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[Loren ♡ @httplxrn_]

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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[rose_may_scribble @shannonrmp]

After the rape apologists rallied viciously behind paddy Jackson /Stuart olding, are we honestly surprised about the Rory Gallagher crowd?

There’s nothing new about Irish sports being a boys club.

[Loren ♡ @httplxrn_]

It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 10 years, since 10 May 2013 (via @twi_age).

[ᒍEᖇ ᗪI᙭Oᑎ 🎙🎤 @jezzadixon]

I assume the "get them out" brigade who are intent on keeping our streets safe for women, will be marching in the estate where this young man is from?????

[Baldy McStunnah @Fearganainm]

The GOAT

[Cat Mom 🐈‍⬛ @arocxo]

Just days after the anniversary of Aishling Murphys murder and another woman has been murdered by a man in Dublin. Meaning that in the short 14 days of 2023 4 women have been killed by a man in Ireland.
Violence against women is truly an epidemic.
We deserve better.

[sarah @heavenbrat]

as a girl i should be allowed to let out a very loud glass shattering scream once a day to relieve myself of built up emotion

[Loren ♡ @httplxrn_]

@willyumslife @Kandiice_moore you

[🍑 @PEACHYBLACKG0RL]

me as the world inevitably collapses during my 20s https://t.co/44KVFtKO3m

[:) @leoinretrograde]

@jzux she said it better than i would

[gabrielle @badgyaI]

your friends who are victims can read your tweets 👍🏽

[Glow✰ @gIowiny]

found out that the reason I dont miss people is because of ADHD 😭 it really is out of sight out of mind

[Diane @Diane_Ihirwe]

I went to Belgium and of course I had to visit the Royal Museum for Central Africa and saw the human zoo exhibition.
This thread will be heavy , so move along if your whiteness is fragile but stay if you haven't seen it and/or want to learn.
A thread!
https://t.co/BFmGpxoBKr

[cára @hunionring]

its very very hypocritical if you take cocaine every weekend & judge people who are addicted to heroin