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NC born, Colorado’s home. Educator.Org development consultant.Org change leader.Aspiring oracle. Happy wife. Cat mom. Cloud spotter I said what I said & these views are mine, not those of any orgs I’m affiliated with. www.sherrielawson.com

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 4d

It’s hard to beat the system

When you’re standing at a distance

So we keep on waiting for the world to change

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Waiting on the World to Change | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

YouTube video by Playing For Change

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 4d

Liberdad por Palestina!!!! Move “Trump Get Out the Way!”

“Isreal, Isreal you cant hide. You are committing Genocide!”
Free Palestine!

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 4d

Denver in the streets as per usual!

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, & if this country gets through this & decides to gloss over all the isms that most want to reduce to a class war (without dealing with the things that create the classes) we will be here again somewhere down the road. Former slave owners got reparations and the enslaved got lynched & Jim Crowed

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The landscape of this country would be entirely different if the Reconstruction Era electoral wins secured by newly freed Black folks had never been stifled by lynchings and pogroms.

The violence now, after decades of wins for queer, trans, Black, Brown, disabled, and migrant folks, same energy.

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 5d

Mine too! Just listened to it! 😍

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 6d

I needed this laugh so much this morning! Thank you 🙏🏾🤣

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 9d

Heal the world

Make it a better place

For you & for me and the entire human race

There are people dying, if you care enough for the living

Make a better place for you & for me - MJ

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 12d

Tears flowing as the ancestors welcome you dear sister 🙏🏾

Well done ❤️

Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur smiling slightly, head tilted to left resting in her hand.

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 14d

See, now I want some hashbrowns covered, smothered, and whatever the hell else they do with Bert’s chili!

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 14d

Phil Collins was the soundtrack of Miami Vice! I was in 3rd grade and have a vivid memory of the scene on Miami Vice with ‘Air Tonight’ playing in the back ground!

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 14d

Phil Collins as Phil the Shill in Miami Vice, 1985

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 14d

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 14d

You are not alone! Black ppl are the masters of the pivot & constantly observing & shifting to create safety or opportunity. We been in flight/flight/freeze for generations! We’re collectively exhausted

I haven’t been posting much b/c I just don’t care enough to engage with ‘allies’ that berate me

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 14d

True! A group of youngins stepped to me saying “Auntie, u thick!”

I was so thrown off I responded ‘thank you young man’ 😬🤦🏾‍♀️😆

The First Black Ravekage @ravekage.bsky.social · 14d

“I’m old enough to be yo momma” is not the deterrent you think it is 😭

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 14d

Not a moment’s rest

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 14d

There's a US military themed bot campaign targeted at Blacksky's PDS. If you see these accounts please report them to @blackskyweb.xyz
I am proactively monitoring signups for suspicious accounts but some have slipped through.

Thank you to the folks who've already reported them

We'll suspend ASAP

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Indivisible Guilford NC ❌️ 👑 @indivisiblegconc.bsky.social · 14d

GREENSBORO, NC - Here are some pics of valiant Resisters from our weekly Walker Street Edition of the Big Beautiful Bridge protest! #NeverGiveUp #Resist #UnitedWeStand #Indivisible @indivisible.org

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14d

It’s gonna be the most fun conversation about fascism you’ve ever had! Trust and believe!

Jason Bryan Silverstein @jasonsilverstein.bsky.social · 14d

Rutgers October 13! Free copies of The People's Project to the first 50 @roxanegay.bsky.social @theferocity.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social

MONDAY OCT 13 @ 7 PM: Join Dr. Roxane Gay (@roxanegay74), the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at @rutgersu, for a conversation with “The People's Project” co-editor Saeed Jones (@theferocity), and contributors Aubrey Hirsch (@aubreyhirsch) and Jason Silverstein (@jasonbryansilverstein).

“The People's Project” is a liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers featuring poems, essays, and visual art that chart paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty.

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 20d

It’s truly exhausting

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 20d

The fact that a planet of 8 billion people are being controlled by a handful of old, evil dudes living out their sadistic fantasies by subjugating the rest of us to their whims is truly wild to me

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 21d

The miners have the power to

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 21d

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 21d

Check on your professor friends if you have them.

Sending protection energy to my colleagues in academia. Be safe out in these academic streets.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

Someone just left me a voicemail at work that said, in its entirety:

"Well, hello, professor. You've got it all wrong with respect to the shooter. Can't believe. I was gonna say I can't believe it, but you're a university professor, of course I can. Have a good day. Bye."

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 21d

And you are missing the point. Not speaking to a specific situation But you win. The fact that this is like a debate to u & u must have the last jab is part of the issue. Too busy proving your point that u miss the actual point. Have a good day

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 22d

I’m sorry. Speaking protection over you sister! Seriously sending angels to stand guard ❤️

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 22d

I see what u did there 😆

Oracle in Training @sherrietlawson.bsky.social · 22d

It’s SO Good!