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jollydramatist.bsky.social
D.C. native & Playwright & Screenwriter & Black & Queer & Buddhist. No Pulitzer/Tony/Emmy/Oscar but I got a lucky black cat. 'SC MFA. Fight on!
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submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Reskeet if your profile is safe for BIPOC queer, trans folks, sex workers, neurodivergent people, and those with disabilities ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🌈😈🧠♿️💖

submitted 69 days ago • 12 comments

Trying to temper my outrage with the need to lower my blood pressure so I can survive the next 4 years. How about y'all?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The wealthiest country in the world complaining about being ripped off and cutting foreign aid sounds a mighty... what's the word when you hoard all the resources and don't want to share?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Since the supposedly want to save money, where is the chatter about cutting Space Force?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Story of life (the present thing, not the virgin birth thing).

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

submitted 83 days ago • 1002 comments

Thought for today: in not a single version of THE [WONDERFUL] WIZARD OF OZ does the character representing the Wicked Witch of the West die alone. The character of Dorothy is ALWAYS there. Always. Think about it. 😉

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Rest in peace to the great Nikki Giovanni. A few years ago for @pbs.org, I wrote about the pioneering program SOUL! where she and Baldwin engaged in that famous 1971 conversation www.pbs.org/independentl...

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The meme I didn't know I needed

submitted 100 days ago • 1003 comments

My ex-brother-in-law panicked over the kids drinking the Welch's sparkling grape juice.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Mom has never cooked a turkey before. At the unveiling, the kids vocalized their disgust/ horror / confusionm My sister can't stop laughing. Thank goodness I'm a vegan.

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Celebrating the early birthday of the Bodhisattva of Rock and Soul! She came. She lived. She conquered. #TinaTurner

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

submitted 109 days ago • 472 comments

Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.

submitted 109 days ago • 1554 comments

A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish. Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part. Who’s with me?

submitted 109 days ago • 6388 comments

Happiness... is something that we ourselves must achieve in our own hearts.

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