River Irons

I was raised in a cult. I escaped. Abolitionist. Queer. Artist and storyteller. #Baltimore #Artist

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While working on my memoir over the past couple of weeks, I gained a new insight into what actually pushed me to finally flee the cult I was raised in. It's not quite what I thought it was, and it's timely with the election happening in a few days. https://t.co/M58NtarCSC

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Why I was a woman who oppressed women: I didn’t fight to retain my own identity but instead doubled down on the false identity my mother’s belief system forced on me. https://t.co/6PZoIwEprV #women #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

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I was in the right place at the right time! #nature

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In my 2019 artwork called "If Only", I was putting these concepts together, using my photos of buildings in DC, taken from the balcony of the now defunct Newseum.

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Systems theory describes processes that can make events or future states inevitable or almost inevitable: reinforcing feedback loops, that, once persons or practices are caught within them, are very difficult to stop or control by intervening with simple changes.

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It's as if we accrue compound interest on the currency of Whiteness. I hadn't started using systems theory language yet, but I think I worried no one knew how to stop the feedback loops. Maybe all I could do was depict where they would eventually lead.

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Oh come on y'all: Hillbilly Mythology

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If you live alone, you can spend Sunday morning pacing around your living room in your boxers, blasting opera while pretending to conduct the orchestra.

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I took this photo between a Walmart and a mall

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Adam's Passion is not the story of Adam and Eve I learned as a kid. I found something far more subversive https://t.co/AgYWOVk4wP

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American people: These are our choices?
American political system: These are your choices.

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What's it called when you're nonbinary and your actual look is aging twink with binge-eating disorder, but inside you're really a 6-foot-tall Regency-era zaddy? #amIgoingtoregretsayingthisoutloud

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I am trying to decide whether to pretend I don't know full well what the sunk cost fallacy is and continue watching Dark on Netflix.

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I have so much energy since I switched to plant-based stress eating

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Y'all that post "MEMORIAL DAY ISN'T ABOUT A BARBEQUE" every freakin' year I want to see you posting "JUNETEENTH ISN'T JUST AN EXTRA FOURTH OF JULY FOR WHITE PEOPLE"

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An app that's like Grindr, only it lets you know when there's another aromantic asexual person nearby who doesn't want to meet you either.

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I've had a new show knocking around in my head for months now. Over the weekend I finally started seriously writing down the ideation and the pieces that would go in it. #artist