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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 12h

This is happening right now. spotify.link/ttp3FfxutXb

Black Messiah

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I'm a black woman with a single mother who was raised in a neighborhood with queer neighbors and has many queer friends and took classes in Women and Gender Studies in college and is a lowercase feminist.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

We already knew that they hate us.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I find this Politico piece funny because PoC and LGBTQ+ are likely not shocked.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

Kids love their screens, but they also love physical books.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I had to go find one of them when we were about to leave, and they were reading a book in a corner.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I've been to a bookstore with the children of a friend, and they LOVE to wander around discovering things to read.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

I helped to make one with my little child hands.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, okay. Although I am worried because the head of the Library of Congress got fired by You Know Who. bsky.app/profile/morg...

Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 16h

Have they been moved back out of SF? This sounds like they *were* at least in a place that someone would be able to stop Trump from destroying them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMES_P...

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt - Wikipedia

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously, I can look it up, but the fact that they have fallen out of our cultural memory is...

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

I've been wondering recently where all of the quilts from the NAMES Project are.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

I love her full gray.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

I've met some people in their 20s who have asked me what to read and watch to learn more about it.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like An Old saying it, but I feel like we don't talk about AIDS and its legacy enough.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

Looking that sloppy is a privilege. There's a reason why Dress for Success exists.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

And these assholes are out here looking a mess while ruining our lives.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

I went on an interview during the Great Recession wearing a business dress and was told that my perfect manicure in deep blue might turn people off. I wonder to this day if they would have made that comment to a white girl.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

I guess they're following their leader, a man who couldn't pick a good tie if his life depended on it.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

In purely aesthetic terms, all of the ties of the men in that Politico piece are awful.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

When I first moved here, a native of Los Angeles said I would eventually stop loving rain.

Over 11 years later, and guess what.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 17h

Went outside to take in a deep inhale of rain smell.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 18h

Clothing choices are often about projecting a certain image. It's why fashion isn't frivolous.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 18h

Why are you wearing a bow tie on a college campus in the early 2000s?

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 18h

I bet the neo-cons I went to college with are glad that group texts weren't a thing back then.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 1d

This book came out years ago, but I obviously missed it.