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My favorite thing about Baltimore is that you always can just go up to a complete stranger and talk to them. I’ve lived in so many different places and this is the only place that’s like pretty universal.

Did it once again 🙈 happened to be doing research on the decolonization of tattooing and folk Vietnamese lore at the same time which felt a bit like another ancestral push 🥰

As you read this, take as many deep breaths as you need, while taking in the abundance of Real research that exists. A 🧵 copy and pasted directly from my new book We Are F**king Machines: Why We Are Like This and What We Can Do About It.

Two cardboard signs. One in black ink: “We can make America what America must Become, James Baldwin” and one in white ink: “Trump Take Egg”

a historian and a journalist go to a protest…

A speaker at Baltimore’s Hands Off rally behind two long lens photographers

Screenshot of SF GATE article titled Police Use Tear Gas on Berkely Protestors A picture of a brunette with thick rimmed glasses and a burgundy face covering sitting in a crowd of protestors holding a sign. The photo is captioned: A girl who declined to give her name holding a sign in front of a police skirmish line during demonstrations in Berkeley, California Saturday, December 6, 2014

When asked why at a #rally/ #proest I cover my face:

1:today’s w/me me in frame
2:2014 masked, made SF Gate’s front page article
3:same day as article, cops had spotlights on me
4:broken sternum, same day as spotlight-got thrown behind riot line-pic after arrest release #action #resist #HandsOff

Baltimore showed up #HandsOff #stopthecoup

🥹🥹🥹 tbh that’s my same reaction to this comment! Finally, no longer alone 🥰

Scanned some of my old doods

I did it I submitted for the first time for a publication contest

I love Baltimore and it’s passive aggression

Doodles on a journal page with handwritten text Doodles: Left center-line outline of neck down to torso of an AFAB body leaning resting crossed arms one with a cigarette the other a coffee cup Bottom center- sketch of a left hand slightly curled partially open with a lit cigarette in the fingers Text: Top right- “You gave me 7 deerhoof albums” but” Bottom Left- “But where’s my -Tirzah -Fall Out Boy -Gold Panda”

Old #passiveaggressive psych stay #drawing back when we were only allowed non internet mp3 players and my ex volunteered to load my iPod nano with my #music requests

Handwriting that reads: -the peace comes in the people -I must accept that I’ve done all I can and I must wait. I I can’t lose the time that I do have in my self determined defeat

Journal entry around insurrection time 2020

Still fitting in these times, and even more so as I am hung through a health scare/crisis

#thoughts #journaling #writing #movement #liberation #liberationist

Safety, survival, selfhood are X #community. We're taken care of if take care of our own.
We must intentionally build community-open our spaces, share in #creativity, remind each other of who we are, share in #joy which is so hard to find.
This too is #resistance 2/ #music #resist #action
#mutualaid

Open space of inside an art gallery with sodden floors and a chaise lounge in the right wall, a group of people in a semicircle with various instruments or singing. Many paintings in the who side walls, and a burgundy patterned carpet on the bottom right

Wooden flooring with a burgundy carpet, several paintings hanging on the white wall behind. On the left-a white woman with brunette wavy hair in black jeans and hoodie sits in a chaise lunge playing acoustic guitar and looking down. In the center-standing a biracial Asian wearing tall black boots black tights and a grey sweater dress and grey puffer vest with a pixie cut length pastel haired person stands behind two hard shell guitar cases stomping one foot as they sing. On the right-a tall white man in jeans a hoodie, beanie and thick rimmed glasses sits with one leg crossed playing a 6 string acoustic bass guitar.

Wooden flooring with a hard shell guitar case and slip on vans, a white woman with wavy brown hair sits with her legs tucked to the side on a chaise lounge paying acoustic guitar

Burgundy patterned rug in hardwood flooring On left- talk white man in jeans hoodie a green beanie and glasses plays acoustic 6 string bass with right leg crossed over On right: biracial Asian white person in knee high black boots black tights and a grey dress with a grey puffer vest sits with left leg crossed playing acoustic guitar as they sing Both have their backs to a lot shop window

#Baltimore weekly
#jamsession Especially in this new regime/new world that requires our bravery, remember:
It's not "at the end of the day all l've got is me" it's "to get through these days, we must rely on each other" 1/ #survivorship #community #music #safespace

I Go Fishing To Think I am a work in progress lam a tangent, A story undone I am mess I am am chaos I am proud I am always At fault lam potential I am unraveling I am a thread begging to be pulled Like a leaf reaching for sun Is there story In the fishing net neatly rolled at the end of the day, A basket that may or may not be Brimming with fish for a plentiful feast or

Rather does the story lay hidden in the first broad cast, Laden with potential, excitement, musings of what the days catch will be, As it catches sunrise before hitting water To know my story, I must first unravel, Following tangents I am a work in progress. My story is not yet done. I must first unroll, Casting myself wide and unabridged, dancing in air and water, As I collect sunrises, Catching fish.

If I don’t write I will forget to breathe. The world is burning, the pen is my shovel and the page is my Mylar blanket. More #poetry I’ve thrown together in insomnia hours

#writing #writer #poem

‘Stop the boats’ slogan was too stark, says Rishi Sunak Former prime minister says drive to stop Channel crossings was correct, but message ‘wasn’t quite right’

You can crash all the economies you like, but for God's sake don't let your slogans get too stark www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

May we all be agitators.

Didn’t sleep b/c couldn’t sleep b/c yknow existential crisis but did do a lot of #writing. #poem #resitance

“Hey Siri, what’s the most weak-ass limp-as-fuck bullshit performative response that we as a collective could make to a speech widely expected to signal the end of American democracy”

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy The Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday.

NEW: RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy.

A Nixon-era policy gave the public the ability to comment on HHS decisions relating to “public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.“ RFK Jr. ended that on Friday. www.lawdork.com/p/rfk-jr-rad...

One of many protests across the UK, protestors took the streets with giant yellow and blue Ukraine flags

Mass protest in support of Ukraine in Nottingham. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #UKprotests #Nottinghamprotests #StandWithUkraine

When the stupid reveals itself..once again..

We don’t do kings, no matter how hard you try, asshole 🖕🏻

#SheShed

To clarify: the goal (collective liberation) must be organized but—
Learned helplessness is a tool of the master to keep us from dismantling the house.

When overwhelmed by the oppressor, zooming out and looking around is liberating. We have so much power

Just a generalization

#action #mutualaid

*Reminder: not all action has to be and actually, is organized or lofty.*

Action also happens *organically and within simplicity*. Mutual aid isn’t just weekends and narcan distribution it’s asking your neighbor what they need, it’s giving out the starter vegetables you have to thin out anyways

So SWHNM was my first submission and I didn’t get it but I made finalist and I’m pretty proud of that. I’m gonna keep at the craft I’m self taught at, mine won’t be another AAPI voice erased #writing