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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 2m

Tonight at Tractor Tavern!

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 3m

Chanceux!

renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 5m

I’m seeing Bilal tonight and I know he’s gonna do some sort of beautiful tribute

(also my girl DoNormaal is opening, performing as part of a jazz trio for the first time with two of Seattle’s best, Evan Flory-Barnes & D’Vonne Lewis!)

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 50m

Singing “Sex Machine” with Tom Jones is close tho (completely wild that Tom is alive and D is not):

Tom Jones (2000) - Sex Machine (w. D'angelo) (VH1's Men Strike Back, april 11)

YouTube video by tigertom1011

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 51m

Same 😭

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 57m

Sadly I never got to see D’Angelo in person but my favorite live D’Angelo moment was when he sang “How Does It Feel” for the first time in a decade in Paris (after leaving it out of early shows on that tour) and they went nuts just from the first chord then went on to sing that chorus pitch perfect:

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Live @ Zénith Paris) [2012-01-29]

YouTube video by foxysoul94

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 2h

An hour and 11-minute long mix of nothing but D'Angelo live tracks from various shows during the Brown Sugar and Voodoo eras. It's so well done. Also downloadable.

D'Angelo Live, by Ian Wallace

15 track album

ianwallaceproductions.bandcamp.com

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Southern Gothic @thesuburbanthug.bsky.social · 2h

Yall keep praying to God and she keep telling us to get in the field.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 2h

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1h

I’m not even ready to process D’Angelo passing on top of Miss Major

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 19h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19h

Rest in Power Miss Major.

I was so fortunate to profile Miss Major for SF Weekly.

From her political education from the leaders of the Attica prison uprising and getting knocked out by a cop at Stonewall to performing in the Jewel Box Revue and founding TGIJP, she led an extraordinary life.

archives.sfweekly.com

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 19h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Lala 🐆 @lalarchvs.bsky.social · 2d

Tell yo grandma to watch her purse then

Raphael Phaasiq @rize4eva.bsky.social · 2d

Candy Corn is for people that rob senior citizens

Lala 🐆 @lalarchvs.bsky.social · 2d

Candy corn haters don’t know the real smh

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Wax Witch @waxwitch.bsky.social · 3d

'They're coming after Black people next'

They never stopped coming after us, y'all just didn't care enough to pay attention

so I say this with my entire being... Fuck outta here with that mess