Jonquilyn Hill
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You can call me JQ. @HowardU Alumna. Casting pods for @voxdotcom . Only your podcast feed can play me.
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Guys do you remember the Tumblr days when House of Balloons was out and we had no idea what The Weeknd looked like
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Have you considered investigative journalism
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The Usher disrespect comes from people who don’t know the joy of hearing “Yeah” at an 8th grade dance.
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The “Black women save us” stuff from a certain subset of twitter gets really strange really fast. Quickly feels like the mammy and magical Negro tropes.
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I actually love it when people get secret married and/or have secret babies. Go girl give us nothing! Just wake up one day and tweet “my heart is so full.”
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When Joan Didion wrote, "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests," I really, really felt that.
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Emmanuel Acho really getting Twitter jumped by the entire diaspora
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The Preacher’s Wife is on and I cannot believe we all wanted Whitney Houston to cheat on her husband with an angel
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"The Verge reached out to Musk for comment. Twitter no longer has a communications department."
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You don’t understand what this did for dancing in the mirror in 7th grade
My girl Ciara put on that cropped striped blue & orange hoodie and made It Girl history. We all knew where we were.
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A take so bad that we’re coming together to dunk on it. That’s Pan-Africanism.
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Maybe it’s because I’m a child of Rihanna forged in the fires of chaos but what…is so special about West Elm Caleb? Men text you Spotify playlists then ghost you everyday! Explain to me like I’m 5 pls
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here's our story on the flood of sexual abuse claims filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act.
Drew Dixon, who alleges that music exec LA Reid sexual assaulted her twice in 2001, says this is a way to "reclaim some fraction of what I've lost".
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There are people in the comments defining biracial as having *any* white ancestry and babe…that’s likely almost all of us with enslaved ancestors. Put the calipers down.
Vanessa Williams is trending because there are people that don’t know she isn’t bi-racial? Her mother and father are BLACK. Y’all see fair skin and fair eyes and completely ignore how science works
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This trial has really put a spotlight on how many people lack media literacy. It’s frightening. I knew it was bad, but not *this* bad. People really don’t know what credible news outlets look like or how to spot misinformation.
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I love when women enter a live laugh love era. Drink some tea! Take a bubble bath! Journal! Go on a walk! Read bell hooks and tell me all the quotes that scalped you! Idk start listening to India Arie again!
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Ok now that we’ve had the DC Beyoncé concerts let’s talk about DMV infrastructure.
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"Critics argue that the overall purpose is to separate Republicans and Democrats by method of voting and then to use lawsuits to void mail ballots that are disproportionately Democratic."
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@WrittenByHanna
The way stuff like this is both a) engagement farming and b) a way for people to collect pictures 😭 it reminds me of that zeeti guy who would ask women to post specific pics and then sell them
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Much like striking down Roe, I think the affirmative action rollback is going to be *a lot* messier in practice than advocates think.
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That Goodreads drama is so wild and just one of many examples of what happens when you think success is a finite resource.
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Today is Relisha Rudd's 16th birthday. She disappeared 7 years ago.
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Did Harry know who Tyler Perry was before they moved into his house? How many of his movies and plays has Harry seen?
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DCist is some of the best local reporting we had. They didn’t cover Washington; they covered the District.
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Fantasia get your shoes we’re going to the Oscar’s next!
With $18 million, "The Color Purple" had the largest Christmas Day opening for a film since 2009, and the second-biggest Christmas Day opening of all time.
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This many news layoffs during an election year when AI is better than ever and disinformation spreads like wildfire makes my stomach hurt.
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Our bodies got us through a pandemic and we should be kinder and more forgiving towards them
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@Eugene_Scott
You’re right. And it’s so depressing because colonialism DEEPLY traumatic. To act like it’s not is so delusional
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I think people are panicking about Usher singing to women at concerts because we haven’t really had any men make new loverboy R&B in a while. That brand of romanticism is foreign to an entire generation.
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The data people often cite about fertility declining after 35 was based on women from 18 century France. Also yes, the chances of birth defects double by 40….but that’s from .5% to 1%. Life can shake out all kinds of ways!
Idk who needs to hear this but women in their late 30s & 40s are giving birth to perfectly healthy babies 🥺❤️
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Imagine your man saying something dumb and it ending up in major news outlets. I’d print it out and keep a copy on hand at all times.
Experts decried Darius Jackson's behavior toward Keke Palmer as sexist, and pointed out the dangerous consequences of such attitudes and behaviors.
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15 years ago VH1 would have had a multipart special about this list with talking heads and I miss those days.
Rolling Stone Presents: The 100 Greatest R&B Songs of the 21st Century, Ranked 🎤
Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Mariah Carey, and a whole lot more.
See the list:
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I keep thinking of the Britney doc and why we as a society ever thought it would be appropriate to ask someone if they’re a virgin
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I think one of the healthiest things you can do as a person working in media is look in the mirror every 48 hours and ask yourself if you have brain worms.
thinking of my perfect husband who hung out with me and some fellow journalists/writers literally once, was silent for like 2 hours while we argued about discourse, and then flatly said "i think your jobs are affecting your personalities"
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If people would really cared about vocal fry as much as they pretend to, Ira Glass would not be Ira Glass.
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I feel like we're going to see Juneteenth get Cinco de Mayo'd
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Living in a major city and hearing people talk about crime there really is wild because they're like "THE STREETS ARE FILLED WITH BLOOD! IT IS PURE ANARCHY!" while you're going on a nice little stroll and saying hi to your neighbor and their dog.
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The difference between Washington Twitter and DC Twitter has never been more clear
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How has no one created a braiding reality competition show
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Engaging with art is good. Critiquing art is good. Critiquing those critiques is good. (Now you’ve got a dialogue going!) Doxxing and sending people death threats is bad. Some of you need to learn to stan responsibly. This is evergreen.
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Life is both profoundly beautiful and deeply, deeply unfair.
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Went to 3 weddings in 3 weekends. I have officially wrapped up wedding szn and will be transitioning into spooky szn.
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I want to love something the way Tasha K loves debt.
Kevin Hart is reportedly suing Tasha K for extortion after she allegedly threatened to release an interview with his ex-assistant. He claims he was told he could pay $250,000 to keep it from going public
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When people ask my why I pitched this podcast, why Relisha's story sticks with me, I'm honest. It's because she's a little Black girl. And little Black girls deserve to be protected and cared for as much as anybody.
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ok but does the senate sex haver know who snitched? there are only but so many people on a close friends instagram story.
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The podcast I host is out Thursday. It's about the gaps in our society and the people who fall through them.
Season 1 is about Relisha Rudd, an 8-year-old girl who went missing in 2014 and still hasn't been found. You can listen to the trailer now.
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If you need Black rom com energy in your life like I do PLEASE watch the second season of Love Life I implore you
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There is so much in this that I can’t even pull one quote to tweet. I cannot recommend reading this enough
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Some professional news:
Some exciting news from
@voxdotcom
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@jonquilynhill
is taking over as host of the acclaimed politics and policy podcast The Weeds
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I read The Cut interview. She didn’t say this. It’s a comparison the interviewer made in the graphs before the Q&A and that had a different tone than what this tweet is trying to make out . I’ve seen so many accounts run with this.
Lebron James wife Savannah James says she just wanted to focus on being a Great Mom and supporting her husband when asked why she keeps a low profile while other NBA players wives opt to go on reality TV, becoming influencers and
build brands.
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I’m not going to swag surf at a super spreader event while the babies don’t have livable housing conditions
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AI would not be able to come up with Scuba Gooding Jr or Sea Murder.
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It’s probably because I’m an only child and that was my dynamic growing up but I love hanging out with my married friends. They come pick me up and I sit in the back seat like “wow I can’t wait to go on this adventure with mom and dad.”
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*Who* tells the story is often just as important as telling the story. It always shows.
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It’s very gross that we used to bowl and then eat finger food
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I really hate to say it but I worked out, voted, grabbed coffee, showered and dressed for work all before 9am. Feeling real accomplished. I think the early birds might be out here winning.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but going to gym at 6am is much better than going in the evening.
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I feel like Nick Cannon saw the declining birth rate headlines and thought that something must be done
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Ten times out of nine a toxic person’s talent does not make it worth it
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Some professional news: after almost 6 amazing years, I’ll be leaving 1A and WAMU at the end of May. I’ve grown so much here and worked with some of the best people I know.
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When RBG died he texted me that he wanted to come over so he could hear me talk about it in my “sexy journalism voice.”
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I don’t stay up for album releases anymore. I’m 30 and the music will still be there when I stir my collagen into my coffee the next morning.
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@keiyaa_
Go no contact, journal, increase the frequency of therapy, surround yourself with friends, allow yourself to feel every emotion, read (highly recommend Communion by bell hooks and The Journey From Abandonment to Healing by Susan Anderson)
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Tomorrow on
@1a
we're doing a show on dating during the pandemic. If you're like me (a child of Rihanna born in the fires of chaos) we want to hear how your love life is going. Tell us your dating stories! 1a[@[wamu[.]org
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I really hope this creates a pipeline for more Black investigative journalists. lol
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A lot of people who send "thank you black women!!!!1" tweets then disparage the very states and communities where those black women live when they're in crisis. Makes me go hmmm.
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A couple months ago I had my fibroids removed via laparoscopic myomectomy. Of the 10 the doctor removed, the largest was 15cm – about the size of a mango. I had heavy periods, awful cramps, and even stomach issues because they were pressing on my stomach.
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also I cannot, try as I might, get over the cringing void where the chemistry between Kate Winslet and Jack Black is supposed to be, this man is hell, stop telling her what films to watch, stop scatting at the shops, ask her a question you pig!!!
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"Why don't they just move?" To where????? There isn't a place untouched by extreme weather events.
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It’s been 10 years since Relisha Rudd went missing.
When people ask my why I pitched this podcast, why Relisha's story sticks with me, I'm honest. It's because she's a little Black girl. And little Black girls deserve to be protected and cared for as much as anybody.
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I love how unhinged iPhone notes are. Like it will be a grocery list, a dream you had that you don't want to forget, and then the top 10 rankings of your favorite genres of crying.
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Luke Combs got us a Tracy Chapman performance. I cannot be mad.
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My favorite nepo baby is Tracee Ellis Ross because she's talented and is always by a pool and I find that pretty relatable, actually.
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In Through The Cracks I explore the story of Relisha Rudd, and 8-year-old who went missing from homeless shelter in DC and hasn't been seen since. The first 4 episodes are out now.
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my hot take is that the internet and capitalism have ruined dating so much that you have to wade through people who learned everything they know about interpersonal relationships from Twitter trending topics and chatcast-style podcasts
Told ya the dating scene is trash, we gotta deal with this type of shit
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I saw “Caleb’s List.” I think a major issue is that a lot of people lie to themselves and say they want something casual when they don’t. People - especially women - are told they shouldn’t *desire* relationships. It’s ok to want romantic companionship and express that desire
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In non-insurrection/impeachment news: Through the Cracks - the podcast I’m hosting - comes out in exactly 2 weeks. It explores the story of Relisha Rudd, an 8-year-old who disappeared from the shelter where she lived with her family.
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“Are the straights ok?”
No. No we are not. Some of us are really trying but the answer is no.
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(A very distinct phenomenon is Black girls who thought they were ugly growing up but actually just went to high school with white people)
#TheBachelorette
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This isn’t depressing it’s just a Monday. Also he has health care and a well-trained dog AND he gets off at 4:30 he is doing better than a good chunk of people
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Because you’d go to happy hour for $5 margaritas and 50 cent wings after work and the next thing you knew you it was 2am and you were in the club with a Fireball in one hand and the purse holding your laptop in the other.
y'all "going out" attire for millennials in the 2010s was straight up business casual, girls looked like paralegals at the club 😭
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My brain when I read
So when y’all read books … y’all can see what’s being described in your head? Like when they describe character… y’all see them in your imagination?
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Do something real nice for his birthday. You’ll be freed within a month.
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Nella Larsen's "Passing" has big "y'all wanna hear a story about how me and this b*tch fell out" energy
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As person with an overall sunny disposition I can tell you that people have been miserable long before Twitter. It's just louder and more of a pile on now. Some people see kindness and happiness and want to stomp on it because they don't have it. Don't let them.
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I’m super excited for my next adventure. I’ll be a Senior Producer at Vox, where I’ll be working on some cool new podcast things. I’m super excited for this next adventure.
We're thrilled to announce
@jonquilynhill
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@heyavishay
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@voxdotcom
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@today_explained
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@keiyaa_
Also: sticky notes with what you need to hear in high traffic areas. Bathroom mirrors. Light switches. The thermostat. Things like “my heart will heal,” “this happened for a reason,” “love will find me easily again.”
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