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lisabiggs.bsky.social
Author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration & the Art of Transformation (OSU Press 2022); Theatre maker, performance studies scholar; Associate Professor, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre @ Brown University
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A great tree in the forest has fallen www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-05...

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www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-05...

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Thank you Woodie King's NEW FEDERAL THEATRE for the loving reading of a scene from my latest play. You did #Detroit proud!

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Thank you Wodie King's NEW FEDERAL THEATRE for the loving reading of a scene from my latest play. You did #Detroit proud!

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Growing is a way of life

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amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/05...

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On any given day in the US, 113 million adults have an immediate family member who has ever been to prison or jail. Carceral harm extends far beyond the prison walls. Learn more from our new report 👇 www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

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Your trauma response is not your personality. It doesn't matter if other people confuse the two. If you can't tell the difference, it's time to get some help.

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The most pressing problems in our world are not authoritarianism or environmental devastation but greed and apathy.

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The US allows children — especially Black children — to grow up in poverty. With demographic data, we can see more clearly how many of those kids grow up to fill state prisons.

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1 ceremony done, 3 to go

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Make a new zine with me! Contribute to Ransom Notes From The GOP. Details are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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"On a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science."

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Help Us Report on Sexual Assault and Misconduct by the Chicago Police Department We want to talk to people who have experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct — which includes sexual harassment and unwanted, inappropriate touching or comments — by Chicago police officers, on or off duty.

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I'm so tired. Waking up every day with chronic pain. Miss my gym body

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Yoghurt fruit granola parfait. Cardamom latte with oat milk, hot. Salad. Apple, 3 tsp cashew butter. Cheese pizza. Hot chocolate.

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The plan is to hurt as many ppl who may have voted against him as possible. To build prisons & police budgets. Then to lock them up.

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I want to live beyond my means and not feel constricted.

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Tax dollars are going to pay off the families of terrorists who stormed the Capital #J6 #FUCKNO

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Who is really running the White House?

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Stop killing people. Stop idolizing people who kill.

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To be so old and so unwise

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Stop killing people. Stop idolizing people who kill. Stop following people who kill. Stop the people killing witches.

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Grades are in!!!!!! Whooohooo Celebrating 🍾

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Hats off to all those professors now grading blue books to prevent students from cheating with AI. #NaturalIntelligence ♥️

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Black women were the ONLY group to suffer job losses last month. It is part of a 5 MONTH downward trend. www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...

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Underpaying us isn't enough for them. Overcharging us isn't enough either. They want the tiny portion of our paychecks that we want to go to schools, childcare, research, public health, infrastructure, libraries, the arts-- all the things that fuel our inner lives.

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Despite extensive media coverage of the resettlement of Afrikaners & South Africa's land reform law, the views of the rural working class, especially its Black majority, have received little attention. hammerandhope.org/article/musk...

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