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Jackie Summers
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This was a decade ago.

Before the cancer scare. Before the liquor brand. Before the writing. Before the public speaking.

Before @Twitter was a thing.
@Twitter If I could go back in time and tell this asshole what his life would be like now, he's not smart enough to believe me.

Just like I'm not smart enough to believe a future version of me, if he showed up and told me what my life will be like a decade from now.
@Twitter The asshole in this pic thought he was pretty smart. Just like I think I'm pretty smart today.

Both of us are wrongright. Past and present me have so much to learn, so much space to grow, so many personal biases to unlearn, so much more bandwidth to create.
@Twitter So much love to give, in spite of myself.

No matter how hard you plan, life has things in mind for you that you cannot predict. Make your plans, but really, fuck your plans. Embrace the chaos. Enjoy the moment, it's already over.

You have no fucking clue what happens next.
@Twitter Learn to go with the flow. Forgive the asshole you were. Forgive the asshole you are now. Learn as much as you can but never know it all; leave some room to expand.

Most important, don't stymie your imagination. It's all bigger and wilder than you can conceive.
@Twitter More random and unpredictable than anyone is comfortable with. You've got limited control over your circumstances and even less control over yourself, and really, why do you need (the illusion of) control anyway?

Just let go. Become what the moment requires of you.
@Twitter If the universe reaches out don't leave it on read; fucking respond. Think the thing you desire/fear will never happen?

Never ain't as long a it used to be.
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Jackie Summers
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As a person of color in this country, everywhere I go I’m forced to consider if people around me wish me harm, or are okay with my being harmed.

So every time I find out people I know and love are okay with people who are okay with this, it’s a kick in the gut. /1
Complicity with complicity is complicity.

Last year I was profoundly hurt to hear a friend declare their intent to avoid conversing with their relatives about their continued support of an administration which is actively seeking to harm brown people.
It was 9am. I went outside, sat on the ground,
and cried.

I cried because if my friends—who know and love me, who consider me a friend, who say they want good for people of all backgrounds—won’t speak up for me:

Who will?

I REALLY need for MEN to think about this.
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Jackie Summers
@jackfrombkln
Misogynoir.

Whew.

Two days ago I talked about #whitesupremacy. Yesterday I talked about #patriarchy.

Combine those two toxins and you get misogynoir, the vile poison suffered by women of color, and more specifically, black women.
Yesterday I joked and told a friend the amount of rum it would take for me to discuss #misogynoir would put me in a coma. I wish that was funny. I don’t want to write about this sober. I’m not qualified to discuss this with nuance and deftness.

Also, I am out of rum.
Coined by a queer black feminist Moya Bailey, misogynoir lies at the heart of all of what we think of as intersectional.

If you could imagine a Venn diagram that displays the overlap of racism, sexism, transphobia, & homophobia, the cruel bullseye at its center is misogynoir.
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Jackie Summers
@jackfrombkln
I just finished a stint in @Twitter jail for "hate speech" (I quoted Jay-Z's song "The Ballad of OJ & used the N word instead of some euphemism like ni99a).

Whoever is in charge of "hate speech" at @Twitter is more dedicated to silencing black folk than actual hate speech.
@Twitter In any case.

Recently I gave a brief, incomplete primer on white supremacy. Any time I discuss racism, I’m obligated to confront my own internal biases, and check my own internalized #misogyny.
@Twitter What follows is directed to any men reading this. Any women reading this: please feel free to add to, amend, or correct this diatribe. The LAST thing I want to do is mansplain misogyny to women.

First of all, all #patriarchy is sexism.
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It was a harrowing day. #Cancer is a slog, but I am managing (except for some trolls who have sad lives).

I remain grateful for all of you, for great docs, for my fab fam.

Thank you. 💜🌿
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