Crystal N. Dunivant
@crystalndunivant.bsky.social
Social Worker • Consultant and Trainer • We do not talk about psychosis enough • Lover of good books📚💙
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Journal Entry - Two Storefront Churches
I came across this over the weekend.
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The last couple of weeks, couple of months, couple of years have been heavy.
Laughter is healing.
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Laughter is healing.
Thank you for reading, sharing, and clicking the subscribe button.
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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While most folks were kicked back enjoying their feasts & family, a lot of Natives are out here suffering on our own homelands:
homeless, health crises, barely surviving as our lives slowly implode. #Share my cousin’s post and #help in any way you can. She’s entering winter life in a car with 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
homeless, health crises, barely surviving as our lives slowly implode. #Share my cousin’s post and #help in any way you can. She’s entering winter life in a car with 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
#MutualAid
I want to think that people have good hearts but this thanksgiving hasn't reinforced that belief. I get that times are tough for everyone but imagine what we're going through daily. I've had noodles for the past 4 days. Please repost
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I want to think that people have good hearts but this thanksgiving hasn't reinforced that belief. I get that times are tough for everyone but imagine what we're going through daily. I've had noodles for the past 4 days. Please repost
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November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
While most folks were kicked back enjoying their feasts & family, a lot of Natives are out here suffering on our own homelands:
homeless, health crises, barely surviving as our lives slowly implode. #Share my cousin’s post and #help in any way you can. She’s entering winter life in a car with 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
homeless, health crises, barely surviving as our lives slowly implode. #Share my cousin’s post and #help in any way you can. She’s entering winter life in a car with 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
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Price updates for Black Friday! Please consider supporting an independent author! Sci-fi short stories: Paperback - $5 / eBook - $1 | Children's book (paperback) - $10
Pick one up today, tomorrow, whenever you like!
#SciFi #SelfPublished #booksky 📚🤏 #BlackBooksky
🔗 books.kielenking.com
Pick one up today, tomorrow, whenever you like!
#SciFi #SelfPublished #booksky 📚🤏 #BlackBooksky
🔗 books.kielenking.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Price updates for Black Friday! Please consider supporting an independent author! Sci-fi short stories: Paperback - $5 / eBook - $1 | Children's book (paperback) - $10
Pick one up today, tomorrow, whenever you like!
#SciFi #SelfPublished #booksky 📚🤏 #BlackBooksky
🔗 books.kielenking.com
Pick one up today, tomorrow, whenever you like!
#SciFi #SelfPublished #booksky 📚🤏 #BlackBooksky
🔗 books.kielenking.com
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Reviews like this are great reminders why we need Black writers and critics to properly analyze Black art
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Brandon Taylor’s Limited Notions of Blackness
His Black characters treat whiteness as all-powerful but also blameless and beyond reproach.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reviews like this are great reminders why we need Black writers and critics to properly analyze Black art
www.vulture.com/article/revi...
www.vulture.com/article/revi...
Patricia Smith just won the National Book Award for Poetry for this collection. The first couple of poems had me in a chokehold. Smith is giving me new life right now.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Patricia Smith just won the National Book Award for Poetry for this collection. The first couple of poems had me in a chokehold. Smith is giving me new life right now.
Nana turns 92 years old today.
I wrote this last year but it still holds true.
“I see my love reflected in the face of the woman who not that long ago yelled across the hall “Nikki are you still there?” “I am here.”
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I wrote this last year but it still holds true.
“I see my love reflected in the face of the woman who not that long ago yelled across the hall “Nikki are you still there?” “I am here.”
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Celebrating Love and the Quiet
Hope is not a substitute for strategy. Percival Everett
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November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Nana turns 92 years old today.
I wrote this last year but it still holds true.
“I see my love reflected in the face of the woman who not that long ago yelled across the hall “Nikki are you still there?” “I am here.”
open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
I wrote this last year but it still holds true.
“I see my love reflected in the face of the woman who not that long ago yelled across the hall “Nikki are you still there?” “I am here.”
open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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Looking for a way to help this holiday season? The fabulous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK; CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS) and Proyecto Faro are raising money for families in Spring Valley & Rockland County, NY, who've been targeted by recent ICE raids. Learn more and if you're able, donate here:
Donate to Support Families Devastated by I.C.E, organized by Nana Adjei
For the last several years, with your help, during the holiday season we’ve raised mon… Nana Adjei needs your support for Support Families Devastated by I.C.E
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November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Looking for a way to help this holiday season? The fabulous Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (FRIDAY BLACK; CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS) and Proyecto Faro are raising money for families in Spring Valley & Rockland County, NY, who've been targeted by recent ICE raids. Learn more and if you're able, donate here:
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Not official yet, but there will be a tenured or tenure track teaching position in Fiction at Bowling Green State advertised soon. Please share. #writingcommunity #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Not official yet, but there will be a tenured or tenure track teaching position in Fiction at Bowling Green State advertised soon. Please share. #writingcommunity #booksky
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A bill regulating certain medications, which could include medication abortion drugs, was passed out of an Ohio House committee on Wednesday, on its way to a full House vote. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/b...
Bill regulating drugs including medication abortion pills passes Ohio House committee • Ohio Capital Journal
A bill regulating certain medications, which could include medication abortion drugs, was passed out of an Ohio House committee on Wednesday, on its way to a full House vote.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A bill regulating certain medications, which could include medication abortion drugs, was passed out of an Ohio House committee on Wednesday, on its way to a full House vote. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/b...
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Despite Ohioans overwhelmingly protecting access to abortion, Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict the procedure by ending telehealth prescriptions and mail-order pills ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/18/o...
Ohio GOP lawmakers move to ban telehealth, mail-order abortion pills • Ohio Capital Journal
Despite Ohioans overwhelmingly protecting access to abortion, Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict the procedure by ending telehealth prescriptions and mail-order pills.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Despite Ohioans overwhelmingly protecting access to abortion, Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict the procedure by ending telehealth prescriptions and mail-order pills ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/18/o...
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It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
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May my friend @sfdirewolf.bsky.social rest in power. I will especially miss texting with her about Star Trek.
We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm.
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We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm.
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Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
6,794 likes, 536 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at th...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
May my friend @sfdirewolf.bsky.social rest in power. I will especially miss texting with her about Star Trek.
We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm.
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm.
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
I Accidentally Took Myself on a Date
“Do you have a reservation?”
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November 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
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Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
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A women's soccer star is the target of an anti-trans activist - Outsports
Barbra Banda's peers in the NWSL stood up for her when the head of an anti-trans fashion brand tried to demean her.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
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Fresh off Election Day, the Statehouse GOP is hearing SB 293, a bill slashing early voting via mail, popular among all voters. This is the 2026 (& beyond) playbook. Politicians in power are deliberately making it harder for you to vote, for 100% political reasons.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Fresh off Election Day, the Statehouse GOP is hearing SB 293, a bill slashing early voting via mail, popular among all voters. This is the 2026 (& beyond) playbook. Politicians in power are deliberately making it harder for you to vote, for 100% political reasons.
I was loving my body on Friday and by Saturday I felt a little indifferent. Both of those feelings are okay.
Writing keeps me grounded so I have been writing about this evolving relationship with this body of mine.
Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share.
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Writing keeps me grounded so I have been writing about this evolving relationship with this body of mine.
Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share.
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Who Is This Woman in the Pictures?
It is never about losing weight.Nacolle’s Emancipation is a reader-supported publication.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I was loving my body on Friday and by Saturday I felt a little indifferent. Both of those feelings are okay.
Writing keeps me grounded so I have been writing about this evolving relationship with this body of mine.
Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share.
open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
Writing keeps me grounded so I have been writing about this evolving relationship with this body of mine.
Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share.
open.substack.com/pub/crystaln...
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TW: Suicide
Realizing that I was trans saved my life. People underestimate the power of social transitioning, but social transitioning is the reason I am still here.
Realizing that I was trans saved my life. People underestimate the power of social transitioning, but social transitioning is the reason I am still here.
November 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
TW: Suicide
Realizing that I was trans saved my life. People underestimate the power of social transitioning, but social transitioning is the reason I am still here.
Realizing that I was trans saved my life. People underestimate the power of social transitioning, but social transitioning is the reason I am still here.
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What most people outside of what passes for a safety net in the US don’t understand is that the late fall and early winter are the busiest, hardest moments for new crises. This couldn’t happen at a worse time as clinics, shelters, and food pantries are already bursting at the seams from demand.
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What most people outside of what passes for a safety net in the US don’t understand is that the late fall and early winter are the busiest, hardest moments for new crises. This couldn’t happen at a worse time as clinics, shelters, and food pantries are already bursting at the seams from demand.
Nana and I needed to ground ourselves in something familiar so we are reading If Beale Street Could Talk.
We are wondering what you are reading this evening.
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#BookSky
We are wondering what you are reading this evening.
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Nana and I needed to ground ourselves in something familiar so we are reading If Beale Street Could Talk.
We are wondering what you are reading this evening.
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
We are wondering what you are reading this evening.
#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
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Immigrant women are overrepresented in jobs that have a higher exposure to chemicals that cause breast cancer, according to a new study by the Silent Spring Institute, a research organization focused on uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer. https://bit.ly/4huUeTj
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Immigrant women are overrepresented in jobs that have a higher exposure to chemicals that cause breast cancer, according to a new study by the Silent Spring Institute, a research organization focused on uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer. https://bit.ly/4huUeTj
I went to bed thinking about this essay. The work has never stopped so I write about joy and sorrow. Labor and rest. My neighbors are losing their health insurance and the ability to feed their families. Systems aren’t concerned about our wellbeing so community fills gaps. It has always been us.
We are Still Here
“We will still have work to do regardless of the outcome of the election, but we are trying to influence the environment under which we do this work.” Beloved State Committee Member at our October mee...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I went to bed thinking about this essay. The work has never stopped so I write about joy and sorrow. Labor and rest. My neighbors are losing their health insurance and the ability to feed their families. Systems aren’t concerned about our wellbeing so community fills gaps. It has always been us.