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Journalist + PR Pro: Identities, culture, social issues. As read , etc. Prior: . They/He. 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽

Maybe: Chicago
Joined June 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 7

    I sometimes RT without comment to share other views on the TL; but not to endorse. Just going to leave that here. There's not enough space to put that in a bio.

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  2. 20 hours ago

    This makes me a little sad, but... if it is ultimately not what he wants (after what he experienced/what happened with the producer) then he has every right to look towards all the other possibilities that arose as a result of the quest. That's a win within itself. Happy for him.

    LeVar Burton Retires Quest to Become ‘Jeopardy’ Host: ‘It Wasn’t the Thing I Wanted After All’
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  3. Retweeted
    Sep 15

    Here is how the Nicki Minaj story was covered on CNC3 Television in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I assure you this is worth all 2:20 and it's probably better than any U.S. network covered the story

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  4. Sep 15

    Nicki can have several seats for spreading COVID misinformation.

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    - Trinidad & Tobago Health Minister Dr. Terrence Deyalsingh responds to swollen testicle claim made by Trinidad-born entertainer ; says there is no such reported case in Trinidad & Tobago (TTT)
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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 14

    So California rejected Larry Elder. Weird that a large, racially diverse state doesn’t want to be led by a guy who thinks George Zimmerman is a hero, Stephen Miller should be president, slaveowners deserved reparations, COVID should proliferate and the minimum wage should be $0.

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  6. Sep 14

    I actually liked AOC's dress at the Met Gala and some of these critiques of it, on both sides, are tired as hell. At a minimum, she got some y'all talking and Googling about the effed up tax system, so she still gets the W.

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    Tucked around the corner on 52nd Place in Hyde Park’s bustling downtown sits the permanent location of Chicago’s first and only Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ resource center on the South Side.

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    I am heartbroken over the death of Allison Payne. For 21 years she was theee face of for me, a little black girl living in Bolingbrook, IL. My parents moved my bedtime to 9:30p so that I could watch the nightly news with & Steve Sanders. (1/3)

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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 7

    BREAKING: Britney Spears' father files court papers to end conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years.

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  10. Sep 7

    Well, well, well...

    Alphonso David, the first Black president of the LGBTQ organization Human Rights Campaign, has been fired for advising disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on managing his sexual harassment allegations.
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  11. Sep 7

    I don't care if the "unofficial" end of summer is Labor Day, we gotta reclaim those other couple of weeks!

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  12. Sep 7

    PSA: Summer is NOT OVER until September 22. Y'all could've saved those Summer 2021 photo dumps for two more weeks.

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    Sep 6

    Michael K. Williams, who memorably portrayed Omar Little in “The Wire” and Chalky White in “Boardwalk Empire,” has died at age 54.

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  14. Sep 4

    Y'all, Beyonce is 40 now. Some of us Millennials are old enough to remember growing up on "No No No" and now we grown as hell with her out here getting people to splurge on IVY PARK. We getting old. 😭😭😭😭😆

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    Sep 3

    The man seeking to be California’s Governor is pro-slave owner.

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    California Republican candidate for Governor Larry Elder once said it can be argued that slave owners were owed reparations at the end of the Civil War.
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  16. Sep 3

    This brought me joy. We love to see it.

    All My Children Are Coming Home Catalog🎉 Impossible Things Happen🎁... Every. Single. Day. Gratefully❤️
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  17. Sep 1

    As much as people dislike the decision, canceling the Chicago Pride Parade this year was a good idea. Why? Because: Delta.

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  18. Aug 27

    It is RIDICULOUSLY hot and humid in Chicago right now. Like, it is oppressive. I just swapped a pair of jeans for a pair of cute shorts because there is no way in h-e-l-l I'm about to make myself even hotter out here. (I mean that literally, cause the shorts themselves are 🔥.)

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  19. Aug 27

    Granted, I just started going back early last week, and I have one day with the guy each week. So we'll see what happens, but I'm optimistic.

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  20. Aug 27

    This is my second week of making it to the gym at least three days a week. Progress, not perfection, is the name of the game. My trainer wants 5 days out of me, and maybe I'll get there eventually, but I know I don't want to spend all of my free time working out.

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  21. Aug 27

    In my latest for , we take a look at the fabulous Nobody's Darling bar in Chicago: a new, Black, queer and woman-owned space that's thriving despite the pandemic. Everyone I know loves this cozy, welcoming space named after an Alice Walker poem:

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