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4 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Okay, your resident old nerd is back with another viewing recommendation. This Prideland special on @PBS (my local @MyPBSNC) is good viewing. It documents how LGBTQIA communities are living across the South. pbs.org/show/prideland/
Listen, god bless these lesbian folks in Montgomery but I am worried. Whew. "New Montgomery", if you say so.
Well, now I'm crying. Jeez.
The International Gay Rodeo Association??? Yes please. igra.com

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I would write with him. I would tour with him. I would want to hear what he has to say. That is more than I can say for almost all of the folks we consider greats.
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I have always had a deep distrust for this and you see it everywhere. Jobs (especially academia), online groups, etc. I know the impulse to gain status this way but it is so messy. If you reject this “Good Samaritan” messiness you risk being ostracized by the group. Worth it.
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I don’t find the turns all that surprising but it is tightly written! Also? White women be drunk as skunks. Sisters I know just aren’t drinking like that.
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This episode of @reelsouth is about Black men who played and worked the (mostly segregated) golf courses in the mid 20th c. South. It is touching. pbs.org/video/muni-lai…
You don't often see Black men of a certain age and class in media this way, not even in documentary media.
It isn't a "big" civil rights story. But it I like small, intimate stories of the Great Migration Generation. This is one of those.
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Shout out to Lauren who knew I would forget to eat and ordered me food while also holding down my tiny little world of words all week long.
Shout out to Kera who edited air mostly and made the tiny little world of words go this week.
Shout out to my headbands for hiding my gray hair.
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Me: that's green.
You, a philosopher of impeccable pedigree and moral fortitude: I DISAGREE. THAT IS BLUE AND YELLOW MIXED TOGETHER
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