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Maisha Handy
@maishaprez.bsky.social
Womanist CEO/President, Musician, Collaborative Leader, Pastor, Tootsie’s Mom, Renaissance Woman, Unbox Me! 💜
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March 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I think we're all hoping that our democratic senators and representatives will step up their game and get ahead of the curve balls being thrown at them by #MAGA

Hey elected Democrats, there's a coup in progress.
February 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Engineered ignorance; there is a reason that red states spend so little on education and healthcare—educated constituents will not vote for them. They want ignorance and illness.
Just look at the map; the higher the avg education level, the bluer the vote.
Identify the enemy. End the oligarchy.
My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...
Education Is Key to Fighting Disinformation on Social Media
In our interconnected modern world, education is critical in the fight against disinformation.
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Hell yes!
WTG New Jersey!

Gov.Phil Murphy just signed a law prohibiting public schools and public libraries from banning books and protecting librarians who follow state law.

Thank you @govmurphy.bsky.social

This is how you resist!

#EduSky #BookSky #DemCast #Resist
December 11, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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NEW: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the chair of the Arizona Republican Party and others that alleged that Arizona is not properly maintaining its voter rolls. The judge found that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
Arizona Judge Dismisses Right-Wing Challenge to State’s Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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I teach the religious and spiritual practices of the slaves, unfree, and marginalized. Spiritual and political practices were always bound together. They prayed for freedom, on one hand, and used prayers, conjure, the ancestors, magic, and otherwise in their fight for abolition, on the other.
November 30, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas”

Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm was born 100 years ago today.
November 30, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...
Yolande Bouka
#QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation
www.queensu.ca
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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TW & Reminder, Dear Ones:

You need a plan to celebrate the holidays AND protect children in your home. 90% of CSA victims know the abuser - and kids are vulnerable when you are drinking & adulting & distracted.
You can find resources for enforcing boundaries online.

www.d2l.org
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Darkness to Light
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Resources. Darkness to Light is a nonprofit committed to empowering adults to prevent child sexual abuse.
www.d2l.org
November 24, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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This has been my most popular Substack essay yet! I’m grateful when people engage my writing and identify with it.

open.substack.com/pub/iammarie...
Nah, Black Women Ain’t Marching With Ya’ll Stop Asking
An Open Letter to White Women
open.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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If you run into me at #AARSBL24, you might get a bookmark for SPIRIT HOUSE (www.crossroads-spirithouse.org) or a postcard with a 30% discount on my book, BLACK RELIGION IN THE MADHOUSE (nyupress.org/978147982978...). Maybe both.
November 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Lee: Why do predominantly conservative white men believe that the success of a black person or the opportunity or the access of black person is an existential threat to them?
November 20, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Gaetz is out. Now Pete Hegseth also needs to be blocked as Defense Secretary. Here’s his police file.
November 21, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Good Morning!
November 19, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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Follow these brilliant womanist theologians, scholars and ethicist!

go.bsky.app/2FtRMGs
November 19, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Literally One Million Americans lost to Trump's inadequate #Covid response...
November 19, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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November 19, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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BREAKING: A Wyoming judge has ruled that the state's total abortion ban and medication abortion ban, which she had already blocked temporarily, are unconstitutional. Abortion will remain legal for now, but this is almost certain to be appealed to the WY Supreme Court.
November 19, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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November 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
The gift that keeps on giving. Much needed medicine right now. This album is genius! #thussaiththelorde #tsunamirising
#love
November 16, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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One of the most powerful interviews I've had recently...
November 16, 2024 at 6:21 PM