Audrey Shake

[Lai💔 @laybeonthat]

As I stroll on TikTok, I keep seeing parents video their children reacting to The Little Mermaid trailer. So instead of focusing so much on the negative, I thought I’d show a thread of the little black kids who are excited to see their favorite princess look like them.

[Audrey Shake @AudreyShake]

Sometimes I forget that I grew up in this other world and that this was not a normal childhood.

[Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente]

I just learned about the book To Train Up a Child—basically a fundamentalist child abuse manual so depraved it sounds like a movie script. It recommends “blanket training” whipping an infant every time it moves off a blanket to teach it to stay put.

Humans were a mistake.

[Chris D'Elia @chrisdelia]

Every dog is my dog. Whenever I see a new dog in my head I go ���That’s my dog now.”

[Ryan Scott @ryan_scott]

Fox News did to our parents what they thought video games would do to us.

[Kevin Garcia 🪷 Spiritual Recovery Coach @theKevinGarcia_]

“You get more conservative as you get older.”

Me @ 14: it’s okay to have same sex attractions but not act on them.

Me @ 24: being gay is totes okay! But sex before marriage idk.

Me @ 29: sex is beautiful and holy, monogamy isn’t everyone’s tea, eat the rich, burn the church.

[Audrey Shake @AudreyShake]

holy shit

[Dr. matthew pierce, PhD, MDiv, RN, LPC, CPA, Jedi @MatthewEPierce]

me and my homeschool crew mentioning the guys from relient k by their first names like we know them, trying to impress the girls at the co op faith family friendship fun night

[q u e e n c o k e f r a n c i s @realcokefrancis]

if adults called you an “old soul” as a child that was their polite way of saying “wow you’re only 12 and you’ve already lost all your serotonin”

[Eugene Lee Yang @EugeneLeeYang]

Sugar, Spice, & Everything Nice
@bretmanrock @lifeofrickey

[Audrey Shake @AudreyShake]

I hope to visit Stonewall in person sometime soon!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

50 years ago, history was written at the Stonewall Inn when New York's LGBT community stood up, spoke out, and started a movement. In 2016 I was proud to designate it as a national monument—a reminder the arc of our history is an arc of progress as long as we keep pushing for it.

[Audrey Shake @AudreyShake]

I guess I’m on Twitter again? How much have things changed in 4 years? 😬