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Work before work. Lot on my mind.

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That dudes been all set. After he sent my mind into a tailspin. And disappeared. A huge trigger. When something goes really off. I try to avoid intimate relationships. They look great from a farther distance.

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The Black arts? Movement? Oh yeah. Poetry. I forgot.

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As for being ready to get married, later than most. Hell no. He’s not solid enough. But? BRAVO!

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This sounds like a nightmare to me.

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I am the WRONG person with a mental health difference, to try that ish with. Welfare, Section 8, the projects, single Black motherhood. Already discriminated against in employment by Black Women. I’m all for socialism. For? They/Them You do not know —me.

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This definitely stems from having a disability.

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Erica @erica-monteiro.bsky.social · 3h

But anyway. Back to marriage. People who use transitional assistance, can’t afford to get married. There are penalties associated. How will the RISE plan assure this it is not an economic disadvantage. Marriage.

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“Why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free?”—his mom, to me. His male best friend told me how much he loved me. How rare that is. And I will live with knowing how much I loved him, platonically (why God?) And how he was a better friend to me than I was to him. 😭

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Erica @erica-monteiro.bsky.social · 3h

That makes sense though it was done to me. I can do it too. “Keep calm and marry a Somali girl.”-Ilhan Omar.

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Mothers Have Abortions | Our Bodies Ourselves

Sorry state of affairs. I’d like the data on moms who told their men/husbands. I don’t want to have this baby/I’m not having this baby. Not many. They didn’t say shit. Just, did it. 😂 ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/mothers...

ourbodiesourselves.org

Our Bodies Ourselves provides accurate and inclusive information on health, sexuality, and reproductive justice.

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But it’s true. We still live in a world where even being treated less than well, by men, we must cater to their feelings. Instead of our own i.e. I *only* had an abortion because our babies weren’t viablle, my husband and my father.

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There is a particular kind of man that gets under my skin. The kind that emphasises his reason a woman should do what he thinks, with her reprod capabilities. Heartbeat or no heartbeat. If your beating heart ceases because it —literally—needs me? How am I killing— you?

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Erica @erica-monteiro.bsky.social · 11h

Make certain your man, if you didn’t plan on raising a child without him, is right by your side. Gin to his head 😂 So when you have an abortion. It’s only because your embryos/fetuses ceased to be viable, in utero.

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And man, who she dumped, and married someone else’s husband. Was right by her side. Through all of it.

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Erica @erica-monteiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

24 hours a day. 7 days a week.

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Erica @erica-monteiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Met with a sexual predator yesterday. I feel like Allah be testin me. How safe did I feel? Safe enough. He knew after I told him. I don’t have my work phone yet. But when I do? You can have it. The number. 😇 He was like, yes ma’am. Somethin on my face must have told him. Yeah, I’m listenin. 😐

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It’s really not funny. Neither is this traffic. I really need to leave earlier to get where I’m going for work. Lessons being learned.

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I’m gonna stay in my lanes.

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Are you some Nigerian chic?

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She’s a really dope artist. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-a...

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zahira cabrera kelly aka bad dominicana | afrolatina

I bought it. The shirt. I was like, let me support this chic. We don’t see eye to eye on everything but she is a super dope DOMINICAN artist. www.zahira.co

zahira.co

zahira cabrera kelly aka bad dominicana, afrolatina feminist, artist, writer and sociocritic.

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That’s another thing. I want all of our potential future presidents to meet with highly qualified and educated people to get input about policy. Not just celebrities. If that’s not too much to ask. 😐

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😰 Welp, just have to get used to being hated. Long as they don’t put their hands on me. Because I do hands. Right back.

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