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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

3 months

Y’all: let people enjoy things! The things: imperialism

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Mans was willing to die rather than tap out. Typical.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

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4 years

folks keep adding "modern day" to "lynching" like we reached a post-lynching America at some point.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

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4 years

Babyface is 62 years old. This is what happens when you drink water, mind ya business, and don’t do remixes.

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2 years

Black folks have never called those movies Child’s Play. It’s Chucky. Chucky 1, Chucky 2, Chucky 3…

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

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3 years

everything can't be decolonized. some stuff gotta burn.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

I remember first hearing about abolition and thinking “we can DO that?!?” I just hadn’t had the imagination for it before. A lot of people are having that moment (or the one just before it) right now. It’s hard to imagine a thing you don’t know. But we do it all the time.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

"kamala harris is a cop" isn't a flippant judgment about her employment history. it's a serious critique of her professional and political choices and actions within that career. it's about how she's used the power she's gained access to.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

I tweet for folks way overdue a meltdown but conditioned from childhood to not be a burden or create a mess.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

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4 years

Today is Octavia Butler’s birthday. May we honor her legacy by imagining beautiful Black futures. 🖤

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

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5 years

i wanna live in a world where everything stops because Toni Morrison has left this earth. we all go home and mourn and nothing else happens until tomorrow. when we mourn some more.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

Folks love an Angela Davis t-shirt but hate the idea of abolition. Cosplay.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

Today I’m thinking of all the folks whose Father’s Day experience has been impacted by the prison industrial complex.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

If y’all gon keep posting “I have no idea how I got covid,” please go back and delete the world tour photos first. We’re tired.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

This impeachment inquiry feels like when your raggedy partner finally decides to get themselves together but you actually don’t care anymore because you emotionally checked out months ago and have just been saving enough money to move out more comfortably.

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3 years

Did you grow up eating baked beans with hot dog slices in them? If yes, what did you call that and where did you grow up?

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4 years

Folks say “masks off just for the pic” like covid is a polite passerby who will pause so as to not ruin the picture.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

NPR news keeps referencing "temporary layoffs," and some off y'all know what keeps happening in my brain.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Imagine going home to lay up w a man who spent his whole day upset about Zaya loving herself.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

just watched a student come to "aren't all prisoners political?" in real time on their own, and sometimes we win.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

6 years

monthly reminder to capitalize "Black" when you're talking about people, culture, etc.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

2 years

fawning over blue ivy's looks isn't the opposite of the misogynoir directed at her. arguably, it's rooted in the same problematic ideals. i get why people do it on some level, esp. given history, but i'd love for us to move beyond commenting on children's looks altogether.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells. Say her name. She was murdered in Philadelphia. We owe Black women so much more. We owe Black trans women so much more. When we take to the streets and the socials for Black folks without including Black trans people, we’re doing it wrong.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

9 months

Killer Mike denounced protests, said voting was the answer to police brutality, rattled off the names of police officers in his family, and said, “I got a lot of love and respect for police officers…” So the cynic in me wants to say “let him vote his way out of his situation.”

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

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4 years

I used to work a domestic violence hotline, and the number of calls we got from people whose partners were cops? Exhausting.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

6 years

stop asking Black women to do things for free.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

1 year

I so deeply hate the “this is why they don’t believe/look for Black women when we go missing” narrative. No, baby. White supremacy is why.

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4 years

Some of y’all really woke up today still calling for police reform, and I’m giving up on being compassionate about that.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Netflix oughta be ‘shamed for doing Renée Zellweger like this.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

3 years

So over these institutions offering a gentler, friendlier covid exposure.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Understanding my partner’s logic and behaviors rather than expecting him to behave the way I do/would offers so much peace.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

“Abolish the police” includes abolishing tone policing women who are tryna educate you about abolition.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

6 years

hey non-queer Black folks: be outraged about the attack on Jussie Smollett, yes. but do not separate the attack on his queerness from the attack on his Blackness. and therefore do not separate yourselves from white supremacists in (y)our complicity in violence against queer folk.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

Part of the reason folks aren’t being cautious enough is the way we stigmatize HIV and STIs. Folks associate protective measures with distrust and labeling someone “unclean.” If we’d listened to poz people over the last almost 40 years we’d be better people.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

We imagine good love, we imagine parenting, we imagine a “dream job,” all before experiencing them for the first time. So I invite you: imagine a world where we don’t “need” prisons, police, or a military.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

I’m not voting for Biden ever. Argue w ya mama about it.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

@camerouninema my mom says "bi" to mean "biracial," and i've given up on changing her.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

3 years

I know more people w COVID right now than any other point in the pandemic.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

Folks like to forget “I’m rooting for everybody Black” was said in the context of an award show.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

also shout out to ms. shirley, the Black trans woman who looked out for a 13-year-old Assata Shakur when she was on the streets.

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6 years

This ain’t it. @AdoreMe

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

Why are people still saying “Caucasian” in 2019?

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Regarding Nathaniel Woods, let me be clear on my stance. The issue is not that the state executed an innocent man. The issue is that the state has the power to murder human beings.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

A few years ago I wrote about this man who was abusive towards me. A friend just texted me to double check his name. Turns out he was asked to be on a panel w him and wanted to be sure it was him before he declined. 🖤

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Sending love to my transgender friends and fam who are witnessing this violence playing out in social/media. I know it’s always present, but it’s heightened at the moment. Cis people (queer folks included) have to do better by you. 🖤

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

I hate this entire system, but I love Philly to the core.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

I tweet for those who have tremendous guilt about moving away from home but who know they wouldn’t have thrived if they had stayed.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

6 months

This moment is pointing out the fact that for a lot of academics, and for all institutions, theory is sport. It’s an exercise carried out for enjoyment and ego. When forced to reckon with praxis, the veneer falls away.

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

white folks: most Black and brown folks don't acknowledge the concept of "half" siblings. it's fine that you use it for yourselves, but don't use that language on us. it will almost always land wrong.

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

i feel like i love on my old man a lot. today i'ma love on him extra. just for him not being terry crews.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

3 years

This happens because Black folk play too much 😩😩😩. They could’ve stopped drumming but they wanna sustain the inside joke. And film it and laugh later.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

Was searching for a text and found this gem from my dating days. I always scan for homophobia. Transphobia too if they make it.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

5 years

rest, regroup, and resist again. 🖤

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

3 years

@blaqueerflow I wanna give you the opportunity to revise this. 😂😂😂

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

Still really angry about the recent PA commutations. So much of the conversation is about mental health in terms of suitability for release (which is ableist af). And none of the convo is about what PRISON DOES TO ONE’S MENTAL HEALTH.

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4 years

Instead, people are socializing w people they don’t live with and saying things like “I trust them,” as if that’s how science works. Because in their minds, only dirty strangers carry the virus.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

Happy Sylvester Day. May we all feel mighty real. 🖤

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@RhythmKeene

6 years

My friend died suddenly in November. He was a single father, and he wanted his babies (18,16,13) to have the opportunity to attend college. Donate to that fund if you’re so moved.

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Stephanie D. Keene 🖤🖤🖤

@RhythmKeene

4 years

imagine a world where Walter Wallace, Jr. gets the care he needs and his twin and mama and partner and babies get to wake up to another day with him. abolition now.

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4 years

Y’all. We can have joy AND fight for liberation. Abolition ain’t gotta be uptight. Relax your shoulders.

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

Is my relationship gonna survive both of us working from home? Tune in to next week’s episode of Nerves Finna Be Shot.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

Philly: The Black male presence at today’s march for Black women was pitiful. Expected and typical but pitiful nonetheless. Don’t argue w me about it. Argue w the part of yourself that claims “*all* Black lives” is implied.

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@RhythmKeene

3 years

Some of y’all are gleeful about this Jussie verdict, and it’s gross.

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@RhythmKeene

3 months

If you’re choosing this moment to condemn violence but have been silent on genocide, go ahead and delete that.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

while we're here, stop referring to people as "minorities."

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@RhythmKeene

3 years

Literally nobody told me this ever as a little Black girl. Do this, please. And not just when it’s loose curls or long braids.

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

i started therapy yesterday with a Black woman therapist. i think it's important to share. i think everyone who has access to therapy should try it. and marginalized people in particular can benefit greatly from having a therapist we don't have to explain our cultures to.

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@RhythmKeene

3 years

There’s some strange elitism happening amongst mostly good, fun responses. Congratulations? The rest of us are enjoying ourselves.

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4 years

I’ve yet to date a man who cared about lingerie in real life. Do they exist? Is there one?

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

here's the thing. the state will continue to pay out multi-million dollar settlements rather than stop murdering Black people. this is not justice. this system cannot be reformed. it must be abolished.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

But wait, everybody can smell rain, right? RIGHT?!? 👀

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

@noname Such a self-reflective response here, which is part of why we appreciate you so much. But song 33 wasn’t a distraction. And for many Black radical women in particular, it’s the anthem we didn’t know we needed. Thank you. For everything. 🖤

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

I pretend the reason I wear tees and hoodies to academic conferences is that I’m making a political statement about “professionalism.” Really I just don’t wanna put on real clothes.

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@RhythmKeene

6 years

Tekashi 6ix9ine being a snitch has gotten way more commentary from Black men than Tekashi 6ix9ine sexually assaulting a child.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

Hulu does not care where you left off on an episode.

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

Kap sacrificed his whole career and some of y’all won’t sacrifice a chicken sandwich.

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@RhythmKeene

3 years

I thought this thread was gonna begin w a pic of all of us together, but she’s already taken my old man and let me know I’m not getting him back. Friends, meet Roxanne. 🐾

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4 years

I’m not interested in being in spaces where I can’t be honest. Life is too short and long for that.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

@agirlintheshed @RosieMarx And James Baldwin instructed us to “demand the impossible.”

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@RhythmKeene

5 years

What do you gain by calling a person “inmate”? What do you lose by calling that person “human”?

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3 years

The most important piece of this is him saying “I rehabilitated myself.” Because anyone who is “rehabilitated” in prison has done that for themselves. Prison doesn’t do that.

Strong Black Lead

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3 years

"When I first put on my altered pants, I felt like I was in the GQ Magazine. Couldn't nobody tell me nothing... " Antwan discovered his gift of designing clothing when he started to alter his pants in prison. Watch his compelling story in the "Uniforms" episode of Worn Stories.

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4 years

@BenjaminPDixon 🗣🗣🗣 SOLIDARITY W THUGS

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6 years

@AboMatthews @KiaSpeaks Uncle Will has become Uncle Phil. 😭😭😭

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@RhythmKeene

6 years

The other day I waited in the prison visiting room for 2 hours before my friend was called for our visit. They told me he missed the initial call. They told him I wasn’t there. We both knew it was a lie but couldn’t do anything about it. So we waited.

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4 years

And still. White folks are still gonna vote for 45 in large numbers. Dems still might lose. Everybody will still blame Black folks and other leftists.

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3 years

A t*k t*k vid just reminded me I once “failed” a personality test for a server job at Ch*li’s. 🤣🤣🤣

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

“I don’t want to be with someone who’s so satisfied with being a failure.” #TheLovebirds

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@RhythmKeene

3 years

tell me the reason someone must be able to lift 15 lbs in order to do this nonprofit office job other than your org being ableist. i'll wait.

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@RhythmKeene

4 years

Dems do stuff like this and then blame Black people when they lose.

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4 years

After being introduced by Luis Fonsi, Joe Biden pulled out his phone and started playing Despacito ahead of his remarks kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month in Kissimmee, FL.

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Face was always going to win. But Teddy has a formidable discog. The issue is his ego allows him to think there’s room for him to play personal faves that weren’t bangers. The battle could’ve been closer.

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3 years

Reminder that BMI is a racist measurement and is a terrible indicator of healthiness.

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@RhythmKeene

3 years

Phone scammer: can you verify your address and date of birth? Me: you first. Them: have a nice day.

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6 years

See your faves while they’re still doing small venues.

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4 years

A group of us sang it to some strangers in a bar in Palestine. They had never heard it and thought we were a music group. I was like “nah, we just Black.”