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Portia
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✨Activist/Abolitionist/Facilitator
✨Anti-Racism educator
✨Biz ?s - [email protected]
✨TikTok - @portia.noir
✨System disrupter

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Hi, yes, hello. This space is about learning and healing. I educate with grace. I lead with grace. I will at times have posts that are for teaching moments. When you see those, please take a scroll to see what work has been done so we continue to move forward.
Progress, not perfection, is the goal✨
You will really want to listen to/watch this episode!
Next week on B*tch, Listen: @vilissathompson.bsky.social explains that true crime has a disability problem.

Disabled victims are erased—and their deaths reframed as mercy.
January 24, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Look how cute my baby boy is 🥹
January 22, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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ICE should be dismantled immediately. 

I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens. 

Read my statement:
January 21, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Imani’s latest article!
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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In which I explain that the Third Amendment—the one nobody ever talks about—allows hotels to refuse to house Kristi Noem’s ICE goons.
Opinion: Hotels Have a Constitutional Right Not To House ICE Agents
The Third Amendment prohibits the government from forcing people to “quarter” troops. ICE is essentially a paramilitary force—so why would hotels let them stay?
rewirenewsgroup.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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This dumb motherfucker is trying to fight a two front Arctic war
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.

The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.

The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
abcnews.go.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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Some people rather eat a bicycle tire between two fleece jackets and call it a burger than credit Black people for anything even when they stand on top of Black shoulders and squeeze out every ounce of semantics, style and even the scholarship on it from Black ppl to shape their own.
wp are so invested in mislabelling aave as "internet speak" or "gen z" because if they had to remove aave expressions from their own vocab they end up sounding antiquated, proving that Black language and culture had/has a crucial part in propelling the english language forward and shaping it.
January 16, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I’m super excited for Bluesky to maybe extend the character limit to like 400.
January 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.

📸: Jerry Holt
January 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant.

People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work
This was incredible. We fed 40 families today. Thank you to @jchavezmpls.bsky.social for helping fundraise, @elitalksmpls.bsky.social for organizing with me, and the dozen people who helped us pack and shop. And thank you to everyone who donated. I have no words.
January 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
MY SEARCH BEGINS
Tell your gluten free friends there's gluten free Cheez-Itz now. They already know but it'll give them an opportunity to talk about how they're a light in the darkness in these trying times.
January 11, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Imani got me a new Dutch oven to be a gluten free one, so I made chicken and potato soup tonight.
Yes, we have a second kitchen, but Imani is the primary cook, and usually when I cook, it’s upstairs. Tonight, I used the downstairs kitchen, the start of making it my gluten free cooking space!
January 11, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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People do not want to reckon with the actual purpose of policing. That's all I'll say about that.
January 10, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles.

It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
abc7.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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It's always "listen to Black women" until it becomes time to actually listen to Black women.
January 8, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...

Truth is the greatest love
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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She was deeply loved by her wife who is presumably going to raise the six-year-old boy you just categorized as an orphan for some reason.

And we didn't ✌🏾lose✌🏾 her. The government murdered her. Words mean things
Renee Nicole Good was a mother of three, including a 6-year-old boy who is now an orphan.

Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”

This is who we lost yesterday.
January 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
“Say her name” isn’t used for white victims of shootings, because 99.9% of the time, their names will be said often and loudly. Rarely is a white victim a hidden victim. They usually aren’t brushed under the media rug.

RIP Renee Nicole Good.
January 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
When I see “Set aside race so we can address bigger issues”, what’s being said is that race and the racism that comes with it aren’t big enough issues to be considered.

And that often tells me everything I need to know about the person making that statement.
January 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I love this woman.

And this chicken.
I made gluten free fried chicken for Portia and it was GOOD. Yum.
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 AM
ADHD hack that may work: putting a reminders widget on my phone Home Screen. Maybe having it right there will work for setting reminders I need.

I will report back. 🫡
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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The number of people who understand that it's not cool to be on Twitter but who insist on being on substack is fucking bizarre
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
She’s gonna say “why did you post this?!”

And my answer will be “because I like to share photos from when my first thought is ‘I’m gonna marry this woman.’”
December 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What say you?
Ok Bluesky, talk to me about your dishwasher. I have to buy a new dishwasher. And everyone is saying Bosch 500 or 800 series but do I need to spend $1400 on a dishwasher? People also say “buy Miele. Top of the line.” I definitely don’t want to spend 2K on a dishwasher.

The joys of homeownership.
December 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Just another Sunday morning. 🙂‍↕️
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM