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Lawrence Everett Forbes
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Black queer writer, painter, caregiver, and 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow. As seen in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, WIRED, and on Wheel of Fortune. | bohemiandork.com. 🇺🇸🇻🇨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩼♿️
Pinned
Are You Mad? (2021)
5’ x 4’
Acrylic and gel medium on canvas
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Genocidal white supremacy. And this dude is being put up for assault, not attempted murder? When you straight up shoot a disabled man in a wheelchair?!?

atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/17/w...
'Show Me Your ID!': White Seattle Man Shoots Black Disabled Veteran In the Chest In Broad Daylight After Demanding He Show Him Proof of His Service
"Disabled Black Navy veteran shot for not showing ID! A harrowing encounter turns violent in broad daylight, sparking outrage and disbeli...
atlantablackstar.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Spearheaded by Dr. Maulana Karenga, the annual celebration of unity, family, and African culture takes place from Dec. 26 to New Year's Day.
https://bit.ly/3tuyZwA
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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[December 23rd, 1925] William Dorsey Swann, a pioneering African-American activist and the first known person to self-identify as a "queen of drag", dies in Hancock, Maryland. He was 65.
December 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I decided to work Christmas Day. What have I done to myself?
a man in a suit and tie is scratching his forehead .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is scratching his forehead .
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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This petition is up to 230 signatories. I bet we can get it to their goal of 400 over the next few days! Are you in, friends in NYC???
Reposting this petition for NYC people interested in pushing back rather than partnering up:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Is it too late to ask Santa for a good dork for Christmas? Asking for a friend who may also be named Lawrence Everett Forbes.
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Ask and you shall receive
October 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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WHO DID THIS?!?!?
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Betty Reid Soskin died this week. She was 104. To the world, she was the National Park Service's oldest active ranger when she retired at age 100. To me, she is Aunt Betty open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...
December 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Mood:
Opening Medley, by Kiki and Herb
from the album Do You Hear What We Hear?
kikiandherbwilldieforyou.bandcamp.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Show me how your 2025 went
December 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Buon Natale
Feliz Navidad
Merry Christmas
🎁🎅🎄🎉
a penguin wearing a santa hat is surrounded by christmas ornaments and the words feliz navidad
ALT: a penguin wearing a santa hat is surrounded by christmas ornaments and the words feliz navidad
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Bumping this up!
@melondc.bsky.social collects food and $ for a few families with kids that she knows. Her friend Unique is a hard working mother of 3 who was recently laid off and she could use some mutual aid. If you have some cash looking for a good cause, please send some over to Melisa via Venmo: @cutejewelry
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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RIP Eddie Hazel. Gone 33 yrs. Dang.
December 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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So my first novel, The Survivalists (black woman lawyer falls in with a pack of Black Brooklyn doomsday preppers) is the San Francisco Public Library’s On The Same Page Pick for January/February 2026, and i’ll be doing an event there on 2/22 sfpl.org/books-and-me...
On the Same Page: The Survivalists | San Francisco Public Library
sfpl.org
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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We have sworn to be happy. We're militant about it. Art is a tactic. Joy is a weapon.
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Ashy people are opps, because what other reason makes sense?
Being an ashy individual is a CHOICE.
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Three short whistles if you see ICE in your area; three long whistles if you see ICE kidnapping someone.

3D printed whistles can be found for free at just about any local/independent business in the twin cities.

(We more flyers in Somali, and Dakotiyapi/Anishinaabemowin)
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
TFW you think someone is already doing the most, and you find out they're doing even more.
Apparently, ICE isn’t doing enough…

So the gang is expanding its ranks, recruiting *private bounty hunters* to track down immigrants at home and at work
ICE Hires Immigrant Bounty Hunters From Private Prison Company GEO Group
BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of for-profit prison company GEO Group, will help ICE pinpoint the locations of immigrants.
theintercept.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss tried to spike has leaked.

youtu.be/lenFGZ5WUTA?...
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Watching cricket with Dad.
December 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I play entirely too much Monopoly Go. That game was such a pivotal piece of childhood memory, so they have me in a bit of a hold.

But I’m also not a fan of the Harry Potter tie-in they’ve got going on right now, so I need to take a timeout.
December 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM