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These are some images from my first couple of weeks in Belgium. I've seen some interesting things here (they love their graffiti). The streets entice you with new paths to follow. And I'm really enjoying my new classmates.
Today was my first day in Brussels to just explore the city and see where my feet led me. I took a walk around my Schaerbeek. Then I went to the International Festival of Urban Life, which gave me so much blackity blackness. Then I met one of my new classmates for dinner and had a tasty carbonara. It's gonna be a great year!
I'm in Belgium y'all! I've been here before on vacation and said, "I've gotta figure out a way to come back here." Looks like I did!
I don't know what the year ahead holds for me, but I'm hoping for lots of adventures, most of which can be shared with you.
Listen... Putting together a shower for a hundred or so people is no joke. But just like @lst_esq said, we pulled it off. This crew I've had since 1999... we do this for each other and I couldn't be more proud. Dominique's mom and aunts helped us make this room beautiful.
I'm probably going to be in Belgium when the baby is born, but just like her 25th birthday, and her gender reveal, I'm going to use technology to make sure I'm there.
Listen y'all. I only got a handful of days before I leave. I'm headed to Belgium for grad school next month. And I'm trying to do all the fun NYC things. I don't know if I'll be able to go to the beach on a Monday afternoon when I get back, so I'm doing it now. If you wanna hang, lemme know. #summerinNYC #Belgiumbound🇧🇪
Today was so much fun. I can't believe it took me five years of living here before I went to #pride🌈
This day has been amazing. I met the nicest, kindest, sweetest people. Everyone was just living their best life, and so happy, and so chill. I wish everyday could be like today.
#happypride #polyamorous #bestdayever
Heading to Pride. As soon as I finish my drink. #pride🌈 #polyamorous
please read this whole #Repost from @mspackyetti
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A family concentration camp is still a concentration camp.
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In my freshman political science seminar, we learned about a concept called the Overton Window. The #OvertonWindow holds all ideas that are considered normal. Agreeable. Acceptable. The further outside of the window you go, to the left or right, the ideas get more radical. Extreme. Unthinkable.
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Everyone from political strategists to real estate agents-like y’alls president-is obsessed with the idea of moving the window-so that the things they really want to happen no longer seem extreme. •
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How do you move the #OvertonWindow? You suggest something so far to the extreme, that the slightly less extreme alternative suddenly seems more acceptable to the public. •
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Moving the Overton Window can be used for good: Malcolm X intentionally presented himself as an extremist in certain respects, so white moderates would accept Dr. King as the reasonable one, even though they didn’t want to. •
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But there is a very real possibility, perhaps a probability, that this administration has been moving the Overton Window since they started campaigning. All of the tweets, the rallies, the antics, the previously unthinkable behaviors are the extreme. Now? A tax cut that hurts the poor and middle class, moves against health care, and yes, detention centers that keep families together-are suddenly thought to be preferable alternatives.
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Lying and Gaslighting are tools of this strategy: Sec. Nielsen telling us that the administration’s policy was not actually to separate the families we watched them separate with our own eyes. •
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So is distraction: tweets on tweets on tweets, calling this TV star a failure and that dictator short and fat. •
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THIS IS THE TRICK OF THE ENEMY. DO NOT FALL FOR IT.
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The executive order signed to keep families together STILL upholds a Zero Tolerance policy that destroys people seeking a better life, fleeing harm and persecution. A FAMILY concentration camp is STILL a concentration camp. #Trump did not end his Zero Tolerance policy-he merely moved the window, from the most extreme to slightly less.
STAY WOKE. KEEP FIGHTING.
All dressed up with nowhere to go but home...
Y'all, I been squeezing so much life out of this spring, and I want to keep it going all summer long.
I've hung in the park, gone to movies in the park, movies in the theater, live music in Harlem and the West Village, dinner with my girls, trying new restaurants, and so much more. And I'm just getting started.
So... in what I promise will likely, probably, maybe be my only celebration of it today, I'd like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Corey Alouzicius Wallace! I dug in the archives for some of these pictures.
First are some of my favorite pictures of you playing the trombone in that way that's so soulful I call your gigs my church.
Then there are some amazing moments of supporting friends' dreams, supporting black love, and just having fun.
Then there's you at your most you-ness. I hope you remember where/when all of those pictures are from.
We take a lot of selfies, did you know that? I feel very proud of myself that I narrowed it down to six.
And lastly is us at our most us-ness.
#Repost @thenorareport
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