tawnya p-wates

Artistic Director of The Conciliation Project building a legacy at the intersection of ARTS & ACTIVISM. We believe in the Transformative Power of STORY

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

A Mother’s Story http://t.co/QOJOm6DUCZ Let us remember the hearts of the mothers in Nigeria this Mothers Day #bringbackourgirls @TCPrva #4U

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

Pot calling the Kettle comes to mind! Eye roll 🙄

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

Ridiculous! Extreme eye roll 🙄

[Missfatcat @Missfatcatredux]

@colemarisa49 @BarackObama When the baby gets to choose I’ll listen to your argument

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

That’s what’s UP! My guy #Duces22

[Austin Wates @austinwates]

Best in country! Making a name for himself. Keep it movin @thechosen1kc #Cats

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

It’s Tyson’s Neighborhood!! #ksbaseball #superstar

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

Make that a 3⃣x 𝐀𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 🇺🇸

#KStateBSB x @ABCA1945

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

All of THIS!!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

@KStateBSB @NCBWA @tyson_neighbors Congratulations 💜

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

@KStateBSB @USABaseball #duces22 That’s WHAT I’m talking about!!

[NEMO @NEMOCookFan]

"Life is a cycle of beginnings and endings. Heartbreak is inevitable; joy is not. So when you have a moment to savor something special, even if it is fleeting, even if it is ending, it is a reason to smile."

[Mark Etheridge @marketheridge]

RPI is designed to compare teams with vastly different schedules without common opponents. Commiteee slotted K-State behind conference rivals that trailed them in the standings & head-to-head, but were ahead in the RPI. Why give RPI priority there?

[Chamo @robertopena99]

I’ll run through a wall for Coach Hughes! I want to thank @KStateBSB @HughesMas @austinwates @Connolly_10 , all my teammates and everyone else on the staff for receiving me with open arms! Best decision I’ve made in my life was coming to Manhattan, KS. Forever a Wildcat 💜
10 out

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1851, Sojourner Truth delivered the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.

“Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well!And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what’s this they call it? [member of audience whispers, “intellect”] That’s it, honey. What’s that got to do with women’s rights or Negroes’ rights? If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say.”

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

What a joke!!

[bowler @stanleybarbowl]

@asmotek @ninaturner The rich already pay more than their share...

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

Exactly! Is China and China’s government one that we want to emulate in THIS COUNTRY??? I think NOT!

[Cap'm Kickass 🤘🏼 @CapmKickass]

@PaulEthanAiCPA @EdKrassen Relevance?

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

When you play the game someone wins and someone loses! There’s no equivocation in that metric! K-State earned the right to be in the NCAA TOURNAMENT Period! There shouldn’t be a “participation trophy” like in Little League. The selection committee indeed failed the KSTATE CATS 💜

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

Statement from head coach Pete Hughes

#KStateBSB

[Christine Wates @christinewates]

Infinitely proud to stand alongside this amazing man and watch him help lead this incredible group of young men 💜 #CatsByAMillion #Better

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

@austinwates Congratulations Gentlemen!! You Represented! Always with heart 💜! A great Team with great players! Thank you to the entire team, coaches and staff!! #WeWillBeBACK #WeWillNotBeDenied #NextYearisOurTurn 💜💜💜💜💜 Congratulations on Great Season! #CATSPride

[Austin Wates @austinwates]

My heart aches for our players, but I am so thankful to have gotten to coach this group. They bought in, they believed, never backed down from a fight, most importantly…they did it together. Thank you

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”

We’ll be back stronger #EMAW

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

Thank you to the K-State CATS Baseball Team, the Coaches, the Staff and the entire organization for a wonderful season!! #KSBaseballisAllHeartandSoul #WeAreCommitted 💜💜💜

[K-State Baseball @KStateBSB]

Thank you for bringing the magic all season 💜

#KStateBSB

[Apostle E. Townsend D.Min @apostletownsend]

@OmarRiverosays @OccupyDemocrats

[tawnya p-wates @tpwates]

The truth may not always be popular or comfortable but it is NECESSARY! #Thetruthwillsetyoufree