Restarting my search for January 1. I’m open to all East Bay locations.

Stand Together, a fund to support immigrants and their families just dropped. www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...

The older I get and the more relationships I enter, the more I understand that there’s a difference between care and love.

it's worth noting 1) that there's a longstanding tradition of trying to play solidarity against basic self-respect and 2) that the Combahee River Collective's coining of the term "identity politics" was directly in response to this

Folks really be pushing disabled folks and other marginalized people to just overcome the obstacles and be “successful” anyway instead of REMOVING THE OBSTACLES! I would also make it across the finish line if this gigantic rock wasn’t blocking my path. Goddamn it! I hate it here sometimes. 😤

Another little story for your reading pleasure. “By the Phone.” open.substack.com/pub/ronniero...

I need to get a suit. Any plus sized girlies out there know of good places for suits?

Started my 1-hour a day writing habit. Octavia Butler once said, “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.” I hear you, Octavia.

Why is there traffic at 3:30pm? Do people not stay at work until 5pm anymore?

I looked at my eyes in the mirror under the sunlight today for the first time ever and I have to say they are a beautiful shade of brown!

Thought I would be fancy and get custom frames for my new print babies. He came back and said it was $240 per piece and I yeeped! Lol let’s just say I left with what was off the shelves.

Buying my copy! 📕 We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso is available now at @haymarketbooks.org This is a call for us to build a just future together!

“Rising fascism” isn’t really hitting anymore. This is definitely just fascism, plain and simple. It is here.

This is an ad that came up on The Guardian while I was reading an article. The intersection of religion and fatphobia/diet culture is real af.

My body seems to be enjoying this lack of sleep thing. What is 8 hours? I don’t know her. 😴🥱

Religious abuse. Full stop.

Seasons Greetings from your social justice- loving friend ❤️🎄

Someone told me that astrology is gay religion and I can’t view astrology the same way again.

Saw this in the window of an Oakland-based establishment. This is good business! Say 🚫 ICE!

Poem: How to Listen by James A. Pearson

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

Tea aka herbal water

True confessions on internalized fatphobia: I assume everyone I’m romantically interested in would reject me for being fat so I talk myself out of pursuing anyone. Single is becoming a fixed identity.

Just read Lizzo’s Substack article about her weight loss and I have to say that fatphobia and internalized fatphobia are quite insidious. We need fat liberation now.

Idk who needs to hear this, but if you’re in any leadership role be it at work, church, or in your community, you need to be reading. We can’t have leaders that don’t read. And emails don’t count 😜

Been in a deeply introspective space lately. Playing this song on repeat and continuously reading this poem. Flowers for Lucille Clifton and Autumn.

"Immigration experts attribute the sharp rise to new restrictions on asylum eligibility imposed by the Trump administration as part of its sweeping immigration crackdown." www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

(published August 2025) The Tongva endured “displacement, forced labor, and loss of language and land,” said Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27). “It’s not just a return of land — it’s a return of dignity, connection and recognition.” www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...

We need a Teaching to Transgress for this era.

I was today years old when I learned that hashtags were no longer a thing #sad 🤣

For the Sacramento bbs looking to help out this winter season

Idk about you, but I made it in a turtle I a half shell.

More holiday Bay Area fun brought to you by the City of Oakland.

Got a call this week from an officer inquiring if I was interested in Naval Chaplaincy. Had to Google it. Sometimes I wonder how people get my number. Maybe I’ll call back and ask.

“While many others may be able to argue the economic impact, or argue the law, faith leaders are typically the ones who are arguing and standing on the side of humanity and for people.” - Rev. Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Executive Director of Live Free Illinois www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Queer love is holy. Thank you @leslietakahashi.bsky.social

In SF enjoying the holiday season with my boos! Drinks will be had. We will be merry. Fuck ICE! Happy Holidays!

Whoa. 😳

On simping for actors in problematic movies: I do not care how good people are at playing make believe when the story is violent.

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Assata, you’re on my mind…

Just ended my final class teaching this semester. It was such a joy and what a ride! Teaching is such a transformative experience. My students were thoughtful and brilliant and I felt better about the future after every class period. There is hope.

Low key, with all these costs of subscription services with in app purchases along with monthly fees, I may just go back to DVDs. 📀

I do not have capacity to learn or do anything about microplastics. Y’all are on your own.

For Bay Area folks. The holidays are here! #emeryville

Saying “I’m a wife, not a girlfriend,” is not the flex you think it is in 2025. Wives get cheated on just as much as girlfriends. 🤣

FYI for the cishet ladies: Embracing social capital for being married to a man is also patriarchy.

One of the good things that Oprah left out about going “no contact” with toxic family members is saving money on holiday gifts. The extra money is nice and they were gonna complain about their gift anyway. Winning! 🥇

So many people think they’re Elphaba when really they’re Glinda. This society adores Glindas and persecutes Elphabas. We are in Oz.

I may be naive in saying this, but I believe in a government that takes care of its people. I think we can have nice things in the U.S. if we put in the work.