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Aaminah Shakur

Aaminah Shakur

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Jan 28, 2022

Tweeting About Banning Books

This is a place where I wanted to collect a few threads of my tweets about the recent spate of schools banning books into one place

Tweeting About Banning Books

Aaminah Shakur

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Jul 7, 2021

Changing Creative Life

Recently I’ve had to make some pretty large life decisions, as I’m sure most people reading this have. The pandemic has changed lives…

Changing Creative Life

Aaminah Shakur

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Jun 6, 2021

Thinking About Food

Considering the film Gather (Indigenous food sovereignty) and the Netflix series High on the Hog (Black American culinary history)

Thinking About Food

Aaminah Shakur

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May 6, 2020

A Creative Life in a Time of Crisis

This is, and isn’t, about the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope this article is useful beyond/outside of quarantine circumstances because so many…

A Creative Life in a Time of Crisis

Aaminah Shakur

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Dec 31, 2019

Welcoming 2020

It is a new year and a new decade! While I don’t do resolutions, I thought I would share some ideas we could all incorporate into the next…

Welcoming 2020

Aaminah Shakur

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Jun 12, 2018

Checking In On Your Friends: Why & How, Or, Being Better Friends

Content Note for discussions of mental health/illness, other disabilities, suicide, etc.

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Aaminah Shakur

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Apr 4, 2018

More of this, please: Making space for equity

Every good thing starts with one step and to get more of this we need to talk about how to take that first step, but we also need to be…

More of this, please: Making space for equity

Aaminah Shakur

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Mar 8, 2018

An International Women’s Day for All Women

TW: Mentions of violence, abuse, sexual assault, suicide, etc.

An International Women’s Day for All Women

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Aaminah Shakur

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Jan 15, 2018

“Art and the Mind” offers little about art, questionable information on the mind

I was expecting claims that creative brilliance are directly related to mental illness—a myth often used to excuse bad, abusive behavior…

“Art and the Mind” offers little about art, questionable information on the mind

Aaminah Shakur

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Dec 29, 2017

We’re Still Here, We Haven’t Failed Yet

In preparing for the new year, where does one even start? New years seem arbitrary as a force for “change” and resolutions seem trite (no…

We’re Still Here, We Haven’t Failed Yet

Aaminah Shakur

Aaminah Shakur

artist/historian/poet/culture critic — http://aaminahshakur.com — Gratuity: CashApp $aaminahshakur or http://paypal.me/shakurarts

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