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Kristen Chapman
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Human; interested in liberation of all kinds, chronically self-expressive, and a hater of binaries, snobs and autocrats. RVA https://shorturl.at/1u56M (NYT) https://shorturl.at/H6bBk (New Yorker) http://www.kristenchapman.art
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Eaten squirrel and snake in my early years in rural Louisiana.
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it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
If I could conjure any Halloween costume, it'd be the French guy in a fedora (post-heist) that we thought was a detective, but was actually just French.
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For a violinist who already shreds, on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘗𝘔, Sudan Archives is going even harder on the melodies to keep pace with the drive of the beats. “I'm shredding because I'm trying to be like Jimi Hendrix,” she says.
Sudan Archives Is Pushing the Tempo
An afternoon at the museum with the genre-smashing violinist.
www.hearingthings.co
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Tim Kaine I am in your walls
The senate democrats who voted for Trump’s nominee:

Chris Coons - DE

Dick Durbin - IL

Maggie Hassan - NH

Martin Heinrich - NM

Tim Kaine - VA

Mark Kelly - AZ

Amy Klobuchar - MN

Jack Reed - RI

Adam Schiff - CA

Jeanne Shaheen - NH

Peter Welch - VT

Sheldon Whitehouse - RI
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Vocalized speech is literally airbending. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
I know everything is just brutal. Sometimes you just need to be ridiculous with your pet. For fun. Remember fun???
Honestly. It's a cruelty to deny him his delights. And he loves to prance around in clothes. As do I.
My little dog needs a sweater to fully enjoy being the tiniest fella on the block. He has a winter coat (with a hoodie) that he does with pride, but he needs additional accouterments.
More of this. PLEASE.
ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”
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Dang, when you get a good phlebotomist you tell them

ONG YOU ARE SO GOOD

THANK YOU FOR NOT STABBING ME NINE TIMES AND CAUSING DEEP BRUISING

Seriously, zero pain + only one jab? That never happens to me, except today

People who are super good at the thing they do gotta be told
Even the gods know I need a solid horn section ever so often.
Just wondering tickets to see St. Paul and The Broken Bones at the botanical garden in April! Got to meet them 7 years ago through a radio station win in Nashville lol.
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
HOPE IN THE RUINS PEOPLE, hope in the ruins.
Such a feeling to be seen, heard, FELT. We are going to collaborate on her next project around sexual violence.
She got my professional background, which typically mystifies people.
She works as a therapist but does community-based work, WHICH IS MY JAM. Also, we both competed in oral poetry competitions as young people!