I think one of the most important safety tips for women is to pay attention to how a man responds to a no, & I don't just mean a literal no. How does he respond when you disagree, when you refuse to defer to him, when you set a boundary, when you're unavailable.

How to break an energy cord between you and someone you no longer want to be connected to🧵

1. Starve the energy cord. That means to stop all interaction with this person. No checking their social media, no answering their calls, no talking about them (unless you’re in therapy…

Black Women Blast Atlanta City Hall With Demand To Stop Cop City Buildout dcmediagroup.us/2024/03/23/bla…

“Coco has been a sweetheart since the day she arrived, and she is my favorite dog in our care”

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BBC Dad content

Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper.

So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below.

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Imagine you’re 20 wks pregnant when your fetus is diagnosed with a lethal condition. But no one tells you that—at least, not explicitly.

Your doctor is mandated by law to tell you the condition is “potentially life-limiting,” and that your non-viable pregnancy is “pre-viable.”

I contacted the cash-strapped York library service. The lady answered the phone in less than a minute. By the time I had explained and given the boy’s library number she had already identified the boy’s mother’s email and offered to immediately contact her. A minute later…5/6

Angel Jones, PhD An Ubuntu principle…a Zulu greeting Sawubona.. “I see you, you are important to me and I value you” ….as you are, all of you. So powerful. I love that he told you. I love that for you.

After my keynote speech for an event, a Black man came up to me & commented on my red blazer & matching red nails. He said, “that’s right. Make them see you. I noticed & I see you.”
Often, “I see you” is used to compliment physical appearance, but that’s not how he meant it (1/3)

A student said he wanted to 'go back in time and take Shakespeare's quill so he couldn't write anything. He doesn't speak my language.'

I said, 'Let's sit down and talk about it.'

The student said he was frustrated by his inability to express exactly what was in him, that he…

yesterday my 13 year old was being harsh and impatient with me, and to my own surprise i started crying. embarrassed and through tears I said “i don’t know why you’re being so harsh with me, but if you’ll tell me what’s going on i’d like to help.”

at first i felt embarrassed for…

13 years ago this month, my son was diagnosed with brain cancer. I promised him that I would do everything I could to help kids with #ChildhoodCancer . It’s the only thing he asked us to do. Not to help him, but to help others. I would be grateful for a follow or a RT to spread…

It’s gonna be alright. And that we should all aspire to look for the light, be a light, or dance by the light of the moon.
Thanks Jerry. I will. I promise.

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Just witnessed the most beautiful interaction at a cell phone store: Green haired, pierced lip non-binary clerk helping very demure elderly Pakistani woman wearing hijab call her grandson in Kenya. She was so frustrated and in tears because she couldn’t get the phone to work &

Have never identified more with anyone than I just did with the woman who walked into the grocery store in front of me, shook her head, said “I can’t be making these kinds of decisions today” and walked right back out

When it gets the hardest emotionally, a breakthrough is coming. Keep being kind to yourself. Keep making choices in alignment with your values. Keep telling the truth. Keep forgiving yourself when you fall into old patterns.

Trust the process. All is coming, as it should be.

Sometimes a crack in the road can lead to something remarkable.

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The Taliban has issued over 100 edicts stripping Afghan women and girls of their most basic human rights and opportunities, effectively putting them under house arrest.
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