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I haven’t talked about this here yet but my long time long distance partner got a job at UW Madison in my dept & is moving here this summer. It’s truly the academic relationship jackpot. Neither of us thought we would ever get to live in the same place, let alone work together.
So with that context, today I went to go look at apartments for my partner. They set up appointments & went to FaceTimed them in to view. At the 2nd place the woman living there opened the door & the following scene occurred before I even got inside.
Woman: Are you a professor at UW?
Me: Yes
Woman: Did you twerk with @lizzo?
Me: Yes
Woman: OMG I knew I recognized you!
Me: Yup. So...can I see the place?

lol #twerkwithlizzo lives on
Please note that I was doing this wearing a giant fuzzy purple jacket & mirrored sunglasses on three hours sleep. I really wonder if other fat Black femme women in Madison get asked if they’re me or if I really look that distinct? Maybe it’s just the ridiculous outfits lol
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Just had a really nice cathartic convo w/ someone from my past. It healed a little part of my teenage wounds. I started this journey to deal with my early life trauma last year & it continues to be hard, but wow, I feel like I am breaking open & transforming in the process.
I had so much trauma & insecurity that I don’t even remember large chunks of my childhood & HS years. I realize that even the memories I do have are from this wounded perspective. I felt so scared & unsafe so often that now I don’t know when that was & was not warranted.
So if anyone knew me in HS before I was 21 and wants to privately tell me about what they saw in me, let me know. I hated myself so much & assumes everyone around me hated me too. Sigh. I am so glad to be an adult now, with a therapist.
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#Thread I didn’t get to send before we took off. So two men were next to each other on the plane, one a man of color & one white. According to the person next time, before I got on the two men were arguing about where the boundary is between them for the row.
Then the white guy stomped on the man of color’s foot. MOC was pissed & like “WTH.” As I arrived the the flight attendant came over & white guy whines like a kid: “Well HE keeps putting HIS foot all the way over HERE and *I* just put my foot down where it’s SUPPOSED to go”
Flight attendant is like, “Do I need to call someone to come intervene here?” MOC is like “nah, we’re good. I’m fine” & white guy is like “Yes, I think you should”. Of course I know where this shit is going. This man of color is going to be kicked off this plane, maybe hurt. Nah.
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I’m getting my haircut with my favorite hairstylist while I’m back in Indiana later this week. I currently have a big medium length frohawk with the sides short. Debating between cutting the back and trimming the top or just straight up cutting off all my hair.
I like cutting my hair when I’ve experienced big changes. It’s a change I can control. I haven’t had short short hair in 3 years, but I’m swimming a lot lately & shorter hair would make that easier.
Hair has so much cultural weight as a Black woman & a femme. The first time I shaved my head was after being dumped & it was really cathartic. It was my way of trying to stop please men with my appearance & see what else is possible. I think I’m ready for that energy again.
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What is a Jew-Baiter? (1938)
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The other day I got a letter from a Congressman. It was not the Congressman in my home district.

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It was not a letter asking me to vote for him. Emphatically it was not a letter soliciting me to contribute to his campaign expenses. It was a different kind of a letter entirely. In fact, this Congressman wrote me a letter of protest, of remonstrance, vaguely of rebuke.
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There is a pernicious misunderstanding going around that I dont like white people. I really dont care what you think but I think it is interesting enough to tweet about so here goes.
Its not that I dont dislike white people. The truth is I really really like anti racist white people. The rest of yall are meh at best and at worst even unintentionally have been troublesome to my existence as a black person.
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the past few days i’ve had several conversations that were emotionally heavy. one was with the gay pornstar in palm springs, who told me that he couldn’t stop thinking of me—the song i sang for him came on the radio on his drive to palm springs. he said he really was interested
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OK. It's happening, and I can finally talk openly about it (a thread).

I have decided to transfer from my #PhD into a #Masters degree. I'm currently writing my thesis - I'm due to submit in October.

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