Anything I can do, WE can do better.

You don’t need to get better at the parts of the process that are not your strong suit - You need better people.

Let me introduce you.

The only time he’s not lying is when he’s telling his truths to lie about others.

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Some questions for white exvangelicals.

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Tomorrow (1/21) is my birthday. And here’s what I want — if you are going to text or call or drop a comment with a general birthday greeting - save it. (Let’s just consider it said!) Getting older is the easiest and least useful thing I do everyday and the way my insecurities are set up, it’s kinda hurtful when that’s all I get congratulated for.

**Capitalism has us all messed up, we equate just having with being worth something but I am very unimpressed with people who have a lot, but do nothing good with it — and that goes for money, power and life itself, it’s fine that i’m still here - yay but if just not dying is all I have to show for 2025, I mean that’s not nothing in these United States but Donald Trump accomplished the same thing…**

So what I want/need for my birthday is: Nothing. Or specificity — to feel like I did something (anything!) useful with the last year. At this point we all know the five love languages are an evangelical scam but I do like words and if you’re going to give me some, I’d like them to be the kind I can use and hang onto, so if you’re going to say something please make it something kind or encouraging about something I made or did in 2025. 🙏🏽

And if you’re like “What the heck did you do?” That’s an excellent question and the answers you seek can be found on my website — so get over there and listen to some of my music, watch my films, join my school — Look, what I’m basically trying to do here is trick you into spending time with me, doing something I enjoy. 🥳

So please — for my birthday, give me 15 minutes. And then, if you want, say something specifically nice and/or nicely specific. 💁🏽‍♀️

**And/or for bonus points, be a pal and pass it on. Recommend me to someone for something I’m good at.

Please and thank you.

Anyway — hope you’re doing as well as you can be and thriving as much as possible in this hellscape of a timeline.

Racists have always been good at shelving their hate when it's helpful to do so. Doesn't mean it's not a central and indelible part of their stock.

For the past few nights, I’ve been falling asleep to one of the YouTube videos of the Cowboy Carter tour (there are quite a few to choose from) and there’s just something about the part of the set that goes from “Freedom” to “YaYa” to “Why Don’t You Love Me”…

Black women be knowing, y’all.

I suspected I would probably go full feral at some point in 2026. Did not think it would be day 3.

Anyway, if you see Evangelicalism, tell him it's on sight.

Social media is so weird. We cross paths with people by being ourselves and then start being afraid to be ourselves because we don't want to cross people... anyway, I made some music. You don't have to like it, but I do have to stop worrying about being cringe to people I am not for and who are not for me.

So something I started working on over the summer and then dropped and then put on the backburner and then remembered and finished a few days ago, is an audiobook version of the divide - my book of poetry about race and American Christianity. I wrote it and first released it in 2017 aka the first year of the first Trump presidency and as I was editing a…