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Lisa Biggs

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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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2am fire alarm dealt with

08.08.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The system is rigged

08.08.2025 06:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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06.08.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If we spent as much energy working to stop, meaning understand, prevent & heal, sex violence as campaigning for the release of the Epstein folder

06.08.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rest is so good. I got so much done today bc I dropped the dog at daycare. I really needed a break

05.08.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there are no cushy prisons
&
prisons are not designed to punish elites.
#believeSurvivors

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02.08.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone has decided their need to preach loudly over a sound system is more important than everyone else's need for anything else

02.08.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People are starving in Darfur

02.08.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time why you punish me?

02.08.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why do people still think locking people up solves anything? Other than putting money in jailers pockets & driving folks out of their minds

02.08.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow

02.08.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some personal news: I have decided to take a vacation

01.08.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It doesn't help when the techs mock you for crying out in pain either.

01.08.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will this case go to the same court that allowed bakeries to discriminate against gay couples?

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31.07.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who paid that money & why did the GOP CUT SOCIAL PROGRAMS

31.07.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anybody else trying to get back to themselves?

31.07.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Social support including access to health care, MAKES A POSITIVE IMPACT ON HUMAN WELLBEING

31.07.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Luckily most students are adults and therefore in charge of their own bodies, and, the Brown hospital system is not covered under these restrictions.

31.07.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Violence, as if there was no other choice

30.07.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Executive orders are not laws. He doesn't have the power to declare laws or to enforce them. The fed under Trump is what the colonists were fighting against.

29.07.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

History Channel- fascist propaganda & UFO hunters
SHAME!!

28.07.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most ppl on Medicaid already worked. The new guidelines are meant to prevent ppl from accessing the benefits they're entitled to. So yes, working as designed.

28.07.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More money than sense

28.07.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fresh air & celebrate your accomplishments

28.07.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI is already as racist as its makers. They want more SMH

27.07.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The end of the month calls for soul food-- cabbage & carrots, black-eyed peas, fish. Thankful to have food & to know how to prepare it nourish self & others

27.07.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only the US public cared half as much about the genocide in Gaza as it does about the Epstein files.

26.07.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Education works.
Ridicule works.

25.07.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Dinwiddie, Torchbearer of Black Theatre As a writer, professor, and advocate who led Black Theatre Network for some crucial years, he encouraged and inspired generations of theatremakers.

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25.07.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Harvested my first homegrown black-eyed peas

24.07.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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