Jamilah Lemieux
jamilahlemieux.bsky.social
Jamilah Lemieux
@jamilahlemieux.bsky.social
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Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.
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Is this place fun? Threads is kinda fun
I’m importing my tweets, this is from 2010. I def wouldn’t bat an eye today
I never see it! Maybe they aren’t popular where I’ve lived
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every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”
My moms white neighbor has a pit bull and this is the first white person I have ever seen with a pit bull in my life
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The Claims Adjuster is only 26 years old? He belongs at the club!!!
Yall got good Luigi jokes over here or are yall too nice for that?
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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
bittersoutherner.com
Someone who is Black and biracial
I had my tweets imported over here but they’re just being posted as if they are current so it looks crazy
It’s the only way I eat them now
I can’t eat it any other way now
Grill every sandwich. Turkey, peanut butter and jelly, any sandwich. It will taste better.
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As always, we can count on @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social to stand in the trenches with and for Black women. (Maya Angelou going to visit Mike Tyson in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting Desiree Washington just made my jaw drop.)
On Mike Tyson and Writing About Abusers
Some thoughts following the Tyson-Paul fight
open.substack.com
Yall please don’t drive up the price of my perfume oils. I’ve been wearing them since I was a kid and the affordability is part of the charm
It’s “ham” made with turkey thigh meat
Yes! I had turkey bologna too
Did they have the ones you can cut yourself? I used to love those
I got some yesterday! Kinda tastes the same!
Did you all grow up eating turkey ham? I had it all the time as a kid and now I never see it