Clarissa M. Brooks
@clarissambrooks.bsky.social
Writer l Abolitionist l Queer l PHL l 1881 💙
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BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
The Cuban government has announced Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.
www.democracynow.org
September 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
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Never forget obama raising the bounty on Assata Shakur.
September 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Never forget obama raising the bounty on Assata Shakur.
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Back on here chile 🫤
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Back on here chile 🫤
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Yikes! I just had to set a boundary.
a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Yikes! I just had to set a boundary.
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Vaccination/Immunization is at a tipping point. We have to call our Senators.
December 15, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Vaccination/Immunization is at a tipping point. We have to call our Senators.
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[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun
December 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM
[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun
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Daniel Penny was acquitted today.
“Neely was yelling about being hungry and thirsty, saying he was prepared to be jailed – sometimes considered a better alternative to sleeping on the streets – or die, which others, or at least the one who choked him to death, seem to have interpreted as a threat.”
“Neely was yelling about being hungry and thirsty, saying he was prepared to be jailed – sometimes considered a better alternative to sleeping on the streets – or die, which others, or at least the one who choked him to death, seem to have interpreted as a threat.”
We Live in A Society, Whether You Like It Or Not
On the deaths of Jordan Neely, Banko Brown, and Amy St. Pierre.
www.teenvogue.com
December 9, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Daniel Penny was acquitted today.
“Neely was yelling about being hungry and thirsty, saying he was prepared to be jailed – sometimes considered a better alternative to sleeping on the streets – or die, which others, or at least the one who choked him to death, seem to have interpreted as a threat.”
“Neely was yelling about being hungry and thirsty, saying he was prepared to be jailed – sometimes considered a better alternative to sleeping on the streets – or die, which others, or at least the one who choked him to death, seem to have interpreted as a threat.”
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"We [can't be] sitting here looking for, 'oh, please, please give us things!' No, we're going to fucking take them. This is the thing folks don't realize about trans folks: if you make it so that I can't get access to the things I need to survive, I'm going to find a way to do it."
How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural barn
The neighbours had no idea. The medical equipment came from eBay. But in a dark time for transgender people, these anarchist medics treated patients that no one else would touch, reports Io Dodds
www.independent.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
"We [can't be] sitting here looking for, 'oh, please, please give us things!' No, we're going to fucking take them. This is the thing folks don't realize about trans folks: if you make it so that I can't get access to the things I need to survive, I'm going to find a way to do it."
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Feeling some Doechii in this after watching her TinyDesk.
“I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission”
from “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” (1968)
RIP Nikki Giovanni 💐
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission”
from “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” (1968)
RIP Nikki Giovanni 💐
December 10, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Feeling some Doechii in this after watching her TinyDesk.
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Daniel Penny, a white man who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway, was acquitted Monday of homicide charges in his death.
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Daniel Penny, a white man who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway, was acquitted Monday of homicide charges in his death.
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"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS
October 6, 2024 at 8:08 PM
"We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay."
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS
- Lynda Barry, WHAT IT IS
I know I’m moving towards something good because I’m having more moments of gratitude and clarity about my peace.
December 9, 2024 at 4:16 AM
I know I’m moving towards something good because I’m having more moments of gratitude and clarity about my peace.
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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
bittersoutherner.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
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You ever see a woman and want to buy her some land? Feels like a southern urge
December 8, 2024 at 2:56 PM
You ever see a woman and want to buy her some land? Feels like a southern urge
Can’t do the clock app this week so l’m here 💕
December 9, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Can’t do the clock app this week so l’m here 💕
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Chiiiile lemme move back to Georgia right quick
You ever see a woman and want to buy her some land? Feels like a southern urge
December 9, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Chiiiile lemme move back to Georgia right quick
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meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well
December 5, 2024 at 12:25 AM
meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well
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👀 “naked acts” (1996) is coming out on home video (dvd/blu-ray) in february! creative consultation by yours truly. you can preorder here: kinolorber.com/product/nake... @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on February 11th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.bsky.social distribution: #NakedActs (1996)!
Celebrated as a key film in the canon of independent cinema by African Americans in the 1990s,
Coming on February 11th on Blu-ray from @milestonefilms.bsky.social via @kinolorber.bsky.social distribution: #NakedActs (1996)!
Celebrated as a key film in the canon of independent cinema by African Americans in the 1990s,
November 29, 2024 at 4:47 PM
👀 “naked acts” (1996) is coming out on home video (dvd/blu-ray) in february! creative consultation by yours truly. you can preorder here: kinolorber.com/product/nake... @bridgettmdavis.bsky.social
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I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
slate.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
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“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 AM
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
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The greatest lie the devil ever told is that norms are the same thing as morals. Norms are contracts, and contracts can be broken by either party. If one party breaks a norm and the other still keeps it, all they are doing is abetting their own abuse under the auspices of certitude.
Thanks for your comment. But I don't think it should be a huge problem to explain and compare these pardon abuses as different actions on a negative continuum. Meaning what Biden did here is bad. What Clinton did was bad! What Trump has done and promises to do is really awful.
I respect your work on behalf of democracy, but I'm sorry, I must disagree on this issue. Pres Biden's pardon of his son is not in service of corruption, it's not a "henchmen pardon." It's nothing like Trump's pardons described in your linked piece.
December 2, 2024 at 4:27 AM
The greatest lie the devil ever told is that norms are the same thing as morals. Norms are contracts, and contracts can be broken by either party. If one party breaks a norm and the other still keeps it, all they are doing is abetting their own abuse under the auspices of certitude.
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Telling my kids Knuck If You Buck was a War song
November 27, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Telling my kids Knuck If You Buck was a War song