artist, writer, poet, filmmaker and aspiring farmer. down for the people. tweets my own. formerly @northstarfund @splcenter @mtv. she/her
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my mom always says to me “you know everything bad about the world, all the bad things about everything there is to know” but i know about the good things too alhumdulillah
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Christian Wiman, “All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs”
Priesthoods and beasthoods, sombers and glees,
high-styled renunciations and avocations of dirt,
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Just want to remind everyone of my favorite cartoon ever. You aren't *in* the universe, you are a literal part of it, you are made of it, like a knot in a rope. When you read these words, it's the universe reading it's own writing.
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send me and maggie your poems, now through 9/30
📣 The Yale Review is now open for submissions! Poetry, fiction, essays, and translations—send us your work by September 30. Submit: theyalereview.submittable.co…
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I’m thinking of Chris Smalls. And about how, because he’s Black, no Greta Thunberg, no celebrity, no darling of the liberal class, he might not make it out alive. Blackness, when vulnerable and on its knees, is a white supremacist fantasy.
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Awesome:
"NYC Comptroller Brad Lander has withdrawn tens of millions of dollars of the city’s pension funds from the State of Israel." jpost.com/bds-threat/article…
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This is the most beautiful fucking basket I have ever seen in my life
This is Corey Alston, an american fifth generation sweetgrass weaver. He shapes intricate patterns into contemporary sculptural baskets and owns Corey Alston Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets in Ladson, South Carolina
This art form, characterized by the use of sweetgrass, pine needles, bulrush, and palmetto, has been passed down through generations, with its roots tracing back to West Africa.
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I am so grateful for @sameerproject please support them they are doing what so many of us wish we could do with them, they are getting urgent aid directly to the people in need. when you feel overwhelmed by the scale of devastation look to them and donate. you can help today
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Here it is! "Waiting for Hot Water" By Ellen Hee
(Over on insta)
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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
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the liberal framing of Mamdani and Rama as cool Muslims vs scary Muslims (even if implicit) is really funny when you remember that his father wrote the seminal book and coined the term ‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’ — about the false & dangerous binary created about Muslims to serve imperial ends.
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Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!
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Every weekend I think about the greatest journal entry.
ALT 25 January, 1851 I've fallen in love or imagine that I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don't need at all. —Leo Tolstoy
