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wouldn’t be right without the people at my side (but the cover picture is a picture of me lol). what a week, thank you to everyone’s birthday wishes 🥳♎️

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Poasted up ! Ty for your vision @princessamugo

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she says behind many tears: the Word on Wednesday was one of the first spaces I found myself on campus my freshman year.
the Word gave me so much. it gave me friends I will have until the end of time, it gave me a platform for my voice, it gave me the means to help give platforms to others so that their voices would be heard, it gave me lovers, it gave me losses, it gave me clarity, it gave me pieces of myself when I had lost so much of me. The Word gave me a family. A reason to power through my anxiety of speaking week after week. the Word has given me /so much/ more than I could’ve ever thought a small, tightly-compacted sweaty room could have ever given me because of all of the beautiful souls who make up the space. the Word is a community and the first one I have ever felt as if I belong to. The Word feels like. my child. To have seen it grow into what it is since my freshman year & to see what we have made of it & to have seen so many beautiful folk grow into themselves because of this space, to hear how many people this space has impacted, and to know that this space will always be in good hands is a type of blessing and honor i still can’t even wrap my head around. t Thank you, the Word on Wednesday’s & everybody that has ever made word what it is, for four beautiful years. Thank you Word family for two years of allowing me to host & direct this safehaven. I will always keep the largest piece of this space with me wherever I go because you all gave me my first home. you gave me back my voice. & you gave me back myself. & the love this community has is certainly one that will never be forgotten. Continue to break barriers & love with your bones. It has been an honor to have made history with you all 🌹

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“people are walking their cats, erin’s smoking books over the books”

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existence is comical. life is so unexpected. i was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disease in which my immune system starts attacking my own healthy nerves. in the beginning I was unable to hold down food, unable to walk or move without assistance, unable to see in any space where light was present. being like this & in the hospital has been so discouraging. my afro am professors have been very unresponsive & unhelpful & my counseling unit has failed to be by my side, & now it’s looking as if i’m to graduate without the minor that I put in so much work for. Now I won’t be staying in LA over the summer to work & take classes & have to reconfigure a path for my future. Especially because the recovery period for GBS ranges between 3 months and a year as I go through physical therapy to learn to walk properly again & hope that the disease allows for feeling to return to my feet.
this has been such a hard time for me mentally. all of these setbacks. but I know God closed doors so that others can be busted open. & that’s what i’m holding onto. open doors and the hands of all of the amazing, loving folk in my life who have been here and helpful beyond compare during this time. I love you all so much. thank you for carrying me (sometimes literally) through this gap in the road & making me feel more loved than i’ve literally ever felt.

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these are the good ol’ days

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it’s officially been two weeks since we’ve had a Word event & im already missing the space & the family it’s given me. so here’s a tb to our last word event of winter quarter. thank you so so much @poetjasminemans for coming through & spitting some truth & providing some much needed love. thank you to @jada_somiah for blowing us all away with your incredibly beautiful voice. thank you @cheyenneaoelua for orchestrating such a compelling co-program & art exhibit, & thank you word fam for yet another incredible quarter. quite honestly, I don’t know what i’d do or who i’d be without all of y’all. i couldn’t have asked for a more loving, patient, resilient, & powerful group of beautiful humans to spend my wednesday’s with. the love I have for y’all extends further than the walls of the art gallery (& then some 😛). I can’t wait to see what spring quarter has in store for us 🌹

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Chronicles of Clumsy Adventures Pt.One; swimming through a softly lit dream filled with characters abound, floating together in a pool of sunlight. #crossedthoughts #happybirthdaybianca #building our own paradise

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I'd like to take the time to thank these amazing people for always being there for me and congrats on making it this far ❤️ can't wait to see you guys prosper at ucla, much love for you all 💙💛🐻

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happy (slightly early) birthday to the queen slaymanie 💕 much love for you because you've grown right along with me and our wild times are the best 💁🏾 stay tuned for our show coming to MTV soon, Mich & Man ❤️☺️

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Thank you for all those that risked the blistering hot sun and showed up for the Tinman Triathlon! Shoutout to the 2016 graduates who still came back to help😊😄

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