A ZIP code shouldn’t predict a person’s lifespan but it does. #Health #Wellness www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrNMfdbA/

500 days of sobriety flew by fast! Didn't expect that.

Truth! What they’re defending is racial hierarchy, not national borders.

Healing is not becoming a different person. It’s remembering who you were before the world colonized you.

Ever notice how happiness feels like work? Like something you have to earn? That’s because colonialism claimed our definitions of joy. Here’s me beginning to unpack that. #writing #writer #blog #substack

Your body will forgive you, but not forever.

Your body will humble you and slow you down if you don't learn to pace yourself. I'm still learning the hard way.

If you’ve ever felt like your body was aging faster than your spirit… I’m writing a book for you.

I call it “seasonal introspection disorder.”

It feels like community is just a group of tired people who keep showing up anyway.

What a weird privilege, to be alive and this confused.

I don’t care what anyone says, Taco Bell’s Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie is not as good as my abuelita’s homemade Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie.

Many well past retirement age.

Writing about liberation while refreshing analytics. The duality of man.

Follow along if it’s your vibe. I mix sociology, philosophy, and personal reflection to look at how things like capitalism, colonization, and consumer culture shape our ideas of happiness and healing.

A meditation on happiness, freedom, and belonging. From Liberation Essays: “Reclaiming Happiness as Liberation.” #Writing #Writer

Am I tho only one who saw Indiana almost lose and have to come from behind to beat a terrible Penn State team?

This "All Her Fault" show on #Peacock has me stressing out about my little ones getting kidnapped and I don't even have any little ones.

This has been my go to mid-day #meditation to recenter and regain some clarity. Always open to suggestions though if anyone has a practice that helps them. open.spotify.com/episode/7o9h...

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This is the first essay I posted from the book I am working on. #writing #booksky #books thomastijerina.substack.com/p/defining-l...

Just learned my “resting philosopher face” looks like mild contempt.

Everything collapses eventually. Some things deserve to.

What song feels like a therapy session to you?

We keep trying to become “whole” in a system that profits from keeping us fractured. #healing

I love people who overthink and still choose kindness.

I used to want success. Now I just want peace that doesn’t feel like apathy. #Healing

This is part 3 of the first of many essays to come! Check out my work if Liberation Essays: 21st Century Acts of Resistance and Decolonization sounds like something you’d be into. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky #academicsky thomastijerina.substack.com/p/toward-who...

For a short time only I am welcoming all moral degenerates, lapsed Marxists, and soft spoken heretics still citing Foucault while trying to heal their inner child.

On a mission to try to make #Substack more interesting. Pretty lame so far.

Dear #Bluesky please connect me with moral degenerates, recovering academics, and semi-feral philosophers who want to decolonize but keep getting distracted by existential dread and thoughts of coffee.

Decolonizing the mind isn’t erasing what we’ve learned. It’s remembering what was silenced.

I just learned that if you were born in the U.S. and you are rounded up with noncitizens, the government can and will hold you in detention, by charging you with human trafficking, and it actually holds up for at least a few days. This is seen as completely legal. Why are we like this?

What if justice isn’t about punishment but about remembering how to belong to each other again?

We confuse healing with self-improvement. One is about control, the other about surrender. #Decolonize #Liberation #Resistance

We talk about “healing” like it’s personal, but for communities harmed by history, healing is political. This section looks at what it means to heal in a world still shaped by colonization. #Decolonize substack.com/home/post/p-...

Wellness that ignores injustice is just another form of sedation.

Every day I watch people hustle for freedom inside cages they built to impress others. What would it mean to stop performing and start belonging?

When people ask why my faith in humanity took a turn I'll tell them. I took Amazon for granted. I thought they'd always be there with the overnight deliveries. Now I sit here waiting for delayed packages that I expected yesterday.

Launching my book project in short form bite sized essays.

Looks very underwhelming in the photos here. Lol

Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize??? Wait... was it the war on Chicago thing?

Absolutely nobody claims college is for everyone. Why are people so defensive about young people they know doing something else with their life. Just have your young people do their thing. You don't have to justify it by criticizing education.

Is it just me or are all the best movies on Tubi? #filmsky #movies

Seems so simple. #academicsky #highered

Kung Fu Panda has to be the most underrated Kung Fu movie. #filmsky #movies

Can't stand the thought of dying before I get a chance to finish whatever book I'm reading at the time. #booksky #books #reading

Why I’ll be blabbing about sociology the next 10 weeks. Hope you’ll follow along. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMFbr653/

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