I am still beefing with the audio, even as Season 5 ends.

As this year wraps up, remember what you have done, gone through, and survived! There is still everything to do, and even the strongest warriors need to rest and need respite.

2026 is coming...and we will be ready for it.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Holidays.

Happy Thursday.

Hostess note: I was fighting with the intro and outro this week darlings, bear with me.

The world is on fire--and I'm real fed up!

ICE is evil.

Brenay is monumentally stupid.

Erika Kirk is a possessed broken Barbie.

Remember, all love notes can be sent to [email protected].

My Blackness is not exclusionary to other Black people. Where I am not a Black transwoman, I am a Black woman who knows queer people, knows transpeople, and a lover of my people, I sent sympathy to my queer brethren and sistren. I am not in community enough (aka I don't have the experience of being a trans person) to call Miss Major "Mama" Major. Per my upbringing it would be rude to do so.

Click here for the IG eulogy for Miss Major Griffin-Gracy:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPxMcfqjP4P/?igsh=NWd2NTV3MzR5MnY3

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The creators mentioned:

Dominique Morgan (IG/TT: @thedominiquemorgan)

Raquel Willis (IG: @raquel_willis)

Diamond Stylz (Diamond Collier) -YT: diamondstylz; Podcast: Marsha's Plate

'Afterlives' is the podcast which has Raquel as Executive Producer . Follow the podcast on Apple podcasts-find that link here --https://www.afterlivespod.com/.

This show is dedicated to the musicians past, present, and future who put the whole damn world between notes, chords, riffs.

It is a holy work. It must be.-------------

As a Love Poet, this grief is complex.

We have him, and have lost him. Yet, love is big enough for us to put God in.

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This show is also dedicated to the young man who sees me...and brave enough to hold fire in his hands. Ain't no fumble in him. #ImHisLady

This show is dedicated to my Big Sister, Deanna L. Fry--the baddest one in the room, who is now at CNN.

I am a Stan of Black women and of (former) Madam Vice President Kamala D. Harris. In reading her book, I have a new respect for her, and all the women in politics, journalism, or in any hall of power.

Click the link to listen to the episode of THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT hosted by Greg Howard, Jr. -

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-not-an-endorsement/id1843502952

As of the time of this podcast, Misty Danielle Copeland has retired from the American Ballet Theatre. After discovering ballet at 13, from poverty and instability, she has done something beyond incredible. And that needs to be celebrated...and repeated.

BLACK BALLERINAS MATTER.

Assata Shakur has always been a part of my life, even when I did not know...or least expected it. Read anything by her, starting with her autobiography of the same name: ASSATA. She passed away in Cuba, out of the clutches of white supremacist justice, at age 78.

TW: WM on WM crime

I am neither celebrating nor mourning. I do not give empathy to my oppressors. “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”

― Toni Morrison

"What I want Black people to understand is we have no allies here."

-#BlackAdam

"Do not give your empathy to the people who would oppress you."

-Ms. CookiAnn

Note: The person who GOT HIM was a cishet White man named Tyler Robinson. Mormon. 'God-fearing.' Family in the MAGA cult. Father retired sheriff with military background. Pro 2A. Follower of the proud Nazi, Nick Fuentes.

All love notes can be sent to [email protected].

Remember this:

This is the Kingdom of Jaye--I do not cotton to racists, fascists, misogyny or misogynoir. I will add more to WHATEVER I SAID before I take it away.

This episode is introspective.

I am sitting with the fact a LOT of my KG-5 education was done through public education. And so was my children's. What will the world look like now that Elmo and 'nem are on streaming?

Remember that all lovenotes can be sent to [email protected].

TW: HURRICANE KATRINA

This episode is dedicated to this city of New Orleans, and her inhabitants who passed, who prospered, and who made it happen despite the President of the United States (who was George W. Bush (43) at the time)!

More love to my adopted family who are still there and who I will see soon!

Remember all love notes can be sent to [email protected].