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Patience.

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Documentary Photographer. Minnesotan. Scorpion. She/her

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Boosting!

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Thank you for noticing that! This was one of the things I really tried to avoid as much as I possibly could. It felt important to not to cut her words about such a personal experience. It didn’t feel appropriate. I feel at times it feeds into the pressure of acquiescing to ppl’s short att span?

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“It wasn't again…until when I went to middle school where it just was like an every day thing where I was—people were always constantly talking about my skin color. and I never really understood why. I didn't even know that there was a word for it.” Every day for nearly three years.

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If you’d like to watch my 4 minute video of my sister sharing her experiences on colorism, you can watch it here. www.instagram.com/reel/C1lPDrM...

Makeup tutorial still happening but I felt like the question of colorism deserved it’s own video. Thank you for watching and supporting.💜

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A couple of stills from videos I took of my sister. She’s letting me practice filming. I want to see more stories about Black Minnesotans be met with warmth, compassion and care.

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Dan Adolphson 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Dan Adolphson 🏳️‍🌈 @coffeelthrsoul.bsky.social
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@patiencezalanga.bsky.social on your Twitter post on the 3rd Precinct - nailed it. Too many people in Mpls have their head in the sand about the history of 3rd precinct with regard to failed Gang Strike Force, among other issues.

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I’m curious to know the connection between these arrests by Israel and instagram’s most recent “apology” for inserting ‘terrorist’ in bios of some Palestinian ig bios & of people who’ve expressed solidarity with Palestine.

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Like…I feel like the extreme nature of the content on Twitter is more palpable and is escalating. It feels more concerning now than it has been before. Almost ramping up as we head into the presidential election season.

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Twitter is truly a lot. My timeline is getting progressively weirder and making less sense each month. I’m seeing a lot more misogynistic tweets of accounts I have never seen and interacted with.

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One of the situations (not related to my search for an investigative journalist) I’m really curious to know more about and what happened is Pollen Midwest. The former executive director left a scathing review of Pollen on LinkedIn.

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And the consequences are so real. The Twin Cities is a small town. But so many places needed to get outed for the violence they inflict on marginalized people in the workplace.

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I wish organizations and institutions did not have the tight hold that they do have on marginalized people because of the fear that so many of us possess of speaking out and the fear of losing access to resources and opportunities. Exploiting our scarcity mindset.

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It is so sad that people are guessing different situations with regard to my tweet about looking for an investigative journalist about a story. That’s how fucked Black women are being treated in the workplace here. In the land of 10,000 nonprofits.

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I should’ve known that it would take a considerable amount of time to be paid by a government agency but…whoa. I’m about to hit the three month mark. And I don’t want to keep inquiring about it.

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I don’t like the energy that’s left behind when someone I don’t know has entered my apartment.

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There is another empty apartment that has the same layout as mine, and I really wish they could have whoever tour that apartment instead.

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As someone who actually does not like random people in place, I’m really not comfortable having the property manager do an apartment viewing while I’m not there.

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And to know that people think those who are prescribed medication for ADHD are abusing it…🙄 Meanwhile I keep forgetting to pick it up at the pharmacy!

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I need to set a reminder for Monday to go get my Ritalin from the pharmacy before I start my job. Your girl has been wingin’ life this last month and a half.

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Having ADHD as a photographer is both great and very difficult.

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 's avatar Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.bsky.social
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Making one concentrated thread people can bookmark to be aware of things that happened on BlueSky. Others are free to throw in things that can be left out. Just posting articles I know of but to not have things scattered anymore (regard antiblackness , moderation,etc)

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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this whole thing reads as completely unsanctioned because I cannot believe that after holding the team radio silent for over a day they're actually just letting a dev guy's tech spiel be the face of it I mean I guess I can believe it, at this point but my god

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What is y’all’s aversion to apologizing to Black people? What exactly do you believe you lose by simply apologizing?