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She/Her music artist (edgeslayer), activist, witch, healer, community organizer, full stack dev, tech wiz, business professional, harmony stack queen, dj, intellectual commentator, lover of Joanne Prada. I’m like funny sometimes.

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i lived

June 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM

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Grok said…

May 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Just read the Secretary of the Department of Education’s letter to Harvard. All I can say is, I just know this is who proof reads.

May 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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Hii! I am very thankful for everyone who has donated during these times for my FFS recovery post op fund! I am asking that you please share and donate. I am now at $689 and so thankful to each and every donation.

May 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM

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Nobody:

Apple music when you’re broke:

May 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM

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Nobody:

Apple music when you’re broke:

May 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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If someone else tells me they are on Glp-1s ima lose it.5

April 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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If someone else tells me they are on Glp-1s ima lose it.

April 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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pink texts reads You
NEEDA BE THINKING BIG
BITCH!

March 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM

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my therapist said Kori Toot is not real and she can’t hurt me.

Kori Toot:

drag queen with bad make up channels size toot

March 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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It is against my religion to discuss about my business in public.

February 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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February 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM

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link to article africanamericangolfersdigest.com/15-major-cor...

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15 MAJOR CORPORATIONS YOU NEVER KNEW PROFITED FROM SLAVERY
written by Debert Cook
May 7, 2014

The enslavement of African people in the Americas by the nations and peoples of Western Europe, created the economic engine that funded modern capitalism. Therefore it comes as no surprise that most of the major corporations that were founded by Western European and American merchants prior to roughly 100 years ago, benefited directly from slavery.
Lehman Brothers, whose business empire started in the slave trade, recently admitted their part in the business of slavery. According to the Sun Times, the financial services firm acknowledged recently that its founding partners owned not one, but several enslaved Africans during the Civil War era and that,
"in all likelihood," it "profited significantly" from slavery. "This is a sad part of our heritage ...We're deeply apologetic ... It was a terrible thing ... There's no one sitting in the United States in the year 2005, hopefully, who would ever, in a million years, defend the practice," said Joe Polizzotto, general counsel of Lehman Brothers.

Aetna, Inc., the United States' largest health insurer, apologized for selling policies in the 1850s that reimbursed slave owners for financial losses
when the enslaved Africans they owned died. "Aetna has long acknowledged that for several years shortly after its founding in 1853 that the company may have insured the lives of slaves," said Aetna spokesman Fred Laberge in 2002. "We express our deep regret over any participation at all in this deplorable practice."
JPMorgan Chase recently admitted their company's links to slavery. "Today, we are reporting that this research found that, between 1831 and 1865, two of our predecessor banks-Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana -accepted approximately 13,000 enslaved individuals as collateral on loans and took ownership of approximately 1,250 of them when the plantation owners defaulted on the loans," the company wrote in a statement

New York Life Insurance Company is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States.
They also took part in slavery by selling insurance policies on enslaved Africans. According to USA Today, evidence of 10 more New York Life slave policies comes from an 1847 account book kept by the company's Natchez, Miss. agent, W.A. Britton.
The book, part of a collection at Louisiana State University, contains Britton's notes on slave policies he wrote for amounts ranging from $375 to $600. A 1906 history of New York Life says 339 of the company's first 1,000 policies were written on the lives of slaves.
USA Today reported that Wachovia
Corporation (now owned by Wells Fargo) has apologized for its ties to slavery after disclosing that two of its historical predecessors owned enslaved Africans and accepted them as payment. "On behalf of Wachovia Corporation, I apologize to all Americans, and especially to African-Americans and people of African descent," said Ken Thompson, Wachovia chairman and chief executive officer, in the statement released late Wednesday. "We are
deeply saddened by these findings."

February 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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I miss when drag was about the illusion.

woman in bang bob with baby fat purse and talbots top steps into the rupauls drag race work room

February 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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hey yall! i hate to do this but im a black trans woman full time student! Im in a legal battle with my landlord for negligence, now sustaining in my decaying moldy apartment has doubled my cost of living. i am seeking to raise $5,000 to move to a cleaner safer apartment/legal fees. please share.🙏🏽