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✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

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🌈(She/Her/Princess)🌈

Show me what trash tv/movies you watch and I’ll show you who you are. 🧞‍♀️

Lover of food, justice, all things queer, music, writing, wonder, and ease. 💫💖

🎓PSU & TAMUCC

🌱Let’s create something.🌱🪴

📍DTX

🔗: https://linktr.ee/Mariahc123

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✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Me, encouraging my femme gf as she gets her lashes done:

#wlwsky

May 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Okay okay! I finally hit UPLOAD on my cover of I Lied to You from the movie #Sinners sung by Miles Caton!!

This was urgent! I sang my lil heart out in my recording studio (my Kia soul 🤭). worth it.

Feel feee to listen, share, and/or download ✨

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#blacksky #musicsky

May 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Feeling so a{muse}d at being captured on film! 🥰🩵🖼️
#dallas #photgraphy #queer #dallassky #photographysky #queersky #blacksky

April 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Was talking to my sister and apparently when we were younger my brother made her pretend to be 12 years old so she could still make that summer’s vbs program’s age cutoff #vacationbibleschool #storysky #siblingsky #siblingstorytime #storytime #texas

April 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Felt lucky✨🍀✨ ☺️

#gaysky #queersky #lgbtqsky #blacksky #artist #musician #writer

April 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Decided every time I’m looking into a camera lens I’m pretending it is my lover’s eyes instead. 🥹❤️

#wlw #queersky #gaysky #blacksky #dallas #dallassky #photography #nightlife

April 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Just finished Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall! @karnythia.bsky.social

What a read. The perfect follow up to Joan Morgan’s, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down from 1999.

Make it intersectional or get out my face!!🙂‍↕️

The picture shows the cover of the book titled, Hood Feminisism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

April 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Definitely want to take more pics of myself from here on out, because why not?? #queer #blackgay

April 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Proof of life! Say hi back 🥺🫶🏼 #blacksky #addtoblacksky

April 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

A little meditation for the evening. Writing helps me with my Sunday scaries. ❤️

#meditation #guidedmeditation

Unearthing: A Meditation
There are parts deep inside of you just waiting to be loved. Your past, your ugly, your shadow-lay beneath the earth, waiting to be acknowledged.
Sink your fingers deep into the dirt. Grab a fistful of yourself and place it on the growing heap of what was between you and the fossils you hid here.
The digging up makes way for the garden. There will be no hollowed hole left behind; only the fruits of your labor.

March 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Hiii 🥰

#blacksky #queersky #lgbtqia #writer #addtoblacksky #femme #queer

March 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Alright, alright, alright!!!

Let’s ~FINALLY~ see what the hype was about. 🧐 I’m putting this phone on DND and locking in!! 😤

#Wicked

March 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

So me and my gf are on this app called “cozy couples” and it’s this cute little app that helps you stay connected to your partner and get to know each other better, send affection, scrapbook, etc. and you share a lil home 🥹

anyway,
I’ve been sending her SO many gifts, right? Like in the 2nd pic

March 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

🧐📚Up Next:

Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall.

Can’t wait! 🥰

#reading #feminism #blackfeminism

March 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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@grownands3xy.bsky.social

✨📚JUST FINISHED📚✨

Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. @smashfizzle.bsky.social

I highly recommend, though I will warn you it does explore the experience of child abuse on many levels.

Seeing through young Ashley’s eyes made me look deeply into my own to reckon with the past.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5/5

March 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

#bluesky!!! I launched my #poetry page over on IG! Going to start filling it up with tons of new #writing and I am so excited to share it with all of you. 🥹💗

Go show ya boi some love!!!
🥰

March 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

I wrote this for my love for our anniversary. Words will never be enough, but that won’t stop me from trying. 🥹❤️

#poem #poetry #writing #poetrysky #blacklove #blacksky #lgbt #queerpoems #love #wlw #sapphic #gaypoetry

Happy Anniversary
FOR MY BROOKE

I want to write you the best love poem to ever grace a page,
But there's a massive immovable something
That keeps getting in the way.
Maybe the wondrous words made by a million other
Lovers
Or lines, Or couplets.
Make me fearful to try and fit you into stanzas,
Maybe it's because I am scared that once the words are on this paper
You won't need me to be their representative anymore;
Rewarding my sacred speeches of your softness —
Talking endlessly of my tributes to you—
Raving on and on
My recognition of your goodness.

You'd have all of my essence, And grit,
And boundless love
Etched right there in the palms of your hands.
Your fingers will trace the print of our love's epic-Lingering over the words I made up, Because there simply weren't any in our language That describe the feeling
Of seeing a night full of stars for the very first time, Being held by a supernova;
How do I say I'd live a billion light years if it meant the particles of matter of me—
The very atoms—
Could float next to yours?
How do I say I would master physics to fuse the energy of us forever?

Maybe I haven't written the poem yet because it is
Frightening to tell you in totality
Exactly what it is about you that breathes vitality into me,
To tell you I love you,
But not just how you love a partner.
I love you in the way the moon loves her sun—
The way you illuminate me.
I don't know how to say those things.
And I can never write that poem,
Because your existence on this earth, In this lifetime, Is the poetry itself.
-Mariah MC Claiborne, February 7, 2025

March 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

I wrote this for an ex-mormon friend of mine. May we both continue to soar—despite their need to tether us.

#poetry #exmormon #exlds #faithdeconstruction #faith #womenempoweringwomen #women #womenshistorymonth #resist #resistance #selflove #poetrycommunity #poetrycommission #poetrysky #blackpoetry

Winged Woman
.
.
.
I was born into the wind.

First, a gasp,
then a gust,
then my first full breath of guilt that was not mine.

They dreamt of a child born Celestial,
but birthed this—
a whirlwind winged creature with sinews both
supple and strong.

Try to tether me.
Try to.
Try.

These wings beat harder than Their will to keep me
grounded.

The wind whispers a breeze across my skin.

Child of the air,
take to the sky.

Your only home is in Your bones.

Let Your fear,
Your pain,
Your joy,
unfurl.

They do not understand.
They do not need to.

While I wander through winds of change,
I feel just like an angel.
.
.
.
-Mariah MC Claiborne
March 5, 2025

March 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Lovergirl,
Oil on canvas,
Circa 2025.

March 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Ready to relive my gay awakening 🫦

🍿🧐Now Watching: Honey (2003)!!!

Stay blessed, y’all. I’m about to enjoy some REAL cinema!!! 🙂‍↕️

#blackfilmsky #blackfilmmakersky

Jessica Alba dances mid-motion in the foreground while we see images of Missy Elliot and Mekhi Phifer in the background. The title reads: HONEY

February 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM

✨MC✨

@grownands3xy.bsky.social

Endlessly grateful. I ended up with the best partner. And to think, we are just getting started. 🥹❤️

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”

Happy one year, pretty baby. 😚🥰