Professor of communication studies//Rhetoric and Critical Race Theory//Poet//Author//Musician. Currently working on dark tourism/thanatourism scholarship.
#OITNB6 absolutely HAD to end the way that it did. Anything else would have been false and not accurate in depicting real life for minorities. Although I desperately wanted things to be different— that was the point. It’s not. It’s real. And it hurts.
I literally just vomited because of the ending of Orange is the New Black. I can’t even deal with the emotion she and the reality of the situation.
#OITNB6
The ones without family or friends for support. The ones without financial means to get help. The ones on the streets, lost and forgotten. Because, we seem to only care when it is a person of “value” to the world. Addiction does not discriminate.
Lemme just say that I’m very proud of @ddlovato and sending her all my love. I’m also very proud of all the people sending her support. But, I wish we were this kind to ALL people suffering from addiction. The ones who aren’t famous.
@RevDaniel We live in the “gotcha” era, where people spend all their time and energy into proving how right they are and how wrong everyone else is all the time. You can’t say anything these days without hordes of people scrutinizing every word and finding a bone to pick with something.
The gay community needs to step away from the trope that our lives are all about SEX. I am so sick of it. We claim we are more than our sexual orientation and yet a ridiculous amount of social media content from the community is entrenched in sex.