Safiya Merchant

Chicago native, @fordschool student focused on child welfare. Previous: @umich comms, @bcenquirer, @NorthwesternU.

[Matthew Rechs 🏳️‍🌈 @MrEchs]

11 Promises from a Manager: a 🧵

1. We’ll have a weekly 1:1. I’ll never cancel this meeting, but you can cancel it whenever you like. It’s your time.

[Sydney Brownstone @sydbrownstone]

Everything about the homelessness system is shaped by the scarcity of low-income housing. The bureaucracy, the algorithms for distributing resources, the likelihood of getting housing even with all the supports in place. This is just one example. https://t.co/q7uLY3Fy5g

[TAY @Lovelytmd_]

Adulting in 3 words: it’s always something

[connor Wood @fibulaa]

Rewriting my same untouched to do list from yesterday on a new page then taking a little break

[Safiya Merchant @SafiyaMerchant]

@ImaniMixon Mereba is so damn good

[Safiya Merchant @SafiyaMerchant]

@savriIey You are a whole ass mood and I love you for it

[Panic!AtTheDisclo @Mackenzie12]

When do I grow into the “I had a bad day let’s go for a run” person instead of a “I had a bad day let’s order $60 worth of take out” person?

[meg @bymeg]

can’t talk rn i’m doing hot girl shit*

*eating salt and vinegar chips to the point of causing dozens cuts along the roof of my mouth and gums

[woo woo woo @McgarrDana]

Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.

[Chief ⭐️ @ChiefBinedu]

Adulting is knowing when to go home

[Yamiche Alcindor @Yamiche]

Daunte Wright's mom: "The last few days, everybody has asked me what we want ... Everybody keeps saying justice ... There's never going to be justice for us. Justice would bring our son home ... So justice isn't even a word to me. I do want accountability. 100% accountability."

[Manny Ramos @_ManuelRamos_]

If you've never walked a neighborhood, chatted with residents in a neighborhood and if you roll your windows up while driving through a neighborhood then you shouldn't be writing about said neighborhood or its residents. It really is that simple.

[Angela Bassett’s Oscar @HeySupMaya]

Happy Easter to everyone who's ever had to wear this shit

[Yana Kunichoff @Yanazure]

So hard, now and always, to watch young people grappling with the experience of living and working within broken systems.

[Erin soroS @ErinsoroS]

"There are no experts in transformative justice. We are all called to labour. We are all called to do our part It is a collective project. So we are all responsible."

--Mariame Kaba

[Paul Egan @paulegan4]

Ann Arbor could become the first MI city to end single-family #zoning, joining places like #Minneapolis and #Portland. The possibility alone has sparked a huge fight. https://t.co/zpJRpZu4Pq #a2council #cities #diversity

[Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn]

Note that it's Michigan where numbers have taken a turn for the worse.

[Jocelyn Benson @JocelynBenson]

“My mother can rest easy knowing I have the support of the world with me.”

Give here to support the kids of Atlanta victim HyunJungKim https://t.co/4AyGCqGH6f