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STOP THINKING THERE IS A DEADLINE. THERE IS NO DEADLINE. TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND TAKE YOUR TIME.

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Next goal: another masters.

- either in math ed

- or ivy

LFG.

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Queen.

Grace Jonesssss

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I won new Teacher of the Year 🤲🏾✨

I just wrote my teacher of the year acceptance speech. It’s not announced till June but I’m taking it from 4D to 3D. I AM the teacher of the year, I just need to decide on what to wear 😌

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I think about this all the time…

Propaganda I’m not falling for: “medium-ugly men”, “dad bods”, or the idea that “men are visual creatures” who have a right to be with beautiful women and enjoy intimacy to the fullest, while women are expected to only prioritize a man’s personality, ability to provide, and willingness to endure life/intimacy with him. The notion that physical attraction is something only men are entitled to is one of the most insidious manipulations the patriarchy has pushed onto women. It reduces a universal human desire into a gendered expectation and silences women’s right to want—and choose—based on their own desires.

This mindset is deeply rooted in complementarian worldviews that center male comfort while diminishing female autonomy. Women are constantly judged by our appearance, yet men are allowed to be mediocre in looks, effort, and lifestyle without facing the same scrutiny, all while still feeling entitled to beautiful partners. We’re told that men are “visual creatures,” yet many show no regard for their own appearance, their homes, or the way they present themselves. We’re taught that sex is something men do to women, not something both partners are meant to enjoy and participate in equally.

The result? A world full of beautiful, accomplished women being told they’re “too picky” or “superficial”while mediocre men lament loneliness—usually because the stunning woman they want won’t look their way, even though they ignore women who are their actual peers. And somehow, we’re supposed to feel sorry for them—not for the equally single, equally overlooked woman.

I simply refuse to believe these lies. I like my men handsome. Period.

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remmick and the vampires present a false dichotomy

Hogwood (the man who sold the twins the mill) and the KKK are very obviously bad, they are outright malicious bigotry, they use the n-word and plan to lynch the moore's and their community, they are so blatantly racist and hateful it's unavoidably obvious

remmick and the vampires however say that they believe in equality, say that they want to create a community, and yet remmick's goal throught the movie is to both metaphorically and literally steal sammie's ability for his own goal of reconnecting with his irish ancestors, a white man wants to harm a young and upcoming black man and use talents for his own goals without giving any regard to said black man's autonomy or agency

when sammie sings 'I lied to you' in the juke joint and calls forth the spirits from the past and future, it's a blend of cultures; west african, east asian, native american, and african american song and dance blend together across time and space to tell the stories of blues; where it takes its inspiration from, the music genres it then inspired, the complex history of black american culture and its intersections with other peoples of colour in the USA

when remmick and the vampires kill and turn the people in the juke joint, and then perform rocky road to dublin, only remmick's irish culture is on display, there is no influence from the black and asian people he has forcibly assimilated into his song, it's juxtaposition with the earlier scene is blatant, remmick is more than happy to assimilate people of colour into his 'community' of 'equals', and yet its only whiteness that is celebrated, that is normative

remmick claims that he's doing people a favour by turning them immortal, conviently ignoring that he literally has to suck the life out of them to do so, trapping their spirits on earth, he claims that he's the good guy, that the KKK were gonna come and lynch everyone at the joint in the morning anyways, conviently ignoring that he's doing the exact same thing; a white man leading a mob to kill a bunch of black people

in the final confrontation with sammie remmick repeatedly dunks him into the river, a forceful baptism. both the celtic irish and enslaved west africans had their religions suppressed and destroyed by colonialsm, had christianity forced upon them by the british empire, and in that scene we see remmick repeating that cycle, using christianity to inflict harm, and sammie reclaiming christianity, despite all the complex emotions he has arround it, as many colonised peoples have and still do, when he recites the lord's prayer

remmick and the vampires are no less racist than hogwood and the KKK, are no less predatory or evil, they're just less blantant about their bigotry, they represent the system, the normalised white supremacy that is seeped into the very foundation of culture in america, the point isnt that remmick would call any of the black characters in the movie the n-word, i dont think he would, the point is that his exploitation and desacration and inserting-himself-into-when-he-wasn't-invited of the juke joint is a microcosm of what white people have done to black american arts and culture since ever since there have been black and white people in america, and even before that

theres a reason vultures are shown early on in this movie

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Lora Mathis

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I want this.

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I claimed it.

Thank you, universe 🤲🏾✨

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Claim it and it’s yours.

I said I wanted to go to my school’s gala… today I found out I was invited; it’s in two days! I claimed it April 13!

4D to 3D.

Can’t wait to post pics. TYYL

Dream it believe it achieve it

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We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky

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I used to really love you

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