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The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor: @MorganStateU Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.🖖
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me in Feb 2020/me in April 2025

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Now he’s doing boudoir shots

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For more than a week, conservative media and politicians have worked themselves into a frenzy over a spectacle manufactured by a fencer who refused to compete against a 19-year-old trans woman. Here is the target of that hate campaign, finally, in her own words.

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BREAKING: The neo-natalists-nationalists have declared bankruptcy after Warby Parker withdraws sponsorship

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Because you have two homes?

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I am taking a break from my mental health to focus on my depression and anxiety

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how can you tell if your square dancing is radioactive? with a dosidosimeter

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Hey, y’all! My folks in Indiana are selling the farm and auctioning off good equipment! There are also antiques (furniture, kitchenware, etc.). Check it out and yeehaw! ryancateauctions.com/auctions/hig...

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I took him to Sears Portrait Studio

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I am taking a break from my mental health to focus on my depression and anxiety

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Oh thank god he’s exempting chips from tariffs. I just bought stock in Doritos.

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Hey, y’all! My folks in Indiana are selling the farm and auctioning off good equipment! There are also antiques (furniture, kitchenware, etc.). Check it out and yeehaw! ryancateauctions.com/auctions/hig...

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JFK Jr: I insist we bring back lead paint

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I understand why the left was absent from this pronatalism conference, even if Liz Bruenig doesn't.

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As an adoptee, I just can’t with this pro-natal bullshit.

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does anyone have a cannon pointed at the sun I can borrow? need to shoot myself into the sun with a cannon

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“Now that Trump’s tariffs are threatening to end my small business, we should all care about each other” 🐆💀

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I bet most of Congress bought stock in Doritos this past week #insidertrading

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Oh thank god he’s exempting chips from tariffs. I just bought stock in Doritos.

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I talk a lot of shit for someone who still owes Columbia House $127

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My cousin sent me this photo of me coaching and I had to meme myself.

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The human race is perpetuating itself just fine; natalist anxieties only make sense if you’re concerned about the growth of certain demographics relative to others, which of course is the far right’s entire concern.

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Remember: if you need me, I’m just 36 text messages away

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without saying your age, who was your first animated crush?

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Bleeding the already bloody dry

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It would actually be extremely on brand for the USA if none of the human rights violations got rid of him but insider trading did

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Dirty deeds done at a premium rate, thanks to inflation

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My main hobby is collecting good news about coffee

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Bleeding the already bloody dry

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Imagining a diplodocus blossoming from a giant tulip

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My cat when I pass his food bowl and don’t put anything in it

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Hip-hop and crossword puzzle clue legend Nas with perform “Illmatic” with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this summer

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Remember: if you need me, I’m just 36 text messages away

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More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

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I have no idea who Benson Boone is but in my head he’s a villain in Dexter’s Laboratory

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Got up and made a batch of boneless pancakes

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My cat when I pass his food bowl and don’t put anything in it

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If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal. Follow me for more recipes.

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I want to take part in a flash mob rendition of “Masquerade” from The Phantom of the Opera. I’m thinking at the local DMV or something.

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What’s your favorite song that starts slow and chill and then crescendos into a quicker, maybe catchier beat? I’m thinking something like The Beta Band’s “Dry the Rain”…

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Me (not pictured) standing in front of the procession like the Tank Man

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Does anyone have a short-sleeve winter coat I can borrow?

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