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Lisa Biggs

@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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It's time to hold ppl accountable for their racism

30.09.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

30.09.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40166    πŸ” 12537    πŸ’¬ 815    πŸ“Œ 451

Prices are up up UP

26.09.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My Saturday read this week is DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESSS: AFRICAN AMERICAN CYBERCULTURES by Andre Brock Jr.
#Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies

20.09.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Coupled with easily accessible, affordable & effective mental health care for all

31.08.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm in bed by 930!@!

29.08.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When an audio book narrator is trying to do a Spanish accent but sounds like Dracula

28.08.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Random: How have the purity culture pundits addressed the "falling" white American birthrate? Have they taken any responsibility?

28.08.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not feeling the documentary style personally πŸ˜•

28.08.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Congress to stand down federal forces and respect DC β€” Free DC

Join and support DC residents in resisting occupation. Here are a few ways:

βœ… Call/write your members of Congress using this toolkit and/or the action alert below from @freedcproject.bsky.social: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

26.08.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thought cutting of sugar was dramatically impacting my weight. Turns out the 5lbs(!) i thought i was down last week was due to a broken scale

24.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

23.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 18196    πŸ” 5405    πŸ’¬ 290    πŸ“Œ 226

Everyone who was wrong about Trump β€” please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.

23.08.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2486    πŸ” 594    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 37

β€œTotalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

24.08.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12364    πŸ” 4421    πŸ’¬ 208    πŸ“Œ 148

Vlad gave Trump his marching orders like the KGB spy master he is

24.08.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The people that always complain I don’t talk enough never seem to actually listen when I do speak

23.08.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 356    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Look back, retrospect, & process. If you don't like what you see, be gentle on yourself & work to understand the context & why you responded the way you did
#StudySlavery

21.08.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Replaced wine with hot chocolate to sleep better

This is bs

19.08.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just quit like 20 meetings!!!!

19.08.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to walk the dog

18.08.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”₯ MUST-WATCH: β€œAnd that’s why it’s important to teach ALL history, Jillian β€” not just cherry-pick certain % when they work for your argument.”

@debunktionjunction.bsky.social fires Jillian Michaels’ claim β€œonly 2% of whites owned slaves” into the sun

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNdRlSB...

17.08.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2581    πŸ” 973    πŸ’¬ 246    πŸ“Œ 107

Come thru Banksy!!!

17.08.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kung fu panda!!

17.08.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every $ spent hunting & detaining people is a $ stolen from safe water, comprehensive education, affordable health care, housibg, parks & other infrastructure projects, artists & arts institutions, and everything else that enriches life & community

17.08.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Impeach & convict him

15.08.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Again?
He's their puppet.

15.08.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rain

15.08.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Public pool follies-- the old adage to wait an hour before swimming & to put a waterproof diaper on the baby hold up! We lost 90 mins of precious swim time today to poop (2 incidents) & vomit 🀒 πŸ’© πŸ’©

12.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are so high

12.08.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Obama was coming to get their guns
SMH

12.08.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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