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Nov 20, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
CHEW ON DIVERSITY 🧵

There's a THEN/NOW photo in these Twitter streets w/women coders at the Bird App HQ pre-Muskrat & then, nothing but men at that insane 1:30AM meeting post-Muskrat.

Muskrat Stans, conservative men & misogynists who don't believe women added value or... 2) could actually code applaud the 2nd picture while mocking the first. They openly speculate that the women were merely diversity quota hires & therefore incompetent, did no real work, sipped soy lattes & had spa days while the men did "real work"

Supreme Court Justice...
Oct 28, 2022 12 tweets 4 min read
CHEW ON THE PAST 🧵

White MAGA Republicans believe America's culture & way of life was better in the 1950's:

Let me tell you what the 50's were like for Black people. My grandmother, Jocelyn Lewis Chew (Bigma) couldn't try on clothes in any Fredericksburg store lest WW want... Image 2) to try on the same garment after her. It was the same for shoes. My Mom Patricia, Big Daddy, my aunt & uncle's had to buy shoes without trying them on. No WM or WW could ever try on a pair of shoes that a Black man, woman or child want to try on after them.

The movie...
Oct 5, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read
CHEW ON FORCED BIRTH FATHERHOOD 🧵:

My Mom was a Music major at Virginia State University when she visited a friend at Howard University. They went to a party where my Mom met my biological father.

Bigma wanted my Mom to have a abortion because back then, young women with a... 2) baby & no husband were cause for shame. My Mom had to stand in front of the entire church congregation & apologize. I STILL burn w/heat searing rage that they did that to her.

Abortion was not legal, but places where you could go in Richmond were known & that's where Bigma...
Jul 27, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
CHEW ON VOTING DEMOCRATIC 🧵

Here's why I muted David Hogg. He has NO understanding of the blood, swear & tears generations of Black elders undertook just to take their right to vote. The Poll Taxes. The murders & lynching for simply REGISTERING to vote.

Bigma & Big Daddy... 2) NEVER missed a chance to vote Arthur Lee Beasley's Country Store which was their polling place. They took me along when I was 7 to watch them vote for Jimmy Carter.

My Mom Patricia marched in the 60's & sat in at the Woolworth lunch counters. They might not have liked...
Feb 8, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read
CHEW ON BANNING "MAUS" 🧵

My first rape patient was about 60 if I recall. It was after dark & while we were chilling at the firehouse, we got a call to respond to "an unknown rescue". One of those personal alarms that people wear to summon help had gone off.

So, my partner &.. 2) I, together w/the boys on the Engine responded w/the County Police. We got to the scene before the police & I saw the young man who turned out to be the rapist running away. I got to the patient first after following a trail of ripped panties & a torn off housecoat leading...