Yolo Akili Robinson
@yoloakili.bsky.social
Cornbread connoisseur. Healing Justice Worker. Founder & Executive Director of (BEAM) the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (YoloAkili.com) (Beam.community)
Reposted by Yolo Akili Robinson
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Reposted by Yolo Akili Robinson
Every single American should be concerned with the rapid increase of mass surveillance under ICE. It will not go away when they feel they’ve accomplished their mission of getting rid of all the non-white people.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Every single American should be concerned with the rapid increase of mass surveillance under ICE. It will not go away when they feel they’ve accomplished their mission of getting rid of all the non-white people.
Walking past my straight relatives watching football:
Hey how is LeBron doin? I heard he was scoring points in the infield! I love soccer!
My brother in law:
yeah we def gon jump yo ass after the game.
🫠😂😂
Hey how is LeBron doin? I heard he was scoring points in the infield! I love soccer!
My brother in law:
yeah we def gon jump yo ass after the game.
🫠😂😂
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Walking past my straight relatives watching football:
Hey how is LeBron doin? I heard he was scoring points in the infield! I love soccer!
My brother in law:
yeah we def gon jump yo ass after the game.
🫠😂😂
Hey how is LeBron doin? I heard he was scoring points in the infield! I love soccer!
My brother in law:
yeah we def gon jump yo ass after the game.
🫠😂😂
Lifting up the Taínos today: The first Indigenous group contacted by the colonizers of this hemisphere; long before the violent massacre that would become coveted as a day of thanks and celebration by this country. Give thanks for Indigenous people. Not colonizers.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Lifting up the Taínos today: The first Indigenous group contacted by the colonizers of this hemisphere; long before the violent massacre that would become coveted as a day of thanks and celebration by this country. Give thanks for Indigenous people. Not colonizers.
Apart of decolonization is realizing that MOST if not at all of the descendants of African Slaves in this country have never believed the myth of “white pilgrim generosity” because we saw first hand what their “generosity and care” looked like.
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Apart of decolonization is realizing that MOST if not at all of the descendants of African Slaves in this country have never believed the myth of “white pilgrim generosity” because we saw first hand what their “generosity and care” looked like.
Our culture calls every practice that unpacks emotions, validates feelings, builds relational skills or heals trauma “therapy.”
That’s how deeply Western psychology has colonized our imagination.
That’s how deeply Western psychology has colonized our imagination.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our culture calls every practice that unpacks emotions, validates feelings, builds relational skills or heals trauma “therapy.”
That’s how deeply Western psychology has colonized our imagination.
That’s how deeply Western psychology has colonized our imagination.
We cannot, I repeat, we CANNOT under any circumstances, allow ourselves to normalize kidnapping people off the streets, flying people to foreign countries and breaking into children’s rooms with guns in the middle of the night.
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We cannot, I repeat, we CANNOT under any circumstances, allow ourselves to normalize kidnapping people off the streets, flying people to foreign countries and breaking into children’s rooms with guns in the middle of the night.
Under every unloving and mean spirited behavior is a wound in need of love.
Behave accordingly.
Behave accordingly.
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Under every unloving and mean spirited behavior is a wound in need of love.
Behave accordingly.
Behave accordingly.
Just a reminder: If it’s always everybody else’s fault, if you don’t have anything to own or take responsibility for EVER—chances are self delusion and betrayal are present.
Cause everybody done put somethin in the pot fam.
Pull that spoon back and taste some of the mess you’ve made.
Cause everybody done put somethin in the pot fam.
Pull that spoon back and taste some of the mess you’ve made.
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just a reminder: If it’s always everybody else’s fault, if you don’t have anything to own or take responsibility for EVER—chances are self delusion and betrayal are present.
Cause everybody done put somethin in the pot fam.
Pull that spoon back and taste some of the mess you’ve made.
Cause everybody done put somethin in the pot fam.
Pull that spoon back and taste some of the mess you’ve made.
Before the predictable “electoral politics will not save us” folks roll up let me just say “NEGRO we know!! Can we just have A MINUTE we
been drowning in musty Cheeto dust for MONTHS! JESUS GIVE US A SECOND to be happy!!!!
been drowning in musty Cheeto dust for MONTHS! JESUS GIVE US A SECOND to be happy!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Before the predictable “electoral politics will not save us” folks roll up let me just say “NEGRO we know!! Can we just have A MINUTE we
been drowning in musty Cheeto dust for MONTHS! JESUS GIVE US A SECOND to be happy!!!!
been drowning in musty Cheeto dust for MONTHS! JESUS GIVE US A SECOND to be happy!!!!
This whole political moment has been depressing and disheartening on a soul level. Like we been on this planet as humans hundreds of years and these fools are the best yall could come up with? It’s embarrassing. I’ll take any win no matter how small!
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This whole political moment has been depressing and disheartening on a soul level. Like we been on this planet as humans hundreds of years and these fools are the best yall could come up with? It’s embarrassing. I’ll take any win no matter how small!
And out of the foolishness and mess, a moment of magic and hope arises. ❤️🔥
This is not just a win for NYC, it’s a win for progressive work everywhere!!!!
This is not just a win for NYC, it’s a win for progressive work everywhere!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
And out of the foolishness and mess, a moment of magic and hope arises. ❤️🔥
This is not just a win for NYC, it’s a win for progressive work everywhere!!!!
This is not just a win for NYC, it’s a win for progressive work everywhere!!!!
Please send prayers up for Brandy. I am in Chicago at the concert and it ended abruptly after Monica came out In tears asking us to lift brandy up. People were leaving in shock. Nothing confirmed but some are saying she passed out. They didn’t even finish the show
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Please send prayers up for Brandy. I am in Chicago at the concert and it ended abruptly after Monica came out In tears asking us to lift brandy up. People were leaving in shock. Nothing confirmed but some are saying she passed out. They didn’t even finish the show
Reposted by Yolo Akili Robinson
My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.
Reposted by Yolo Akili Robinson
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
These are some strange ass times.
That’s it.
That’s all I got.
That’s it.
That’s all I got.
October 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
These are some strange ass times.
That’s it.
That’s all I got.
That’s it.
That’s all I got.
Last but not least- everything is not about winning or losing. Ask instead; what is the opportunity to listen& release here? What am I defending against in myself from having to feel? The way to heal the pain is to feel it. The only way is through. All the projections are just distractions.
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Last but not least- everything is not about winning or losing. Ask instead; what is the opportunity to listen& release here? What am I defending against in myself from having to feel? The way to heal the pain is to feel it. The only way is through. All the projections are just distractions.
Everyone I am speaking to is dealing with more folks who are struggling with self accountability and discernment. It’s directly linked to the energy of the moment and the hyper vigilance we all are experiencing with the powers that be.
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Everyone I am speaking to is dealing with more folks who are struggling with self accountability and discernment. It’s directly linked to the energy of the moment and the hyper vigilance we all are experiencing with the powers that be.
I wish you a healing so deep, you can never ever be held hostage by your own delusions.
October 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I wish you a healing so deep, you can never ever be held hostage by your own delusions.
Sometimes saying the “No” is necessary.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
October 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Sometimes saying the “No” is necessary.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
There are few things more difficult than having to make a boundary when the behaviors of people you care about are creating hostility and chaos from their trauma responses and survival strategies.
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are few things more difficult than having to make a boundary when the behaviors of people you care about are creating hostility and chaos from their trauma responses and survival strategies.
There are few things more difficult than having to make a boundary when the behaviors of people you care about are out of dignity.
October 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There are few things more difficult than having to make a boundary when the behaviors of people you care about are out of dignity.
Reposted by Yolo Akili Robinson
“An old tape ran”, very helpful phrase for un-learning shame. 📼
@yoloakili.bsky.social @drdoylesays.bsky.social
@yoloakili.bsky.social @drdoylesays.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“An old tape ran”, very helpful phrase for un-learning shame. 📼
@yoloakili.bsky.social @drdoylesays.bsky.social
@yoloakili.bsky.social @drdoylesays.bsky.social
ATL! Black Masculinity Reimagined Leadership Institute is coming September 14th!
Join us for an integenerational space with Black men and masculine folks focused on healing beyond patriarchy and much more. Great food and gifts will be given.🙏🏾
www.eventbrite.com/e/black-masc...
Join us for an integenerational space with Black men and masculine folks focused on healing beyond patriarchy and much more. Great food and gifts will be given.🙏🏾
www.eventbrite.com/e/black-masc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ATL! Black Masculinity Reimagined Leadership Institute is coming September 14th!
Join us for an integenerational space with Black men and masculine folks focused on healing beyond patriarchy and much more. Great food and gifts will be given.🙏🏾
www.eventbrite.com/e/black-masc...
Join us for an integenerational space with Black men and masculine folks focused on healing beyond patriarchy and much more. Great food and gifts will be given.🙏🏾
www.eventbrite.com/e/black-masc...
To support our AltaDena/Pasadena community, BEAM’s monthly Healing circle will now relocate to Pasadena. Hot food, healing strategies and community care held by us. If you know folks in need of space, share with them and join us next week. 🙏🏾
www.eventbrite.com/e/heart-spac... #HealingCircles
www.eventbrite.com/e/heart-spac... #HealingCircles
August 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
To support our AltaDena/Pasadena community, BEAM’s monthly Healing circle will now relocate to Pasadena. Hot food, healing strategies and community care held by us. If you know folks in need of space, share with them and join us next week. 🙏🏾
www.eventbrite.com/e/heart-spac... #HealingCircles
www.eventbrite.com/e/heart-spac... #HealingCircles