No frills and to the point. I am so grateful for your support and wish you an excellent 2024!
Top 5 Books I Read
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Top 5 Shows I watched
The Bear (FX & Hulu)
What We do in the Shadows (FX & Hulu)
The Righteous Gemstones (MAX)
Beef (Netflix)
The Curse (Showtime & Paramount)
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Top 5 Podcast Episodes
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Top 5 Quotes that Moved Me
“Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.”
― Bayard Rustin
“Self is.
Self is body and bodily
perception. Self is thought, memory,
belief. Self creates. Self destroys.
Self learns, discovers, becomes.
Self shapes. Self adapts. Self
invents its own reasons for being.
To shape God, shape Self.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
“We come to know people when we grieve with them through stories and rituals. It is how we can build real solidarity, the kind that points us to the world we want to live in—and our role in fighting for it….America’s greatest social movements—for civil rights, immigrants’ rights, women’s rights, union organizing, queer and trans rights, farmworkers’ rights, indigenous sovereignty, and black lives—were rooted in the solidarity that came from shared grieving. First people grieved together. Then they organized together….When people who have no obvious reason to love each other come together to grieve, they can give birth to new relationships, even revolutions.”
—Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger, Chapter 2
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale
- Refaat Alareer, Palestinian Poet (1979-2023)
"All Organizing is Science Fiction" Another World Is Possible: 2018 Feinberg Series, Walidah Imarisha
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Top 5 Meals or Dining Experiences
Burrito Ranchero Food Truck near the Glenstone Museum
Afternoon Tea at the Peacock Room of the DC Waldorf Astoria
Spirit Free Cocktails at Allegory
Whole Dorade from Irwin Upstairs in Philadelphia
Crab Claws from the Mosquito Supper Club in New Orleans
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Top 5 Self-Care Products
Calabash Loose Leaf Tea: Oshun's Kiss (ignore the diet culture label)
Lanman & Kamp Florida Water Air Freshener and Deodorizer