Teré

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. - Zora Neale Hurston

we don’t talk nearly enough about how we are reparenting one another in the smallest ways:

you don’t have to be in crisis to be cared for.
you don’t have to earn gentleness.
you don’t have to prove you’re worthy of love.

To be loved is a sacred thing.

Writers on Resistance: Meet Teré Fowler-Chapman I AM THE DISRUPTION

I’m taking an instagram break and it’s been kind of nice, focusing on my relationship with words. I did this interview recently. Check check check it out: open.substack.com/pub/hillaryl...

We got engaged two years today. Now, @blkboidream.bsky.social and I are married, hosting family in our house for the first time, and were officially accepted by our first choice adoption agency. Happy holidays, indeed!

In other news, my wife is using her platform at MSNBC to give this world all she can handle. Check this out 👀

UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.

Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.

www.propublica.org/article/unit...

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It’s both beautiful and exhausting navigating the world as a neurodivergent person. On one hand, my brain has given me space to engage in my mental health in ways I never imagined. On the other, it’s hard moving through spaces where self-awareness isn’t in the foundation or fabric of others.

Sometimes, people from marginalized communities buy into the idea that they’re the only one in the room because of how “good” or “talented” they are. That’s never ever true.

White supremacist culture loves a token.

Don’t ever buy into that false hype. Lift while you climb instead.

Day ✌🏾 @antiochmfa.bsky.social

A pen, is such a catalyst. My past self knew this, promised this, wrote this, and spoke this— no matter what. Grateful to be proving those dreams right: I am here. Writing myself into a society that is hyperfixated on writing me out.

#AntiochMFA #KeepWriting

Internal Library Finding 👀: “its all hard.. its about what hard you choose to live with” — Khysin Bless 💈

Growth mindset: I'm tired of this 🤬 means I’m really tired 😴 and need a mental health day

So many presses, literary hubs, and publications are dying right now. If it feels like the literary world is on fire, it’s because it is.

Sending prayers to everyone impacted—you deserve so much better. I hope you continue to write and discover long enough for this world to hear and hold you close.

Proof: they not like us.

Kendrick Lamar should be studied in every classroom.

I'm thinking about turning this page to like a daily prompt practice. That's all.

Wicked last night and King Kendrick this morning… I love when life feels legendary 👑

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Chiiile idk what she talking about or who she is talking to but you keep playing with my wife and I'm gonna pop out and play hop scotch with you ⚠️💯

Joy is always on time, even when it isn’t on my time.

Grateful for sunshine after rainy days ⛰️

Grateful for french toast w/berries and goat cheese, cooking eggs based on folx preference, and the laughter of family.

Tina Turner, Queen of the Rebrand The late musician refused to be confined to any single portion of her story.

“Tina Turner didn’t just deserve more; she deserved it all.” When Morgan Jerkins gets in her culture writing bag, we must all stop and read.

I’m on an inner child date with my fiancé today. He took me to see The Little Mermaid, get a slushie, and buy an Ariel doll (and, while we were at it, a Mirabel doll, a Princess Tiana doll, and a Moana doll). My inner child is happy and my adult self is too. What a joy of a day.

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