On this day in 1864, Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson was born. She passed “unusually severe” exams to become the 1st woman & the 1st black woman licensed to practice medicine in Alabama. After earning her license, she served as a medical doctor for the Tuskegee Institute. #WeTheMen

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Know what's dope about being a storyteller of the written word, a fiction writer, great power we wield? My novel & novella are journeys people entered with tools I gave them with my language I craft that imprinted & transformed them, & the voyage is forever in their minds. @shanders.bsky.social

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A lot of ppl are touch deprived and look to sex to fill the void but we’d all do better with physical touch and intimacy that isn’t sexual.

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"You guys make everything about race!" Meanwhile Texas got a town outside Fort Worth called fucking WHITE SETTLEMENT.

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I love teaching. I love learning. I love reading and writing. I’m a misanthrope but I’m also Black. I will learn your new shiny thing out of curiosity and if that fails, out of pragmatism. But what a way to waste my time and waste students’ faith.

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