Christian, OT, DST, Seminarian, occupational & social justice / well-being advocate, performer, caregiver, loves macncheese & chocolate
Joined October 2012
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In 1957 white segregationists in Nashville literally bombed Hattie Cotton Elementary School (a white school) because the school was integrated by a 6yo Black girl. 📢They bombed their own children's school📢
Black folk have been woke since 1619 for survival.
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NASA announced that crew member Christina Koch will be the first female astronaut to land on the moon.
Two occupational therapists, Beth Roros & Sasha-Gay Steward, helped build an injury prevention program for the team who created the first female-specific space suit! #OTMonth
ALT Bayhealth Occupational Therapists Beth Roros and Sasha-Gay Steward pose for a photo with female-specific space suit.
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Congratulations @dcrthomas 🥳🥳! Well deserved and I look forward to be mentored by you alongside many others 🥹
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Dan is a proud Catholic. Adam Page is a pastor. Please understand that if you're practicing your faith in a way that makes you angry about children getting food at school for free, your interpretation of the faith is 🗑️.
Feed kids. Educate kids. House kids. They deserve it all.
duana russell-thomas retweeted
It's been said over and over by the disabled community, and I'll repeat it for good measure: if we designed society and our systems around the needs of disabled people, life would become immensely more enjoyable and productive for everyone. Literally everyone would win.
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“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin
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I want to give a shout out to my fellow Missourians who are getting a $10/year tax cut so that we don't fund more free lunch programs for poor rural and city children, and continue to cut more school services as a tribute to our local billionaires. MO deserves better.
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I’ve noticed this pattern now that every night before an election I can’t sleep-anxiety. Channeling this anxiety 2 tell u that if u r a STL resident & a registered voter please take yr photo ID & go 2 ANY of these polling places & VOTE. U can go 2 ANY but ONLY THESE locations.
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We still have supplies left for those who were impacted by the floods. If you are in need of clothes, cleaning supplies, or other essentials you can stop by our office Monday through Friday 9-4 p.m. If you are in need of specific items please let us know!
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I just ask that unarmed Black people are treated with the same care and respect as this armed white man who just killed six and injured twenty four more but was not riddled with 60 bullets. And so how are we to celebrate Fourth of July?
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SCOTUS ruled that teachers and coaches can coerce their students into prayer.
If I'm a teacher, can I start a religion called Critical Race Theory and have my religious text be the 1619 project, I'm asking for some friends
duana russell-thomas retweeted
Being gay has never killed a child. Being trans has never killed a child. Being non-binary or otherwise has never killed a child. What has harmed children is how the adults respond to it. We make the difference in lowering the rates of suicide for these children.
❤️🏳️🌈 #Pride2022
ALT by Gwendolyn Brooks Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here–through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green’s your color. You are Spring.
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I'm glad I'm not in the hearing cause I would have said
"oOoOooOOOooooOoooh" after each response like this
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.@STLCityGov is announcing a partnership with @STLMetro to expand the Gateway Go Youth Transit Program - free transit for 3,000 City youth age 13 - 25, funded through the #AmericanRescuePlan.
@STLMetro: “We do our best work when we work together, and we thank @saintlouismayor.”
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Today is #SocialJusticeSunday, and as National Chaplain Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie charged us, we are grabbing what we have and doing what we can!
#DST1913 #DDNC2022 #DSTMakingAnImpact
duana russell-thomas retweeted
OT is all about enabling people to engage in meaningful activities. You know what's meaningful? Food access. Housing access. School access. Transportation access. Ballot access. So occupational performance is necessarily political, as it calls us to affect systems of engagement.
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We are hiring Site Coordinators and a Project Director for our summer 2022 CDF Freedom Schools program! Details and how to apply are available on our website: deaconess.org/joinus
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Please share this quote from my father through #MLKDay2022:
“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.”
@LeaderMcConnell @SenatorSinema
