Vilmary Perea M.

[Vilmary Perea M. @VilmaryP]

"Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades" Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[Vilmary Perea M. @VilmaryP]

@xoreniii @Olufemiloye It’s almost like you can’t plan a future because you are still uncertain about that future.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[Botlhale M. 💕 @Mashishi_B]

Unfortunately if you want to grow you need to be exposed to hard things. You need to wire your brain to think that you can actually bypass anything. You are most probably capable, you just have not tested that ability yet. Do hard things. 🤍

[Frosty Chris.🥶 @frostchris_25]

White people forced diversity on the rest of the planet by not remaining in Europe.

[Vilmary Perea M. @VilmaryP]

@msmocrown So, should only permanent residents and citizens be allowed to pay taxes? Or does that logic not apply, considering temporary residents are taxpayers too?

[Vilmary Perea M. @VilmaryP]

As if we weren’t taxpayers ourselves.

[Chris Ryan @Watchdog_MP]

🚨 $1.1 BILLION in Canada Child Benefit payments went to temporary residents in 2025 alone.

That’s international students & temp foreign workers.

Nearly $3 BILLION over 5 years and it’s TRIPLED recently.

While Canadian families struggle with housing & costs, taxpayers are funding kids of non-permanent residents?

When does this end? 🇨🇦
#TaxpayersFirst #CCB

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Practice any art… no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”

- McKellen reciting Vonnegut

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The art of not being ready and doing it anyway will take you so far.”

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far you’ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time

[Ivy🔻 @surrviiver]

yall couldn't even handle different skin colours bfr

[Abriendo las Alas @Jessekobar]

Mi abuela ponía sal en la puerta de casa cada lunes.

Le preguntamos por qué.

"Para que no entre lo malo", decía.

Nos reímos de ella durante años.

Hasta que un físico nos explicó por qué tenía razón.

🧵👇

[KIRA 🤍 @Iamkrebkira]

The real problem is women are actually ready to spilt bills but men ain’t ready to split household chores, responsibilities and child care.

[Ximena González @XiMeNaKa]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but all permanent and temporary migrants who work in Canada pay both federal and provincial taxes.

[Vilmary Perea M. @VilmaryP]

@AskKubeir What if it says something like “worked 8 hours per day Monday to Friday”?

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

Remember: it is possible to be a multifaceted woman. Read books + twerk. Be spiritual + a frēãk. You don’t have to choose between your sexual/intellectual/emotional/spiritual side. Just combine them all into one powerful expression and stay balanced.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Notice how GPS never says, "made a mistake". It simply says, "recalculating route". In this new year, embrace the detours, adjust the course, and keep moving forward.