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Culture Bearer & Creole Traiteur 🌱| Journalist ✍🏾| Ethnographer 🕵🏾| Music Artivist 🎤 This is a SAFE space for Melanated-Queer Folx 🌈✊🏾🪶. 📍: Atakapa-Ishak & Opelousa Nation aka South Louisiana 🌐: Quinn94.com

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · Aug 15

When discussing the multi-billion-dollar petrochemical industry, environmental racism profits off of Black bodies & legacies through land theft, destroying sacred land, neglect from officials, & exposing our communities to harmful chemicals.

Tap In: everydayisjuneteenth.substack.com/p/environmen...

Featured impactful photo for Every Day Is Juneteenth’s first essay on following the injustices and money regarding environmental racism in America written by Quinn Foster

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7d

UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, [email protected]

UT President, Jim Davis, [email protected]

#SaveUT #EducationalLiberty

For more info: [email protected] 5/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7d

tuition-paying students what they can and cannot study.

Call to action:

Amplify your discontent on social media and tag @UTAustin and @UTAustinCOLA

Write to: College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, [email protected] 4/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7d

subjects and silencing departments that tell a more complete story about the history of Western civilization and contemporary US society. As a world-class public institution, UT must preserve intellectual diversity and educational liberty. The government should not tell adult, 3/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7d

This decision by UT’s administration is not driven by any educational reasons; after all, the departments facing elimination are full of field-defining, award-winning faculty. UT administrators are falling in lockstep with a nationwide political attack on the freedom to learn by censoring 2/

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 9d

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 10d

4DaHuemans will collaborate with other Creole and potentially Cajun community cooks who share the vision to eradicate food insecurity in South Louisiana.

Learn about our mission 👇🏾:
#foodinsecurity #louisiana #foodhunger

Cook For Yo’ People Initiative

A Louisiana-based initiative to fight food insecurity

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 11d

PSA:

🔊 There is no insurrection.

“What’s becoming increasingly clear is that the purpose of using the troops is to use the troops. It’s blatant intimidation to stoke fear.

These issues are as old as the republic.”

💯

Great, short read: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

There Is No Insurrection

Troops are for national defense, not displays of presidential power.

www.brennancenter.org

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 12d

4DaHuemans was able to feed 10 people for week one and hopes to keep growing as time goes on 🤲🏾.

This has and always will be bigger than me, this is about US ❤️🖤💚💜💚💛.

#FoodInsecurity #Louisiana #Lafayette #Support #Donate

Donate to a Great Cause — Quinn94

Donating to Quinn94 & 4DaHuemans will assist Melanated-Indigenous communities globally. The mission is to uplift and repair ourselves.

Quinn94.com

GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 12d

We are back for WEEK TWO of Cook For Yo’ People 👏🏾.

I have to say a shout-out to our first RECURRING donor, KAIT. They loved what we were doing and committed to donating monthly to our initiative 🫶🏾.

Week 2 Meal:
- Smothered Chicken Thighs
- Smothered Cabbage
- Bbq Baked Beans

#FoodInsecurity

Cook For Yo’ People is an initiative by 4DaHuemans and Quinn offering free Creole-based meals for community members facing food insecurity throughout Louisiana.

Please donate through
Cashapp: $Quinnfos94
Venmo: Quinnfos
Website: Quinn94.com/donate

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 12d

😂😂😂 they really do I peeps that as well lmao I wonder if it’s any marketing or “science” behind it!

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 15d

“I drifted aimlessly
Through parking lots I tried my best To dodge the many shoppers
Who are in a hurry to buy nothing…”

Lloyd Center by Elijah Craig ❤️🖤💚

#BlackStudies #Portland

A photo of book titled, “Memory & Place in Black Portland” by Black Studies students at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 14d

Address me as a published author from now on 😏✍🏾📖.

Last Wednesday & this past weekend was a monumental Creole time that is now encapsulated & stamped into history 📰📝🧾.

Visit Creoleculture.com to purchase Hands of Heritage 💜💚💛.

Happy International Creole Heritage Month 🩸.
#CreoleCulture #Louisiana

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 12d

Speaking of, I had a roller skating date a few weeks ago that was too cute 🥰🥰🥰.

I hadn’t been skating in years and so glad I sugfested it as a date idea.

#DateNight #HaveFun #GetActive

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 12d

Nature is so multipurpose and we love us a multipurpose girlie!

GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 13d

“As Creoles, we are our best asset and biggest liability.”

—Quinn F.

GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Blessed International Creole Heritage Month and much love to all of us Creoles globally from Louisiana to Haiti to St. Lucia to Martinique and everywhere else in between!

Purchase our cultural book by visiting Creoleculture.com

#CreoleHeritageMonth #CreoleCulture #LouisianaCreoles

Creole Culture

Discover a wide range of T-shirts at Creole Culture, the top online clothing store for Creole Culture apparel.

Creoleculture.com

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 14d

Nine authors and seven photographers collaborated to create a cultural coffee table book about the hands that build our heritage.

I feel so blessed and grateful. We are so beautiful as a community and deserve to document and share our art, culture, history, and stories 🎨📸📑.

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 14d

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 18d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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mamamoo @thelovelymc.bsky.social · 15d

I love that refreshing afternoon autumn air

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 15d

🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 15d

Love their response so much!

#DontMuteDC

GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 15d

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GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶 @quinnfos.bsky.social · 15d

“What I would like to understand is that certain places have so much value and purpose beyond destruction. And I could go deeper, that statement can relate to our own self as well.”

—Elijah Craig in reference to #gentrification in #Portland.