda way. She's an actual colonizer. An actual factual colonizer
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If it offends you that we are discussing the **historical fact** that she was literally ruler of colonies, then that is a you problem and not a me problem. I didn't create this history. I am just a product of it. Hope that helps
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My tips from personal experience:
- making conclusions about you or your relationships, etc. without giving you the chance to actually work through them and reach your own conclusions
- always externalizing blame for things in your life that are patterns
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A domestic abuse situation is often a trauma bond.
Getting close to another survivor isn't a trauma bond. Sharing stories about your pain isn't a trauma bond. Supporting each other isn't a trauma bond 🧡
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Imagine how it feels to be an instructor who already knows that Americans discriminate based on nationality (as guessed by accent), & then have your students making faces at you and laughing at you during a lesson. There’s nothing endearing about this clip
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It’s wild cos unlike for most married women who stay at home, a “stay at home gf” has 0 legal protections & if the relationship ends their partner will have zero legal obligation to helping them. So like you are spending all your energy taking care of someone who can just dip out
just found out there are women on tiktok calling themselves "stay at home girlfriends." they do not have jobs and they do not have families to take care of. they go to the gym and cook for their boyfriends. that's it
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- if you feel uncomfortable or afraid to be honest cos you'll feel judged
- pushing you to discuss things you don't want to discuss no matter your reasons for not wanting to talk about it
- if you leave therapy feeling awful. Discussing difficult things =/= feeling like shit
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Yvonne, I'm once again reminding you that you don't actually get a say in what people do with their bodies, time, energy, or money. Even if you think something is a blessing, that applies to only *you*
If you get pregnant, have the baby. If you aren’t ready to be a parent, protect yourself. Its a blessing to conceive….. i’ll tell you guys a story soon.
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I’ve seen scholars from the Global South be ridiculed, dismissed, and even assumed to be the help by Americans purely because of their accents. It’s extremely alienating & yet another way that xenophobia manifests in this country. It’s not okay
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All the men who came to do "I heard she's difficult to work with" need to apologize to her immediately
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We are gonna have to answer some really uncomfortable questions in a couple of decades and most of the ppl responsible for this will lie through their teeth
Doctors discovered that some stillbirths resulted from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta, a condition called SARS-CoV-2 placentitis.
Cases were found even in people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent.
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Instead of laughing with these students, maybe let’s encourage 1. Actually trying to understand ppl instead of making fun of them & 2. Letting your instructor know that you are having trouble understanding so that they can try to find solutions
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One thing I'll never let anyone steal again is my softness. I feel like my whole life has been a battle to not become jaded and I never put in the boundaries I needed to. That's done now
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Patriarchy isn't just who does chores around the house. It's about WHY these roles and norms were created. The division of labor & the associated (lack of) compensation is meant to keep women from accessing resources in a systemic way
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I know ppl don't rate social scientists but it's been established for decades at least that comedy is one of the most effective tools for normalizing bigotry and is often one of the first signs of wide-scale ideological shifts... For better or worse
This is exactly why comedians do that shit in broad day cuz ppl always deflect with “it’s just comedy.” I don’t play those games.
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On the highest of keys, it's very very rape culture. The "panic" around men having "less sex" is rape culture
Also framing… sexlessness in men under 30 as an emergency… When women have lost access to abortion care… is pathetic
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And generally if you don't get along or feel off or whatever, you are within your right to find someone else. A good therapist wouldn't guilt you about that
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Cheating is absolutely a tool that abusers use. It is. Is every instance of cheating "abuse"? No. But the devastation that ppl experience from their trust being broken by the person they feel safest w/ + the gaslighting that usually occurs is very real harm
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A 12 yr old knowing they aren't straight has nothing to do with sex. But you hearing about a child expressing their identity and immediately imagining that child in sexual situations says a lot about you
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Nobody has a right to sex... You cannot have a "right" to something that requires the consent of others. Reproductive justice is necessary. It is not interchangeable with "a right to sex." Teach boys & men that their masculinity doesn't entitle them to women's bodies instead xoxo
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If you don’t feel good chemistry, & you don’t feel like you can get comfortable w/ the therapist, it’s time to move on. The purpose of this piece is to help people figure out if a therapist has the right fit/chemistry for them in 1-3 counseling sessions.
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"A right to sex" is just repackaging patriarchal entitlement to women's bodies. What we need to do is get rid of patriarchy & stop allowing cishet men to think that they are owed sex simply because they exist as cishet men.
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@georgina4781
And they absolutely should do that. That is how you learn from history. Hope this helps
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But this whole thing of ridiculing someone for having an accent from the Global South? Stop doing that
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Me: gives historical context
Y'all:
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You think this is the first time I've ever talked about this? 😂 Maybe these conversations were/are not common in your household but I was raised to actually know my history & I actually discussed this w/ my elders growing up. Elders who *lived* it
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You started liking someone and decided that because she was likable enough to inspire those feelings in you, you had to find a reason to punish her so you could gain the upper hand somehow by humiliating her?
I was chatting up this girl and I really started feeling her....so I decided to ask the mandem if they knew her and one brother sent her nudes 😂😂
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Accidentally played ALIEN SUPERSTAR and now I gotta listen to the whole album. Beyonce wins again
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Interesting because there's zero proof that she treated anyone "badly." She was villianized for saying she was not happy that the show was renewed. How that became "treated children badly" is beyond me but this is how misogyny distorts things
So a producer being shit made her treat the cast badly? Half of which were children
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Misandry doesn't exist because 1. women do not have the structural power to enforce "misandry" and 2. the people who truly hate men are men themselves :)
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My favorite part about this is her alluding to the fact that allllllll the shaming & threats that these men direct at Blk women & alllll the juxtapositioning of BW against other women boils down to BM trying to use the promise of partnership to force women into "submission"
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This is exactly why they didn't want you there. Because this is what men "allies" do when you give them platforms. Stop inviting men to speak at feminist events ✨
A week ago i was invited in a female space to contribute about gender equality. Truth be told many were angered that i was there. The energy of
"Why is he here?" Swept me off the feet and i wondered the source anger. Nonetheless, i stayed and listened through.
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One of the reasons diaspora love visiting home so much is cos there is a very real & very tangible shift in personal privilege that comes with moving across borders. The very least we can do is be honest about it
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“Maybe they genuinely didn’t understand”
Lol. Anyway, thanks for completely missing the point and also ignoring where I said this
Instead of laughing with these students, maybe let’s encourage 1. Actually trying to understand ppl instead of making fun of them & 2. Letting your instructor know that you are having trouble understanding so that they can try to find solutions
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“They’re not ridiculing him”
Meanwhile the tweet I responded to is joking about the fact that “nothing was said but everything was understood.” So if it’s not ridicule then what was it? Please okay?
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There’s a reason my thread identified this as an American tendency instead of putting it all on these particular students. Because ultimately, they are reacting within the context of American xenophobia. I am perfectly capable of holding multiple truths & I do it all the time ✨
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Also "self love" doesn't guarantee that you'll be treated better or that you'll attract a partner tbh. So if you're on a journey to self love, make sure that your end goal isn't built on the promise that it'll bring you a fulfilling relationship
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I promise that this isn't the clap back you think it is
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& as someone who has taught college students, I give students a lot of grace. Even during times when students have intentionally been harmful. Cos that’s what you do when you work with young ppl. That doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge & address harmful behavior
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Ppl think "incel" = someone who can't get dates and this cannot be further from the truth.
Honestly, "incel" is a mislabel. They *stole* that label from a woman who wanted to build community w/ other ppl who actually couldn't find partners due to not being desirable
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In all seriousness, I imagine living through a drug epidemic that likely touched ppl you knew would make you anti any drug
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Another piece of this convo is the misconceived idea of cultural purity. This falsehood that Africans who were kidnapped lost all parts of their identities and that those who stayed remained untouched by European violence. It's not that cut & dry. Everyone was touched
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ALSO interesting that she describes being abused & intimidated in her WORK PLACE and this person's response was "so a producer being shit..."
Your boss being "shit" is not the same as someone who holds power over your career sexually harassing & intimidating you...
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It's very easy to tell ppl to focus on self love when you navigate a world in which receiving romantic love is a constant for you. And I want the self love agents to remember that
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So not only am I speaking as someone who has experienced Americans acting this way towards me and others, I am ALSO speaking as someone with actually higher ed teaching experience who is very good at responding to students with empathy 😒
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The girls aren't doing vengeance the way they used to
My husband has just called me fat. I've just googled an ex-love in retaliation. Just found ex has a good-reads account. I'm going to buy my husband some books my ex recommends and sit smugly as I watch him read them. If I didn't have kids I would get a divorce.
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I got a secret for y'all. All of these things are a result of patriarchy. Turn your complaints into vim to end patriarchy and create a society where men are able to express a full range of their humanity :)
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How long has it been since that whole "I heard she's difficult to work with" rumor and there has been ZERO evidence of it. Despite seemingly all of the world turning on her. At this point, ppl are just making things up
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This is ridiculous. Especially when SayHerName came out of the Black Lives Matter movement. A movement that was then co-opted by police who created “Blue Lives Matter” and white ppl who created “White Lives Matter.” This is a terrible comparison. Dismissive and wrong
When Huey P. Newton was asked what white people could do in support of the Black Panthers, he said they could form the White Panther Party.
And you know what? They fucking did.
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Cos they're letting white ppl rewrite history AGAIN to absolve themselves of any sort of guilt while continuing to enjoy the spoils of colonialism & enslavement. The fact that this talking point is gaining even more traction while we are discussing the legacy of the monarchy?
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Also to the cishetero men who are shouting in my thread... listen. I say this in the kindest way possible out of respect for basic humanity but...I simply do not care if lack of sex is a problem in your life. I care about women having autonomy & about dismantling rape culture
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Akon also said he’s building a city powered by solar or whatever in Africa so.
Akon says Chris Brown could be Michael Jackson if he surrounded himself with the right people
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Particularly relevant since ppl are being a bit dishonest about why ppl didn't get divorced "back in the day". In times when women couldn't even open bank accounts without their husband's signing off, the prospect of leaving with nothing kept women stuck
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The "worst" rumor about her from "sources close to the cast" is that she didn't socialize with cast mates on the set of ANOTHER project that wasn't even this project. That's literally all I found (& I searched just to be sure). But sure, let's just make things up...
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This is why he lied and made it seem like he was a minor at the time. He’s really a skilled abuser cos it takes a level of intent to tell the kind of lie that he knew would shift the public narrative in his favor. Trying to gaslight the entire public in broad daylight
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@leewritesalot
I think because so many ppl encounter these words on social media, they just don't know that they're using it wrong 😭
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It's def a signifier of a specific type of misogyny. As evidenced by the men responding to this tweet lmfao
Girls should bring up astrology on a first date.
Not because it’s an accurate measure of compatibility, but because it self-identifies men who are arrogant, condescending, and incapable of entertaining opinions they disagree with.
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And last thing before I get off my soapbox: IF WE ARE GONNA TELL PPL THAT COLLEGE IS NECESSARY FOR THEM TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AND BE FUNCTIONAL ADULTS, THEN COLLEGE SHOULD BE FREE. COMPLETELY FREE
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They’re telling Black Americans to come to Ghana to escape systemic racism while Ghana police kill Black ppl in broad daylight & then claim that the victim was not only resisting multiple officers WHILE being tasered but he also managed to swallow 8 bags of weed at the same time
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Was the lesson to stop bothering women who show no interest in dating you? Cos that’s the lesson I see
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I hide my face a lot but like. Look at it
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Trauma bonding is how abusers keep control. It CAN look like someone appearing as a support during/after trauma, who uses your reliance on them to control you.
But relating to each other's trauma is a healthy way to process and help each other heal. It's also a responsibility.
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This is the hardest working tennis court to ever tennis court
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Remember when they posted an ad for a cook (I think) and the salary was below living wage? 💀
The late Queen of England exempted herself from the 'equality act' meaning she doesn't have to hire black staff - and yall queueing for that 👀
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A more interesting conversation would be why white women's idea of "rebelling" against patriarchy so often begins & ends at cultural appropriation 💀
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I can walk butt ass naked down Tema motorway and you still don't get to sexualize me if I tell you not to
Woman go do buss it challenge through the ass down heavy finish come tell you so 'don't sexualize me'. Don you make serious?
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"It's one of many cars sold in markets with 'relaxed safety standards.'"
'Profits over people' is true for every capitalist economy but then there's the additional layer of not being considered "people" at all. This is infuriating
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They don’t. They told them for 3 years to stop using the Coachella brand to pretend that they had a partnership. If Coachella wanted to be in Africa, they would simply use the name that Deezy & co spent 5 years trying to steal…
Coachella probably wants to acquire Afrochella. It’s big enough to expand their brand in this region
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The reason single mothers suffer is because of a lack of resources and support. These are things that marriage supposedly guarantees but that's also not always the case. We systemically neglect single mothers and then use the results of that neglect as justification for shame
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How could you possibly know who they have or have not dated 💀
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@TaLynnKel
Yup. It's never about the money cos they don't usually even pay that much to begin with
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Please understand that teachers are workers. Teaching your children is a job. And that job isn't more important than the lives of teachers. We aren't supposed to say that cos kids. But at the same time, the number of ppl who think teachers need to sacrifice themselves?
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(I don't actually think what I said is a hot take. It was tongue in cheek. We really shouldn't even have to say any of this and yet here we are)
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Ignored Ghanaians telling y’all that the govt is kidnapping, assaulting, falsely imprisoning gay ppl. Persecuting queer ppl. Trying to pass a law that would imprison ppl for being gay & legalize conversion therapy
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“Feminists fought for us to go to work.” No babe. You’re already working a ft job. Feminists fought for you to have legal protection 💀💀💀💀💀💀 but sure. Just throw all that away for vibes and patriarchal promises that aren’t even backed up by anything you can take to court
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This is why it was never okay to laugh at other masc presenting women who were mourning BG’s treatment. This is why they felt the need to mourn with each other. Cos this sort of rhetoric is used to justify violence against gender nonconforming ppl all the time
wit that voice they prolly thought she was a whole nxgga when they booked her😭😭😭 welcome home doe gang
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@SimplyAYT_
And they do that and see absolutely no issue w/ it. Meanwhile the entirety of the world always has to adjust to how Americans do everything all the time
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There's a reason why comedians are asked to punch up, not down. You can either use your art to push us towards a more equitable world. Or you can fuel bigotry. But comedy isn't neutral. Who and what societies ridicule tells a lot about the values of that society
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I wanna know where he buys his pants cos finding pants as a lifter is hard enough but the kind of stretch he has in those is impressive
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Ppl will be like “oh I didn’t know you grew up in Ghana cos you don’t have an accent.” And never ask WHY I would’ve made an effort to adopt an American accent. It’s because I was tired of Americans assuming I wasn’t smart
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I was just thinking on Friday about that Grace Jones interview where they asked her if she likes women and she responded that of course she liked women cos if she didn't, that would mean she didn't like herself
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The last 2.5 years have been an utter failure in global public health policy that will impact us for generations (at least)
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