Nicole Symmonds, PhD
@spicyethicsprof.bsky.social
Christian Ethics & Women Gender Sexuality Prof-Sartorial Scholar-Pop Culture Enthusiast-Couch Potato Commentator-Funny girl, Soca Lover, Cerebral Carnivalist 🇯🇲
FAMU 🐍 Emory 🦅
*Don’t need no holleration in my DMs*
FAMU 🐍 Emory 🦅
*Don’t need no holleration in my DMs*
A little reflection I just wrote on my Substack on these hard times and the importance of dancing, inspired by T.I.'s new song and Alice Walker's work.
"Let 'Em Know" that "Hard Times Require Furious Dancing"
The connection between T.I. and Alice Walker for Such a Time As This
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January 30, 2026 at 10:13 PM
A little reflection I just wrote on my Substack on these hard times and the importance of dancing, inspired by T.I.'s new song and Alice Walker's work.
MD2020 and Bacardi 151. Sophomore year of college I drank both on the same damn night! It was a drinking game between me and my upstairs neighbors all guys. While I drank them under the table and even had to help the smallest one into a bathtub so he wouldn't puke on himself in bed...
Me and Malibu Coconut Rum will NEVER see each other again! 😩
January 29, 2026 at 10:08 PM
MD2020 and Bacardi 151. Sophomore year of college I drank both on the same damn night! It was a drinking game between me and my upstairs neighbors all guys. While I drank them under the table and even had to help the smallest one into a bathtub so he wouldn't puke on himself in bed...
Did I miss the memo about tomorrow being a national boycott-everything day? I was today years old, and I feel hella unprepared.
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Did I miss the memo about tomorrow being a national boycott-everything day? I was today years old, and I feel hella unprepared.
After many years, I’ve finally found a devotional for the long haul. The Redemptorists Daily Devotional is a really great devotional. It has the lectionary readings, a reflection, the saint of the day, front matter that includes many Catholic prayers, and is beautifully packaged to go where you go.
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
After many years, I’ve finally found a devotional for the long haul. The Redemptorists Daily Devotional is a really great devotional. It has the lectionary readings, a reflection, the saint of the day, front matter that includes many Catholic prayers, and is beautifully packaged to go where you go.
Though my teachers and quite a few of the regulars are in Brazil preparing for Carnaval, I am continuing to practice my samba. My goal is to make it to Brazil next year and I want to study to show myself approved for the culture. 🙏🏾
Acelerando
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January 29, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Though my teachers and quite a few of the regulars are in Brazil preparing for Carnaval, I am continuing to practice my samba. My goal is to make it to Brazil next year and I want to study to show myself approved for the culture. 🙏🏾
Imagine being the lady who once said “Couple wet wipes in case a bum tries to touch me,” to actively holding hands with a bum. Or going from “All these bitches is my son,” to becoming a real specific kind of bitch for white supremacy—like I’m sure they call her an n-word with a hard “r”-type bitch.
January 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Imagine being the lady who once said “Couple wet wipes in case a bum tries to touch me,” to actively holding hands with a bum. Or going from “All these bitches is my son,” to becoming a real specific kind of bitch for white supremacy—like I’m sure they call her an n-word with a hard “r”-type bitch.
Just when you think things can’t get any crazier here come the conservatives with Marriage Camp, a public-funded endeavor to shuttle unmarried people into a camp where they ideally will get married by the end. All for the love of American family values that become death dealing in the end.
Creators of Project 2025 Want to Send Unmarried People to Camps
The Heritage Foundation is pushing the Trump administration to start government-run education camps for unmarried couples.
futurism.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Just when you think things can’t get any crazier here come the conservatives with Marriage Camp, a public-funded endeavor to shuttle unmarried people into a camp where they ideally will get married by the end. All for the love of American family values that become death dealing in the end.
Don Draper was a certified heaux. Having an affair with your daughter’s teacher who lives two miles down the street from your house is nuts. Packing an entire bag for a business trip just to drive your ass down the street to her house is true madness.
a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at the camera
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January 28, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Don Draper was a certified heaux. Having an affair with your daughter’s teacher who lives two miles down the street from your house is nuts. Packing an entire bag for a business trip just to drive your ass down the street to her house is true madness.
4 or 5
January 28, 2026 at 11:23 PM
4 or 5
Kanye. I drew that shit out because you just don't get a run like he had from College Dropout to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I got in on the groundfloor getting to see him perform live at Dave Chappelle's Block Party the year College Dropout was released, so I was gutted when he went mad.
Question for the Skyline: What was your HARDEST "cancel"?? Like the actor/singer/athlete that was the hardest to drop.
I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.
The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.
The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
January 28, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Kanye. I drew that shit out because you just don't get a run like he had from College Dropout to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I got in on the groundfloor getting to see him perform live at Dave Chappelle's Block Party the year College Dropout was released, so I was gutted when he went mad.
Greg and Deonna McNeill, one of my favorite Married at First Sight couples, just announced that they got the hell up out of here and moved to Portugal, and I love that for them so much.
January 28, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Greg and Deonna McNeill, one of my favorite Married at First Sight couples, just announced that they got the hell up out of here and moved to Portugal, and I love that for them so much.
Whew chile...
You ain't gotta console but you probably will have to divorce her grieving the loss of the affair because it's pretty much her crying over only having you to come home to. I kid, I kid....
Someone gimme a gift copy of this, I wanna read it.
You ain't gotta console but you probably will have to divorce her grieving the loss of the affair because it's pretty much her crying over only having you to come home to. I kid, I kid....
Someone gimme a gift copy of this, I wanna read it.
Chile…
I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/m...
I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/m...
I Let My Wife Have an Affair. Do I Have to Console Her Now That It’s Over?
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Whew chile...
You ain't gotta console but you probably will have to divorce her grieving the loss of the affair because it's pretty much her crying over only having you to come home to. I kid, I kid....
Someone gimme a gift copy of this, I wanna read it.
You ain't gotta console but you probably will have to divorce her grieving the loss of the affair because it's pretty much her crying over only having you to come home to. I kid, I kid....
Someone gimme a gift copy of this, I wanna read it.
I’ve hit the part of my Mad Men rewatch where I’m considering a re-up on my neo-vintage 60s dresses. (Goes to Top Vintage and Unique Vintage because Modcloth is basura nowadays)
January 28, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I’ve hit the part of my Mad Men rewatch where I’m considering a re-up on my neo-vintage 60s dresses. (Goes to Top Vintage and Unique Vintage because Modcloth is basura nowadays)
Tonight’s Tubi Tuesday movie is “Dysfunctional Friends” and everyone is in this including Meghan of Sussex. I’m trying to figure out if I’ve seen this before and it was really bad so I put it out of his mind or have I never seen it.
January 28, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Tonight’s Tubi Tuesday movie is “Dysfunctional Friends” and everyone is in this including Meghan of Sussex. I’m trying to figure out if I’ve seen this before and it was really bad so I put it out of his mind or have I never seen it.
Skeeters, How long y’all eating off that pot of spaghetti you made and why is the answer a week for everyone? 🤭
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Skeeters, How long y’all eating off that pot of spaghetti you made and why is the answer a week for everyone? 🤭
I look forward to the day when people like this lose their job and become unemployable because they used what little sense they had for this kind of brain rotting activity. Like what an embarassing use of life and now it's on record and we can run this shit back in perpetuity.
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I look forward to the day when people like this lose their job and become unemployable because they used what little sense they had for this kind of brain rotting activity. Like what an embarassing use of life and now it's on record and we can run this shit back in perpetuity.
Unpopular but necessary opinion: I think that some need to be freed from believing they must pursue a PhD. Freed from the empty desire for titles and the status they confer. A PhD will not heal you, nor will it save you, especially if it is not aligned with who you really are.
January 27, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Unpopular but necessary opinion: I think that some need to be freed from believing they must pursue a PhD. Freed from the empty desire for titles and the status they confer. A PhD will not heal you, nor will it save you, especially if it is not aligned with who you really are.
A float from Beija Flor, a samba school I have been watching with great admiration as they prepare to do the world’s largest street Candomble at Carnaval. I’m in awe of this
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM
A float from Beija Flor, a samba school I have been watching with great admiration as they prepare to do the world’s largest street Candomble at Carnaval. I’m in awe of this
Damn not Murphy coming out the gate calling a character an incel #thebeauty
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Damn not Murphy coming out the gate calling a character an incel #thebeauty
Let’s see what this new Ryan Murphy is talmbout. I really wish he’d give us something on the level of AHS Coven or Cult again because that’s what the people need. But since The Beauty has Evan Peters and Jeremy Pope I expect good things
January 27, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Let’s see what this new Ryan Murphy is talmbout. I really wish he’d give us something on the level of AHS Coven or Cult again because that’s what the people need. But since The Beauty has Evan Peters and Jeremy Pope I expect good things
Today in faux winter storm foods, I’m having a slight Caribbean breakfast in pan frying canned sardines—no mackerel on hand. I fried them in the olive oil they come in with garlic, chili onion seasoning and a spritz of lemon. I ate it along with a plantain sandwich—plantain on buttered toast.
January 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Today in faux winter storm foods, I’m having a slight Caribbean breakfast in pan frying canned sardines—no mackerel on hand. I fried them in the olive oil they come in with garlic, chili onion seasoning and a spritz of lemon. I ate it along with a plantain sandwich—plantain on buttered toast.
Fetty Wap is free and thick, TI cut his locs and dropped a banger, and Hilary Duff is about drop new music, so at least this first year of 2026 has a slight silver lining.
January 26, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Fetty Wap is free and thick, TI cut his locs and dropped a banger, and Hilary Duff is about drop new music, so at least this first year of 2026 has a slight silver lining.
I am writing my syllabus for my first time teaching Christian Sexual Ethics in a Digital Age and I am truly desperate for my class to read Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto--mostly because I have not read it yet and I want to. I am determined to figure out where this fits.
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I am writing my syllabus for my first time teaching Christian Sexual Ethics in a Digital Age and I am truly desperate for my class to read Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto--mostly because I have not read it yet and I want to. I am determined to figure out where this fits.
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In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
I know this makes me a bad feminist, womanist, whatever but Betty Draper is the most childish heaux ever.
January 26, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I know this makes me a bad feminist, womanist, whatever but Betty Draper is the most childish heaux ever.