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Crystal N. Dunivant
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Social Worker • Consultant and Trainer • We do not talk about psychosis enough • Lover of good books📚💙
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The last couple of weeks, couple of months, couple of years have been heavy.

Laughter is healing.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and clicking the subscribe button.

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Journal Entry - Two Storefront Churches
I came across this over the weekend.
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As we approach the end of the year and you have some potential disposable income to share, consider supporting your local mutual aid projects. This year has been rough but next year promises to be even more difficult for people.

There are definitely orgs in your communities that can use support.
I absolutely loved listening to her narrate her memoir, Things I Should Have Told My Daughter.
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ICYMI: One small-town Ohio hospital sued 2,700 patients in two years - garnishing wages and charging steep interest on families already struggling. This powerful reporting shows how medical debt is devastating Ohioans and why our bipartisan Ohio Medical Debt Fairness Act is urgently needed.
This small-town Ohio hospital sued 2,700 patients in two years for unpaid medical bills • Ohio Capital Journal
At Mary Rutan Hospital in Logan County, mass medical debt collection lawsuits totaling more than 2,700 in two years have turned injury and illness into debt, 8% interest rates, unsparing payment plans...
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It is Banned Books Week.

The Bluest Eye was my first novel by Toni Morrison. It is beat up and the pages are yellow but still one of my all time favorites.

What is your best banned book?

#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
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Be prepared: The Trump administration says ICE will be at the Super Bowl.

"I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they're law-abiding Americans who love this country," Kristi Noem told a podcaster.
ICE will be "all over" the Super Bowl
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that only "law-abiding Americans who love this country" should attend the event.
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Got our morning coffee and watching Reading Rainbow!!! ☺️📚💖 Literally tearing up this brings so much joy!! Thank you @mychal3ts.bsky.social !!! You are an incredible host for this show!! ❤️ #BookSky #BlackBookSky #ReadingRainbow

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No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​
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To many, the notion that the “able-bodied” must work sounds reasonable on its face. But in reality, work requirements don’t ­meaningfully boost employment.

And for people with invisible disabilities that can make work extremely challenging, the framework can unfairly cast them as lazy.
The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused
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I planned to write this last month but I was distracted.

Loving my body is a process and I miss the mark most days. But I am here. It is strong and that is enough for now.

“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” James Baldwin

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Who Is This Woman in the Pictures?
It is never about losing weight.Nacolle’s Emancipation is a reader-supported publication.
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I planned to write this last month but I was distracted.

Loving my body is a process and I miss the mark most days. But I am here. It is strong and that is enough for now.

“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” James Baldwin

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Who Is This Woman in the Pictures?
It is never about losing weight.Nacolle’s Emancipation is a reader-supported publication.
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TODAY, I AM OFFICIALLY AN AUTHOR!!! A CHILDHOOD DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!

#TheDoubleTax is the first book I've ever written and it’s OUT EVERYWHERE TODAY. Four years. 100s of stories. Countless drafts. I woke up today as a FIRST TIME author. WOW.

Get your copy TODAY: annagifty.com #booksky #blacksky
I read the Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less and looking forward to the new book.
I have the black one but green is my favorite color.
This book has been such a needed balm. It is so tender.

#BlackBookSky
#BookSky
I just had a conversation about keeping our eyes on these local officials which includes the ones with D behind their names.
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StoryGraph's AI now runs on 100% sustainable green energy
Mother Jones is doing the work.

Language matters. These attacks and cuts are sanist.
Thousands of federal staffers working on mental health-related issues have been purged by Trump’s government.

It's all a part of the president's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear.
Trump's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear
His speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.
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Thank you from gerrymandered Ohio🙏🏾
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.