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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (she/her) Profile picture
@ECMcLaughlin
Sep 16, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I am astonished (and not) by how little of white America seems to have any idea of what's been happening in DC this week.

It's not just about talking the talk, it's also about (not centering yourself while) walking the walk.

Education: #cbcfalc18 #cbcfalc2018
So these comments explain exactly what I’m talking about, unfortunately. The hashtags are for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, which has been taking place in DC since Wednesday. The most powerful black politicians, non-profit leaders and...
activists are there— hundreds of them— including Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, Joy Reid, @coalitionbuildr, @MsLaToshaBrown, @SistahScholar, Elijah Cummings, and a whole host of others.

White folks need to follow this. Future building at its finest. Five days long.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (she/her) Profile picture
Oct 9, 2018
I'm going to tell a story right now that I've never told out loud.

When I was 20, I arranged to be out of the country when the 1st lawsuit against my molester was filed.

1/
There was press--in the local paper, in the Philly Inquirer about a family therapist who molested his teenage patient. It hit big by current standards.

That night, I spoke to my mother-- the last conversation we had for 20 years-- in which she told me she didn't believe me.

2/
At the time, I was all alone as a senior in college studying abroad, save my professor/boyfriend, 17 years older, who was there as the "faculty advisor."

When he learned, shortly after I filed suit, that I was generally absent from my body during sex, he took it personally.

3/
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Oct 8, 2018
There is some shit worth acknowledging right now.

I fucked up a lot on race consciousness this year. @theladyalx came for me as a result. @nicoleclee entered my life soon after.

I chose thework. I put myself in the company of @desireeadaway and others. That led to @ncbcp_bwr.
And then I fucked up again. That led me to these really awesome conversations with @StaciJShelton and others behind the scenes that are so challenging and rich and so loving, and that have taught me to not be afraid to ask if I have fucked up, shamelessly.
And then I fucked up AGAIN. That led to me following @AngryBlackLady and @dianelyssa, who I think still mute me but educate me every day now. LOL.

I have had a year of fucking up as a white woman, in really bad ways.

It has been fucking painful, and worth every single minute.
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Oct 8, 2018
So the kids and I decided to invest in life today . . . But also to set shit on fire.
We bought a fire pit.

We went full on priestess.

Lavender. Sage. Palo Santo.
The kids wrote out what they wanted to burn.
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Oct 6, 2018
I spent the afternoon immersed in various forms of my own personal therapy. I'm back and I'm ready to tear some shit up.

And I'm just gonna say it: I'm not backing another politician, ever again, who isn't willing to set shit on fire and burn down white supremacist patriarchy.
I'm going to center on people with a history of fighting for justice, people invested in equity, people who know what it means to fight, people who are relentless. I don't give a fuck where they come from or whether they're "experienced."

I'm looking at a coalition of warriors.
And WE make the army--leaders, generals and priestesses alike--as long as we are willing to listen and build and fight.

Make no mistake about it: I don't care if it all ends in ashes as long as what comes next allows nothing like what happened today to ever happen again.

#DONE
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Oct 5, 2018
Pretty much every text on my phone right now.
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Oct 3, 2018
My friend @Lmpera has a saying: what we do for the one we do for the all.

This afternoon, I stripped naked and got this beautiful, life-worn body of mine scrubbed, pummeled, massaged, anointed, head to fucking toe. Full on goddess territory.

I am new. And have some thoughts. 1/
We are innundated right now with their hatred of us— all of us who don’t look, love, or live like those in power. It is overwhelming.

The antidote is this: we must love ourselves so ferociously,with such profound and powerful commitment to it, that their hate can’t gain entry 2/
and with such an overwhelming sense of worthiness that we heal ourselves and one another from all the damage these centuries (and recent weeks) of hatred has wrought.

This means nourishing ourselves in every way— food, water, spiritually, emotionally, and dare I say it, 3/
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