#FAMILY

I never expect that adulthood could be this terrible. This is thread btw. Let me tell you my living as an adult life. I thought that my adulthood started at
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The words used to skirt around the brutality of poverty are telling. “Involuntary hunger,” the term that independent pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) prefers to describe “hunger due to lack
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This tweet in Kashmiri addressed to me says ‘May your dead body be found on Houston highways along with the dead body of your children’. This is just one sample
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HEY if somebody makes me super uncomfortable but I don't know why or if I'm really justified in feeling that way, is it cool to block them? Am I being
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i always forget that i’m a first generation college graduate in my family, like i’m literally my nanny’s first grandchild that has gone to college and i never really think
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In light of Michigan @DaleZornSenate's recent donning of a Confederate flag mask, I decided to do some Resistance Genealogy inspired by @CleverTitleTK. (In case you hadn't heard, this gent from
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The last decade was among the lowest for new housing units built in #SalemMA. Values, rents, and prices are up because supply is down, not because we're overbuilt. Claims that
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Sickle cell runs in my family. I’m not going to shame a carrier for choosing a mate that doesn’t have the gene. Ppl shouldn’t tell ppl they should be ok
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The year was 2001 and I was in Hargeisa on a dhaqan celis tour. Arsenal were still a wining team and I was a new fan, one night I went
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From Next Month.Alot of Nigerians are going to find out they are not Middle Class.They are poor..Some already know this, The Lockdown is opening people's eyes..Next time, pretend to be
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Lessons from my mom the landlord: **gasp*** a renter activist with a landlord mama?! Yes. And we don’t disagree on a lot. I always ask her perspective on housing policy.
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A 24 year old left her parents house. Her parents got mad about it. Had the police arrest her. The police now asked for 100k bail. Lawyer went to clear
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to achilles,you were my dream. oh god you were the dream i’ve always wanted to fulfill. you were the dream i’ve always longed for. yet you, too, were the dream
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I want to talk about why I, as a deeply boring middle-class Pākehā woman who didn't even manage to get OFFERED a joint until she was twenty-seven, am going to
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About 15 minutes ago I signed a new order regarding #TeleHealth. We want to ensure that those who see providers for not just their physical health, but also for their
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It was Thanksgiving 2017. I wanted to spend it in VA but he said we were making our own traditions and wanted to have thanksgiving as a “family” So I’m
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