Lisa Biggs
@lisabiggs.bsky.social
Author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration & the Art of Transformation (OSU Press 2022); Theatre maker, performance studies scholar; Associate Professor, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre @ Brown University
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Lisa Biggs
@lisabiggs.bsky.social
· Jun 3
The unadulterated joy of #JonathanBailey in #Wicked is why we theatre
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The unadulterated joy of #JonathanBailey in #Wicked is why we theatre
The unadulterated joy of Jonathan Bailey in WICKED is why we theatre
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The unadulterated joy of Jonathan Bailey in WICKED is why we theatre
Companies with this much extra money should be paying workers a lot more, building affordable housing, funding healthcare & addressing climate change.
Tech companies are pouring billions into AI chips and data centers. Increasingly, they are relying on debt and risky tactics. Financial analysts are worried there's a bubble that will soon pop.
Here's why concerns about an AI bubble are bigger than ever
Tech companies are pouring billions into AI chips and data centers. Increasingly, they are relying on debt and risky tactics. Financial analysts are worried there's a bubble that will soon pop.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Companies with this much extra money should be paying workers a lot more, building affordable housing, funding healthcare & addressing climate change.
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Trump is cutting off immigration because his administration is incapable of doing their job and vetting them. This is a failure of his administration.
All they are good at is being violence and bullying.
All they are good at is being violence and bullying.
November 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump is cutting off immigration because his administration is incapable of doing their job and vetting them. This is a failure of his administration.
All they are good at is being violence and bullying.
All they are good at is being violence and bullying.
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“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham in an interview with @jessehagopian.bsky.social in @truthout.org on Thanksgiving propaganda. "A national origin story that hides the real foundations of the US."
truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org/articles/the...
The Thanksgiving Myth Hides the US’s Inability to Reckon With Its Own History
“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham in an interview with @jessehagopian.bsky.social in @truthout.org on Thanksgiving propaganda. "A national origin story that hides the real foundations of the US."
truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org/articles/the...
Instead of scrolling
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Instead of scrolling
"Authentic humans have edges. They have opinions. They have boundaries. These aren’t character flaws."
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
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Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasing
www.blog.lifebranches.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Authentic humans have edges. They have opinions. They have boundaries. These aren’t character flaws."
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
#booksky super proud of my book baby, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation share.google/6QP3uhKpaSpj...
Winner of the 2023 Lila Heston award for outstanding scholarship in Interpretation & Performance Studies
Winner of the 2023 Lila Heston award for outstanding scholarship in Interpretation & Performance Studies
The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Focuses on prison-based arts programs to illustrate how Black feminist cultural traditions enable women to investigate root causes of crime, refute dominant narratives, and heal.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
#booksky super proud of my book baby, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation share.google/6QP3uhKpaSpj...
Winner of the 2023 Lila Heston award for outstanding scholarship in Interpretation & Performance Studies
Winner of the 2023 Lila Heston award for outstanding scholarship in Interpretation & Performance Studies
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November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Why are people interested in 19th century British romances? Everyone is so boring just walking, dressing, eating, gossip & swooning. Yawn.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Why are people interested in 19th century British romances? Everyone is so boring just walking, dressing, eating, gossip & swooning. Yawn.
Never have I ever knowingly sought advice from a child molesting rapist disgraced financier.
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Never have I ever knowingly sought advice from a child molesting rapist disgraced financier.
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Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Seen in Washington DC, capital of the land of the free
Google Search is an advertising company, not a reliable information resource.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Google Search is an advertising company, not a reliable information resource.
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The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
It's time to hold ppl accountable for their racism
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's time to hold ppl accountable for their racism
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
My Saturday read this week is DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESSS: AFRICAN AMERICAN CYBERCULTURES by Andre Brock Jr.
#Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies
#Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies
September 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My Saturday read this week is DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESSS: AFRICAN AMERICAN CYBERCULTURES by Andre Brock Jr.
#Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies
#Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies
I'm in bed by 930!@!
August 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm in bed by 930!@!