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Dr. Thomas Tijerina

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PhD, Sociologist, Professor, Mentor, Boxing Coach, Husband, Father, Grandfather Mindfulness, lifting, running, boxing, jiu jitsu, nutrition, hiking, biking, reading, writing, spirituality, music, travel✌🏽❤️ https://beacons.ai/drttijerina

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 19m

I used to want success. Now I just want peace that doesn’t feel like apathy. #Healing

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 1d

This is part 3 of the first of many essays to come! Check out my work if Liberation Essays: 21st Century Acts of Resistance and Decolonization sounds like something you’d be into. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky #academicsky thomastijerina.substack.com/p/toward-who...

Toward Wholeness

Toward WholenessThanks for reading!

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 3d

For a short time only I am welcoming all moral degenerates, lapsed Marxists, and soft spoken heretics still citing Foucault while trying to heal their inner child.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 4d

On a mission to try to make #Substack more interesting. Pretty lame so far.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 4d

Dear #Bluesky please connect me with moral degenerates, recovering academics, and semi-feral philosophers who want to decolonize but keep getting distracted by existential dread and thoughts of coffee.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 4d

Decolonizing the mind isn’t erasing what we’ve learned. It’s remembering what was silenced.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 4d

Underrated. She doesn’t get the credit she deserves.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 5d

I just learned that if you were born in the U.S. and you are rounded up with noncitizens, the government can and will hold you in detention, by charging you with human trafficking, and it actually holds up for at least a few days. This is seen as completely legal. Why are we like this?

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 6d

What if justice isn’t about punishment but about remembering how to belong to each other again?

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 7d

We confuse healing with self-improvement. One is about control, the other about surrender. #Decolonize #Liberation #Resistance

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 8d

We talk about “healing” like it’s personal, but for communities harmed by history, healing is political. This section looks at what it means to heal in a world still shaped by colonization. #Decolonize substack.com/home/post/p-...

Defining Liberation and Decolonized Wellness

Part 2 of 3

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 9d

Wellness that ignores injustice is just another form of sedation.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 10d

Every day I watch people hustle for freedom inside cages they built to impress others. What would it mean to stop performing and start belonging?

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 12d

When people ask why my faith in humanity took a turn I'll tell them. I took Amazon for granted. I thought they'd always be there with the overnight deliveries. Now I sit here waiting for delayed packages that I expected yesterday.

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 13d

Launching my book project in short form bite sized essays.

Defining Liberation and Decolonized Wellness

Part 1 of 3

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 13d

Looks very underwhelming in the photos here. Lol

Location of the Microsoft Windows XP Default Wallpaper

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

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Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 24d

Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize??? Wait... was it the war on Chicago thing?

Dr. Thomas Tijerina @thotij.bsky.social · 26d

Absolutely nobody claims college is for everyone. Why are people so defensive about young people they know doing something else with their life. Just have your young people do their thing. You don't have to justify it by criticizing education.