poet | witch | abolitionist. author of TESTIFY (@Octopus__Books). vibe dealer at @hivesoulyoga. booking: booking@simonejohn.com
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25 Aug 2021
new poetry project is almost hereeeee✨🎶💅🏾 (I guess I'm a producer now? 😂🤷🏾♀️) learn more at auntiesbabyaudio.com
#comingsoon #BlackBoston #whatfolksaresaying
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15 Jun 2021
made it another year around the sun 🎉✨🎂 here's a media dump from the past year & a teaser for a new project dropping soon on a music platform near you 👀 🎧 #thisis30 #growthgamestrong #geminigang (1/x)
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15 Jun 2021
follow @auntiesbabyaudio on ig for more deets
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#poetry #blackboston #blackarchives
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simone john retweeted
19 Nov 2020
Today in African American lit, Dr. Billing's students discuss @simoneivory's raw, beautiful, elegaic collection Testify. Listen to her read some of her poems here: youtube.com/watch?v=0MErhmcR…
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simone john retweeted
10 Jul 2020
Two poems from Testify by @simoneivory apt.aforementionedproduction…
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17 Aug 2020
catch me on this instant virtual poetry reading, curated by @masscultural 📚💻✨
13 Aug 2020
We've assembled a virtual reading series featuring MA literary artists @simoneivory, @grnethercott, @annavqross, @wvstrautmann, and @Shilpits. Listen now: massculturalcouncil.org/blog…
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simone john retweeted
30 May 2020
If you or someone you know was arrested in Boston tonight, get in contact with the Massachusetts Bail Fund: massbailfund.org/?fbclid=IwA…
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simone john retweeted
30 May 2020
To be clear: are Black folks rioting and turning up? Yes. Is that okay? yes. Are black folks burning down their own communities — absolutely the fuck not.
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30 May 2020
relatable #mood 👇🏾 still traumatized from being in the streets in 2015 & jammed tf up from writing TESTIFY 🙃
my main action rn is laying low & asking the altar for guidance about where to put my body in this moment 🙏🏾✨
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simone john retweeted
30 May 2020
When Black folks are repeatedly saying do not show the faces of protesters it’s because people’s lives are at stake it’s not an exaggeration. When we tell you that white people who are either agent provocateurs or cops or both are escalating shit it’s not a conspiracy theory.
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simone john retweeted
30 May 2020
Fred Hampton was brutally murdered in his sleep by the police the following year. Mark Rudd is still alive. In 2013 I asked Mark why Fred Hampton knocked his ass out. His answer was clear and concise: “we did not listen to the people on the ground because we were racist.”
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simone john retweeted
30 May 2020
Fred Hampton (Chairman of the Chicago Black Panthers) punched Mark Rudd (a member of the Weather Underground) in the face during a meeting and the white activists still wouldn’t listen.
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simone john retweeted
30 May 2020
Short Thread:
During the 1968 DNC, white activists descended upon Chicago for the “Days of Rage” and the Chicago Black Panthers told them not to bc Black Chicagoans were the ones who would suffer the consequences. The white activists didn’t listen.
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simone john retweeted
29 May 2020
All school districts need to follow suit.
29 May 2020
BREAKING: Minneapolis Public Schools board members have written a resolution terminating the school district's contract with the Minneapolis Police Department.
The University of Minnesota was the first public institution to cut ties with MPD after the killing of George Floyd.
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