The body keeps the score indeed and across generations: my mama was undergoing something painful today so ofc I got food poisoning and projectile vomited twice.

Embracing saying “I don’t know” as a way to welcome more collective action and also to continue to embody constant learning/unlearning. I do wish others would just admit when they don’t know how to do something. But also be willing to be stretched.

Mother Nature being the October surprise is so fitting given where the United States is in its Pluto return.

I went to a women’s baseball game while my baby went to a quilting event. I love our queer love.

The Black Panther Party was founded on this day in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. Pictured here is co-founder of the party Huey P. Newton, with Palestinian resistance fighters outside a refugee camp in Lebanon in 1980. Black & Palestinian liberation is intertwined.

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Muppets are real.

Quincy Jones casually offering the greatest quote I've ever heard about the act of creation. vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

Labor + the left have had so many losses since '68. That has consequences. For 50+ yrs the right has won and consolidated power. Ofc things wont suddenly turn our way. Its gonna take much sharper strategy, unity, and resources. There's no evidence we've built that yet on the left

Called my dying mother this AM because she could talk over the phone today unlike last week when she was hospitalized and she said: "We've got to keep fighting. We've got to keep praying. I'm scared but I'm not dead yet." Amen

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keep thinking how the Florida amendment to protect abortion rights passed by 57.1 percent but voter suppression tactics required it to get to 60 percent. it's not just gerrymandering, ID checks--it's a whole slew of tactics.

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