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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Nov 15

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

~ James Baldwin

#blacksky #addtoblacksky

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“Therapy helps but let’s be clear. You can’t CBT your way out of capitalism. You can’t mindfulness your way out of racism. You can’t self care your way out of oppression. You can’t journal your way out of ableism. This isn’t about coping, it’s about deconstructing the systems.”

~ Briana Mills

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Sep 20

We are pathologizing people for being affected by a world that is objectively unwell.
People are dissociating because it's unbearable.
People are anxious because they're paying attention.
People are depressed because they're stuck in systems that rob them of safety, connection, and hope.

N. Addesi

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Aug 11

i no longer chase what confuses me just to prove that i can catch it
~ @seasoned_dialogue

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indeed.

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Aug 4

I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.

~ James Baldwin

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Aug 3

preface ~

give a damn

read, seek, learn
about Sudan

@typicalafrican

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Jul 22

“Malcolm-Jamal Warner was Black Boy Joy before the phrase was coined.”

- @globalgatzb

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Jul 13

imagine

15 genuine moments

just moments

of connection
in your week

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Jul 4

there are solutions - they’re just not a one-size-fits-all in their applications

who are you bringing with you?

🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Boycotting is a privilege.

Prepping is a privilege.

Protesting is a privilege.

Leaving the country is a privilege.

Not all solutions are accessible to everyone.

We need robust community care to ensure people aren’t left behind.”

@broadwaybabyto

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Jul 4

Healing doesn't ask you to forget the pain, only to carry it gently, like something once broken now shaped into strength.

- Ayoub Imilouane

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🦋 Mikkelle 🦋 @mikkelle.bsky.social · Jun 28

i watched the cavalcade of golf cart riders on parade in the midst of their

shot gun start

not a single one with the 14th on his or her mind

this is America