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[robyndehood]

We are trying, but our journey is tough to get new housing. We aren't giving up though. Tampa people are so kind. My son is finally being treated like the kid he is.

[robyndehood]

Looking for work in Tampa or St. Pete!

I'm a jack-of-all-trades, but my best skills are writing and editing.

Contact me here or at 4!270734!8 with any leads!

#jobs near me #florida #st petersburg #editing #writing

[robyndehood]

Single Mom Seeking Editing or Writing Jobs

We are about to cross the border into Florida from Georgia. We are escaping Appalachia and multiple incidents of indirect and direct racism toward my sweet, three-year-old son. We are also fleeing uninhabitable public housing conditions and other issues. Wish us luck!

We are taking a big risk out of necessity. I am a strong writer and editor/proofreader. I have five years of professional editing experience. Money is extremely tight at the moment and I'm looking for some freelance editing or writing opportunities - or even a more permanent, full-time position.

I also have an ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate and a BA in Communication and Marketing from Duquesne University.

If you or anyone you know is in need of any of the aforementioned skill sets, please contact me on here or at 4!270734!8.

I am mostly interested in work that I can complete remotely - but message me with any proposal and we can discuss specifics in more detail. In other words, I am open to remote or in-person work, so long as the latter is a realistic situation for someone living in Tampa. I own a car.

I promise a thorough, error-free and expedient turnaround for any project or assignment. You will not be disappointed. I am accustomed to meeting deadlines and your work will be completed on time - if not ahead of schedule.

Thanks!

#writers on tumblr #editing #proofreading #black lives matter #latin women #freelance

[robyndehood]

5 days, bubby until we are free

#black lives matter #black boys #latin women

[robyndehood]

5 days, bubby until we are free

#black lives matter #black boys #latin women

[robyndehood]

A Show About Righting Society's Wrongs Taking Advantage of Some of Society's Most Vulnerable...

They rented all of the parking lots in these projects to this production company and forced residents to park elsewhere for 6 days in the past month. It just seems wrong to me that projects that are completely HUD subsidized can make money in this manner and without the consent of the residents - let alone without any sort of stipend given to residents.

Moreover, these same projects are absolute slums: roach infestations that feed to other apartments and are not properly treated, drug addicts using in the halls, shootings, children fending for themselves, trash everywhere, people peeing in hallways, etc.

Just another example of the poor being displaced, used, etc. to create wealth for the privileged.

The pictures don't even really tell the story. They just scratch the surface.

More to come. For now though:

Photo 1: one of the parking lots we weren't allowed to park in.

Photo 2: trash left in the halls for days. Yes, even my son knows it shouldn't be there.

Photo 3, 4, and 5: The usual state of the grounds when films aren't being shot there.

#injustice #black lives matter #poor people

[robyndehood]

14 more days until our new life, Bubby

#black lives matter #latinboys #black love #black boys

[robyndehood]

Our best weapon against terrorism is to unify America.

Don't let others poke holes in our flag.

#patriotism #unityindiversity #better future #themeltingpot

[robyndehood]

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This weekend a"comedy" movie was shot in the jects that we're fleeing from and the owners decided to ban us from parking in our own parking lots when there is little street parking.

The plants in the tires are decorations for the movie. What the hell is funny about the projects? Shootings with kids as casualties? Roach infestations? People smoking crack in the hallways? Some people occasionally peeing in the hallways?

Or is it the children running around fending for themselves because their parents are preoccupied?

And no, I am not stating all projects are like this. And I'm not stating all families here are like the aforementioned. Often a lot of the ruckus does come from the outside.

#projects #not funny

[robyndehood]

When will males stop referring to women and girls as "bitches" and "hoes" to seem cool? Notice I didn't say men. If a woman or girl is really being the aforementioned, go ahead and and call her out of her name for all I care. But saying "lemme go get me some bitches" or the same as a tag for someone within dateable range is a slur. This is another thing that is so obvious it seems stupid to post. But here I am, bc no one else is saying it.

#better future #womens rights #latin women #justice #writers on tumblr #respect

[robyndehood]

I enjoyed tonight's The Good Fight episode (s5 e10).

Stop allowing the puppet masters of chaos to divide America. An enemy divided is easily defeated.

#satire #unityindiversity #the good fight

[robyndehood]

Let's stop ALL hate. Let's stop dividing and start coming together. Let's not just be on one movement WHEN it's trendy. All judgment based on skin color or characteristics one cannot change is wrong. And it's worse when it harms. Let's follow a rule: "believe as you will as long as it doesn't infringe on another's human rights."

I know there is a lot of division and a lot of misery and my son is one of the youngest victim's of America's misguided chaos and division.

COVID19 wanderings Presence X: Rally Against AAPI Hate. San Francisco, 04-03-21.

#unityindiversity #better future #stop racial profiling

[robyndehood]

HELP A SOLO MOM AND HER BABY!

Pietra is always asking me for help and this is the only way I can help her!

She’s a single mom from Brazil, she’s unemployed. The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis, increasing the rolls of the unemployed and the homeless. She has been applying for jobs everyday but it’s really hard. She needs FOOD, her family needs to eat.

PLEASE, DONATE TO HER! and please, share too. Even $5 is a lot for her.

#latin women #latinboys

[robyndehood]

HELP A SOLO MOM AND HER BABY!

Pietra is always asking me for help and this is the only way I can help her!

She’s a single mom from Brazil, she’s unemployed. The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis, increasing the rolls of the unemployed and the homeless. She has been applying for jobs everyday but it’s really hard. She needs FOOD, her family needs to eat.

PLEASE, DONATE TO HER! and please, share too. Even $5 is a lot for her.

[robyndehood]

25 days to go. Back in jects tonight. Documented the conditions of building halls on a "clean" night. Was gonna post it but will wait for another night.

[robyndehood]

This is terrifying.

#covid pandemic

[robyndehood]

Aftershocks: A Memoir (2021)

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.

A Most-Anticipated Selection by * The New York Times * Entertainment Weekly * O, The Oprah Magazine * New York magazine *Vogue * Time * Minneapolis Star Tribune * Electric Literature * Goodreads * Refinery29 * HelloGiggles *

Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo.

With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself and her siblings together.

Aftershocks is the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand.

Heralding a dazzling new writer, Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does for gender identity in The Argonauts.

by Nadia Owusu (Author)

Get it now here

Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. Her lyric essay So Devilish a Fire won the Atlas Review chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Times, the Washington Post’s The Lily, Literary Review, Electric Literature, Epiphany, and Catapult. Aftershocks is her first book.

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