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jonny

11 months

for as long as i have it, i will use my voice to spotlight the palestinian struggle. despair, doomerism, cynicism— that only serves the machine of empire. i won't give them the satisfaction.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

1 month

what's a poem you've read that has blown your socks off? i would like to read it. :)

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@jonnysaysOMG

1 month

omg this blew up. I’m gonna spend time with these poems today! as for my contribution: “Love Letters” by Victoria Chang from her collection, THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING. this is my favorite excerpt from it, the one I’m always recalling

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

Happy Poetry Month

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jonny

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2 years

good morning everyone 🕺🏾💐✨

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

all my non poet friends texting me rn lol

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

1 year

will be attending UW-Madison this fall to pursue my MFA in poetry 🥹❤️‍🔥🌱

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

6 years

if your feminism is: – white – cis – ableist – exclusionary of sex workers – *anything* that isn't intersectional then it isn't feminism at all :) #InternationalWomensDay

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

it’s difficult to tweet something like this without it coming off as pandering, but it’s worth noting that @DefinedByKy @mc_lotta @AnimatedTorrii @the_indoorkid & others have elevated literally All of the @RoosterTeeth content they’ve been a part of. they deserve their flowers.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

i was just fully yelled at and called a “woman hater” by some man on the street for wearing this shirt anyway get it now, @ejknoodles knocked it out of the park

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

@cyrodilicbrandy @yeti0013 @JessicaVasami @MarielSalcedo as a black fan of RT, I really think about that moment so often. I’m glad that the @RoosterTeeth staff speaks out against racism on their personal twitter/insta accounts, but I can’t wait for it to be reflected more prominently in the actual content, in the company message.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

so does this mean lucy has read my poem??? @lucydacus , do you wanna start a book club???

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

y’all…. someone bought a card, left, and then came back a little while later to give this to me

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

when i say that we are all quaranteen girls

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

Thank you @jerichobrown for your reading/Q&A today with @writershouse and @FandMCollege it was lovely to listen to while I got dressed for Halloween!!! Thank you for writing a brilliant & moving book

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

11 months

the only thing people will remember about biden is that he was the president after trump and he rubber stamped genocide.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

ok i’ll admit it….. the vid of the burning ocean did put me in a Bad Place, Mentally

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

absolutely divine weather in DC today. the vibe in the bookstore is wonderful

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

making little poems out of book titles

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

HI I AM SO GLAD THIS ISN’T A SECRET ANYMORE AND I AM SO HONORED TO BE IN A GIF NEXT TO SO MANY COOL WRITERS

Academy of American Poets

@POETSorg

5 years

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 American Poets Prizes!

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

f&m admin email: an erasure. @themegdaystory I read your idea and kinda got carried away, I hope that’s okay.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

so there I am, just minding my business, nearing the end of my shift, and @JasonReynolds83 walks into the store and he was so cool and, more importantly, I did not lose mine.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

been about a week since I read THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING by @VChangPoet and I’ve still been thinking about this whole page a lot, from her poem “Love Letters”

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

@prisonculture I’m hosting an abolition book club for the summer through the bookstore i work at in DC. July’s book is BECOMING ABOLITIONISTS by @dereckapurnell . if you know anyone in DC seeking an abolitionist book club/community, feel free to send them to @lostcitybooks !!

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

clint smith retweeted my poem which means he probably read my poem which means i’m 🤯😱😭🕺🏾✨😦🤭 @ClintSmithIII if you’re ever in adams morgan, stop by lost city books!!!

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

My poem that won the Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize is finally up on @POETSorg !!!!!! a million thank yous to @themegdaystory and our lovely class of cities for helping me turn this poem into what it is. I AM PUBLISHED Y'ALL.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

@eveewing when she said "I know what is good," I got chills. what a terrifying line. It reminded me of something my high school history teacher said once about tyrants and dictators: "always seek the truth, but never follow those who say they have found it."

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

6 years

also for your consideration: @TEDTalks @TheEmmys

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

it is my great delight to share that I have a poem in @TheAtlantic today! It really feels like a wild dream.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

2 years

"What does it mean when I wish us all the lives of birds? / Don’t we deserve a vibrant life? A colorful life?" Read a new poem by @jonnysaysOMG :

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

immensely honored to have my poem after ross gay published in @CatapultStory today. many many thanks to @nicolesjchung and tommy pico for selecting it.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

I haven’t announced it on here yet so— friends, I’m fortunate enough to be a @PeriplusCollect fellow for 2021! I am beyond excited to be working with my mentor @TianaClarkPoet and so excited to, once again, have a writing community I can be in regular conversation with 🤩🕺🏾✨.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

choose your fighter 🍌👹🌊💣

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

I saw #UsMovie last night and its true— lupita deserves every single award

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

11 months

amidst everything happening in the world, today i'm holding onto the fact that today my mother's surgery, which posed real risks back in the summer, went off without a hitch. she's at home resting now

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

6 years

small joys that I never get tired of, a thread:

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

tenacious d’s tribute and lil nas x’s montero take place in the same universe

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

for #InternationalMensDay I give u four pics of me crying at various points in 2020

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

@MarielSalcedo these hands are rated e for everyone

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

👋🏾 hello new followers 👋🏾 my name is jonny, I write poetry, occasionally post little dancing videos to the timeline, and am the booking agent for @ellomelissa and @oliviagatwood ! I hardly tweet anything intellectual, but glad to have you!!!

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

6 years

reading @ellomelissa 's article on oversharing and performance made me think back to her show at my school in April & the way she vamped & spoke about google drive troubles & how everyone afterward said she was "so authentic" and "just like us"

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

today in quarantine:

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

Black people wearing orange 🍊💥🧶

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

@7months28days @Danez_Smif SAME. 100% SAME.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

sometimes while reading, I catch a repeated word or phrase that seems to be a trademark of the author, a call sign of sorts. IN THE DREAM HOUSE by @carmenmmachado : "kick" "a kick of want" "a kick of fear"

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

bigoted fans love to talk about how it’s Different Now like it’s a detriment. of course it is foh last summer, when the RT pods were talking about their implied complicity by not addressing hateful things within the community, I WEPT OK. all you racists & transphobes, get bent.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

boy got job :)

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

a year ago today, I was crying because I had just finished undergrad and was overcome with the emotion of it all. tonight, I am crying because I just watched Paddington 2 for the first time.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

@sheer_awe not 1000 yet, but I’ve read A THIRD UNIVERSITY IS POSSIBLE numerous times since I first discovered it three years ago, and I’m always recommending it to others, eager to sing its praises. here’s a brief excerpt i love and think about often:

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

this is very much a Rough Draft Thought, but sometimes white people i'm not super close to will tell me stories of how they called someone out for saying a racist thing and their Need for me to know is always confusing to me. like what do you want from me? a grade? a cookie?

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

I don’t think I can verbalize just yet how strange and haunting it is to see lancaster as the trending city on twitter, the latest site of violence. this isn’t the first time— I still remember the tasing from a few summers ago— but still, it’s hard.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

hi new followers! i’m Jonny, a poet living in DC. I work at the lovely @lostcitybooks , a local indie bookstore, and also have the pleasure of working for @ellomelissa and Olivia Gatwood as their booking agent a list of my published work can be found at !

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

The campus is electric today. I have such an immense love for the student and faculty organizers that put this morning’s rally together. What a gift it was to witness such a display of power and pride and fury. #EnoughIsEnough

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

color for the tl

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

so I've been reading SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES by Caitlin Doughty, a collection of nonfiction essays about the American death industry, because @ellomelissa recommended it a while back and I can't help but draw parallels between it and the current protests against quarantine. 1/5

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

good morning today I found my face in a magazine and it still doesn’t feel real

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

1 year

congrats to all of the 2023 Djanikian Scholars! & I am fortunate enough to be a finalist. Thank you to @adroitjournal for considering my work!

The Adroit Journal

@adroitjournal

1 year

Visit the blog to view our full announcement:

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

9 years

@jamietworkowski in a foreign city, I met a fellow supporter. We shared stories of grief and recovery. It was magic http://t.co/fz1oby8M69

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

thinkin about that time someone said they'd have a crush on me if i "wasn't so ethereal"

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

i just finished college

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

omw to my first shift at a bookstore and I’m like so excited to have my OWN staff picks 🥺🤩🤘🏾📚🥲✨

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

Officially a poetry reader for @adroitjournal 🤩🙌🏾✨

The Adroit Journal

@adroitjournal

5 years

Welcome aboard, @marisabcrane , @dethmtlcardigan , @codykoester , @rachelkayinn , @harleyphleger , @jonnysaysOMG , and more!!

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

there's so much to say about vicente & the impact he had. what i'm holding onto today is the fact that he was also my next-door neighbor & whenever i saw him walking his dog from my porch, we would swap hellos and talk about our week. how that felt like kindness, too. rest easy

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

the best way to keep a text conversation going with a friend who's terrible at texting is to never say the phrase "how are you"

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

day three into working at a bookstore and a customer came BACK after buying something an hour prior just to ask for my name and where they could read my poetry 😎🕺🏾🤘🏾✨

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

did i do it right??

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

1 month

@juju4you__ love Olivia’s work! you should read my bio haha

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

beginning of decade // end of decade same need for a haircut

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

something I’ve always thought would be fun to do but wasn’t comfortable/confident enough to try: wear a crop top today: wore a crop top

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

in dire need of attention lol

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

said I would & so I did

jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

those fences going up around the yt howse are just making me wanna stick signs up on every inch of it

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

does anyone wanna buy me this $1200 vintage levi’s jacket that I can’t stop receiving ads for

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

🖐🏾🛑STOP🛑🖐🏾 fit check 😤. reply/qrt with one of your favorite winter looks you’ve pulled off

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

@ellomelissa is my meryl streep but also my stanley tucci

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

today is my mom’s birthday. today would’ve been #BreonnaTaylor birthday too. I celebrate them both today.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

i committed and bought the shoes and i have no quip, i just love them

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

on a bike ride celebrating the completion of my time in undergrad & thinking about how this is reason enough for some white man to pull the trigger. There is no reason too small for them. Justice for #AhmaudArbery

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

good night

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

c’mon now

Wonder of Science

@wonderofscience

3 years

A black heron using its wings like an umbrella, creating shade to attract fish, a behavior known as canopy feeding.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

twenny three

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

I want to be able to write a good contrapuntal one day, but until then I’m more than happy to just curl up with this absolutely stunning poem by @ellomelissa

melissa lozada-oliva 🍴

@ellomelissa

5 years

thanks all for sharing & thank you @redividermag for everything ! there are a number of typos which I feel completely alter the poem & the contrapuntal’s form (I understand being an editor is stressful af it is OK!!) But 4 my own piece of mind here is the poem as I submitted it💓

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

i did it 🤘🏾⚡️🤩💜💫🥵🦑☁️🔮💣✨

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

when All-American Rejects sang “and you’re still probably workin’ / at a 9 to 5 pace / I wonder how bad that tastes?” at the start of their hit song “Gives You Hell” he was really asserting that joy cannot be found while working under a capitalist system. In this essay I will

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

fleets will go away without me ever having looked at a single one, nice

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

1 year

the poet 🌸/ the poem 🦩

Jessica Nirvana Ram

@jessnirvanapoet

1 year

the poet / the poem

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

6 years

to the middle aged woman who was crying while Olivia spoke about how love that is painful and demands submission isn’t real love: I wish you the love you want. If you have it, I wish it never lets go.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

I’ve caught the big red lobster man

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

an article in the new yorker that my friends and i were interviewed for is up and you can read it below. :^)

In Washington, D.C., a Weekend of Growing and Evolving Protests

“The ideal situation would be that people can’t really go back to the way things were before,” one protester said.

www.newyorker.com

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

2 years

ordered and ate a sandwich so quickly at a cafe that they thought they didn’t give it to me and they just brought me a second one lol

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

me this pizza 🤝 hot

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

a tweet to celebrate my two poet moms, @oliviagatwood & @ellomelissa thanks y’all for being the kindest and raddest ✨

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

5 years

everyone excuse me because this is gonna be the only thing I talk about

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

18 days

turns out all you need is a burger in hand and a foot long churro in your breast pocket

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

someone made a playlist just for me and no one’s ever done that for me & i feel very loved

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

i’m bitches

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

3 years

if there was no pandemic, i would be so content to work at a local bookstore for a while and write my little poems in my spare time instead of my current situation where i'm constantly being rejected from companies where I could "Grow" and "Forward My Career"

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

the premiere of black panther came out on my birthday and F&M had rented out a screening for students. I remember sitting among my friends, I remember my favorite scene of chadwick in the ancestral plane, I remember how easy the cheers came from the crowd, how delighted we were.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

6 years

convinced three people to buy @ellomelissa peluda today. truly doing the lord's work this easter

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

black trans lives matter. the #BlackLivesMatter movement MUST be intersectional if it is to be true to its name. it MUST include black trans people for they are the most vulnerable and forgotten of us. transphobia has NO place in the #BLM movement.

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jonny

@jonnysaysOMG

4 years

@ellomelissa melissa I went bowling

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