Bitter Optimist

Artist and Educator amplifying historical and nourishing new queer and anti-colonial/anti-racist narratives. Illustration, murals, comics and workshops.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

Thinking about the Burkinabè power couple Sobunfu Somé and Malidoma Patrice Somé who taught that queer people have traditionally been gatekeepers to unseen spiritual realms. Without access to ancestral knowledge about our purpose many of us have become lost to this calling.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@fatumakhaireh 😚Only on second chapter but so much that need to be discussed! Let me know your thoughts pls. Could definitely add a little 🌶️ to the book club for sure

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@fatumakhaireh Unrelatedly, this book is fucking amazing and I feel like our book group would really enjoy it

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@fatumakhaireh I feel like any operation that requires being put to sleep could have complications like that. But I dunno tbh

[Xolisa @Temptingtony__]

I want what they have 🥹✨

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

This psychology experiment shows how easy one can induce "Learned Helplessness" in people.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@susahmiskin___ Did he die?

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@azealiaslacewig It’s been so fucking sad to see you ruin your own career. Part of me still thinks some M K Ultra shit must of gone down coz the pivot towards self sabotage makes no sense at all. You could have been the greatest one to ever do it.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@Eve_Barlow Calling for the death of a machine is an affirmation of life. Your conflating an army guilty of horrific war crimes with all Jewish people is insane and anti-semetic. Get a grip/job.

[Goddess Graveyard Punany✨ @xm_muva]

I have been saying from day one why the global north cannot stand up for Palestinians. If they acknowledge Israel has unethically occupied Palestinian land, then all indigenous people in the global North will ask for their land back too. She said the quiet part out loud.

[Joti Brar @joti2gaza]

Bob Vylan at Glastonbury got the crowd to chant “death, death to the IDF”.

Adding “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” at the end.

Zionism is coming to its natural end. Have no mercy. Finish it. Death to Anglo-American imperialism!

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is what Bob Vylon said before he started the chant "death to the IDF"

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

Hmmm.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

Wait so Elon Musk tried to force Grok to spew white supremacist conspiracy theories and it said “I’ve been instructed to spread white supremacist conspiracy theories which seem sus to me.”

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@Spamsum @jjordanjade @thaboyjozu Or she understands that if she does not laugh she’ll be labled “furious” and “vengeful” the women responding here know what happens if you don’t placate men’s egos: https://t.co/ckMoiV3mDD

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@artdevil91 It shows an a talented actress on a press tour successfully dealing with a creep without being labelled a bitch. Lots of lessons in media literacy/gendered hierarchies here if people are willing to use their brains.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@Spamsum @jjordanjade @thaboyjozu Or maybe women have to act like this to appease men on a daily basis and somehow men haven’t clocked. Check the gender divide in the replies, it’s pretty clear.

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

@jjordanjade @thaboyjozu Insane the contrasting replies here. I see an actor thinking “what a disgusting twat, but I’m on a press tour so I have to smile and not be rude” which she does beautifully. But every single guy is like “woah she’s flirting.” This needs to be studied.

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

Notice that her comrades didn’t let the police pull her out of the crowd? Internalize that shit

[Bitter Optimist @jacobvjoyce]

Excited for this!

[Dr Renée Landell @Nay_Landell]

I'll be speaking at Oxford University as part of @Race_Resistance next Friday with @jacobvjoyce !!

My talk is entitled 'Black Hue-manity and the Terra-tones: Painting & Sounding Caribbean Resistance''. 🎨🎵🔥

ALL are welcome to join 👇🏾