The Life Shantastic

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

Aaand now tt is back???? but I don't want use it bc it's praising trump...what is going on?

#ThePoet
Grief has no expiration date

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It's about money and power. And this message doesn't bring me hope at all. Look at this skeeziness...

I'm getting rid of a huge bag of clothes I've held on to far too long to including my deep grieving depression bathrobe, my favorite sweater from b4 kids and a few of my mom's things. It hurts to let go but it's time.

I just watched this year's Christmas episode of the simpsons and it was so beautiful I cried. Watching Ned Flanders begin deconstruction was something.

I learned some about the history of Chinese immigration to Jamaica.

Once again I've just learned something incredibly interesting and important that I'd never thought of before and now my worldview is more expansive from tt. I'm so fkn mad they're banning it.

And they've announced it's closing bc the the building was sold. This is such a loss for the city. Fkn capitalism.

...an independent movie theater, crystal shop, place where i got my herbs and all natural locally made soaps and witchy shit, cooking store, hosts marketplaces for independent artists + farmers markets every weekend.

In sad local news, one of the coolest places in my city is closing bc the landlord sold the building. It's a mall inside an old mill building downtown for small business including a yoga studio, coffee shop, book store featuring local authors, record store featuring local artists...

Instead of Elf on a Shelf, we have Elphaba on a shelfaba. Doll of elphaba from wicked movie sitting on a shelf.

To all those celebrating this Wicked season, we now have Elphaba on a Shelfaba.

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!! I hope youre having the best time 🥳

I just saw wicked. Please for space for me.

Massive Bookshop The bookstore that bails people out of jail.

“stop buying books from amazon. there is no excuse at this point. buy from places like @BookshopMassive which donate all proceeds to bail funds. especially if you are a professor with research funds.” — workshops4gaza.bsky.social

massivebookshop.com

My mother's abortion paved the way for her to be an incredible mother to me and my brother. My abortion did the same for my 2 children. I am able to be the mother I am bc of my abortion. Nothing but relief and gratitude here.

I just showed my son, who is named after link and currently playing Zelda for the first time and he said, "hey yo siiiiiiiiick bro!"

We have a ps5 and and switch and I like them both, can't speak on the others 🤷‍♀️

And then enjoy some "praise" music to start our day.

Happy Birthday!!!!

I became a vampire to suck blood and fuck forever....BAT!

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

Be honest w/ kids. They can take it.

Bullies are bad.
Taking things, land, ppl, etc that arent yours is bad.

Goodnight.

That wasnt correct, You were wrong, Fix your mistake now please, etc.

I'm still processing it all. But I swear I'm not exaggerating. They asked those questions word for word. They want truth and they want justice. Racism is tought and silence is complicit.

palpable. And at the end they all hugged eached other and began brainstorming ways to bring more equality into the ballet world. Not one of them left feeling like I had insulted them as white ppl. Granted ballet dancers are trained from a young age to be accepting of being told That isn't correct...

and money that being born white has allowed us to good use by paying attention to these important things and spreading kindness and equality.

They simply would not let me evade their questions. I mean, I am the teacher so i could have used my authority to shut it down, but their earnestness was

it was only starting to change now? One said, "I'd never even thought about that before." Fkn exactly! I explained how that is a privileged Black dancers don't have, and shared that according to my personal morals, it would then be only fair for us to use the extra energy, time,

When you go to [insert local ballet shop], do they have shelves filled w/ brown pointe shoes and ribbons?" They correctly answered, "No." I explained how Black dancers have to dye their shoes and ribbons themselves, w/ their own time and money. I explained how this is changing, but asked them why

in a room w only ww...I brought back to ballet and asked them why we wear pink tights and pink pointe shoes. They correctly answered, 'to lengthen the line of the leg'. So i asked, "What if your skin isnt pink? Do pointe shoes come in shades of brown?

When I said to ask their history teachers, they told me they wouldn't help. I talked them through a few statistics about voting rights history, current day police violence, the general concept of generational wealth (all briefly within 5 mins) Folks, they were shocked that racism exists today.