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Jamilah Lemieux

@jamilahlemieux.bsky.social

13K followers 770 following 91K posts

Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · May 2

Is this place fun? Threads is kinda fun

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 31

I’m importing my tweets, this is from 2010. I def wouldn’t bat an eye today

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 29

I never see it! Maybe they aren’t popular where I’ve lived

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 29

Noted!

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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · Dec 29

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 29

My moms white neighbor has a pit bull and this is the first white person I have ever seen with a pit bull in my life

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · Dec 9

The Claims Adjuster is only 26 years old? He belongs at the club!!!

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 9

Yall got good Luigi jokes over here or are yall too nice for that?

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Dec 5

A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.

bittersoutherner.com

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 4

Someone who is Black and biracial

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Dec 4

I had my tweets imported over here but they’re just being posted as if they are current so it looks crazy

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Nov 28

Yummy!

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Nov 27

It’s the only way I eat them now

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Nov 27

I can’t eat it any other way now

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Nov 27

Same!

Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Nov 27

It’s perfect!

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Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social · Nov 27

Grill every sandwich. Turkey, peanut butter and jelly, any sandwich. It will taste better.

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Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social · Nov 27

As always, we can count on @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social to stand in the trenches with and for Black women. (Maya Angelou going to visit Mike Tyson in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting Desiree Washington just made my jaw drop.)