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Popped over to @bridgeportfilmfest on Sunday for the Women In Film block. The selections were phenomenal. Bridgeport’s own @jasonacoombs is doing it big! taken in The Klein by @gemeem

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17 days ago

She is everything. At the @ctdems annual John Bailey fundraiser Stacey Abrams let us know it’s about one thing, power.

We have a little over a month until the #midterm elections. #Democrats must win and beat back this authoritarian takeover of our country. It is a requirement to building the multiracial #democracy that serves and benefits all of us, not a select few.

What a night @cgheilmann @boomcbj blackcatalystspac taken in Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater by @gemeem

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20 days ago

What #Bridgeport needs right now is some LOVE! Love for our community, our democracy, our schools, our kids and our history! Thanks to SOW CT (Supporting Organizing Work) for giving @gemeem the space to share reflections on our 10 year-long movement for a beloved Bridgeport! taken in Hamden, Connecticut by @gemeem

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a month ago

Beautiful Black Women and Sunshine ☀️ by @gemeem

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a month ago

American #democracy is in a peculiar but familiar place. At the edge of what was and what’s to come. Two weeks ago a cohort of Connecticut community organizations and nonprofits, including @bptgennow and @ptpartners from #Bridgeport attended the @policylink 2026 Summit to participate in the making of what’s to come.

Imagine. Believe. Make Real. Commit.

I’m still processing Sherrilyn Ifill’s “class”on the 13th and 14th amendments, and her invitation to think about who the invisible “founders” of our nation are.

Thank you Graustein Memorial Fund and @policylink for the investment, inspiration and tools we now get to share with our community as we continue remaking Bridgeport into a more just, equitable, livable and democratic city that works for all of us.

#wearethefounders #bridgeportct taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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It’s hard to believe that we are here. Again. But as they say, those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, while Mr. Floyd was handcuffed, lying face down in the street, shouting “I can’t breathe!” Captured on video, Mr. Floyd’s public murder rocked our nation to its core and birthed a summer of uprisings and protests.

No city was immune to this reckoning. Not even our city. That summer, four Black high school students from Central High School organized a march to the Columbus statue in Seaside Park to call for its immediate removal. These young women did not ask anyone’s permission. They did what they saw was just, moral and necessary..

The efforts by four high school students opened our collective eyes and with clarity, we could all see that the Christopher Columbus statue has no public place in Bridgeport. While even then we recognized this was painful for some, it was time to tell the truth and refuse to look away.

About 70% of Bridgeport residents identify as Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino. What unites their migration stories is that they all have direct ancestry that suffered under the violent European colonization of the Americas, the enslavement and genocide of Indigenous people, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade that enriched the European continent for hundreds of years.

The people who are proposing the Columbus statue be returned — Christopher Caruso of Bridgeport, Mayor Mark Lauretti of Shelton, and Dan Onofrio of Shelton — must acknowledge this truth. And they have a moral obligation to not only recognize the racial and ethnic reality of Bridgeport, but also to respect it.

There is no common ground to be found by forcing the return of the Christopher Columbus statue to Seaside Park because its presence there serves no common good.

But if a small group of people are determined to repeat history, we will be prepared to stand up and fight once more.

- by Gemeem Davis and Calabria Gale Heilmann, the co-directors of Bridgeport Generation Now. Read the full article at www.ctpost.com! #inthistogether taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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#Bridgeport, here’s 5 things you should know about the Christopher Columbus statue mess.

1. Despite the @ctpost headline, there is no “common ground” for returning the statue to Seaside Park. Putting it there serves no common good. It simply strokes the ego of a few who are hell bent on exercising some type of authority over Bridgeport’s indigenous roots and current Black and brown majority.

1. 4 Black girls from Central High School were the first to call for the #Columbus statue removal after George Floyd was killed.

2. This is what white supremacy looks like.

3. People from Shelton have no say in what belongs in our public parks.

4. There’s only one acceptable solution.

5. Install the #ChristopherColumbus statue in Shelton since y’all want to honor him so much. taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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2 months ago

🗳️ Early voting started today in Connecticut! It goes from Aug 3 - Aug 8 (despite what I said in the video) 🤷🏾‍♀️

Have you made your plan to vote yet?

I’m usually an Election Day voter but I’m really excited to vote for @joshforct in the Democratic primary for governor this year!

#bridgeportct
#bridgeportctelections
#ctelections
#ctdems
#democrats taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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2 months ago

When you’re at a community event trying to take photos. #bridgeportct #bridgeportgems 📸 😂 taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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2 months ago

Don’t let them tell us there’s nothing to do here. ☀️Jerk Fest, FPV All White Boat Ride, Cape Verdean Family Day, Saint Mark’s Annual Picnic. And that was just one weekend. #bridgeportct taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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2 months ago

I’m still on high from the L-Boogie / Ms. Lauryn Hill concert at @hartfordhealthcareamp on Tuesday. #bridgeport showed up and showed out! taken in Seaside Park Bridgeport Connecticut by @gemeem

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3 months ago

G. Love & Special Sauce. ❤️😋 #backyardgarden taken in Bridgeport, Connecticut by @gemeem

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3 months ago