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Lisa Biggs

@lisabiggs.bsky.social

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Author of The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration & the Art of Transformation (OSU Press 2022); Theatre maker, performance studies scholar; Associate Professor, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre @ Brown University

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Jun 3

Art is where what we survive survives

#Martyr

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · 8d

It's time to hold ppl accountable for their racism

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · 12d

Prices are up up UP

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · 18d

My Saturday read this week is DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESSS: AFRICAN AMERICAN CYBERCULTURES by Andre Brock Jr.
#Blackademic #BlackStudy #BlackStudies

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 31

Coupled with easily accessible, affordable & effective mental health care for all

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm in bed by 930!@!

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 28

When an audio book narrator is trying to do a Spanish accent but sounds like Dracula

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 28

Random: How have the purity culture pundits addressed the "falling" white American birthrate? Have they taken any responsibility?

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 28

Not feeling the documentary style personally 😕

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Aug 26

Join and support DC residents in resisting occupation. Here are a few ways:

✅ Call/write your members of Congress using this toolkit and/or the action alert below from @freedcproject.bsky.social: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Tell Congress to stand down federal forces and respect DC — Free DC

freedcproject.org

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thought cutting of sugar was dramatically impacting my weight. Turns out the 5lbs(!) i thought i was down last week was due to a broken scale

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Barbara Neuhoff @barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social · Aug 23

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Aug 23

Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 24

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 24

Vlad gave Trump his marching orders like the KGB spy master he is

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · Aug 23

The people that always complain I don’t talk enough never seem to actually listen when I do speak

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 21

Look back, retrospect, & process. If you don't like what you see, be gentle on yourself & work to understand the context & why you responded the way you did
#StudySlavery

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 19

Replaced wine with hot chocolate to sleep better

This is bs

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 19

I just quit like 20 meetings!!!!

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 18

Time to walk the dog

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 17

🔥 MUST-WATCH: “And that’s why it’s important to teach ALL history, Jillian — not just cherry-pick certain % when they work for your argument.”

@debunktionjunction.bsky.social fires Jillian Michaels’ claim “only 2% of whites owned slaves” into the sun

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNdRlSB...

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Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 17

Come thru Banksy!!!

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 17

Kung fu panda!!

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 17

Every $ spent hunting & detaining people is a $ stolen from safe water, comprehensive education, affordable health care, housibg, parks & other infrastructure projects, artists & arts institutions, and everything else that enriches life & community

Lisa Biggs @lisabiggs.bsky.social · Aug 15

Impeach & convict him