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Aw he’s shy

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"Tnt."

A freestyled Poem before therapy.

I freestyled this poem in the shower this morning, and so I made a collage for it too, with a selfie from my impromptu photo shoot yesterday.

Collaging my Emotions have been incredibly helpful for me in therapy, especially nowadays.

The Emotions in this piece are a mix of "Paranoia" and "Disappointment".

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I REALLY love how this piece came out!!!! Omg!!

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A true professional

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Need this as my ringtone

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He is actually a deer

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Bilingual

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"All I do know is as we age, the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting rises higher and higher...Long ago, the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had of myself, outlived their usefulness, and I've become an abuser of their once lifesaving powers. I relied on them wrongly to isolate myself, seal my alienation, cut me off from life, control others, and contain my emotions to a damaging degree. Now the bill collector is knocking, and his payment'll be in tears."

- Bruce Springsteen

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This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

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“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”

Happy Black History Month!

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Doechii Best Rap Album acceptance speech at the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards | February 2, 2025

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70s Wigs Ads

Black History Lesson ✊🏿

Before the use of mannequins, companies featured gorgeous African American women and men as models for their wigs.

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jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald in a photo from 1970. She was the first Black woman to win a Grammy Award (in 1958).