“As Creoles, we are our best asset and biggest liability.” —Quinn F.

Address me as a published author from now on 😏✍🏾📖. Last Wednesday & this past weekend was a monumental Creole time that is now encapsulated & stamped into history 📰📝🧾. Visit Creoleculture.com to purchase Hands of Heritage 💜💚💛. Happy International Creole Heritage Month 🩸. #CreoleCulture #Louisiana

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest. Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.  I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival: emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

I love that refreshing afternoon autumn air

“What I would like to understand is that certain places have so much value and purpose beyond destruction. And I could go deeper, that statement can relate to our own self as well.” —Elijah Craig in reference to #gentrification in #Portland.

“I drifted aimlessly Through parking lots I tried my best To dodge the many shoppers Who are in a hurry to buy nothing…” Lloyd Center by Elijah Craig ❤️🖤💚 #BlackStudies #Portland

We are back at it next Friday 👏🏾! Please help us by sharing and donating 💜💚💛. Next Week’s Menu: •Smothered chicken thighs and smoked sausages over rice. •TWO sides + bottled water 🤤😮‍💨😋. #foodinsecurity #foodhunger #communitycook #creolefood #helpus #donatetoday

Official Creole Culture Presents: Hands of Heritage Book 👐🏾🙌🏾🤲🏾 I am GRATEFUL to be a part of this timely cultural lifestyle table book as a contributing published author during Creole Heritage Month ⚜️📔💜💚💛. Join us this Wednesday at The Delta Grand Theatre in Opelousas ⚜️. #creoleculture #louisiana

WE MADE IT HAPPEN 🥘🥘🥘‼️ Because of community support, we fed & hydrated 10 people Downtown and in Fightingville 💜💚💛. Week one and many more weeks to come 👏🏾🤲🏾🫶🏾. Donate to keep our initiative alive ⤵️: CA: $Quinnfos Venmo: Quinnfos94 🌐: Quinn94.com/donate • #louisiana #lafayette #foodinsecurity

From opening grocery stores to launching online delivery services, I traveled to rural Mississippi to highlight the work of two Black women who are reimagining how their communities eat and thrive. This is part of the RNN's "Sowing Resilience" series. capitalbnews.org/black-women-...

WE MADE IT HAPPEN 🥘🥘🥘‼️ Because of community support, we fed & hydrated 10 people Downtown and in Fightingville 💜💚💛. Week one and many more weeks to come 👏🏾🤲🏾🫶🏾. Donate to keep our initiative alive ⤵️: CA: $Quinnfos Venmo: Quinnfos94 🌐: Quinn94.com/donate • #louisiana #lafayette #foodinsecurity

Rest powerfully Assata Shakur ❤️🖤💚.

According to @feedingamerica.org, more than 800,000 people face food insecurity throughout Louisiana ❤️‍🩹. By supporting 4DaHuemans’s Cook For Yo’ People Initiative, we can reduce this number 💜💚💛. Ways to donate ⤵️: CA: $Quinnfos Venmo: Quinnfos94 Website: Quinn94.com/donate

You're worthy today; right now...you're worthy of love & all the things you desire...if you died tomorrow, you were always worthy. You are your best self right . now. It's okay to strive to be "better" but you are, and always were...worthy 💕

Still reading and this book takes me back to my middle school childhood era lol. I relate to Jade’s situation with her parents divorce yet still wanting to mess around with each other 🥴😂. A MESS.

Grateful to service myself and others! Make sure to take care of yaself too 💜💚💛.

According to @feedingamerica.org, more than 800,000 people face food insecurity throughout Louisiana ❤️‍🩹. By supporting 4DaHuemans’s Cook For Yo’ People Initiative, we can reduce this number 💜💚💛. Ways to donate ⤵️: CA: $Quinnfos Venmo: Quinnfos94 Website: Quinn94.com/donate

Why are da interactions so dead on this app nowadays??? I hate it, because what tf did we follow each other for then?! Lmao.

Finally we have actual bookmarks, FINALLY.

wake up & express gratitude

Why are da interactions so dead on this app nowadays??? I hate it, because what tf did we follow each other for then?! Lmao.

Educators, parents, and school staff members tap in ⬇️. #SchoolChoice #PublicSchools #PrivateSchools #Education #DecolonizeEducation

Educators, parents, and school staff members tap in ⬇️. #SchoolChoice #PublicSchools #PrivateSchools #Education #DecolonizeEducation

Ever met someone from out of town and it felt like it would last forever 🤔🤨⁉️ Get into this Freaky Friday Q-Mix 😏🌊.

JOURNO REQUEST: Are you an educator, parent, or staff who would like to share 🫵🏾 thoughts on School Choice Vouchers & their effects on students & the public, charter, and private school systems? Please fill out Every Day Is Juneteenth's form below, & we’ll follow up. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

JOURNO REQUEST: Are you an educator, parent, or staff who would like to share 🫵🏾 thoughts on School Choice Vouchers & their effects on students & the public, charter, and private school systems? Please fill out Every Day Is Juneteenth's form below, & we’ll follow up. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

When discussing the multi-billion-dollar petrochemical industry, environmental racism profits off of Black bodies & legacies through land theft, destroying sacred land, neglect from officials, & exposing our communities to harmful chemicals. Tap In: everydayisjuneteenth.substack.com/p/environmen...

Currently reading “Jaded” by Essence bestselling author, Monica McKayhan 📖. What’s 🫵🏾 current read? #blackauthors

Ever met someone from out of town and it felt like it would last forever 🤔🤨⁉️ Get into this Freaky Friday Q-Mix 😏🌊.

When discussing the multi-billion-dollar petrochemical industry, environmental racism profits off of Black bodies & legacies through land theft, destroying sacred land, neglect from officials, & exposing our communities to harmful chemicals. Tap In: everydayisjuneteenth.substack.com/p/environmen...

The ABC News Storytellers Summit was absolutely amazing and so helpful 📰🤲🏾. We walked away expanding our skill sets, understanding current newsroom structures, appreciating intentional storytelling, how to collaborate with AI, & more ✍🏾🎥. #journalism #storytelling #abcnews

👀👀 Y’all alright sha?!? Y’all doing fine?!?

Creatives should normalize returning to projects later. Maybe it requires more reading, more experience, more museum visits. SOMETHING! That something isn't coming right now, it needs time to flourish. We should push ourselves to gain the muscle, but that same muscle should teach us discernment.

Happy 150th Heavenly Birthday to Alice Dunbar Nelson 💜💚💛. A #Creole author, journalist, activist, and poet ✍🏾. July 19, 1875-September 18, 1935 🕊️.

Copywriters & content creators admitting to using ChatGPT to initially write their copy, so they can edit and make it their own… JUST KNOW ANYTHING THAT I WRITE CAME FROM MY DIVINE IDEAS 👏🏾‼️ With that being said, view my portfolio & let’s collab 🫶🏾: contra.com/quinn #copyeditor #researcher #writer

I truly enjoyed working on such an amazing and impactful Cultural Cookbook with the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition 👩🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🍳🧑🏾‍🍳📖. The organization brought me in as a cultural ethnographer, co-author, and media designer 🔬✍🏾📝👨🏾‍💻. Check out our prototype below 🫶🏾. #blackculture #research #author #writer

How to Build Your Confidence Writing Profiles 📰⬇️. Tip #2: Reach out to your creative or editorial team for support 🤝🏾. Sometimes, all we need is an active listener who understands our work 🌟. Keep in mind that it helps to share concerns or challenges with your team throughout the process 💯.

“Decades of research have [shown] that news sources are often likely to be public relations practitioners, with anywhere between 40%-75% of news originating from them or the products of their work. Public relations is, therefore, critical to the work of journalism.” #WorldPRDay

Happy #WorldPRDay we love and appreciate y’all for being intentional connectors 🫶🏾🌐. #PublicRelations #WorldPRDay2025

How to Build Your Confidence Writing Profiles 📰⬇️. Tip #2: Reach out to your creative or editorial team for support 🤝🏾. Sometimes, all we need is an active listener who understands our work 🌟. Keep in mind that it helps to share concerns or challenges with your team throughout the process 💯.

I love when Black authors' book titles are LONG AF 😂😂😂 LIKE YESSS, DA AUDACITY OF IT ALL 👏🏾‼️ #BlackWriters #BlackAuthors

Cancer Sun ☀️ + Capricorn Full Moon 🌕: As we are centering and taking care of ourselves with inner work, embrace what is slow and constant, because movement is still being made. #Astrology #Astronomy

I truly enjoyed working on such an amazing and impactful Cultural Cookbook with the Black Food Sovereignty Coalition 👩🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🍳🧑🏾‍🍳📖. The organization brought me in as a cultural ethnographer, co-author, and media designer 🔬✍🏾📝👨🏾‍💻. Check out our prototype below 🫶🏾. #blackculture #research #author #writer

Joke's on you, once the contract is broken, I'm a free agent!

Copywriters & content creators admitting to using ChatGPT to initially write their copy, so they can edit and make it their own… JUST KNOW ANYTHING THAT I WRITE CAME FROM MY DIVINE IDEAS 👏🏾‼️ With that being said, view my portfolio & let’s collab 🫶🏾: contra.com/quinn #copyeditor #researcher #writer

“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” —Audre Lorde

I loveeee a good rebrand lol.

The sagebrush walk this morning included one of the rarest birds in the country, beautiful wildflowers, a rattlesnake, and a family of bluebirds

Take care of nature and nature will take care of us.