Melania Luisa Marte
@melatocatierra
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poet. mama. earthling. 🍃🦶🏽⛰️ Author of PLANTAINS AND OUR BECOMING “the personal is political” 🍉
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GENOCIDE IS THE ISSUES OF ALL ISSUES. GENOCIDE IS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, HEALTHCARE, HOUSING, POLICING, TRANS RIGHTS, ETC. WE HAVE NO REASON TO FIGHT FOR ANYTHING ELSE IF WE CAN’T AGREE ON THE RIGHT OF A PEOPLE TO LIVE.
Whoopi tells the voters in Michigan not to throw away their vote on ALL OF THE ISSUES over their concern over ONE ISSUE. This is a great message for a lot of Democratic voters this year.
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I just got escorted out of a women’s empowerment conference where I was given an award for my leadership and activism because I spoke up about a woman on a panel glorifying Israel. I literally can’t make this stuff up. My ancestors and God are proud of me.
💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
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it’s always “y tu novio?” and never “how will we continue to dismantle anti-Blackness?”
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this is just a reminder that Black women who come from these same “mixed Latina” countries don’t get to be confused or have an identity crisis. They get called Negra and racial slurs as soon as they come out the womb.
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this is what God put humans on earth for. not to become billionaires and warmongers.
Turtle got stuck on its way to the sea and this kind man here helped it out
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The overwhelming silence form Black elites about Gaza, Congo, Sudan, Haiti let you know exactly how Black Excellence sides with colonialism and capitalism over Black liberation. There is no in between. There is no neutrality.
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—Toni Morrison
🧒🏽🧑🏾🦱👧🏻👶🏻🧑🏿🦱👦🏻: Stop killing us
🇺🇸👨💼👩💼: Is “killing” the right word?
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We live in a world where people call Cardi B white and Bad Bunny Black. I’m logging off forever 😭 busquen De Dios.
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Why is Haitian under Black but Dominican is under Hispanic or Latino? When they know good and well Latino is not a race.
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my abuelitas cardio for the day is roaming her garden in the mornings to hum and blow kisses at her plants and trees. sometimes when her trees aren’t growing fruit, she has therapy sessions asking them if they’re okay...
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Y’all be retweeting that “I no Black, I Dominican” but don’t read unapologetically Black Dominican authors, don’t listen to the founding fathers of Bachata who talk about racism and their love for Black women in their songs, and don’t engage with Black activists on the island.
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I grew up in the projects in NYC and am now a full time writer living an abundant life because of being born in the U.S and not the Dominican Republic. I was given access by way of this horrible empire. Can we be honest about how we make it and who will never get to make it?
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No, it’s not just Junot Diaz. It’s your tío. It’s your abuelo. It’s Patriarchy. It’s Dominican culture. It’s pretending that the Dominican Republic doesn’t have one of the highest rates of femicide. All the women in my family have a story about ‘uno que se paso de confianza.’
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no one:
Dominican DJs: ADONDE TAN LA MUJERES QUE NO TIENEN MARIDO 🚨💣🧨🔫🚨💣🧨🔫
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me as a kid coming back to the states after the best summer of my life in DR:
These shots of A-ROD are killing me
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@ChampagneKony
@YesikaStarr
I’m mad I was watching this ready to be soooo mad at this injustice 😂
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not everybody in Spanish speaking countries has a Black cousin. Like can we stop this. Some families are just White from Spain and are the one’s who you see reaping all the benefits of White-Supremacy but get to pretend they don’t know what racism is or how they are racist...
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#chickennoodlesoup
is Black. When you omit those that created the culture you are not unifying or celebrating
#beckyg
, you are appropriating and minstrelizing your perception of BLACK CULTURE.
#ChickenNoodleSoup
ya salió!! 🍜 Korean, Spanish, English... we brought cultures together & made a trilingual song! 🇰🇷🇲🇽🇺🇸 Music really is universal. ❤️ I hope everyone enjoys this! Shoutout to my friend J-HOPE! We did that! 🙌🏽🤗
#CNS
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when I’m in the U.S. I go to therapy, I have to meditate, I have to go to the gym, and I have to take supplements to feel grounded and good. When I’m in DR I do none of that except spend time with my community and rest in nature and eat food grown from the island and I feel…
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I was one of those project city kids who loved going to my local library on weekends. They know exactly what they are doing when they cut library funding & re-direct those funds into NYPD. The goal is not more safe & educated kids. The goal is more impoverished & policed people.
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After you’ve conquered all the Dominican saloneras, you must confront La más matatana of them all....
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ASK 👏🏽FOR 👏🏽MORE 👏🏽THAN 👏🏽YOU 👏🏽NEED 👏🏽BECAUSE👏🏽 YOU 👏🏽NEED 👏🏽MORE 👏🏽THAN 👏🏽YOU 👏🏽THINK.👏🏽
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but honestly thinking about how this filter in shows/movies is really the “white-gaze” of filters
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HOW THEY CUT OUR ROOTS
& YET STILL WE BIRTHED 1,000 MORE.
In celebration of Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month, Dominican American poet
@sheismela_
presents "Our Becoming.” In this original poem, she shares the pride of the Afro-Latinx community, and the power of being rooted in your culture.
#LatinxHeritageMonth
#HispanicHeritageMonth
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I’m not Palestinian. I’m Dominican-American. But my African ancestors from Sto Domingo survived the violence of Spanish settler colonization & the 1st enslavement port in the Americas. And so I can’t stand by as history is repeated. In that way, I’m also Palestinian. 🇵🇸🍉
I’m not Palestinian. I’m Mexican-American with Yaqui/Yoeme, Coahuiltecan, and Zapotec ancestry. But my ancestors survived colonization, encomienda forced unpaid labor, sterilization, rape, and cultural genocide. And so I advocate, I can’t stand by as history is repeated. 🇵🇸🍉
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Meg did not train so hard to strengthen those knees for us to go around crying about lil boys we don’t even love no more. Our tastes have evolved, hotties. Onward.
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The average telenovela has 0 lines by a black woman “PeRo nO SoN RaCiStAs”
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The gag is y’all really think white people have the range for this?
MERRENGUE
BACHATA
SALSA
RUMBA
TANGO
SAMBA
REGGAETON
DEMBOW
NAME A BEAT BLACK
HIPS AIN’T FORMED?
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STOP TELLING BLACK WOMEN TO MARTYR THEMSELVES FOR MEN WHO WOULD NEVER DO THE SAME FOR THEM. STOP CREATING CHARACTERS THAT FEED AFRO-LATINAS THIS TIRED CONCEPT THAT THEIR STORIES ARE ONLY WORTH TELLING IF THEY ARE WORTHY OF PROTECTING/UPHOLDING WHITE PATRIARCHY.
#SIEMPREBRUJA
To save the love of her life and avoid being burned at the stake, a 19-year-old witch transports herself from 1646 to present-day Colombia where she must hide from the forces of evil & figure out how to fix her past. Siempre Bruja / Always A Witch premieres this Friday!
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Latinidad proudly protects White Supremacy and yet it’s culture(s) would literally not exist without Black and Inigenous folks who live within those margins...
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Me writing a poem about
Dominicans and racial lies:
you claim
three roots
but the tree
is Black.
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My tia used to call me lil’ Queen latifah when I was younger because of my cheekbones and I once told my first boyfriend this story and he said, “ewww, you don’t look like her” and that’s when I realized he didn’t love Black women and I loved Queen Latifah more than I loved him.
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In 2020, the only good outcome is that sis gets a major contract because we need the album.
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In a world where grinding yourself to the bones is praised and rewarded, the most disciplined and hardest thing you can do is rest.
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Also, this is especially for the LA, Cali girls that think Afro-Latina is trendy and edgy but won’t lift a finger to create inclusivity for real life Negras who face erasure and violence ever single day they exist on this Earth.
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can the white women who have ‘intersectional feminist’ in their bios please explain to me how they are intersectional feminists?
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Where all the feminists???
Where are all the environmentalists???
Where are all the humanitarians??
Where are all the worldly people who pride themselves on being well traveled and educated and worldly?
Where are those that told us to vote?
Do you condemn your own complicity?
This is Gaza. And this is why any honest person can't really say that Israel is just targeting Hamas.
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people here in my campo barely buy Goya because its usually 30-50 pesos more expensive than Linda and Casera. it’s worth discussing how Goya has marketed itself as the sazón de Latin-America as if this is the only brand to make sazón. There are more options. Next.
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my mom just sent me a video about how my little tea bags that I love to make tea with are bad for me.
so I google y miren esto: Paper tea bags can be a problem because of a chemical called epichlorohydrin, which is used to keep the bags from breaking. Epichlorohydrin will leach…
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What I dislike most about this Rosalía “reggaeton-urbano” convo is people want to dismiss that the genres were created by Black Latinxs and per usual we can’t have anything that centers blackess so here comes a flamenco singer making Spain the ultimate colonizers again.
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Look closely at how the language being used against Palestinians is the same language being used against Haitians along the Haiti/DR border is the same language used against refugees along the U.S./ Mexico border…
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‘and I’m also Puerto Rican’ is how George Zimmerman got away with murdering a 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and this is why Latinidad is violent and should be canceled in 2021 and beyond....
Soho Karen Miya Ponsetto who allegedly attacked 14yr old kid Keyon Harrold jr. over false stolen iPhone is seen at a California McDonalds after fleeing NYC.
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This passive voice is why you can’t trust the news.
Ohio protester dies two days after exposure to tear gas, pepper spray
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Everybody knows the definition of Latinxs until Haitians enter the chat. 👀
Why is Haitian under Black but Dominican is under Hispanic or Latino? When they know good and well Latino is not a race.
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I grew up on the Lower-East-side and secretly wished I had grown up in the heights because there was always so many more Afro-Dominicans. Thinking about how this is supposed to be a story celebrating culture and fighting erasure while it steals culture and literally erases...
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What saddens me most is that the countries with the least amount of participation in destroying the planet are the ones impacted the most by the affects of climate change.
Hurricane Dorian has damaged or destroyed over 13,000 homes in the Bahamas.
- Roofs ripped off many houses
- Waves expected to completely submerge many homes
- Huge damage to infrastructure, power cables
- Many people expected to be left homeless
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anyone else super emotional over the citygirls x cardi video? So much unfiltered black girl twerk joy.
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No dark skin Negras with 4C hair were used. This isn’t representative of actual Latinidad, this continues to perpetuate the idea that dark-skin Negras are invisible in Latin-America and the world. They exist. Give them a seat at the table.
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instead of a think piece on Jessica Krug, here’s an actual salsa dance class 😂💃🏽
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Imagine if you had used your privilege and platform to educate folks on Garifuna culture instead of getting offended and using the “angry Black woman” trope to victimize yourself against a community that is facing erasure by people who look like you. How groundbreaking?
Black Hondurans slandering “white” Hondurans for dancing Punta. Imagine that 🤯
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The biggest scandal on my flight to DR was me having the nerve to rock my pajon..the anti-black mamas, the white supremacy upholders, “the no soy negro, soy Dominicano” folks, the “Afro-Whitinas” literally could not contain their shock. Me, existing. Y’all, Pressed. A mood 4 eva.
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Why are Black women still an afterthought in your liberation movements?
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@knoxdotmp3
@DaricCott
Carrie had all this style and taste except for when it came to giving this woman a gift 😭
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My Afro wants y’all to know that she is THRIVING.
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Lmaooooo at this man telling me to read my own articles to learn about Afro-Latinidad. Y’all are not sending your best. 😂😂😂😂😂
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the most common charge for children in Israeli prisons is “stone throwing” … let that sink in.
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a company from Israel and Spain are key funders of helping the Dominican Republic build a wall to block out Haitian Immigrants from entering the other side of an island they share. prime example of what we mean when we say Whiteness is very invested in global Black oppression.
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Y’all don’t do enough to create a world where Black girls get to make it to adulthood without experiencing depression, ptsd, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and multiple levels of oppression—— for me.
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Layers I ask you to consider before you repost that I NO BLACK, I DOMINICAN as a pun to the internalized Anti-Blackness in the Spanish speaking Americas:
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Buenos días. Upon careful reflection, and being that
@sanbenito
coddles white-supremacy, I would like to know what those who dragged me in the comments have to say now that it is clear he does not care about Black people but literally branded himself as woke and in solidarity…
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all imma say is
if your diversity & inclusion
panel looks like this:
👋🏻👋🏼👋🏻👋🏼👋🏻
instead of this:
👋🏻👋🏼👋🏿👋🏾👋🏿
What exactly makes
it diverse and inclusive?
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#braidsbymela
😊💖
I abstained from the anti-black pressures of the Dominican blow-out while on the island by adorning my crown with lovely things that made us feel special and protected. Not pelo malo. Not pelo difícil. Pelo magia. Pelo único.
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you want me: the child of immigrants who also happens to be Black to side with you on the criminalizing of Black immigrants whose countries you have destabilized for your power and benefit as you call them “illegals” and “predators” …
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what I’m most confused about is how someone’s visible whiteness disappears once they specify a nationality with a diverse population... how are they suddenly a person of color?
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There’s also a lesson there. If Haiti can’t have a seat at the Latinx table, why would I, a Black Dominicana want a seat either. My kinfolk are literally my skinfolk.
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Today, a Latinx person got on the internet and asked me why white people are not considered poc if white is a color....
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I would like to say and I mean this with my whole chest: Latinidad is not a united community until WE ALL FIGHT IN DEFENSE OF BLACK & INDIGENOUS LIVES AND RIGHTS. THAT MEANS EQUITY. THAT MEANS LAND BACK. THAT MEANS REPARATIONS. THAT MEANS DISMANTLING CRIMINALITY & CAPITALISM.
Nothing is stronger than a united community. Watch
@sheismela_
,
@yosoyangmaria
and
@CarlosAGLive
present “My People. My Power.” Gracias, obrigado, and thank you to all the amazing community members who shared their stories 🥳
#LatinxHeritageMonth
#HispanicHeritageMonth
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no big deal. just on my ancestors island with the man I love, eating fresh fruit daily, minding my business and writing my first novel. 💚.
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I was once a vegan and then I moved to DR ... my ancestors didn’t want that life for me.
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Y’all read Toni Morrison. Y’all read Audre Lorde. Y’all read James Baldwin. Y’all quote MLK. And for what? SHOW THE WORLD WHAT YOU LEARNED FROM THEM.
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I don’t want to be strong. I want to live a long healthy & joyful life. Stop romanticizing Black people working through everything that is trying to kill us.
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one day i woke up and realized i was not put on this earth to suffer. and everything i do is with that in mind.
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as a child of immigrants, I am learning that my children will mostly likely be children of immigrants.
we cannot be afraid to leave places that don’t wish to see us and our children prosper. the question is, where do we go from here?
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had a convo with my mom who is in Texas watching the Spanish speaking news channels, a thread on things I had to correct for her about the protests:
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Me: wrote a book humanizing Black people from the islands.
Dominican Trump supporters in my mentions: LIAR! WE ARE MESTIZOS! WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT? WE ARE NOT BLACKS! DR WILL NEVER HAVE HAITIANS AS FAMILY! WE ARE MIXED! OUR ANCESTORS ARE FROM SPAIN NOT AFRICA
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In the U.S. I’m called Black,
On this island I’m called Morena, Negra, Afro-Americana.
At no point is my racialization confused for white or non-Black.
Some of us don’t get to dip in and out of Black identity. and that’s the tea.
Also if you are writing about Afro-descendencia as a Dominican-American but don’t talk about your own racialization both in the U.S. and D.R. Please take a seat. How you gon’ ask folks to do the work when you ain’t even done the work? Dismantling Anti-Blackness starts with in.
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Reminder that this doc is available on Netflix!
📽️ Big win at the
@berlinale
for Luiz Bolognesi’s film, “The Last Forest” (“A Última Floresta”) which received The Panorama Audience Award 2021! 🎉
The film follows the lives of the Yanomami in the Brazilian Amazon, including the threats to their
#forest
from invaders.
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Truth is,
I write love poems about you
that you will never hear.
Truth is,
you are a gaping heart
bleeding to be sewn back whole.
Truth is,
I can't needle up the words
it takes to repair the damage.
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Giving birth and becoming a mom has made me more pro-abortion than I was before. the amount of resources and labor it takes to have a healthy pregnancy, labor and delivery. It’s not for every body. Folks deserve the right to choose.
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Strong is why all the Black women I know have ANXIETY
Please stop calling Black Women Strong as a compliment. “Strong,” is why our mortality rate in medicine is high. Strong is why our pain is not taken seriously. Strong is why there is less empathy for us. Strong is why we’re put last in every movement because we can “handle it.”
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PSA: in these United States Afro-descendants of Latin-America are not Hispanic, we are African-American. You may not identify as such but you are treated as such. Make sure your census knows you’re Black and not whatever colorless rainbow they have made Latinidad to be.
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And I say this with love, EVERYBODY DESERVES TO WIN. but for y’all to sit here and pretend like these Black Dominican artists aren’t having to fight through, cultural appropriation, racism, classism, and xenophobia to get a seat at the table is dishonest and victim-blaming.
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My New Poem, BLACK SPANISH premieres in 7 hrs on YouTube! subscribe to my channel to get a first look 🖤🙏🏽
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We know our collective struggles are interconnected because our oppressors get along very well. They work very hard to keep the Indigenous and Black people all over the world in a cycle of constant suffering.
President Luis Abinader, it was great meeting with you.
Like I said today, the United States' and Dominican Republic's partnership is stronger than ever before – a reality that will allow us both to expand economic opportunity, counter corruption, and tackle the climate crisis.
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One of the only telenovelas to ever cast a Black woman and she played a slave who married her master 🥴 can we stop pretending now? Thanks.
#conhartura
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my favorite part of living on this island is that for once in my adult life, i don’t have to consider how whiteness will try to ruin my day. my bit of freedom & joy is spending my days in safe non-white spaces. i wish this for all Black folks. wish to be held like this forever.
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the weave patting, the glitter grills, the Black beats, the finger nagging, the Dominican slang, the co-opting of Black motorcycle culture…you really have to be unwell to support this kind of thievery.
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as someone who lives on an island where mask mandates and curfews have not disappeared, and where local hospitals are not filled with COVID patients, I really feel like social distancing and masking works.
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