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This was the back of the #BlackDisabledLivesMatter sign (designed by @jtknoxroxs this week & spreading around the world) at SF Police HQ yesterday.
I was afraid people would take my reference to #ChocolateRain as a joke. People GOT it. I wanted to honor the voice of @TayZonday.
I was afraid people would take my reference to #ChocolateRain as a joke. People GOT it. I wanted to honor the voice of @TayZonday.
That song has hit me hard this week (check out @TayZonday for a recent arrangement). It’s partly because we treated it as a meme in 2007, yet what was sung is what’s being said today. It’s what #DoTheRightThing said in 1989. It’s what’s always been said, but hasn’t been heard.
And then, after being hit with the true meaning of the song, I learned @TayZonday is both from Minneapolis and autistic.
Like @Hannahgadsby’s #Nanette (which won her an Emmy), #ChocolateRain is that sort of prophetic art only (mostly) autistic people can seem to really pull off.
Like @Hannahgadsby’s #Nanette (which won her an Emmy), #ChocolateRain is that sort of prophetic art only (mostly) autistic people can seem to really pull off.
“And I built a career out of self-deprecating humor. I don’t want to do that anymore. Because do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? It’s not humility. It’s humiliation.”
—Hannah Gadsby
—Hannah Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby threw that knife 18 minutes into #Nanette and I just had to pause the whole thing because WHEW. That cut me.
“Punch lines need trauma…because punch lines need tension, and tension feeds trauma.”
I want you to stop your life for a few moments and just 'listen.'
Something happened to me yesterday that needs to happen to everyone in this whole damn country, not that everyone would understand it, or accept it, but for those who can and do it might act as a catalyst.
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Something happened to me yesterday that needs to happen to everyone in this whole damn country, not that everyone would understand it, or accept it, but for those who can and do it might act as a catalyst.
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Art is a thing that we don't think or talk about much in times like these. But it's times like these when art is most needed.
We can debate the definition of art all day, but most know it when they see it.
Like @Hannahgadsby I studied Art History.
And her #Nanette is art.
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We can debate the definition of art all day, but most know it when they see it.
Like @Hannahgadsby I studied Art History.
And her #Nanette is art.
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#Nanette is billed as a stand-up comedy special on @netflix, but it's so much more than that. It is funny, in fact, it's hilarious. @Hannahgadsby is a woman at the height of her performative power. But the journey #Nanette takes you on is as devastating as it beautiful.
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