Robbergirl (she/her)
@robbergirl.bsky.social
Perky goth, writer, crocheter, knitter, gamer, chatterbox
I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but:
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present.
Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover
March 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Heal quickly and well. Eek!
March 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Heal quickly and well. Eek!
3/3 (Continued from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal)
“I take this to be, as I say, the American situation in relief, the root of our unadmitted sorrow, and the very key to our crisis.”
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
“I take this to be, as I say, the American situation in relief, the root of our unadmitted sorrow, and the very key to our crisis.”
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
March 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
3/3 (Continued from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal)
“I take this to be, as I say, the American situation in relief, the root of our unadmitted sorrow, and the very key to our crisis.”
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
“I take this to be, as I say, the American situation in relief, the root of our unadmitted sorrow, and the very key to our crisis.”
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
2/3
A quote from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal that sums up much of the essay:
“To be locked in the past means, in effect, that no one has a past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.
A quote from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal that sums up much of the essay:
“To be locked in the past means, in effect, that no one has a past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.
March 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
2/3
A quote from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal that sums up much of the essay:
“To be locked in the past means, in effect, that no one has a past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.
A quote from Baldwin’s Nothing Personal that sums up much of the essay:
“To be locked in the past means, in effect, that no one has a past, since one can never assess it, or use it: and if one cannot use the past, one cannot function in the present, and so one can never be free.
Thank you to @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social for posting about this book!
February 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Thank you to @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social for posting about this book!
I must have this now!
February 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I must have this now!
5/4 (Yeah, I miscounted)
Thanks very much, @imaniperry.bsky.social, for such a touching and thoughtful book. I heard your recent NPR interview and plan to add Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People to my year of #2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors.
Thanks very much, @imaniperry.bsky.social, for such a touching and thoughtful book. I heard your recent NPR interview and plan to add Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People to my year of #2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors.
February 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
5/4 (Yeah, I miscounted)
Thanks very much, @imaniperry.bsky.social, for such a touching and thoughtful book. I heard your recent NPR interview and plan to add Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People to my year of #2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors.
Thanks very much, @imaniperry.bsky.social, for such a touching and thoughtful book. I heard your recent NPR interview and plan to add Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People to my year of #2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors.
4/4 She ends in Cuba. A refugee talks abt when she & a friend went clubbing. The taxi refused to take them home. The friend insisted. The driver produced a machete. “Her friend was unfazed. ‘Motherfucker, I said take us home.’”
I love this book
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
I love this book
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
February 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
4/4 She ends in Cuba. A refugee talks abt when she & a friend went clubbing. The taxi refused to take them home. The friend insisted. The driver produced a machete. “Her friend was unfazed. ‘Motherfucker, I said take us home.’”
I love this book
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
I love this book
#2025withoutstraightwhitecisgenderedmaleauthors
3/4 “Had these graves not been seen, daily, over generations had we not been witnesses to them, I do not know how it would have been possible to sustain hope, or at least, to pretend to.”
Perry doesn’t ask why Black people didn’t leave the South. More compellingly, she asks: why Black people stayed
Perry doesn’t ask why Black people didn’t leave the South. More compellingly, she asks: why Black people stayed
February 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
3/4 “Had these graves not been seen, daily, over generations had we not been witnesses to them, I do not know how it would have been possible to sustain hope, or at least, to pretend to.”
Perry doesn’t ask why Black people didn’t leave the South. More compellingly, she asks: why Black people stayed
Perry doesn’t ask why Black people didn’t leave the South. More compellingly, she asks: why Black people stayed
2/4 She writes like a storyteller, giving her reflections the immediacy of life. Here are a pair of quotes that made me really focus my attention:
“Why did Black folks stay (in the South)? The answer is home. If everyone had departed, no one would have been left to tend the ancestors’ graves.”
“Why did Black folks stay (in the South)? The answer is home. If everyone had departed, no one would have been left to tend the ancestors’ graves.”
February 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
2/4 She writes like a storyteller, giving her reflections the immediacy of life. Here are a pair of quotes that made me really focus my attention:
“Why did Black folks stay (in the South)? The answer is home. If everyone had departed, no one would have been left to tend the ancestors’ graves.”
“Why did Black folks stay (in the South)? The answer is home. If everyone had departed, no one would have been left to tend the ancestors’ graves.”