My tweets

• Mon, 12:20: #MicroblogMondays - Mama's Little (Kitty) Helper http://t.co/sMQEOAwSk2 @greatersafety @DoNotFaint @VelveteenMama @story3girl
• Mon, 12:26: SO important. "I don’t need anyone to teach me how to stand up for myself. I. Need. To. Learn." http://t.co/8pzIxudmSv by @VelveteenMama
• Mon, 13:01: RT @mrskimyadawson: I am no longer the girl who smashes windows with her fist even when it feels like the only thing in the universe that m…
• Mon, 15:30: Enter to win some fantastic writing: A Giveaway to say thanks! http://t.co/whkqbQvakB via @PenPaperPad
• Mon, 16:01: RT @WomenWriters: "We writers need to fully vet any publication to which we submit our work. I wish I had." http://t.co/GB3DTvIYOw #mondayb…
• Mon, 17:42: RT @blogdiva: THIS! A MILLION TIMES THIS!!! #Ferguson RT @Travon: http://t.co/Ec1nrlVy8R
• Mon, 20:27: we are the expendables http://t.co/Gr4SvEqQQD via @@PenPaperPad
• Mon, 21:08: Real fucking sick of your shit, white supremacy.
• Mon, 21:13: RT @AlishaRai: I'm face palming over white people snottily responding to #BlackLivesMatter with ALLLIVESMATTER. No, you see, we were JUST t…
• Mon, 21:15: RT @AnthonyBLSmith: The #AllLivesMatter counter-hashtag is proof that white people feel devalued by black people affirming themselves. #Bla…

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My Country 'Tis Of What?

I am not an immigrant. I am the daughter of occupied peoples. An overthrown kingdom. And I'd like to take this moment to remind you, old work friend on FaceBook, acquaintance I'm still getting to know on twitter. Neighbor, bartender, classmate I haven't seen in twenty years. Your Nation of Immigrants narrative is flawed. Your bootstraps encouragement is broken. We didn't all come here wearing boots. Some of us didn't come here at all.

We are a nation of complicated, difficult, garbage-laden truths that need to be spoken. Let us speak them and remember without being spat upon for our memories or our pain. Let me remember my history. Understand that it is yours. Teach it, in full, to your children. They can handle the complexity. My children already do.

- See more at: http://www.runningnekkid.com/content/my_country_tis_what#sthash.plNyHBYZ.dpuf