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Heather Richardson @hg-richardson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
That story about your father reclaiming his name was wonderful.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thank you for the support and positive review!
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Covering the ##SONA2025 on Newzroom Afrika from 12pm-3pm today.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Countdown to #TessaTurns41
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
COUNTDOWN TO #TESSATURNS41
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Building constituencies without consciousness, will build power without purpose.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Democracy is a verb.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Being undivided is more important than being united.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"The rise of the Brocarlichy"
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 27/01/2025
Joburg residents meet to discuss the city’s crises Some suggested boycotting paying rates while others called for transparency and accountability from the City Read groundup.org.za/article/over... by Silver Sibiya
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Joburg residents meet to discuss the city’s crises
Some suggested boycotting paying rates while others called for transparency and accountability from the City
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Don't let struggle become your personality.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Build institutions. Build movements. Build solidarity. Build legacies. Build the future so well that it makes the present redundant. There is a lot to tear down, but we can't wait for things to fall before we build. Abolish is necessary, building is necessari-er.
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Sandra Marsh @lacubana.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
May 2025 be the year that we wholesale substitute charity for solidarity. 💛✊🏽
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The way my sisters and I jump when my parents ask for something needs to be studied in a parenting lab. At our big ages, we all jump at once.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
People who are making coffee dates with me for January...you guys are stressing me with next year things. Relax comrades.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
"Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends"
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Sometimes, our activism is showing up to support young acting talent as they start their careers. Watch out for the name Brooklyn Lottering, a physical theatre phenomenon and impactful artist, as his star literally rises from the townships of SA to the world. #CreativeEconomy #colouredcommunities
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
When we were young...
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas. "In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face." -Steven Biko
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Monday for what? 31 Saturdays in December.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I still get overwhelmed when I see Book Baby on the shelves. She's still in stock in time for Christmas. Signed copies at @exclusivebooks.bsky.social in Rosebank. #Coloured @jonathanball.bsky.social @lynseychutel.bsky.social
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My niece just told me that she made Dean's list at UCT in her first year. I remember struggling through first year because we didn't come from schools that prepared us for varsity. The second generation university kids bucking this trend already has me in tears. Congratulations Gabby girl!
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I once escaped a now murderous abuser without knowing it. He was normal. Nothing out of the ordinary. Nice. Accomplished and smart. Having the instinct at the first attempt at control may have saved me from being his victim. They aren't obvious monsters. Every sign matters.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Don't win the race to the bottom.
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Zwelethu @zwelethu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
On this here Steve Bantubonke Biko's birthday, this song is appropriate✊🏾.
iPhupho L'ka Biko's song Azania from the album 'Azania'
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm reminded of when Julius said we aren't all working with the same information. We genuinely aren't. Sometimes, you're judging people for information they don't have.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
People really still think that titles translate automatically to authority. Baffling.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Progressives must get serious about cultural revolution. Society transforms through socialization. Not litigation, not regulation and certainly not rumination. We will better inspire people to our worldview rather than shame them into it.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I will say one thing about Chris Brown and then sit down. There is no political party or social justice groups who could get that many people to show up anywhere at their own cost. At best there are a few churches. Until we win the 'value' game we will lose the values war.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I will fail more than I succeed. I will fail more than most people fail. But that's also because I try, practically try, more often than most people talk about trying.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Nothing bores me more than people who are articulate about problems but inarticulate and unimaginative about solutions. Being detailed about the problem but abstract about the solution produces a performance art I'm no longer interested in.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Department of Health's primary responsibility is not healthcare but HEALTH. Health is about the absence of disease. About wellbeing and safety. We must be a plan to close the taps on disease otherwise we will never have enough money for healthcare.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Woke up this morning to a humanitarian crisis and had to scramble to get civic support because noone could think of a single state agency that we thought could help.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Why am I already booked and busy as far as July 2025 👀
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The work of Love & Revolution by imagination has a history, a legacy and a future. Today marks 100 years since the gift of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was given to the world. “Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa” - Robert Sobukwe
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
From local organising to writing to the world, we are #DemocracyBuilders
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Sohini Gowan @sohinigowan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Excellent article Tessa! My fave part 👇🏾
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
So I did a thing! Co-authored in a Stanford Journal Special Edition on Democracy. It's speaks about our work at the Rivonia Circle. What an extraordinary team. ssir.org/articles/ent...
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Invigorating and Expanding Civic Power (SSIR)
True believers in democracy must take steps to unlock people’s civic agency, with a particular focus on strategies that make democracies more inclusive, more people-centered, and more responsive...
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Plot twist: 2028 Vance vs Biden Hunter wins as the anti-establishment candidate on the promise to drain the swamp
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Peter Herring @peterherring.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
theconversation.com/an-upward-sp...
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An upward spiral – how small acts of kindness and connection really can change the world, according to psychology research
A psychologist and human connection researcher explains how individual acts of kindness and connection can have a real impact on global change when these acts are collective.
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tessadooms.bsky.social @tessadooms.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm still adding work to my 2024 to-do-list. What a difficult.
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