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Sophia Bush Actress. Activist. Host @workinprogress podcast TEXT ME 📲 (213)205-3777 Lover of good conversations, good humans, and duh, puppies. | medium.com/@ariadnelabs/social-distancing-this-is-not-a-snow-day-ac21d7fa78b4 |

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this 🙏 @aolanow

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Happy Birthday Ruth Bader Ginsburg! You are a guiding light in trying times! ✨🏆⚖️ #HBD #RBG #NotoriusRBG

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This is why social distancing MATTERS. This life and death. People are confused because of testing results and reporting numbers. The most accurate testing data is coming out of South Korea right now because they have broad testing, whereas in Italy they are only testing those with symptoms. Look at the data differential between SK + Italy. Young people are most likely to be carriers and be largely asymptomatic, and then infect older people who will die. But younger people are dying too. Italy had 386 deaths today. TODAY. In one day. Their healthcare system is completely overwhelmed, there are not enough ventilators, not enough masks for healthcare workers, and we are on track to mirror their numbers if we do not make drastic changes IMMEDIATELY. • This is not an overreaction. I say this as someone who cares about all of you, whose entire extended family is on lockdown Italy, whose father is 72 and has sever asthma (and is thus immuno-compromised), and who has a history of my own serious upper respiratory issues due to my lifelong asthma (and is thus ALSO immunocompromised). So if you think you don’t know anyone who this could effect, I ask you to think of your neighbors. And if for some reason — that is beyond my ability to reason — that doesn’t work? Well, Hail Mary here, but maybe think of me? My Dad? If we personalize this to you and you’ll consider staying home, so that the folks who absolutely cannot stay home — healthcare workers, food service folks, etc — can have a better shot at avoiding this? Then great. Consider it personal. This is the week we either slow this beast down, or it becomes a runaway train. Please take care of yourselves. I love you guys. ♥️ #COVID—19 • SOURCE: Dr. Eric Ding, Epidemiologist, Senior Fellow of the Federation of American Scientists, V.Scientist @Harvard, Harvard + @johnshopkinsu.

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This may help explain the idea of social distancing, why it matters so much — THIS WEEK in particular — and how seriously we all need to be taking this. • If we do this right, in a few weeks major precautions will seem like they were an overreaction. That’s if we’re lucky. If we don’t take this seriously, we will be on track to match or surpass Italy in both infection and mortality rates. The current mortality rate in Italy is 7.3% (cited by @reptedlieu just this morning). This is not a drill. This is a pandemic. Please take it seriously. • And while doing so, remember not to panic. Share resources. Shop for elderly neighbors. Get some fresh air while you stay away from everyone but the people you directly live with. And while you’re home, call your Senators and ask them to pass the emergency assistance bill that passed in the house, so that folks can stay home with pay. Demand it. Mitch McConnell may think this is the time for a three day weekend, but health experts say otherwise. #COVID—19

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Please READ THIS ARTICLE (link in bio) and take this VERY seriously. People in lines at bars, thinking this is a “holiday,” GO HOME. Consider your community, your elders, and the immunocompromised. We are on track to be in just as dire a situation here in the USA as Italy, within a week. These measures are of critical importance. #COVID19 #coronavirus

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As we celebrate #IWD and the 100th anniversary (#ad) of the 19th Amendment (and #wcw!), I’m thrilled to celebrate the Equal Rights Amendment with my partners @JohnnieWalkerUS and its Jane Walker by Johnnie Walker blend, which is dedicated to championing women. This January, the ERA was passed by its required 38th state, Virginia. But we need the ERA to be ratified. In EVERY state. The ERA must become the law of the land. Because while 94% of Americans support constitutional equality for women, data shows that somewhere between 80% - 86% of Americans mistakenly think it already exists! We deserve real, tangible equality. No more of this making $0.80 on the dollar to men — and don’t forget that this disparity is even worse for women of color! That’s why I’m proud to work with Johnnie Walker, and share that they’ve signed on as the first brand to join Corporate America for the ERA – a new coalition of corporations and business leaders dedicated to passing the Equal Rights Amendment with the @eracoalition. Together, we are asking companies across the country to stand with the ERA and join the coalition by emailing [email protected]. And you can encourage companies you work for or do business with (even as consumers!) to do the same. Women are ready to break the barriers that stand before us — we’ve BEEN ready — and it’s time we have equal opportunity to push boundaries. Let’s all raise a toast to smashing those glass ceilings. #JWforERA #ERAcoalition #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2020

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@forward__space + @kristinsudeikisdance came to LA and we threw a dance class for #InternationalWomensDay and I’m still sore and still feeling extra happy from choreo. I love you guys! Please bring a studio to LA we need all of this joyful movement okay thanks byyyyyye 🔥❣️👯‍♀️❣️👯‍♀️❣️🔥

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This #InternationalWomensDay, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, feels especially poignant to me. And that’s why I've teamed up with @INTERMIXonline and @rockthevote to celebrate! We're asking women everywhere to stand up and register to vote this year by texting the word INTERMIX to 788-683. Ladies, let’s vote like powerful group that we are. It’s time. 💛 #sponsored #intermix #rockthevote

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When we think about participating in our democracy — and in particular the privilege that it is to vote + to have a say in the course this country will chart — do not forget those who sacrificed, protested, knelt, and marched for the dream + possibility of equality. Those who stood strong in acts of civil disobedience, and who gave all of themselves for progress. Progress they may not have seen. Progress for us, and those to come. Today, remember one such heroic and traumatic action. Remember #SELMA. #Repost @repjohnlewis “55 years ago today, we were beaten, tear gassed, and trampled by horses. I thought I saw death. I thought I was going to die. I don't know how I made it back, but I know we cannot rest. We cannot become weary. We must keep pushing and pulling and find a way to get in the way.” And when you wonder if you can keep going, keep up, or you think about tuning out, remember this image. Honor the marchers. And then commit to keep showing up.✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

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I'm teaming up with @INTERMIXonline, @rockthevote, and some incredible women that I truly admire to celebrate IWD and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. We're asking women everywhere to stand up and register to vote this year by texting the word INTERMIX to 788-683! • Our vote is our power. And this year it’s more important than ever. So much is at stake. When we think back on the progress that’s been made because people have shown up to the polls, I’m amazed. And I’m fired up for what we’ll do next. But let’s look back for a moment ... 100 years ago (mostly white) women won the right to vote. Women voting was of course a milestone, but women of color had to keep fighting discrimination, and laws like Jim Crow, for years to come. In 1972, the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) was placed for before state legislatures with an initial 7 year deadline to acquire ratification in 38 states. It was ONLY ratified in its 38th state (Virginia) in January of 2020!! 86% of Americans polled have believed (for years!) that there’s a law in place requiring employers to pay men and women equally, but we’ve only just ratified the law, and we have to keep our eyes on the process to make sure it goes into effect! • I say all of this to remind us (and myself too) that forward progress can be long road, but if we commit to showing up for each other time and time again, we can ALWAYS get better at taking action, do better for our communities and this planet. So? Let’s make 2020 our best year yet. Let’s make that spinning wheel of progress go a little (or a lot!) faster. Let’s #RockTheVote #Intermix #InternationalWomensDay #Sponsored ♥️✌🏼🇺🇸

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March 4th is Brooke Davis’ birthday. Sweet folks always tell me they’re her number one fan, and I gotta say ... I think I am, y’all. But you can certainly vie for 2nd 😘 HBD, Queen B. You changed my life. #OTHfam

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Today was a good day #IAmAVoter ✌🏼♥️🇺🇸 #YesOnR @tomparsekian @elizabethwarren • Now, I voted for things and people I believe in. I want you all to do the same. Vote for the climate, education, better healthcare, for undoing private prisons and instead investing in our communities. Those things seem like no brainers to me. If we center policy on kindness and human rights, I believe we can move mountains. No matter how you vote/voted today, I hope that exercising your right felt joyful because your vote is rooted in love. As we get results, and we see what’s next, I want to be clear about something. I’m going to bust my ass for whoever my party’s candidate is. I want this country to get better. To start to mean something around the globe, and to the folks having the hardest times here, in addition to those whose lives are working out great. I want us all to remember we are on the same team. So yes, Liz is my girl, always has been and always will be. I believe in her brilliance, her dedication, her ability to debate better than anyone. Her plans. She’s got a plan for EVERYTHING. And her moral core. I love how she’s willing to learn from mistakes, asks the most vulnerable folks to hold her accountable, and takes it on the chin while also taking it to heart, and always raises her own bar. She’s my candidate. But you’re also my people. And my hope for all of us is that as we move forward, whether the choice is my candidate or yours, we remember that we are all on that same team. We have to rally around each other. We have to fight for the greater good. And I hope we show up and show out for each other like never before. Like our lives depend on it. Because they do. I love you guys. And I believe in us. A lot. ♥️

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Today’s episode of @workinprogress is a real highlight for me, as I got to sit down with one of my LA heroes, @david.a.gross. David joined me to talk about growing up in South Central, the culture shock of moving to a small town in Texas, his path to the Ivy League, becoming a real estate expert and advisor, and how all roads eventually led back to South LA. He shares how he came up with the concept of @vector.90, what it was like to work with @nipseyhussle, to invest so deeply in community, and what it means to carry Nip’s legacy forward, as #TheMarathonContinues. Be sure to take notes on this one, y’all. And check out what David + the team are doing with @our.opportunity. You may find your next big opportunity there. Mad love, DG 💙🏁 #WorkInProgress #Vector90 #OurOpportunity

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Do you even vote, bro? @iamavoter @louisehazel @theslaygym #7amSweat #ButMakeItFashion #BrookeDavisIn2020

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Since @jenniferaniston hit us with the #Friends tease today (my heart skipped a BEAT y’all) here’s the @iamavoter version. Also known as what’s playing in my head, all day every day. . Brings a friend voters First to the poll voters First time voters Early voters Absentee voters I love you ALL! . Make sure you text VOTER to 26797 to 1) make sure you’re registered 2) register if you haven’t 3) check your polling location. Here we cooooome Super Tuesday! ♥️✌🏼🇺🇸

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How happy it makes me to spend time with @michellemonaghan, a series. MM is on @workinprogress today to talk about careers, storytelling, parenthood, the foster care system, what she learned growing up in a small town in Iowa, what she learns now traveling the world for work, and her new show #Messiah on @Netflix. She’s just one of the coolest humans I know, and I loved this chat so so much!! #WorkInProgress #WIPsmart

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On the subject of lessening our impact on the planet by reevaluating our relationship to stuff — see yesterday’s #FashionOurFuture post — I think we need to talk about how and where we source the things we surround ourselves with, in addition to the how and where pertaining to what we put on our bodies. My sister friend @stacylondonreal and her new project @small_beautiful_things_ny are helping to center this in my mind and in my feed. This could be top of mind for me as I just finished a huge home renovation project (hiiii @elledecor @whowhatwhit), or perhaps because I’ve been shopping for magical trinkets for folks I love for Valentines and weddings and birthdays and housewarmings. Then there’s holidays and anniversary’s and the list goes on! You know, the things that are joyous, but constant on the calendar. But whatever it is, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed by all of the STUFF being made and marketed out there, and much of it ends up in sale bins and at outlets because we just don’t buy it all. Nor do we need to. And we all know that our dollars are our daily votes. So if we shop differently, if we shift patterns of consumption, the market will shift too. We can change it for the better! And what’s better than filling our homes and spoiling our loved ones with things that are made to last?! That have stories and souls and history!? Stacy is a fashion icon, but also happens to be a tastemaker and power-hunter in the home space. She started curating a selection of vintage items and collectibles and jewelry that is SO jaw-dropping and magical that I can’t manage to keep my pulse from racing every time I get near her shop. And NOW it’s online for everyone. More than just being a resource for timeless pieces trinkets that will become heirlooms, the @small_beautiful_things_ny page is an education about craftsmanship and era specific design. It’s become my favorite resource for all things precious, timeless, romantic, nostalgic, and just plain CHIC. So we can #Decor

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So I was nominated to participate in the #FashionOurFuture challenge by the lady boss herself, @jameelajamilofficial. I have loved learning about their mission because fashion is many things to many people & y’all know I love exploring complexity. Fashion is intertwined with identity in a very real way. Cultural. Learned. Earned. Aspirational. Attainable. It’s the stuff of dreams to some and utterly frivolous to others. To me it’s empowering, sometimes highly pressured, a thing I love & also don’t quite understand like some of the (seemingly) effortless experts out there. I love learning about its origins, its overt & sometimes hidden messages, its history of rebellion. But there’s a side to fashion we don’t often discuss. The pollution. The sweat shops. The slave labor. The impact on people & the planet. It can feel overwhelming, so we look away. And LOTS of things are overwhelming and sometimes sweaters make us happy, dammit. But here’s the thing. No one of us can solve it. No ONE of us can do everything. But we can all do SOMETHING. We can pledge to make our clothes last a little longer. We can do swaps with friends when we tire of something instead of buying new stuff. We can use rental services — like I did with this stunning @sally_lapointe fit from @worldarmarium (they have a stunning inventory!) for the Women In Media event in NY last winter! We can buy vintage or pre-loved goods — hiiii everyone who’s participated in my auctions & reduced waste! We can research how goods are made & commit to buying better (@fashionkind_). We can reduce water usage by purchasing clean cotton (@for___days) or clothes made from deadstock (hi @reformation). We can spend our money on fewer but better things, and thus invest in stuff we’ll keep for longer periods of time. We can donate clothes to programs that make housing insulation out of them, instead of sending them to landfills. If we all changed our consumption just a little, the results would be BIG! So, I encourage you to

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SOUND ON 🎙 for something special. Consider this a #Valentine from @workinprogress to you, our #WIPsmart listeners. This week we had @atticuspoetry on the pod. He’s the masked poet who’s taken Instagram by storm, written multiple books, and even launched @lostpoetwine, as a passion project that mixes his love of travel, old records, and a glass of wine had over a good book. In our conversation we get candid about making art, Atticus’ choice to remain anonymous, why poetry is certainly for men, and why he loves the world so much that he writes love letters to it. If you haven’t listened yet, it’s the perfect way to spend your Sunday. Much love, team. #WorkInProgress #AtticusPoetry #LostPoetWine

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While witnessing so many humans celebrate love in many forms yesterday — marriages, partnerships, singledom, best-friendships, family, babies, falling-in-love-with-oneself as a revolutionary act in a strange world — I couldn’t help but feel a pang of ickiness. Because, while Valentine’s Day is a day of celebration for so many, it’s also a day of immense, bottomless, soul-shattering tragedy for some. For everyone living in #Parkland, and the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, February 14th isn’t a day for cards and candy. It’s a day filled with horror and trauma and loss. 17 people died in the hallways of a high school two years ago because our lawmakers refuse to act on making the public safer. Just this week, Mitch McConnell bragged on live television about how he wouldn’t even look at 350+ bills that have been passed by Congress, mandatory background checks among them, because they were passed by a Democratic Congress. AND (let’s not forget) because he takes so much money from the NRA. He’s politicizing the safety of our kids. Of schools + movie theaters + concerts + places of worship, despite the fact that over 90% of Americans agree on sensible reform. A “well regulated” right to bear arms is what’s prescribed in the Constitution. But he won’t regulate at ALL because he thinks his right to corporate kickbacks is more important than your kids. More important than the kids lost at MSD. More important than the kids lost EVERY DAY in this country to preventable deaths by guns. American children are 21 TIMES more likely to die by gun violence than kids in other economically similar countries. 21 times. @michaelfmoore wrote something about the tragic Valentine that McConnell has effectively signed as a death warrant, and thrown in the face of our nation’s children. And I haven’t been able to get out of my head... He said, “for [the MSD kids], this will never be Valentines Day. I hope they know that they are, and always will be, loved by us — but that love will

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A custom @detroitblows x @linguafrancanyc Valentine for our galentines! ❣️ in honor of #DetroitGROWS, our non-profit arm that supports women in #Detroit! SWIPE to see mine! • (And visit @detroitblows in-store or online to get yours while they’re still in stock!)

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These PICS. Just some humans I adore, from last weekend, on a day meant for adoration or whatever 😘 #fbf and such. My angel @jeremypope, my babies @karamo and @tanfrance — who also got the MEMO on white powersuiting! — my GIRLS @ashlynharris24 @alikrieger, queen — and now queen director! — @zoelisterjones, my #CHEER king @jerry.h.arris, the legendary costumer herself @therealruthecarter, and @joansmalls (showing us how supermodels do @schiaparelli). 🤍🤍🤍 #Schiaparelli

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@Schiaparelli, up close. I will never get over the detailing on this suit @danielroseberry. You are a true artist. And to my personal artists and gals, @amberdmakeup and @carlyxhair, thank you for giving me face + hair both inspired by and worthy of this fit. Additionally, you’re the best BTS capture gang around (last slide)! #Schiaparelli #SforSchiaparelli and #SforSophia #VFOscars @vanityfair 💗

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I had this much fun on Sunday. Thank you @danielroseberry + @schiaparelli for this couture dream, and @radhikajones for the fabulous evening. @vanityfair #VFOscars #Schiaparelli

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And one more, for my actual twin in t-shirt taste, not in hair color, but in the kind of brain that sits underneath it, @laurabrown99. That means a wicked filthy sense of humor, a penchant for loud laughter, and the deep appreciation of a very, very cold tequila concoction that shall remain our secret for now. But hey, make us laugh and we may let you in on it 😎 Laura, you’re a gem. A legend. And @instylemagazine is so lucky to have you. You’re the baddest ass badass of them all #InStyleBadassWomen #InStyle25

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Still on my Kelly Kapowski shit. So let’s hit The Max ⚡️ shall we? 90’s babies forever. #InStyleBadassWomen #KellyForever • Thanks for the 90s vibes of my dreams, team @amberdmakeup @clarissanya

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I always had a crush on Kelly Kapowski. So to be told we’re twinning REALLY feels like a moment for me 💞 #KellyForever #InStyleBadassWomen @xkarla

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[part 1] On Saturday I had the honor of speaking at @everytown @momsdemand @studentsdemand #GunSenseForum in Des Moines, #Iowa. I spoke as a concerned citizen, a gun owner, a hobbyist, and a woman whose family has been affected by a mass shooting. Make no mistake, I understand the issue from all sides. And the issue? This is a public health crisis. People are dying in the streets because our leaders are too cowardly to act. America has 122 guns for every 100 people. No other nation on Earth comes close. Next in line, at 40?? Yemen. A war zone. The issue is not mental health. The issue is easy access to guns. Period. All of the data proves this, and we’d have even more if our government wasn’t REFUSING to allow the CDC to study gun violence. That should be a clue. They want to deny us overwhelming information because it’s a bad truth for them the lobbyists who control them. Foreign countries are issuing warnings, urging their citizens not to travel here because it’s become too dangerous. Walmart is taking imagery of guns off the shelves, and video games that are played by the rest of the world to no increase in shootings anywhere else, but they won’t stop selling guns. They had the nerve to place a sign over a glass case filled with rifles that reads “OWN THE SCHOOL YEAR LIKE A HERO.” What the fuck does that even mean? It would be laughable if it weren’t so damn sad. A Fox News poll released today shows: - 90% of Americans support requiring criminal background checks on ALL gun buyers - 81% support passing "red flag" laws that allow police to take guns from people shown to be a danger to themselves or others - 67% banning assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons Imagine how high the numbers go among a bi-partisan audience! A measure that would handle these issues has already passed the house, and is stalled because of #MoscowMitch McConnell. We all need to pressure him and other Senators to reconvene the Senate immediately and vote on these gun-control measure

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[part 2] I also had the honor of listening to — and spending one on one time with — virtually all of the Democratic candidates at the #GunSenseForum. They all made brilliant points. From @kamalaharris pointing out that Trump — who has been cited as a motivation for violent crime BY violent criminals 36 times in 2.5 years (for the record, both Bush and Obama were cited ZERO times in domestic terrorism attacks) and has been cited more times in attacks on our homeland in the last three years than any other person or organization on earth — may not have pulled the trigger but “he’s certainly been tweeting out the ammunition” to these domestic terrorists. To @pete.buttigieg rightly pointing out that we have already drawn a line when it comes to the right to bear arms. “Somewhere between a water balloon and a predator drone, we drew a line. The line needs to move.” He agrees, as most folks with his type of military background do, that weapons of war have no place on our streets. @kirstengillibrand, @elizabethwarren, @juliancastrotx, all made BRILLIANT points about the realities facing our communities across the country. As did @corybooker And @betoorourke, who couldn’t be there but still took the time to send in videos in support. Not one person from the GOP attended, or weighed in. Perhaps because they’ve been bought and paid for to the tune of $36.6 million (contributed to Trump alone) by the NRA. They may control the senate now, but WE HAVE THE POWER to VOTE THEM OUT and at least TRY harder for our kids and our communities. And try we must. We do not have to live like this. We do not have to die like this. Let’s clean it up already. Thank you to the candidates for showing up and speaking truth to power. The Moms and Dads and survivors for showing up for those who can’t. To @mspeters14 for letting me share the stage with you and be a witness to your story. Thank you to my soul brother @kennyjamez, for hopping a flight with me and using your photo skills to capture t

22,537 Likes | 1695 days ago | 90

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Toni. Beloved. The name of one of my favorites of all of her books. The name that best describes her for so many, too. She touched the very core of countless hearts. • “We die,” She once said. “That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” • How does one write something halfway decent enough to commemorate one of our greatest writers? I don’t know how. But I will ruminate on her courage, her poignancy, and her gift for challenging us to be better. She told her students — and thus taught us all — “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” Indeed. • And she reminded us, with perfect clarity, not to ever give into inaction. No matter what we might be up against. “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” For her, let’s get to work. #ToniMorrison • (photograph by @damonwinter for the @nytimes)

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back to my (🇮🇹) roots 😘 • thanks my babe @riawna!

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What Travon said • #Repost @travon I'm retired from Squad Goals. I already beat it. #ResetTheTable

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These are all FACTS. Swipe through. Read the article (link also in my bio). Enough is enough. ENOUGH. IS. ENOUGH. https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-america/ My heart is broken for the families in #ElPaso. This is #DomesticTerrorism. White supremacy is terrorism. Period.

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Think this weekend can top last weekend, @sarahelabdi? I do! Love you being here. Never leave k? Great talk. 💖

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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” Happy 95th Birthday, #JamesBaldwin ♥️ • May we, as he taught us, make ourselves and those around us more conscious in all ways. We could all use that. Our country could use it too. On her, he said it best ... “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” Indeed.

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I am beyond excited for the premiere of #TIMELINES, a docu-series by my friend @katiecouric and @skii. She travels the world to sit down with women and discuss expectations. In particular, the disconnect that can exist between expectations and dreams. And through the experience, we get to ask what kind of understanding we might be led to, seeing the vastness of the disconnect between them? How do we navigate the expectations of those who love us? Of our own? How do we move — in this ever evolving world — between the desires and pressures around degrees, careers, family, marriage, sexuality, and our futures? Having watched the episodes, I find myself marinating on big ideas. What does freedom mean to us? To the generation before us? To those coming after? What does writing our own rules look like? How do we take control of our own timelines? I cannot wait for you all to see this, head on to @skii to see more. And I’m so glad that a big brand like SK-II has chosen to help fund this project and allow so many of us to come together to hash out the answers to the questions we’ll be asking after watching! My journalism loving, deep-dive-obsessed brain is firing on all cylinders with this one and I’d love to hear what you think in the comments! Well done team #ChangeDestiny #skiipartner

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I’m THIS happy that Mercury Retrograde is over ✨🌟✨ Y’all too?

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The @baltimoresun for the win. • If Trump hates the citizens of this country so much, and believes our cities are “infested” — a term he uses any time he describes a place predominately populated by black or brown people — perhaps he should resign and take his racism and hatred back to his isolated privilege in his gilded golden tower. He can take his private plane back to the throne he built himself. We deserve a leader who cares about the people more than him (or her) -self.

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Happy Friday y’all 💙 I just took 5 days largely off of my phone and Wi-Fi — with 10ish minutes of self-permitted news checking and sharing per day because hello, it’s me — and it. was. heaven. Highly recommend✌🏼

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Here’s a close up of James McDivitt’s photograph of Ed White’s Extravehicular Activity (EVA) in 1965 that’s visible in the BG of my last post. • This was the first time an American had performed an EVA. @nasa viewed this event as a major photo opportunity. “With a Hassleblad aimed through the window of the Gemini 4 spacecraft, McDivitt captured his copilot floating in the vacuum of space, with darkness above and the earth below.” • This photograph ran on the cover of LIFE Magazine on June 18th, 1965.

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Hassleblad 70 mm camera used for astronaut training in 1969 + Hassleblad 70 mm film magazine, used on Apollo 11, 1969 + me. • “Because of its superb mechanics and sharp Ziess lens, the square format 70 mm Hassleblad, outfitted with an external viewfinder and oversize controls, was NASA’s camera of choice for still photography on crewed missions. The interchangeable film magazines were loaded with extra-thin film manufactured for NASA by Eastman Kodak, which increased the capacity from twelve to nearly two hundred frames per roll.” • Dreamy. ✨

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🌔Happy 50th #Apollo11🌖

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Biennial ⏳ @whitneymuseum

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Guys. I just spent the morning with the incredible @guidedbybiet. And I love that it’s Friday because there’s no one who deserves a #FierceFemaleFriday or a #FridayFounder shoutout more than this woman!! • Biet’s life story, moving through tragedy and strife, coupled with 30+ years of deep study on meditation and spirituality, mixed up with some serious N.Y. rock-n-roll scene craziness, is one for the books. So much so, that she wrote one! #DontJustSitThere is at once rebellious, modern, enlightening, and illuminating. Reading this book, and getting to deep dive with her today on applying all of this stuff so magically + practically in her own life so that we can all learn too? Well. It’s a game changer. I can’t recommend her work enough. • My sister @stacylondonreal took me to one of Biet’s group meditation/coachings back in April. So I know that she rightly calls Biet “the David Bowie of spiritual teachers.” Let’s all tap into our rock-n-roll stardust. ✨👩‍🎤✨ (swipe through to see pics of her leading an EPIC meditation event recently. She’s pure fiiiiiiiire!! Also, her book link is in her bio, and also in my stories today!)

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I found the secret garden of my dreams 🌿 @tomfruin your work stole my heart.

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You can’t make this up... mine would literally be “BUSH 2020, You’re So Welcome ♥️” • 🤣🤣 via @iamavoter 🤣🤣

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Not really into your (Russian-gov’t?-owned and potentially a-huge-cyber-risk) app, but I AM SUPER into manifesting that I age like Helen Mirren ✨👩‍🎤✨

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Y’all. Tonight on @drunkhistory the bestest comedic nonsense + history loving scene partner #ElijahWood and I bring you the story of John and Bonnie Raines. • It’s the kind of tale you’d pitch as a movie and everyone in the room would say, “no one will believe that,” except that it REALLY HAPPENED and they’re friggin’ American heroes!! [swipe to see them in 2014 😍] • Don’t miss this. Also. Thank you to @dw34 and the whole #DrunkHistory team for having me. Now turn on @comedycentral and get ready to drink your chickens and eat your beers. #youllgetthejoketonight #ilovemyjob

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For the last couple of months I’ve been working on something super special. I CANNOT WAIT to tell y’all about it. Not today. But so soon... What I CAN tell you, is that yesterday was one of the best personal-meets-professional days of my life, and when I went to have a bottle of orange wine with my compadres to celebrate, the waitress said, “you got the last one! I guess it is the perfect day.” Little did she know! I’m paying attention to the signs and blissed beyond belief. I love everybody. ✨🥂♥️

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BURY ME 💥 The First Couple of Sports, y’all 💥 • @mrapinoe + @sbird10 = ♥️🔥⚽️🔥🏀🔥♥️ #Champions #PayThemWhatYouOweThem

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My friends @SecretDeodorant are at it again, helping to close the gender pay gap by contributing $529K to the @uswntplayers + CHAMPS who deserve it! 👑 Why that number, you ask? Well, that breaks down to $23K per player. 23 players on the team (male or female). 23 chromosomes in a winning athlete’s body (male or female). Champions deserve to be treated as such. Male. Female. Everybody. It’s time to create parity in sports. For all athletes. Want to show your equal pay pride and score one of these tees? Comment below to be entered!! #AllStrengthNoSweat #ad

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It’s been a really great week, y’all. Monday was my birthday, and honestly the start of this year feels like a gift I’m slowly opening. Like a reveal. It’s tender. Beautiful. And it feels bigger and more delicious and gooey good than anything ever has before. I find that I’m smiling a lot. Like, beaming. Everywhere I look I see beauty. In humans. The world. On the street. Despite the tragedy we know is there, I see a rising tide of sacred hearts supporting one another. I don’t know how to explain it. But it’s truly shown me that I wouldn’t change one single day — not even the worst ones — if it could risk that I didn’t wind up right here, right now. This goodness is the sum total of every single experience so far, and I’m so excited about all of it. Not to mention what’s to come! • Thanks for coming along for the ride. The ones I know, and the ones I don’t. If you’re putting your heart out there, and in here, I’m grateful for you. Cancer season, I’m so happy to have been born under your moon. • Image description: on my birthday I wound up stopping for coffee at a corner shop that, unbeknownst to my sweet pal driving, was my papa’s first studio in LA. He rented this corner unit space in the early 70’s and began his career there. He stenciled the street address on the building in green paint in 1973. It’s still there. He and my Mom installed these terracotta tiles I’m standing on later. And in 1982, while they were working to ready the first little house we’d live in as a family, I was born, and we lived in the loft at the back of this studio space for a few months. I stood there on my birthday soaking up the roads I’ve traveled since I was a baby being carried home from the hospital across this threshold. A few nights later I took my parents to a restaurant on the same block so they could look at it with me. My Dad can’t believe his stencil is still up. Wild, right? Kismet, one could say. My, my, my I’m such a fan of this universe and the magic it so clearly bestows

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What @abbywambach said. • Sister-friend, we are all SO LUCKY to have you! You have taught us about relentless advocacy, humility, courage, and above all, love. G said it best. You’re always pointing towards others. Fighting for others. Loving others. You’re a legend. • **Now, before anyone flips out about “women leading,” the whole point of, as Abby says, “passing us the damn ball” is that we are out here fighting for equity. For fairness. For a level playing field in this game called life. That INCLUDES men. That demands that we build bigger tables where everyone has a seat. ‘Cause 50% of the population, with 50% of the information, making 100% of the decisions hasn’t worked out too well for most folks. So. Give us the damn ball. Move over and let us pull up some chairs. Pass the mic. The social science data and financial data alllllllll show that when parity exists, communities get happier and ROI’s go up up up. So yeah it’s morally right to fight for equity, but it also has hella great social and financial benefits. Don’t be scared. Level the scales. Let us in the c suite, the boardroom, and the friggin’ White House. It’s time.** • And @ussoccer? PAY THE LADIES WHAT YOU OWE THEM. K? Great. Good talk! • As my other sweet dear sister-friend @glennondoyle said of her brilliant wife’s words, “that’s the tea. THE EQUALITEA.” Yup. She said it. It’s coined. Who’s making the shirts!? ✊🏼🎉⚽️♥️💥 #WorldCup2019 #EQUALITEA #PayThemWhatYouOweThem

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Congratulations to the gladiators of the @uswnt on your incredible #WorldCup victory!! I’m so in awe of y’all. Your leadership, heart, ferocity, and passion have inspired all of us. That game was AMAZING to watch! Thank you for never giving up! Thank you for showing the world what it looks like to “play like a girl” — aka be the best GD athletes on the planet — And oh yeah, United States Soccer Federation? PAY THESE LADIES WHAT THEY’RE WORTH. It’s been time. THAT’S THE TEA! ✊🏼🎊♥️⚽️👏🎉

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Nature is my place of worship. Never have I ever been happier ✨🙏🌱 • If you haven’t seen @unbrandedthefilm, you should. You’ll learn about this beautiful boy Luke that I was lucky enough to ride today, American mustangs, and the folks doing the work to save and rescue them. #Montana

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Hey y’all 🌲 #Yellowstone

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Practical Magic 🔮 #ProtectOurParks #Yellowstone

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I made a wish for you ✨🌾

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Grateful for this wide open space, and the wilderness that belongs to each and every one of us. Being so close to Yellowstone today, I just want to salute all of our @nationalparkservice workers. You serve the very best of what this nation is, and what we must preserve for generations to come. • I’m so embarrassed that the manchild in office stole $2.5 million from the NPS + taxpayers to fund his war toy display today, and promise that me and so many of us will double down and continue fighting to support the parks. We’ve got your back! ♥️🌱⛰🙏🐐 #ProtectOurParks

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What @padmalakshmi said 👇🏼 ・・・ While we celebrate the Fourth, there are refugee families who’ve walked thousands of miles to legally seek asylum in this country sleeping on concrete floors with aluminum blankets and no medical care. This is a stain on our nation and we need to do something now. Contact your representatives tomorrow to demand they #CloseTheCamps. (Link in bio) #4thofjuly #AmericanPie #resist • And now some thoughts from me... Again, seeking asylum is NOT ILLEGAL. What we are willfully doing to these people is wrong. We are violating our own laws to cast them as law breakers, to detain them and abuse them. Tax payers are being forced to fund this abuse to the tune of $775/day/person. Private corporations are making tens of millions of dollars to harm these asylum seekers. 27 dead by our hands, and counting. A stain, indeed. If you want to celebrate the best of America, take two minutes today to call your reps, and leave a message demanding that we uphold our actual values, and that we #CloseTheCamps. If this “is not who we are,” then we mustn’t sit by silently and let this be who we’ve become. ♥️

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She’s fancy. She’s FIERCE. Let’s gooooooo @alexmorgan13 + @uswnt!! 👏💪🏼⚽️🇺🇸♥️ #WorldCup2019 • ALSO! It’s this badass lady’s birthday, so y’all, you know what to do. Send @alexmorgan13 some LOOOOVE! 🙏🎊♥️

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Oddly enough, I make the exact same face @mrapinoe is making in this photo when I watch @mrapinoe and the @uswnt play in the World Cup. The more you know. 🌟 LET’S GOOOOOOOO LADIES!!! #WorldCup2019

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1/2 • Eighteen months ago I started reading pilot scripts for the 2018 season. I was rejoining the television landscape after a nonnegotiable six month hiatus from sets (thank you to my amazing team at #CAA +#Untitled for respecting that choice & sticking to it with me) and curious about what story I wanted to tell next. • I read a pilot about a 50+ year old woman working in government service, as a writing sample for this guy David C. White. Would we want to develop something, perhaps? Seemed like a yes. And then I read what felt 100’s of other shows. But I kept thinking about THAT one. I didn’t like any of the pilots for women in my demo as much as THAT show. That show called #Surveillance. I called him up and said, “who is that woman before she’s made it to the top? When she’s on her way up, only has one kid, is often the lone skirt in a man’s world, has proven herself countless times but is constantly asked to again and again? Who is SHE, do you think?” And immediately we were collaborators. It only took about a day and half to also become best friends! • We set to redeveloping. We found our North Star in our fearless and incredibly brilliant, almost omniscient director/EP @patriciariggen. We pitched. We sold. We did more drafts. We cast. I spent months — as both a producer & an actor on this job — testing all of the actors who came in. I know from experience how shit those audition rooms can be, so I wanted mine to feel different. Personal. For days & weeks I acted across wonderful talents. We cried. Laughed. Screamed. Debated. We brought the heat. We landed with — and the list is so good it still has me SHOOKETH — @catalinasandino, @therealleech, @matthewmodine, @dennishaysbert, and #RaphaelAcloque. We prepped for months. Shot through November and December, edited January through March. We delivered the highest testing pilot at the network in nearly 10 years — SO PROUD OF US!! — but ultimately, though it’s magic, in the greater landscape of their slate and giv

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2/2 • Never give up on what you know to be art. There’s a business here too & sometimes story + financial computations don’t match up. Be an artist anyway. Have as much fun as we did. And if it’s doesn’t work, don’t take it personally. It’s not about you or your project. If I’ve learned anything from my incredible team @cbstv, who have been great leaders, collaborators, & friends on this? The way you work & your level of commitment will leave a mark no matter the outcome. Their calls to discuss what a special thing this is, and to collectively lament that we just simply can’t manage to make it all work on paper, are a testament to that. I’m grateful, as an actor + producer, that the work has made a mark & led to friendships that’ll last a lifetime. And that my bosses are already looking for the next thing we can do together. • I’m beyond excited to carry this experience onto the next one. Of course I’m sad too. That you all won’t get to see Maddy, in all of her capability & fallibility. The woman I was able to create with Dave and Patricia is someone I’d love for you to meet. I’m crushed that the best TV husband there has ever been, @therealleech, is a man you won’t get to know as Mike. Thank GOD Allen & his IRL wife live 8 minutes away & I see them constantly. And Cata. My sister. My teacher. My partner in crime. These folks? I spent my last Christmas with them! We’re family. And to big fam? Matthew & Dennis? Nick. Brian. Catherine. Judith. Rukiya. Lovell. Tina. What a TEAM! I love you all, til the end of time. Thank you for showing up and showing OFF with all that talent. You all, collectively, taught me a whole new level of collaboration & joy. • As for the amazing fans who’ve been so excited about this project and what’s coming next, thank you for the love! What this means, in technical terms, is that I’m no longer being held from doing other jobs! (*And thank you to @20thcenturyfox for giving me a pass on that contract clause to work on things I love, like #EAS

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Cannes imagine ever leaving ... 🌞 #CannesLions

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You Cannes take me anywhere ... #KeepThePunsComing #ICannesHelpIt #SomeoneStopMe #CannesStopWontStop

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Cannes we stay forever? 🇫🇷✨🌊

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I’m NOT crying, I just have something in my eye! #framily #Repost @kendrick38 ・・・ One of my favorite people in life. Blessed to know you. @sophiabush A true ally and beautiful spirit. 🙏🏽❤️

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Happy memories #tbt Take me back to Baja 🌊 #thattiletho • updated: Also, on the subject of happiness and since a few people have asked below... Both my poncho and bag pictured here come from an incredible brand in Ecuador called @sensistudio. I’m a huge fan of supporting companies that support people. And they’re great. So there’s a little extra feel good info to go with this unbelievable color story 💖💖💖

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We need to make noise about what is happening on #Sudan. Do not turn away. Do not look away. State sponsored massacres are happening. Please look to the helpers, and help. Spread the word. Call for action. call your representatives at 1-844-USA-0234. Demand that the world does something to stop this. #Repost @israspeaks ・・・ SUDAN. We are witnessing a massacre unfold before our eyes, while world leaders and the majority of media outlets stay silent. Those that are responsible for the murder, rape, torment, injury, and disappearance of thousands of innocent civilians will be held accountable in front of God. The world wept for an empty building in Paris, and yet can’t shed the same tears for the human rights violations of women, children and men yearning for freedom and democracy. You can help by amplifying the voices of those directly impacted and centering their narrative. Be an ALLY to our Sudanese brothers and sisters by donating to support the aid efforts on the ground (LINK IN BIO), sharing their stories consistently, and keeping them in your prayers. We need humanity to step up for the people of Sudan. Shout out to the incredible youth around the world who channeled their pain into art that is moving people in a way words cannot. Please tag people who are reporting information out about the crisis in real time that people should follow. Please tag orgs/ campaigns people can donate to. Paint social media blue by changing your profile pic to blue (last pic) in honor of @mattar77 who was killed standing up for justice. COMMENT A 💙 BELOW IN HONOR OF MATTAR. Anything else I can do to be a better ally, please let me know. #SudanUprising #IStandWithThePeopleofSudan #sudan_internet_blackout #sudan #sudanrevolts #sudanmassacre #blueforsudan

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Well tonight was fun 😜♥️🤓 I KNEW there was a vibe! @janethevirginoncw @hereisgina @justinbaldoni

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Ball is life 🐾 #Griffin

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This was my #pride energy ALL weekend. Also, when this little legend grows up and starts teaching dance class, I’m gonna be first on her sign up sheet! Who’s coming with me!? 👏👯‍♀️♥️😍🎊💖🏳️‍🌈 ・・・ via @jadapinkettsmith ・・・ Repost @ivanah.dancer Doing what she loves Song: DjBBoy : Paga A Bebida Da Bela #dancer #havingfun #happinessiskey #cuties #dancing_is_life #blackbabies #chopdaily #chopdailykids #theellenshow

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Today we #WearOrange 🧡 To honor both gun violence victims and survivors. The people who died in prayer. In churches. In synagogues. In mosques. The people who lost their lives at the movies. At concerts. The kids executed in their high schools. In middle schools. In elementary schools. Pre-schools, even. Kids killed on college campuses. The folks who died when they thought they would be dancing. In a bar. A nightclub. The ones who were killed in a hospital, where you’re meant to heal. In the airport. The newsroom. The yoga studio. At home. Where women are 5x more likely to die in a domestic dispute if a gun is present. We honor those killed in their offices. In their city municipal building. In a restaurant. Those killed on their military base. At their local bowling alley. Standing on a street corner. Those lost because they showed up for their community at a political event, on what was apparently the wrong day. I wear orange for my cousin’s nine year old daughter — who I never got to meet because we always thought there would be plenty of opportunities for the family to eventually be in the same state at the same time — None of us could have imagined that a grown man would shoot a nine year old girl in the chest, indiscriminately, as though a little child could ever deserve such a thing. Time is an illusion. I will never forget that. We all wear orange to call attention to the national crisis that kills 100 Americans every single day. We do not have to live and die like this. There is a better way. @momsdemand @everytown @iamavoter #momsdemandaction #everytown #gunviolence #iamavoter

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1/2 A few months ago I had the pleasure of doing an overhaul of my house with the amazing people at @lifeinjeneral. I’d been slowly feeling suffocated by stuff. Things. Tchotchkes. Side tables. For 15 years I’d lived in two states, and when I got everything home under one roof, rather than pair it all down my inner Sentimental Sally took over and I crammed memories and books and dish ware and papers — seriously what is with all the paperwork!? I ask that question of LIFE itself! — into every available space. And then there was no space to breathe. Piles of organized chaos would pop up near the washer and dryer, or on the corner of the couch in the living room. Occasionally there would be suitcases everywhere because “I travel so much for work!” They’d come and go, sure, but the piles remained. The garage was utter insanity, but because I never had to look at it I never really did. I just stopped going in there. I couldn’t figure out why I was SO good at helping other people move, organize, and edit, and yet I couldn’t see my own stuff clearly. I could clear out a friend’s home in a weekend, but couldn’t see the forest for the trees of my own stuff. Marie Kondo says you can do it yourself. Well. I threw that book away — jk, jk I gave it to someone who wanted it and I still love her and her philosophy — for me it was too hard. Too confusing. Everything meant something! I needed a professional. Otherwise I was gonna need a professional in a white coat to lock me up pretty soon. • And that’s when I met Jen from @lifeinjeneral. The bun that is @publiclivessecretrecipes introduced us. Jen came over and I could see her brain working some invisible organizational geometry as she looked in my closet, in the garage, at my desk space, and at just about everything else. “Hmm,” she’d utter, over and over again, until eventually she said “We could do some of this better.” She was beyond kind about it. I didn’t feel overwhelmed anymore, I felt excited. And the next day the angel

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2/2 For five days we went through everything. Extra furniture stacked where my car was meant to go, old birthday cards, photos from high school theatre, clothes that I didn’t need but someone would love, makeup, even towels. We used the garage like a workshop/processing center, and we packed up multiple carloads of donations for the LGBT center here in LA. We got through all of the paperwork and photos and kept only what was meaningful and important. We organized my clothes and shoes and swimsuits and sweaters in a way that was not only beautiful, but that I’ve managed to keep up with. When the team left, and I walked around the house, I realized that I could really breathe. That the space they’d helped me clear was space for my mind to rest, to wander, and to be creative too. I wanted to share all of this with y’all then, to talk about what a gift this was. But then the awful shooting happened in New Zealand and I couldn’t imagine talking about myself. Many terrible things continued happening, over and over again, and so I still didn’t share. I felt silly. But over the last two months I’ve realized that my home feels better than ever to me, and in no small way I owe that to Jordan’s kindness and the team’s hard work. And the fact that my closet still looks as good as when they left!? That drawers and cabinets and my garage actually still make sense!? That’s a clear sign to me that there was a better way to do things. And they showed me. And it stuck. And I’m so excited about it. I even spent the next day organizing the kitchen, wound up building pantry shelves, and got my hundreds of books into a library-level organization zone. I walked almost six miles IN MY OWN HOUSE, working! And it was pure joy! I was so inspired. Now the whole place is tight and awesome. And I guess I wanted to share all of this with you to say that celebrating matters, especially when shit has felt dark out there. And if you’re holding onto things you don’t need, or your life feels clutter

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[part one of four] I’ve taken a lot of time away from here. From the platforms and the feeds. The onslaught has felt exhausting. And as I try to cultivate a deeper and more gentle relationship with myself and my health, the onslaught can feel like an attack. Especially when humans are being attacked. Women, and our rights. Citizens in their places of work. Our government, and sacred institutions, by hostile foreign powers. Our environment, as the science clarifying its demise is purposefully hidden by those who wish to bring it to its knees for short-term profit, forgetting the longterm consequence that will affect us all, no matter what gold we’ve hoarded. It feels like a lot. And I feel so incredibly lucky that as this weight felt unbearable, it was time for @mountainfilm. I am so thankful. • The theme of this year’s festival was equity. The stories shared were those that committed to highlight and honor those who are so often othered in the world. To learn at the feet of these characters, these very real people, who leapt off the screen and into my mind and heart — who now own pieces of that innermost real estate forever — was an education and a reckoning. An awakening and a reaffirming. A reminder of how much there is to be done, and of how many good people are out there doing as much as they can, and more, and inviting us along. • @changinggamedoc introduced me to three brave, beautiful, high school athletes. Each of these kids is trans. Each of these kids is made of more courage and heart and determination than I can fathom. I cheered. I wept. I laughed. And I know that everyone who sees this film will do the same, and likewise be ready to fight for these kids. What they face is complex, and differing policies state to state make their experiences no easier. We can do better. @alpha.trans, @sarahrose_trans, & @andrayayearwood thank you for your love and hugs. • @fireonthehill tells the story of the Cowboys of South Central LA. I grew up riding horses, and grew

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[part two of four, @fireonthehill cont’d] These men open up their lives, their culture, and the life-saving magic of horses. Something that has not left me is Calvin saying in the Q&A after the film, “riding saved me… from the gangs and the cops.” Horses gave him a pass. They gave him a life. Their barn, The Hill, tragically burned down and the city of LA hasn’t made replacing it easy for these guys. What Angelenos out there want to raise some good trouble with us — we need to rally behind their charitable initiative @urbansaddles — and make sure The Hill rides again?! All hands on deck! • @hillbillymovie by #AshleyYork is a powerful look at Appalachia, and the stereotypes about the region that have inflicted generational suffering on the people who live there. Stereotypes dehumanize. As as this dehumanization has been applied to many of Appalachia’s residents, this has caused political and economic policy to ravage the land and its people. The harm is heartbreaking, the people profiled are full of complex goodness like most of us are, and the parallels between their community and many other marginalized communities, who suffer so that gargantuan systems may benefit, is undeniable. This film reminded to me listen more closely. To do the work of not assuming. And to lean on what I know to be true. We are more alike than different. And everyone is deserving of support. • I saw some incredible short films too. #GrizzlyCountryFilm by my dearest @ben_moon, which focuses on the work Doug Peacock has been doing (since he returned home from the Vietnam war) to save the Grizzlies and protect our wilderness. #TheLoveBugsFilm by @allisonotto explores the nature of love and love of nature through two entomologists, Charlie and Lois O’Brien. Their love for bugs has given the scientific community, and the world, a priceless gift in their collection. And their love for each other made it all possible. #BareExistence by my friend @max.lowe tells the heartbreaking story of what cli

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[part three of four ] @diangelorobin Robin DiAngelo, the author of ‘White Fragility,’ spoke about white privilege with @favianna1 Favianna Rodriguez, and how allyship must be earned. She unpacked implicit bias, which is sewn into the very fabric of our culture, and how it harms each of us and culture as a whole. I cannot tell you how important it is to listen to her on podcasts, watch her interviews, and read her book. If we want know where to start, what this is all about, what people of color face in America at the hands of whiteness as an ideology, or how to help, we must stop asking those affected to do the emotional labor. This is a good place to start learning, and unlearning too. • I got to sit at the feet of two of my greatest teachers, @oprah and @cherylstrayed, and listen to them converse on life and purpose. Oprah said, “You are damaged in direct proportion to how you were loved or not. You real job is to figure out ‘what is it that I really need?’” It’s an inside job. We have to do the work. We have to own our pain and pursue our joy. We have to lift each other up. She told us, “The most powerful thing you can say to anybody, ‘I see you.’” • The films I didn’t get to see, but are at the top of my list to see next are: - @17blocksfilm. This film is compiled of 20 years of home video taken by the Sanford-Durant family, and is a window into the fight to survive in America. - @gaychorusdeepsouth tells the story of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus touring through the nation’s most conservative states. The music offers a window to unity, and these men are hugged tightly by folks who have previously spoken ill of their existence. one of my best friends said of witnessing the kindness on screen, and not having had it in his own Southern church as a young man, “Something wounded in me behind my consciousness that begged for those hugs.” - @sweetheartdancers2019 is the story of a gay, Indigenous couple who compete as traditional dancers, honoring both their heri

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[part four] I think that’s why @MountainFilm means so much to me. It is a place to SEE. To look into the very core of people and communities and issues and the planet. To stand before the fire and not look away. • It’s fitting that sweet friend @milckmusic graced the festival with her presence and her beautiful voice, and gave it the anthem: “I can’t keep quiet.” We cannot keep quiet. Here’s to the learning and the rising. Let’s dive in, together. #MountainFilm2019

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I love this. Thank you indeed. ♥️ • Words by @carlaaajane

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Health care is a human right. Reproductive health care is a human right. I stand against the latest attack on reproductive health care. Period. People deserve to hear ALL their options from their doctors, and those options should be kept between patients and doctors only. I’m proud to join more than 165 artists to show support for health care access and the Title X program. We will never stop fighting. Ever. Visit protectx.org/learn for more info. #ProtectX #ReproductiveHealthcare

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Mondaze. Anybody with me? 🙋🏻‍♀️ via @togetherliveevents

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Today I honor my momma, Maureen. • Today I honor each of you who love your mommas, who are mommas, and each of you who’ve lost your mommas and still miss them so deeply that it aches. I honor those of you who perhaps don’t have a relationship with your mommas, have one that’s complicated or painful, or have had to sever your relationship with your mommas so that you might better nurture yourselves. • I honor each of you who are mommas in your communities. To the children in your lives who might not have been born to you, but to whom you give of yourselves. Each of you who are mommas to your neighbors, and friends, and aging parents. • And today I might, most of all, feel a breathtaking amount of love for all the migrant mommas out there — hundreds of them — who are without their babies today. We will not stop fighting for you. We will take all the love that our mommas gave us and turn it toward you. Today and every day until your babies are back in your arms. That’s where babies are supposed to be. • If you are looking for ways to support these mommas, and to help advocate for them so that their pain and trauma might be reduced, SWIPE to see some of my favorite ladies in the great tees @phenomenal.ly designed to benefit @fams2gether. A purchase of one is an easy way to honor #PhenomenalMother(s) #FamiliesBelongTogether 💖

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I do what I can 😎 #Repost @jtoboni ・・・ Watch this one drive me crazy today on #EASYnetflix @sophiabush

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MOMS • Alex + Jo • #EASY . Glad y’all are loving our show. Thanks for welcoming me so damn well @jtoboni @kiersey @netflix #easynetflix

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BTS • EASY @netflix Swanberg. Toboni. #DreamTeam TOMORROW/May 10th 🕺🏼

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We made a thing! And it comes out tomorrow! 🕺🏼♥️🛸🎉👯‍♀️ EASY @netflix season 3 @jtoboni @kiersey @jaz_sinclair #joeswanberg #easynetflix

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Today marks an ugly “anniversary” that shouldn’t exist in the first place. Today marks one year since the Trump administration began its utterly revolting and inhumane practice of ripping thousands of families apart. There is no excuse for this. This is the defining policy failure of the Trump administration. Today, across the nation, folks are coming together to say we will not stop working #UntilEveryFamilyIsReunited. Please join us. This is about humanity. We are better than this. @thisisabouthumanity 🎨 @mishazadeh via @amplifierart

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#AboutLastNight #ad ✨ We raised a glass of @JohnnieWalkerUS in celebration of the 2019 TIME 100 Most Influential People. World leaders, entertainers, activists, advocates and more, all honored for the impact they’ve had in moving our society forward. Hearing their powerful stories, I was floored. I left feeling so inspired, and even more driven to continue to do the work. (And I was beyond excited to see one of our #SignsOfProgress exhibition pieces at the gala!) Cheers to those who were honored! I cannot wait cheer on what you do next. #KeepWalking #TIME100

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Oh Earth, how I love you. I tip my hat. I bow down. This pale blue dot ... you are everything ✨🌱🌎🌱✨ #EarthDay #RespectYourMother

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Our dear @shannonsedg wrote a book so powerful that’ll it’ll pound your heart like a drum. #ToStopAWarlord is about the collective efforts of traditionally separate verticals — advocacy, finance, activism, philanthropy, and the military of more than one country — who at her behest worked cohesively to bring Joseph Kony to justice. And it is also the story of our brother @ocittid, and his unfathomable experiences at the hands of the LRA. His willingness to relive trauma so that we might collectively shed light on mass atrocity, and avoid genocide in the future, must be recognized with gratitude. • With all of the efforts mentioned above “aiming at the same North Star,” as Shannon puts it, the world was changed for the better. The outcome isn’t perfect yet, but advocacy and change are paths that require long term dedication and patience to be paired with unrelenting commitment and effort. This book is a guide. An inspiration. And a wake up call. Humanity can degrade to the worst version of itself more quickly than any of us would like to admit. But if we refuse to forget the North Star of our collective soul, which in David’s words means knowing that “life isn’t life without a life next to me,” we can turn the ship around and pursue restorative justice and community for all. • David and Shannon, being called a sister to you both is one of the great honors of my life. Thank you for letting me sit at your feet and learn from you all these years. Much love to the #BridgewayFoundation, #InvisibleChildren, #PathwaysToPeaceUganda, @larenpoole @adamfinck @jasonradical @danicarussell @bobbybailey @jedidiahjenkins @kennyjamez and the rest of the family who dedicated immense time and resources to telling these stories for the last 15 years. I know you, and we, will never give up. I love you all. • *I broadcast OUR DISCUSSION to IG LIVE this morning, and it will be up for the next day. Please give it a watch. It’s profound and illuminating*

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perspective 🌱💔 @natgeo #climatechange #climatescience #extinction

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Can you tell that I love her? @stacylondonreal. Our friend wrote a book and we are kinds of excited about it! @guidedbybiet #DontJustSitThere

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What’s my cheeky sweatshirt about, you wonder? USED CLOTHES, friends! I’m so thrilled to partner with @thredUP X my pal @OliviaWilde — and her company @ConsciousCo — to share their #ChooseUsed Collection. Check it out at thredup.com/chooseused (link in my bio). • thredUP X Olivia Wilde and @ConsciousCo re-designed thousands of pieces of used clothes (like my sweatshirt 💁🏻‍♀️) that are cool, retro and all celebrate fashion reuse. The whole goal is to combat the fashion waste crisis. Did you guys know it’s a crisis!? Fashion is the second most polluting industry after oil!! This is not okay. Keeping clothes in use longer makes a difference. So does buying vintage, having clothing swaps with friends, or borrowing from a pal instead of buying new stuff for special occasions. • However you choose to make an impact in your own life, you can start today, and help combat fashion waste by reposting this (make sure to tag @thredUP and #ChooseUsed)!! @thredup will donate $1 to the Circular Fashion Fund when you do! #ReduceReuseRecycle #ChooseUsed ♻️🌱💚

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Merci pour tout @pompiers_paris ♥️💔 Grateful for all of the first responders who risk it all for us, anytime and any place. #NotreDame • Victor Hugo wrote of the significance of Norte Dame, in “The Hunchback.” His musings feel incredibly appropriate now, as we all try to form the words that explain why this destruction cuts us to the core... This Cathedral is a symbol of resilience. History. And humanity. I’ll leave it to him ... • “Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. Art often undergoes a transformation while they are pending, pendent opera interrupta; they proceed quietly in accordance with the transformed art. The new art takes the monument where it finds it, incrusts itself there, assimilates it to itself, develops it according to its fancy, and finishes it if it can. The thing is accomplished without trouble, without effort, without reaction,— following a natural and tranquil law. It is a graft which shoots up, a sap which circulates, a vegetation which starts forth anew. Certainly there is matter here for many large volumes, and often the universal history of humanity in the successive engrafting of many arts at many levels, upon the same monument. The man, the artist, the individual, is effaced in these great masses, which lack the name of their author; human intelligence is there summed up and totalized.” • via @voxdotcom #VictorHugo #PompiersDeParis

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Had no trace of the Sunday Scaries last weekend, thanks to @samantha_marquart 🌴🌞🌊 #girlsgetaway #sistersister

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#DetroitGrows ♥️🌱♥️ Thank you to @fashtechforum for having us, giving us a space to speak about @detroitblows and our community investment + philanthropic arm, representation, the future of beauty, and collaboration. Thank you to our friends @linguafrancanyc for these incredible sweaters. To my friends @worldarmarium for encouraging consumers to think differently about fashion, waste, and “ownership.” And last but not least, thank you my dearest @questlove for feeding us so well! @chefkwameonwuachi you are a gift. Thank you for not one, not two, but three bowls of rice. You’re a real one! #FTF2019 #DetroitBlows #FemaleFounders #AllOfUs

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#AboutLastNight ♥️ with The @hollywoodreporter, honoring powerhouses in media and the sacred nature of journalism. Telling the truth to the world, investigative reporting, and fighting for transparency is of paramount importance. Thank you to all the reporters around the world fighting to get the truth out there, and reminding us of both who we are, and who we can be. #Journalism #Media #THR

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It’s been a week. Still not quite sure what to say, but I needed a break from the internet. Needed to be quiet and hold my heart in the tender comfort of best friends and community. We lost our sweet Penny girl last Thursday. We knew it was coming, but we didn’t know how quickly the day would be upon us. For the last seven days we’ve cried, laughed, and missed her with an ache that is hard to describe. We’ve traded photos, and been so supported by our loved ones. • I loved Penny from the moment I met her. She was a special, wild, rambunctious little thing. Tiny. Sweet. With giant ears, always at attention. Penny brought me my best friend. @jsmizzie met Penny before she even met me, while I was gone for the weekend and friends in NC were watching my little copper penny puppy, and Patch. The first thing Jenny ever said to me was “I love your dogs!” It’s still an inside joke in our house, to this day. Penny was our mascot. Our welcome wagon. And our guard dog. She helped me, Jenny, @vanessamagos, and Patch survive Griffin’s puppyhood, which was insufferable at times. And even into their adulthood, Penny cleaned his ears every evening around sundown. They were inseparable. Always touching. Always sleeping in a tangled pretzel. Seeing him look for her in the house makes my heart catch in my throat. He misses her too. We all do. Sure, Penny was mine, but she was truly ours. She was family. • Adopt a dog if you’ve ever wanted to. It’ll change your life. It’ll blow your heart open and teach you how big it is. It’ll fill your house with laughter and love. And leave you better than you were before. Sending big love to all the rescuers out there. There’s never enough time, but there’s more than enough love to go around. ♥️ #AdoptDontShop #PennyliciousThePup @pitbullsofinstagram 🐾

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Detroit 🖤 The stunningly beautiful @shinolahotel by @gachotstudios, with art curated by our pals at @librarystreetcollective. • Thanks for the delicious meals and tasty drinks while we worked on new projects for @detroitblows this past weekend. Our love of our neighborhood runs deep. @nialauryn #DetroitBlows 🌱 #DetroitGrows

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The tragic death of @nipseyhussle on Sunday is really weighing heavy on my heart, y’all. What this man meant to LA... We weren’t from the same neighborhood. We never met — though as a fan of his music and his truly entrepreneurial mind I hoped we would one day — but I considered him a role model. A leader. An example. • His savvy began with his music, in limited mixtapes. It spanned to his investment strategy, pouring uncommon dollars into Crenshaw, anchoring his #Marathon clothing store there, opening #Vector90, a coworking space for local entrepreneurs — with a STEM program to create access to tech based jobs and training — and with bold plans to build new residential projects. Rather than take his money outside of his neighborhood, he was keeping it local, and lifting up his community. He was the kind of man who showed up at the local elementary school with new shoes for every kid. He was also passionate about holistic health, and in the midst of making a documentary about Dr. Sebi’s fight against AIDS. He loved his girl, @laurenlondon, and his kids. • In our time building @detroitblows, @nialauryn and I have often referenced Nipsey’s work as inspiration for our own. He reminded us to double down on fighting for Detroit and to encourage investment in other Opportunity Zones that need visionary support. Like I said... we never met, but he was a role model. • My heart hurts for his loved ones and his community. What a loss. Rest In Power, king. All my prayers for Lauren. 🖤

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You can stand under my umbrella-ella-ella ☂️ But for real jump under here, G. It’s snowing! #AboutLastNight #Detroit @detroitblows • UPDATE - For all you cuties asking where you can get a #DetroitBlows t-shirt or tote bag, I put our online shop #linkinbio! • 25% of all of our retail profits go to #DetroitGrows, so thanks in advance for supporting our commitment to our community 🌱 ✨♥️✨🌱

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One of the things that’s rarely mentioned in this current world of “internet success,” and “does-everyone-have-it-figured-out-but-me” self-doubt, is the work behind the work. We have some big things happening @detroitblows. This is a year-and-a-half into our doors being open to the public, and at least that long prior to opening in business development and planning, raising funds, and so many spreadsheets my head still spins when I think about them. • But here we are, loving it still. This feels like passion and purpose. This mission of #equitable #access and #representation for all women lives in our bones. Our commitment to reinvesting funds in women in our community and #femaleentrepreneurs, to start pushing for more #equity in #finance and women’s access to it, has not waned. It’s grown. #Detroit, quite literally, grows. • But ... I just want to be #transparent that this has required long nights, tough decisions, and personal sacrifice. That it isn’t glamorous. It’s not a party. But it’s everything to us. • So to anyone out there building their dream, fighting for their community, trying to raise capital, or having doors slammed in your face ... we see you. We believe in you. Don’t give up. It won’t be easy. It hasn’t been for us either. And when you have a day like this one, and you wrap work on a Saturday night at 10:39pm and had to blow off your pal’s dinner and a few other commitments, just know that more cheers-over-dinner are coming. It’s all worth it. Your vision matters. And even though currently women get small percentages of available financing — and #WOC even less — you have some far-off sisters out here fighting alongside you for parity and representation. You are loved. • And if you’re ever in Detroit, you can come into our salon for a blowout and a hug and high five, anytime. We believe in going #BeyondTheBlowout. We believe in you. We are #DetroitBlows. • @nialauryn @katycockrel @detroitblows 🖤💇‍♀️🌱 #sisterhood

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Never not seeing hockey, and being the most true to my Canadian / her Michigan roots #GoRedwings ♥️ @nhl @detroitredwings #sisterswhosport

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We’re gonna make a thing! Beyond thrilled to be a part of the supporting cast highlighting the actual creative genius that is @ilana! Y’all aren’t ready for what she and John Lee are about to do to us! #FalsePositive @a24

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Once you start training at @gstbody, you realize the world is your oyster. Or rather, your jungle gym. And every bike rack/countertop/airport chair/lamppost becomes something you can use to do the #GSTpulloff. And suddenly being in your body is fun, your tissues are animating, and movement — that creates fitness & wellness — becomes a joy and a not a chore. Thank you @annaraheofgst for giving me the keys to my own lock. And for hanging off of bike racks on Sunset Boulevard with me and @kendrabrackenferguson. That’s #sisterhood 🤣💃🏻😘

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Sunday, 7:36pm 🖤 Home. • UPDATE: Guys. Not sure how this precious photo has somehow signified a tragedy to everyone, but Griffin is fine! I picked this emoji because it looks just like his sweet little nose. That’s literally all. He’s just so cute. So calm down, y’all. That is all! 🤣

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Salaam Alaikum means “peace be unto you,” and is the standard greeting of the Muslim faith. Salaam means peace. In Islam, Friday is jumu’ah, the day of prayer. And last Friday, a man was greeted at the door of the ChristChurch mosque in New Zealand by Daoud Nabi, who said “come in brother.” That man opened fire on the congregation and killed 50 people. #50Lives. It has taken me a week to crawl out from under the anvil on my chest and write about this. • I have been privileged enough to visit mosques over the years, and pray with some of my closest friends. I am always struck in the deepest part of my heart by the greeting, “welcome, sister,” or “come in, sister.” I have always been made to feel at home. Faith is supposed to do that. To welcome all. To encourage kindness, and empathy, and service, and love. The demonization of our brothers and sisters, the faithful of Islam, is a sin. Period. Islamic extremism is no more “Muslim” than any white nationalist is “a Christian.” EVERY religion teaches compassion. The Koran teaches that anyone who kills one person kills all of humanity. Let that sink in. ALL OF HUMANITY. So let us stop. Stop tolerating whatever the far right is doing. Stop doing “profile pieces” on Nazis and fascists. Stop saying “it’s just a small group of people” (POTUS, I’m looking at you). White nationalism is terrorism. Period. Let us condemn it as such. We should have learned this, as a people, by now. Let us do better. Let us all learn from Jacinda Ardern. She is the leader the world needs and deserves. She is our North Star now. Let us learn from the Maori, and stand in solidarity with our communities, quite literally arm in arm at their doors when they are most vulnerable. • Sufism is called the heart of Islam, and is truly the heart of all faith: peace, compassion, and oneness. The collective heart. Let ours all beat together and drown out any hatred, any disinformation, and anything but love. Insha’Allah 🙏 Image descriptions: 1. Maori men offer

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[part 2] 1. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, comforting grieving members of the ChristChurch Muslim community. She wore a hijab as a sign of respect, and both deemed the tragedy an act of terrorism and told mourners that New Zealanders were all “united in grief.” This is a leader. 2. Ardern telling ChristChurch mourners “New Zealand mourns with you” and introduces two minutes of silence in New Zealand during which the Call to Prayer was observed. 3. A tribute to the #50Lives lost by @alhassan.elmasri. 4. Jacinda Ardern announcing NZ banning all military style rifles. 5. A 3 year old boy, the same age as the youngest ChristChurch mosque victim Mucaad Ibrahim, mourns with his family. 6. Prayer carpets laid out to honor the #50Lives lost at ditib-Central Mosque in Cologne, Germany. 7. The Mongrel Mob biker gang shows up to guard their local mosque and honor the fallen with the haka. Let the world unite against hate. Insha’Allah. 🙏

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My angel babe @annaraheofgst is here to teach us all how to save our backs on airplanes. Yay!

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Hey #TogetherLive sisters, look! Our podcast is at the top of the Apple store! This is cool!! Very proud to host this eight part journey with some of my sheroes.🕺🏼✨🎉 #AndEspeciallyYou @hellosunshine @togetherliveevents

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fam jam, Seattle edition. Thanks to the best friends and teammates in life and business for the great day. • And thank you to all who joined, my four fellow lady boss panelists, and our shining example of a good dude and an ally who moderated our enlightening conversation on representation, privilege, personal passion, entrepreneurship, and CSR too. With minds like these looking at how to create change, the future feels bright! 💓 #TalkingWithTrailblazers

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Best swag South of the By. Got me feelin’ like a #zaddy in this #Texas heat 🕺🏼 #yallyallyall

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Sunday Funday Dance Party x South By 🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼 @babsbrayton #booksmart @forward__space @sxsw

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Yesterday was a great day @SXSW. I sat on a panel with @ilyseh, @symonedsanders, and @goangelo, unpacking online toxicity, disinformation campaigns + bot farms, and how to make sure you stand for something I. The midst of it all. Our democracy quite literally depends on it. Thanks to everyone who joined us, especially my sisters in arms @zerlinamaxwell @jess___mc @drgoddessarts #SXSW

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#ad Last night I had the supreme pleasure, along with Jane Walker by @JohnnieWalkerUS, of having an important and powerful conversation about women. And I got to do so alongside some of my #sheroes! Vanity Fair deputy editor of The Hive Claire Landsbaum, Axios’ new CTO Jess Szmajda (hey women in tech!), Sophie Kelly, Senior VP of North American Whiskeys at Diageo + ultimate ladyboss, and my bestie and business partner in #DetroitBlows, Nia Batts. We laughed a lot, I cried once (only once, that’s impressive!) and we all shared the highs and lows of our own adventures in kicking down doors to take our seats at the table of business and leadership. It was incredible. • I will always fight for gender equality and parity, and I am proud to partner with a brand who stands for — and pushes forward! — progress. I’m truly grateful to this team for hosting my dream panel with me. At the New York Historical Society, no less!? Swoon. Plus they make a damn good whiskey, so afterward cheers were had! This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate how far we’ve come, and gear up for the journey ahead. Let’s #WalkWithJane

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Kicking of the #InternationalWomensDay celebrations right, speaking on environmental justice in conversation with @ayanaeliza this morning at #DVF. • Gives extra meaning to wearing pieces created by some of the incredible women who personify #herstory to me. 🖤

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Women’s History Month inspiration from @rupikaur_ ✨ (via @shondarhimes) • #WomensHerstoryMonth #Herstory @womenshistory

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My pal @jhechtkopf sent me this yesterday, from the day we shot in Malibu with @samantha_marquart. And I just really like it. That is all. Happy Monday 🖤

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brunch crew 🖤 #surveillance #workfam #theluckiest

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@selmablair you are a vision. This photograph encapsulates your bravery and strength. Your talent, humor, and perseverance are awe-inspiring. • I just sat down to watch this incredible woman be interviewed by @robinrobertsgma on GMA. The frankness. The opening of the door into physical illness. The fearless honesty. It was all breathtaking. And full of laughter. And just so poignant. Selma’s willingness to let us all into her world as she battles MS means that so many people out there will feel less alone. Her reality check, that, with treatment, in a year she could be so much better. 90% to be exact. Or she might not be. But no matter what, so long as she can still sit and have a conversation like this one, it’ll be “good enough.” It’s hopeful and raw. Her vibrancy is beautiful. • I’m very grateful for all of the people out there who lean into what might make others turn away. Who, by opening up in their moments of trial, pain, growth, or vulnerability, give each and every one of us who bears witness the permission to say, “you too?” What a gift. #SelmaBlair #ms 📷 @markseliger

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#wcw 😍♥️🎉🕺🏼🔥🧠✊🏽🤩 #enoughsaid

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Home is where the nature is 🌿

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Same same, but different. I’m into our 10 (+) year challenge, @hilarieburton. 👯‍♀️ #sisterwife #OTHfam #10YearChallenge

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Can’t take us anywhere ... #ReunitedAndItFeelsSoGood Thank you to @fwbcharityevents for bringing our #framily together for the belly laughs AND for great causes #TheGirlProject #StJudes

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A take-your-breath-away “yes” brought to you on this Friday night by the inimitable Esther Perel. #Repost @estherperelofficial ・・・ When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your home tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. Sweet Darkness, by David Whyte

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When one of your favorite ladies calls you and says “will you come play in an episode for my last season!?” AND that means you also get to play with one of your favorite dudes!? Whelp. You say YES! What a dream come true. Beyond thrilled to be making some comedy alongside two of my favorite world-changers #laughsfordays ♥️ Repost @justinbaldoni ・・・ This is a man who is very grateful to be between two women who are literally changing the game. How cool that I get to work with amazing humans like this!? I’ve realized that there’s something about being in the presence of powerful women that actually grounds and calms me. (I mean look at who I married @emilybaldoni 😜💪🏼❤️) I’m so grateful that the supremely talented, kind-hearted and bad ass feminist- social justice warrior @sophiabush who I LOOOVE and adore came to play with us on @cwjanethevirgin this week. I can’t tell you who she is playing except that some of you may not be happy about it 😜#canttellyou #sorrynotsorry #thefinalseason #march27

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Excuse me for minute while I pick all the pieces of my heart up off the floor, @kevinogarrett. You are A GIFT, buddy!! A gift. I hope the world is ready for this record 🖤 #hoax #kevingarrett #allthefeels

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Wow call me out @bitchesgottaeat 🤣 This is me me me ME MEEEEEE!! • Anyone else feel like they need to take four weeks off of life itself just to dent their reading pile!? #HolidayWeekendPlans 🤓📚♥️

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This. A moment. #Repost @nialauryn ・・・ Long before I knew Peter, I always admired his work on the walls of my friends and loved seeing his outdoor installations. His painted collages bore images and sayings that always uplifted me; “Grattitude” (yes with two t’s), “Don’t Panic” (a welcome reminder) and my personal favorite that covered a massive billboard on the freeway riding into New York City, “Nothing Happens Unless First A Dream.” • One morning while Peter & I were meeting for breakfast, he asked me if I had seen the paper, and when he slid it across the table I saw that the headline read: “City of Detroit Files for Bankruptcy” — and for a moment, my heart stopped. • I was born & raised in the city of Detroit and left to attend school in New York when I was 18. And the years that passed during my time away turned out to be some of the city’s most economically devastating. But true to the spirit of my hometown and the people who inhabit it, those years also became some of the most hopeful. Detroit is the “renaissance city”; the very essence of rebirth & perseverance is in our bones & blood, in our music & art. • While I was away I actively found ways to bring the work I was doing in New York back home to Detroit, but it would still be 5 years after reading that headline that my co-founders & I would bring Blows to life on Library Street. Dreams can be hard, and they can also take a really long time. • In December of 2018 I received a call from Peter, congratulating us on our 1 year anniversary. He was calling from his Miami studio in the Wynwood Walls, and in the midst of Art Basel no less. He said he was working on something for us. Peter had been hunting & archiving images of Detroit, its people, its spirit, its gifts to the world, and he wanted everyone in the salon to have the opportunity to see it before it was done. We were overwhelmed with emotion when it showed up in person the day before Christmas. • Dreams can be hard, and they can also take a really l

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I love you sister, and our business baby, and all the things we’re building. Thank you to @refinery29 for the feature #linkinbio Here we go! 💓 #Repost @nialauryn ・・・ Happy Galentine’s Day to my bestie! @sophiabush I’m so happy I get to do life with you. Thanks also to the team @refinery29 for taking the time to talk to us about our friendship, @detroitblows and some of our other projects in development via our agency and production company. Our heads are down building and growing this year, wouldn’t have it any other way! 😘 • 📷: @photobyhudson @serenahawaii 👗: @catapper 💇‍♀️: @thejoshliu @rickyfraserhair 💄: @debchungbeauty

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Lori Alhadeff wrote a letter to her daughter Alyssa, who died one year ago, on 2/14/18, at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School. • Alyssa was 14. She was sad that she didn’t have a Valentine. She wore a black and white dress to school. Lori said “I love you,” & could not have known that it would be the last time she’d hear Alyssa say it back. • This should be required reading for everyone, including all members of Congress, in advance of tomorrow’s tragic anniversary. • We have a gun violence problem in America. A problem that robs families of their loved ones, robs children of their future chances to fall in first love, robs us of schools, movie theaters, churches, mosques, synagogues. Of barbershops and holiday parties. Offices. Home improvement stores. Town halls. Even our own homes. • I say all of this as a weapons-trained hobbyist and a gun owner. Know that before you accuse me of not understanding. I do. And because I do, I will continue to firmly state that we have a problem. We need a solution. And better regulations, a national database, universal background checks + universal waiting periods, and the removal of guns from those who commit domestic violence are ALL a start. If you are on a no-fly list, you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun. Gun laws shouldn’t be more lax than the laws that surround motor vehicles. These are facts. We all need to take a breath and figure out where our mythology around these issues comes from. Why we cling to outdated ideals. How we can do better, innovate, maintain versions of hobbies & lifestyles AND better protect our kids. Because let me tell you something, I’d miss my range days if I could never have them again. But if it meant the MSD 17, and the 1,100+ kids who’ve been killed by guns in this country SINCE the MDS shooting would still be alive? Whelp. I’d give them up. The REALITY is that no one is asking anyone to give up their hobby. Just to regulate it better. In the face of all these dead kids, we FIGHT that?? • It’s t

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I’m super excited that tomorrow I get to interview my pal and travel/food/adventure LEGEND @chefaz. We’re going to talk about his new book “AZ and the lost city of Ophir,” and probably wind up reminiscing about our favorite street tacos too. Come join us! @barnesandnoble at @thegrovela from 7-9! ♥️🕺🏼🌮🎉🌎

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Cue #TheBeatles “I wanna hold your haaaaaaaand.” Adventures and snuggles with my sister in coat obsession / favorite Isrishwoman @sambarry 🖤🍀🖤 • *Dont worry @therealleech, you’re still my favorite IrishMAN. Sam is V excited that my #Surveillance #dubhub is a Dublinite! • @glamourmag #TheGirlProject

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I’ve still not caught my breath. This SHOW. The writing. The performances. The way it’s shot. And what it has to say. On mental health. Death and dying. The metaphysical. The deeply emotional, and vulnerable, and scary. Fear. Love. Communication. The infinite potential of outcomes. Who we want to be. And how much we really, really need to look in the mirror and figure out what’s happening underneath what we see, how we behave, and where we run to. And finally, where we might go instead if only we had the chance or awareness to take a different path. This is a gift. Thank you @nlyonne and @_charliebarnett — sweet brother you are a revelation — and all involved in this stunning piece of work. It’s just brilliant. Wow. #RussianDoll #RussianDollNetfix

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And while I’m on the subject of bestie love (SWIPE!) and the work we do together that centers diverse and incredible women, CHECK THIS OUT!! 😍 There’s @nialauryn, featured at number 45 on @popsugar’s list of 49 amazing women who personify #BlackGirlMagic in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth by @brittsteps (#linkinbio) • Nini is featured alongside our pals Patrice Cullors @osopepatrisse and Tarana Burke @taranajaneen. And women we #girlboss crush on from afar like Candice Patton @candicepatton, Courtney Kemp @courtneyakemp, Devin Ki’Elle @devinkielle , and Kamala Harris @kamalaharris! Also @kellyrowland hiiiii we love you! (We almost said the other day at @soulcycle but no one wants to be fangirled after a sweat session! 😜) Each woman shared a piece of what she loves about her culture, and how she moves in the world. • Nia’s words: "My name, Nia, is the fifth principle of Kwanzaa, meaning purpose. And from a very early age, my parents instilled a sense of pride and celebration of my culture and my blackness that exists to this day (even, and especially, at times when people and systems tried to undermine it). Before this adventure into the beauty industry, I worked primarily in media and entertainment, and the dialogue around identity, representation, and who gets to participate is very similar. Every time I walk into our shop on Library Street in Detroit, I am very humbled and proud of the space we've made and what it means to the community who inhabits it." • I’m so proud of you sister!! And I’m so lucky to do life with you, learn from you, and watch you shine! ✨

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I got to chat with the folks at @hourdetroitmagazine about me and @nialauryn’s business baby, @detroitblows. We talked the salon, building an inclusive, inspiring space for all women (and the men who visit us too!) and community engagement and organizing. And I got to give a little love to our #Detroit favorites like the @librarystreetcollective, @detroitfoundationhotel and @shinolahotel, the @empowermentplan, the @detroitpistons, and more. #HomeAwayFromHome #GirlBosses . Check it out at the link in their bio. #SisterSister 📷 @photobyhudson

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I’m a story-teller. An activist. And a theater lover. Education is my passion. I fundamentally believe we need to transform our high schools so they work for ALL young people – no matter their race, gender or zip code. I’m excited to be on the host committee of XQ Super School Live with @ava & @rafaelcasal. It’s a new one-of-a-kind, immersive storytelling tour to inspire people to reimagine high schools in their community from @XQAmerica and @Pop-Up Magazine. It’s going to be a night of high school drama full of stories, selfie confessionals, viral gratitude, and multimedia adventures that celebrate the everyday heroes transforming America's high schools! To learn more & get tickets go to the link in bio @XQAmerica! Proceeds from ticket sales benefit local non-profit organizations. • And here’s some data (my favorite thing) to illustrate what our education issue looks like. We can do better. We can offer better to our students! . While two-thirds of high school graduates go on to college, 52% of those in 2-year colleges and 20% of those in 4-year colleges must take remedial courses for knowledge and skills they should have gotten in high school. The bottom line, as a nation $1 BILLION every year on remedial courses. . One in six 9th graders drops out before graduating . 47% of seniors don’t complete the courses they need to be college- and/or career ready. . At graduation, only 46% of seniors are ready for college-level reading, just 40% are ready in math.

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About last night ... Honoring the incredible production designers who make the worlds we strive to create in film & television come to life 🎥 #ADGawards • Thank you to my sisterwife BFF @nialauryn for being the best date in the game, and to the team @ecduzit @amberdmakeup @carlyxhair @prabalgurung @ireneneuwirth @tylerellisofficial @giuseppezanotti for this incredible glam 🖤 • Also, @davidalangrier you are a GEM of a host. And holy crap I got to meet @comiclonilove!! Two comedic GENIUSES!!

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Last night I was lucky enough to see @thewoostergroup’s “The B-Side: Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons.” @eric_berryman leads the cast, taking the audience through what the @nytimes called “a masterclass in listening.” • And indeed it is. This play draws you in, as the men sing songs recorded in the 1960s, and Berryman reads passages from “Wake Up Dead Man: Hard Labor and Southern Blues.” The audience is transported back to the prison systems of the south during the Civil Rights movement. Some of the music harkens back farther, to the era of slave songs. And all of it, in this modern moment where we are witnessing a rise in racially motivated hate crimes. In the rise of privatized prisons that put profit over people, and are incentivized to keep people in a broken system. And even this week, prisoners trapped in New York without heat or warm food, is a knife through the heart. Because no matter how far we’ve come, we haven’t come far enough. Because the men working on these 1960s next-stage versions of chain gangs were subjugated by a prison system that was born to continue the legacy of slavery, and that benefited from back breaking manual labor carried out by black bodies. We must confront where we come from, as a nation, if we will ever change. • I couldn’t help but cry as I listened to men sing about being forced to run to the fields where they worked, chased by wardens and their “n***er dogs.” That a dog trained to hunt & tear apart the flesh of prisoners was so common it had a nickname and a song should tell us something. I had the chills as I watched footage of these prisoners, chopping trees in eerie synchronized motions. And, thanks to the hearts & minds of the men recorded, and the way their singing and storytelling was performed by the actors on that stage, I also experienced welcome moments of humor & laughter & joy, too. This show runs the full gamut. It’s truly an important thing to witness, in its stillness and thoughtfulness and spirit. • I’m g

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Highlights from Sunday’s #SAGAwards, starting with me getting to take my shoes off. Hello, I had dancing to do! . 2. Making my favorite @sterlingkbrown laugh. Is there a greater honor!? . 3. Perhaps it’s getting this hug. Yup. Couldn’t adore him more! . 4. Seeing two of my favorite ladies who both just so happened to be nominated in the INCREDIBLE ensembles that they shine in @darcycarden + @jackietohn, on @hbo #Barry + @glownetflix . 5. Sweet oldest and dearest pal @zacharylevi winning the man (btw they’re SO HEAVY) in the ensemble of @maiseltv. How good is that show!? . 6. Reunion night with my dearheart angel #Surveillance #dubhub @therealleech . 7. Being adopted by Allen & his IRL wife (and my soulsisterwife) @jessicablairherman. We make a real cute framily don’t we!? . 8. Jess’ sister and my pal + coworker @stephaniehartlevinson getting in the mix. We lost it laughing. You can’t take us anywhere. . 9. Our entire @20thcenturyfox #Surveillance family puppypile of love. . 10. And finally, a night of savage humor, ferocious hors d’oeuvres eating, and dancing even when there wasn’t technically a dance floor with my brother-from-another-mother @jedidiahjenkins. . What a night. I am, now more than ever, so proud to be an actor @sagawards 🖤

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Thank you to the team who made this dreamy evening possible. 🖤 It takes a village, and mine is truly special. @amberdmakeup @josephmaine @ecduzit @moniquelhuillier @jacobandco @jimmychoo @giuseppezanotti #SAGAwards

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Last night was magic ✨ @sagawards #SAGAwards Thank you so much @people and @mrjesscagle 🖤

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Yesterday: full day of meetings. Crushed business plans. Made some magic. Felt proud. Excited. Motivated. And was really feeling my outfit, tbh. • Today: getting a breathing treatment at the doctor because my asthma is kicking my ass like I challenged it to a duel. Fully down for the count. • More of that real life balance, I suppose. What are some highs and lows y’all have to battle in your daily life? #UpsAndDowns #WishMeLuck

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It’s a pivotal time for women right now. The shutdown. School strikes. The march. And as we fight for equity in all aspects of our lives, equal pay is crucial to forward motion. • I’m so thrilled that I got to partner @SecretDeodorant on their #IdRatherGetPaid initiative, because they believe women shouldn’t have to sweat fair pay, and I couldn’t agree more. If you saw our video when it launched, today feels like an excellent day for a rewatch. And if you haven’t seen it yet. Be sure to peep my IG stories. #IdRatherGetPaid #Ad #ProudPartner #ThisIsMyPayMeFace 🤣✊🏽

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Yesterday, to honor MLK and his legacy, I spent time with @laylafsaad‘s #MeAndWhiteSupremacyWorkbook. I wanted to honor him by doing work. By unpacking the world from which I (and folks like me) benefit (consciously or unconsciously) and sit with those thoughts. I’ve been trying to spend less time on the internet and more time in the real world. And thinking about how to double down on activism in the present means, for me, sitting with lessons of the past and trying to figure out how to bring them more and more into daily life. What questions do we need to ask ourselves to do that? I needed to sit with them. And then I read my soul sister Glennon’s words, and knew that she’d spoken what I wanted to share. So. For him. For us. For yesterday. For the future. #Repost @glennondoyle: ・・・ Please consider this while we celebrate MLK Jr today: 75 percent of white people did not approve of MLK when he was alive. I think it’s easy for people of privilege to love a dead civil rights activist, because he is no longer a threat to the white supremacy that serves and protects us. If we want to know how we’d have felt about MLK back then, we don’t ask ourselves how we feel about him now. If we want to know if we’d have felt about MLK Jr. back then - we ask ourselves- how do I feel about Colin Kaepernick now? How do I feel about Black Lives Matter? If we want to know how we would have shown up in the last civil rights era- we just ask ourselves how we’re showing up in this civil rights era. Please tag a black activist, artist, or black led business or organization in the comments. Lets spend some time today learning about these people. Let’s spend some money supporting them. Let’s show our gratitude for MLK by showing respect and honor to those who are living out his message today. @laylafsaad @feministpress @rachel.cargle @mspackyetti @amberkgoodwin @taranajaneen @angryblackfemale @feministpress @pastortraci @austinchanning @glowmaven @poorpeoplescampaign // thank you for

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I know I’ve put this in my stories, but I truly cannot stop watching @iamcardib be spot on about this bs shutdown. Reminder that the $$ Drumpf is withholding isn’t his. It’s OURS. It’s tax money we’ve all payed, and it’s unconscionable that he is withholding it from workers and services because he cannot get a bill passed through proper legal process. That’s not how democracy works. That’s a dictatorship. • Our National Parks, federal workers (including TSA workers who are the ones actually catching high risk/problematic criminals trying to come into the country) and even our DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS are suffering, and in danger of closing. And! AND! The Violence Against Women Act has expired. None of this is acceptable. Every day I’m yelling at the TV watching coverage. I haven’t wanted to post videos of myself swearing at my newsfeed because that’s not my best self. But damn if Cardi didn’t say everything I’ve been thinking, with far more humor and far less profanity. She’s a national treasure. That is all. #repost @iamcardib ・・・ I know a lot of ya do r watch the news so I’m letting ya know shit getting real .....I ain’t going to say nothing much tho I don’t want mofos to off me.....ANYWAYS TWERK VIDEO OUT NOW

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Yesterday I was tearing my house apart looking for something. My computer charger, to be exact. I was in work-work-work mode. Not to be distracted or deterred. Goals! Hustle! As I started scrounging around the shelf underneath my old coffee table, I didn’t see the cord. But I did see one of my favorite books. Its linen spine. With clean lettering bearing my favorite poet’s name: Mary Oliver. I grabbed the book, sat down, flipped to a random page and started reading. A smile crept across my face. I started paying attention to the way the LA air smelled of fresh rain, and to the odd rhythm of it falling. Mary shifts you back to what’s important, and clicks you firmly into place. • And then this morning I woke up and heard she’d died. What an ache. To lose a person you always felt you could turn to. What a strange feeling, given that the person was someone you’d never met... yet, here I am. Heart sore. Whose words could better mark today than hers: . “When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse . to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox . when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, . I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? . And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility, . and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular, . and each name a comfortable music in the mouth, tending, as all music does, toward silence, . and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. . When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. . When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. . I don't want

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So last Tuesday night I had the supreme honor of presenting the #NationalBoardOfReview award for #BestAnimatedFeature to my dear Brad Bird for #Incredibles2. • It was a storybook kind of night. Glamorous. Inspiring. I watched @williegeist and @trevornoah be brilliant and political and perfect in person. Steven Spielberg made Bradly Cooper tear up. I gave @awkwafina a high five. She’s so dope. And I got to do it all in this insanely beautiful @zacposen gown. @kentshire jewels. An @edie_parker bag. Talk about a pinch me evening. • Then last night, I spent twenty minutes on one knee, cleaning up piles of dog vomit in my house, whilst wearing sweatpants and a PMS-break-out-fighting charcoal face mask... so. What a difference a week makes. • I believe this is what the universe calls “balance.” The Universe ain’t letting me get a big head anyyyy time soon... 🤣 #instalife vs #reallife #glamsometimes #onlysometimes #dogmommostofthetime • Thank you to the team @robertsesnek @djquintero @zacposen + my @pixar family for getting me all done up and having me join you on such a special night! And to the @nbrfilm for honoring storytelling in such a beautiful way!! ♥️

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In case you’re wondering, YES I’m still watching this video. And this is, coincidentally, the level of joy I feel that it’s @nialauryn’s birthday. A TEN!! #sistersister 🎉 #KatelynOhashi WE LOVE YOU! @uclagymnastics

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Okaaaaaaay LA 😍

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I was reaaaally feeling #NYC yesterday. That is all. 🖤🍎

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When the bellman @instylemagazine hands you a beer and you feel both seen and known. #GoldenGlobes2019

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😍 aw, we cute! 🐣 throwback @katebosworth #GoldenGlobes

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A Globes #Repost from sweet soul sister @katebosworth 💓 ・・・ Golden Globes today! 🏆✨ Here is a #tb moment from 3 yrs ago, right before Sophia and I were about to present on stage - and Tom Hanks helped us shake off the nerves because he is truly the kindest, funniest, most generous & loving person - just as you’d expect & more 💛 Good luck to all the nominees, shine, shine, shine ... (+ look for Mr. Hanks if you’re nervous 😉🌟)

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A 2019 MOOD, brought to you by a few of the incredible women set to be sworn into Congress tomorrow. It’ll be the most diverse Congress in history, with over 100 women representing us. Diversity makes us better. Here’s to more seats at the table. #herstory

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And so it is. 1/365. 💫

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This is Jazmine Barnes. Her little face breaks my heart ... because she was executed. Her family was targeted. A white man, with light eyes (blue or green), a beard (remember, he could have shaved it afterward), in a red/burgundy 4 door truck pulled up to her family near a #Houston Walmart. He shot Jazmine in the head. Shot her mother, who is in the hospital. He kept shooting. Her family is devastated. HE REMAINS AT LARGE. • The kind of hate you have to have in your heart to do this... I don’t have the words. But @shaunking has $25,000 ready as a reward for anyone with information that leads to this horrid man’s capture. (More info in my stories and on Shaun’s page.) • My hope, my prayer, my dream for 2019, is that each and every one of us who believes in justice, community, and kindness comes together like never before. That we double down. Do more work. Have more uncomfortable conversations. And that we harness our scared rage to stand for our neighbors with fierce love and conviction. #JazmineBarnes #SayHerName (DESCRIPTION UPDATED ABOVE. Be sure to follow @shaunking for more.)

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2019. May you always be as joyful as you were at midnight. • And may Mueller bring the fuckin’ hammer down ✊🏽

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Walking away from 2018 like ... 🖤

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I meeeeean. JOY. 🎁

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It was a merry and happy everything 💫 #Framily

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Yesterday ♥️ Family + Friends are the real gift, always.

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It’s the f**kin’ Catalina wine mixer. #HolidayThings 🎁 #ApronMaven

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Treasure hunt. Burbank. 12.22

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The Best of Kenny. Burbank. 12.22 #Framily

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Yesterday I was being interviewed, and when the woman I was speaking with asked me what over the course of my adult life has felt the most meaningful, “activism and philanthropy” came out of my mouth before I had a second to consciously consider the question. I immediately thought about opening this school in Guatemala. About fundraising raffles and each of you who has joined those calls with me. Cultivating a practice of giving, and of showing up, makes life exponentially better. So many people I care about have taken this holiday season to donate to charities I care about in my name. So that we can open more schools and help more families after disasters and ... well the list goes on. • Now we all got to talk about this on #GivingTuesday, but I want to remind all of you that you can still @PayPal to donate to your favorite charity at paypal.com/giveback. They’re matching donations by 1% through Dec 31. • I’m beyond proud to be partnering with them on this initiative, and grateful that they want me to highlight the way that giving feels so meaningful to me. #SeasonOfGiving #PayItForward #PayPalPartner #ad

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When the baby @treehousepups is so happy that you’re finally home, and so extra snuggly and cute, and for one minute you look away to take a pic ... and get NAILED with the slobber mouth. Lesson. Noted. ♥️🐾 #treehousepups #bewaretheslobber #griffinthegargoyle

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And just like that ... we did it. 4 years of ideation (@davidcwhite) 10 months of development. Drafts. Notes. More drafts. The pitch. The green light. 5 weeks of testing. 6 weeks of prep. 3 weeks of rehearsals, fittings, dialect, more fittings. Did I mention fittings? Set builds. Props. Where are the coffee mugs!? “Create a life” photo sessions. Technical advisors. New pages. Rehearsals. Wedding ring selections. Fittings. And more late night pho dinners and day-off dim sum runs than I can count... and EVEN a little hockey!? And holy shit. In the middle of the night ... we WRAPPED. Hands down the greatest job I’ve ever had. The most incredible working experience of my life thus far... and isn’t that the point of it all!? To always be growing, moving, pushing ... upward? Oh my my. The immensity of this joy. Tomorrow I’ll sleep in, and I’ll bet you money that I’ll wake up with the same smile on my face that I have right this second. This is the point of it all... #GrAttitude #Surviellance #SomeonesWatching

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el corazón de nuestra serie. gracias por todo, mi hermana. @patriciariggen #joanofarc #surveillance #someoneswatching

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I will always tell, and have always told, the truth. Even when my voice shakes. • You asking “why now” simply reveals to me that you haven’t been paying attention. “Journalists” who distort the words of women to produce clickbait, who minimize their story by segmenting it and reducing it? Do better. • If you have chosen not to listen to the frank, clear conversations I’ve had on the topic over the last year, that’s on you. Your lack of attention — to me and to ALL of the women who tell their stories into the void — doesn’t mean that we haven’t been screaming all along. • To attempt to have a field day with my life, acting like I don’t have the receipts? *You can swipe right for a selection. • The grace with which I’ve chosen to handle this, the deep learning I’ve done in the wake of my experience (shout out to the magnificent folks at @onsiteworkshops) that I take as sacred, and a responsibility to offer other women? Do not forget that my “titanium spine,” as my sister @hilarieburton calls it, was forged in fire. I am not a woman that you will ever reduce. Not one iota. None of us are. #DoYouGetItNow #MeToo #BurnItDown #TimesUp poem: @nayyirah.waheed

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If #CyntoiaBrown’s case makes your blood boil, as it does mine, then you know what to do. • LIGHT UP THE PHONES. Do not let Governor Haslam’s office have one moment of quiet until he does his JOB. • And then, my dear ones, we organize. Until our system criminalizes the perpetrators, rather than the victims. Until our culture listens to victims, rather than re-traumatizing them by spinning their stories into salacious, fragmented headlines. Until our clothing or our circumstances or our mere existence is no longer an excuse for a lack of consent. Until then, we organize and we fucking fight. • #FreeCyntoiaBrown #BillHaslam #BurnItDownSis

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Ladies & Gentlemen. We have a problem. • We have a problem when a pedophile who sexually assaulted a 3 year old child & physically assaulted her mother gets 90 days of jail time. • When a college student, caught raping an unconscious woman in an alley, gets only 6 months of jail time but serves 3. For RAPE. Not for, as his father deemed the assault he perpetrated, “20 minutes of action.” How fucking revolting. That a grown man would defend his rapist son with that sentence. • This doesn’t even touch on the former frat president of @bayloruniversity, who was just let off for violently raping, and nearly killing, a female student. He will serve no jail time & not even be registered as a sex offender. • Then we come to #CyntoiaBrown. A child victim of sex trafficking. She was sold — SOLD — to a 43 year old man. Sold as a sex slave. I’ll say it again. SOLD. Modern day slavery & pedophilia intersect in the grossest way in her case and, like other women in her position, she likely would have died in captivity. But Cyntoia, at just 16 yrs old, fought back. She shot the man who purchased her when he tried to rape her. We have to STOP saying “when he attempted to have sex with her.” A 43 year old man PURCHASED a human being — a 16 year old girl — & tried to RAPE her. She was not, as she was labeled in court, “a child prostitute.” There is literally no such thing. She was a minor. She was a victim of SEX TRAFFICKING. And she, in the fashion the #2A folks looooove to praise, fought back. “A good kid with a gun.” She shot her rapist in self-defense. He died. Good riddance. And she — THE VICTIM — was convicted of MURDER & sentenced to LIFE in prison. She will not be eligible for parole for 51 years. • This is WRONG. The way we talk about victims vs criminals is WRONG. It has to stop. No more “what was she wearing,” or “why did she go to the party,” or she was “an underage sex worker.” No more she “claimed.” Start saying “she recounted.” No more “why ruin his future for 20 minute

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Facts. 👊🏼 #MondayMantra

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Just one second. I’ve just got something in my eye... ・・・ #Repost @willsmith ・・・ Somebody asked me the other day How did I define Love? I didn’t have a good answer. I thought about it a little... Here’s my first attempt. . How do Y’all define Love? . 🎞: @westbrook @pursuethedelicious

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No matter where we are, if we’re together we’re sporting. @canucks @nialauryn #SisterSister #HavePassportWillHockey

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New view, who dis? • In all seriousness, this is a moment I’ll never forget. And it feels like a great #MondayMantra moment... so in the words of Colin Powell, “A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.“ • Keep chasing those dreams, babes. When you’re tired of working, work harder. Consistency is key. Do a little every day, and before you know it, you’ll have done a whole lot. • ♥️♥️♥️

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In the words of our wonderful writer @davidcwhite, “we’re hanging out, we’re working, we’re making a tv a show, and it’s really super fun.” Sums it up perfectly. #Surveillance #DayOne

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These days, I’m heading to sleep more grateful than I’ve probably ever been. This is an upward trend I like very much. What a team. What a dream. Here we go 🖤 #Surveillance @20thcenturyfox @cbstv • Pictured: Table Read, Pilot Episode. From left: Our incredible director @patriciariggen, and cast #RaphaelAcloque, @therealleech, #CatalinaSandinoMoreno, me 💁🏻‍♀️, @dennishaysbert, and @matthewmodine. #Gratitude #ILoveMyJob #DreamTeam

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The words I’ve been searching for, of course found thanks to @cleowade ・・・ #Repost @cleowade As defined by The United Nations: “Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.” The human beings legally seeking asylum at our border are human beings. Their bones break the same way our children’s bones break. Their blood bleeds red the way ours does. Their eyes cry salty tears like ours. Every single human being deserves respect, dignity, compassion, empathy, and safety. It is very dangerous when we live in a headspace and heart-space that does not acknowledge these divine truths. I love you. I love them. Let us all love our neighbors.

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It’s Giving Tuesday — also known as my favorite day of the year — and I’m teaming up with my friends @PayPal again. PayPal has already matched $500k in donations just today!! Now through Dec 31, they’ll continue to match 1% of donations, so make your donations count at the link in my bio #ad #GivingTuesday • And for the folks asking where I’m focusing my efforts this year, in the wake of the #CampFire and #WoolseyFire wildfires in California, I’m donating to @vcunitedway to assist their incredible work of supporting families and first responders across the state. If you’d like to donate to them as well, please do so via the link in my bio. Much love ♥️

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My own personal Where’s Waldo adventure 🌊 #NatureWorship

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shinrin-yoku 🌲 #shinrinyoku #victoria

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Yup. • Top of Mount Doug, Victoria, B.C. • 🍁♥️🌲

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#Repost @humanrightscampaign. Today is a time to reflect and recommit to ending the epidemic of anti-trans violence. Heartbreakingly, 2018 has seen at least 22 trans people killed by violent means -- the majority of whom were Black trans women. We say “at least” because some victims’ deaths may go unreported, while others may not be identified as trans in the media, often because authorities, journalists and/or family members refuse to acknowledge their gender identity. Using correct identifiers and pronouns isn’t just about accuracy–it’s about affording all individuals the respect and dignity that everyone deserves. @HRC Foundation offers a guide for reporters covering trans, non-binary & gender-expansive people. Across the US anti-transgender stigma & systemic discrimination heighten the vulnerability of trans people from an early age. For trans women of color, who comprise the vast majority of victims, these challenges are further exacerbated by & intertwined with racism & sexism. n order to end anti-transgender violence, we must acknowledge the true identities of its victims and address the ways in which societal attitudes regarding these identities may have played a role in their deaths. Even in the face of physical danger, hatred & discrimination—sometimes ruthlessly endorsed and enforced by those at the highest level of our government—transgender Americans live courageously & overcome unjust barriers in all corners of our country. Until we as a country address & dismantle these barriers, transgender people will continue to face higher rates of discrimination, poverty, homelessness & violence. We must honor these victims' truth & bravery with action. #TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance 2/2

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Eight days ago I was in Chicago, preparing to speak at #TogetherLive, and I went to grab lunch at one of my favorite haunts with one of my favorite pals. • As I was leaving, an employee of the restaurant hurried up behind me. This waiter had such a great face. A glow. Short brown hair poking out from under a beanie. Bright eyes. And their voice caught in their throat as they spoke, “hey, I just had to say ... thank you for what you do on social media. Not a lot of people with platforms like yours talk about the things you talk about. You don’t shy away from anything, and the way you support people really means a lot.” The earnestness on their face hit me square in the chest. I said, “thank you so much, that really means a lot,” and they said, “thank YOU. I’m trans. And not a lot of people advocate for us. So just, thank you so much.” And suddenly I had a lump in my throat. • When I tell you that I could FEEL the mix of pain at being othered, and gratitude for being seen, radiating from this person’s body, I am not exaggerating. I wrapped them up in a hug, and we stood in the foyer of a diner, both of us teary-eyed. Both of us feeling affirmed for choosing to be people who talk about hard things. I will never forget you, Ryder. What a supreme honor I’m given, being a person who can support you. • We live in a world where being inclusive is not enough. We must be firmly anti-discrimination. Practices that harm folks like my new friend? Excuses for bigotry passed off as “faith?” Hatred? Hate crimes? Abuse? These things have real tolls. And they come at a human cost. We have to do the work to dismantle any system that makes anyone afraid to be who they are. Period. • Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance And in my next post I want to share some words and facts from the @humanrightscampaign with you. 1/2

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You all know how much I love data, and some of the most telling, for me, centers around the gender wage gap. We talked about this on #EqualPayDay, but we need to work to highlight the truth far more often than just one day a year. • So. Stats? On average, women in the U.S. are paid 20% less than men. And that disparity is even greater for women of color. Black women make 64 cents for every dollar made by a man. Latinas make 54 cents on the dollar. So that means those women are paid 38% and 46% less than white men, respectively. • We are past the time to put an end to this. And to do that, we have to keep awareness up and pressure on! I’m thrilled to be teaming up with @abbywambach, @whododatlikedat, @swincash, @cattsadler, and @SecretDeodorant for its latest campaign, #IdRatherGetPaid. Together, we are shedding light on the wage gap. • Check out my Stories for more! There’s singing, dancing, and some figurative ceiling smashing!! @SecretDeodorant #IdRatherGetPaid #Secret #Ad

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California 💔 #CampFire

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California. My home. My heart. The devastation continues from both the #CampFire and the #WoolseyFire. 60 people have been confirmed dead. 1,000 are missing. Animals are dead, more are suffering. People with nothing, and people with seemingly all the things, have all lost everything. It is unimaginable. I cannot look at these photos without weeping. • Our state’s magic comes from nature. The land. The sea. The tiny communities of farmers and glass blowers. The enormous cities full of diverse food and innovation. The quiet forests where we all go to feel at one with the planet. • If you’ve experienced the sacred, in our ocean or on our wooded forest trails, please look at the last two slides in this post and see how you might be able to contribute. Every little bit helps. • Thank you to the courageous firefighters and rescue workers, pushing through exhaustion and trauma to save our neighbors. You are heroes. • And lastly, we cannot continue to deny science. Climate change is making these disasters exponentially worse every year. It has NEVER been like this. And we must do something before it gets, unimaginably, worse in years to come. This planet is the only one we’ve got. We must start to treat her that way. ♥️💔♥️

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Sometimes when things feel overwhelming, I think about gratitude. And feeling thankful brings me to a pretty rad #fbf. • On 11/4 I got to present the inimitable #BradBird with the Hollywood Animation Award at the HFA’s. It’s a pretty crazy thing being part of the animated film that had the biggest opening of all time. How does one quantify it? Qualify it? To see people watching it on planes, and dressing up as characters from the film — mine included! — billboards in other languages, and people showing up all over the world to watch our superheroes kick some ass while they fight for a society that doesn’t “other” anyone. A society that recognizes everyone’s unique gifts as superpowers. Yeah ... I want to go to there. • It was pretty awesome to be the person asked to present this award to Brad. The little voice in the back of my head said, “me??” To represent our cast? To give the speech? Impostor syndrome never goes away, y’all. Even when you open a movie like this one. So you have to shut it down and say, “yeah, me!” I got to talk about art as a place of belonging, and representation. As the place where we all get to go for the lessons and the laughter. I feel so privileged to get to do what I love at such a level. To get to tell stories that make people feel seen. • To all my #Voyd’s out there? I see you. You matter so much to me. This super suit’s for you! ✋🏼🕳💥 • #supersuit @ecduzit + @alc_ltd, super-pumps @louboutinworld, super cute lil’ bag @adeam, super-eyes @amberdmakeup, and that super-slick hair @chadwoodhair #Incredibles2

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Homeworkin’. And so it begins. #Surveillance #ILoveMyJob

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I’m not crying, you’re crying. Okay yes I’m crying. What a gift to be seen and to be represented. Wow. What Kendrick said. #Repost @kendrick38 ・・・ #WCW Sending love to @lavernecox for this. 🙏🏽🖤 Needed to see something good like this this week. This is beautiful and powerful. #transawarenessweek #transisbeautiful #repost @lavernecox “I'm crying right now trying to write this caption. I am just so overwhelmed reliving getting to meet Rickey and being the first trans person Rickey has ever met in person. Thank you @ashleygraham for introducing me to Rickey on your new show #Fearless for #Ellentube. Thank you Rickey for inspiring me and being a huge part of why I do what I do. Click on the link in my bio to watch the full episode. #transawarenessweek #TransIsBeautiful #ashleygraham #ellendegeneres #ellen

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Oh hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!! Legit nothing makes me happier than gathering community for joy, love, vulnerability, and the reminder that we can do hard things. Can you tell? 🤣♥️😍 #TogetherLive @togetherliveevents

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Thank you to all of these beauty-full humans who came to join our #LoveRally last night! What a gift each and every one of you is to each and every one of us! @togetherliveevents #TogetherLive

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#AboutLastNight Lady Loves @togetherliveevents

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Last night’s #TogetherLive was exactly what I needed. And thanks to feedback from all of you glorious humans, I know it was what you needed too. Gathering. Community. Hard things. Vulnerability. Calling-in. These are things we need. • Thank you to @glennondoyle And @jenniferrwalsh for creating this space and letting us be brave. To @luvvie for teaching and preaching. To @abbywambach for making our audience our Wolfpack. To @cameronesposito for the laughter and the truth. To @priyaparker for inviting us in. To raise our hands and get on our feet. To @milckmusic for the anthem and the honesty. To @reesewitherspoon for taking the empire you’ve built, and intentionally holding the door open for the rest of us to join you in the room where it happens. • To my #Chicago sisterhood for coming, and supporting, and cheering from the crowd. I could see your faces all night while I was up there, and your love is the greatest fuel and gift. • I cannot wait to bring this show to #Minneapolis tonight. And I get to do it with two of my favorite humans, @wakingupwithryan and @maythaalhassen. Heart swoon. See you soon.

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I posted this sentiment on Twitter yesterday, but finally dug up the photos I wanted to share for #VeteransDay. • I’ve been lucky enough to sit with our courageous servicemen & women, whether on @the_USO tour stops — pictured here on our #RamsteinAirForceBase stop in 2009 with dear hearts @miloanthonyventimiglia and @austinnichols — the #WoundedWarriors center, #WalterReed visits in our nation’s capitol, or our time on #OTH throwing a giant concert for all stationed at a base in NC. There will never be enough ways to say thank you for your service. • Knowing these men & women, I simply cannot stay silent — on this day especially — about the despicable way Trump is treating our military. From refusing to visit Aisne-Marne, in France to honor the Marines 243rd year, to skipping Arlington National Cemetery today. • @mikel_jollett pointed out that the President, making up lies about election fraud, “is currently trying to make sure that legal military ballots cast by soldiers serving overseas ARE NOT COUNTED in Florida. He's doing this on VETERAN'S DAY.” Soldiers’ ballots can be received up to 10 days after the election, & counted, per state law. • As an election stunt having to do with a caravan that’s nowhere near us & has since ceased to be mentioned by POTUS (again, stunt) our troops were deployed to our own border for no national security reason. @brianschatz points out that this “is one of the biggest scandals of this Presidency. These dedicated, skilled, highly trained men & women will likely miss Thanksgiving w family, are near American cities but eating MREs.” That means no hot food. And for no reason. These troops are being housed in tents that have no electricity or air conditioning & many are suffering heat exhaustion, according to news reports. • This goes so far past party. This is about decency, and honoring those who serve for us. Even if you’re a down ballot red Rep. voter — like some of my dearest family who I love despite our disagreements — this shou

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Everything. Hugged the loved ones a little closer last night. And lucky for all of us, someone had a guitar for @jackgarratt. #LAnights #AuntieLife

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And in case you wondered if there was any truth to Drumpf’s statement (hint hint: not one bit) CA Firefighters President Brian Rice just took him to town for his lies. • I’ll be donating to the LAFD @lafdfoundation again, in Brian’s honor. If you’d like to join me, the link is in my stories. #California #CampFire #WoosleyFire

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#California • disasters are NOT issues on which to “retaliate.” EVER.

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Dear Donald. You spit on the graves of the dead, and criticize in the face of catastrophic disaster. You’re a liar. A snake. A poor excuse for a human, let alone a leader. Our state is ravaged. The stench in the air is inexplicable. And you’re too busy protecting your hair from the rain in France to honor the Marine’s 243rd birthday as planned. Instead you sit in a hotel room, eating room service no doubt, on the dime of U.S. taxpayers, and tweet insults at the REAL servicemen and women fighting these fires. Fires whose protection services YOU defunded. NOT OUR STATE. YOU. At the federal level because you wanted to get back at a state that voted against you. I do not exaggerate when I say that I loathe you, “sir.” From this Californian, may I send you a sincere and rage-filled, “FUCK YOU.” I hope your hair gets soaked tomorrow, you loser. • @tedlieu, you sir, are a gem. Thank you for refusing to tolerate this utter bullshit.

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There is no one I’d rather do life with, my sister! Look what we made! #Repost @nialauryn ・・・ Incredibly honored to be featured with @sophiabush on @people mag’s 25 Women Changing the World list! We’re so proud of what we’ve been building alongside @katycockrel @emilierosies @babsbrayton and the team @detroitblows ✨ • We’re only a year in, but we are more energized than ever about what we’ve set out to do. And every day we are blown away by the generosity of the community who has been supporting us, and championing the mission of the business. Thank you. 💓 • And to the other women included on the list, you are beautiful and remarkable examples of what it means to do the work. Thank you for your love and for your leadership. The future is female. 💪 • 📷: @photobyhudson @serenahawaii 👗: @catapper 💇‍♀️: @thejoshliu @rickyfraserhair 💄: @debchungbeauty #WomenChangingTheWorld #DetroitBlows #FounderFriday #WomenInBusiness

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Went to get myself a little post-election-day-self-care-moment face mask today, and this was on the side of the building. Not gonna lie, this was pretty neat. So proud to be a #voter. @iamavoter

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This is what democracy looks like! And we are just getting started. • I know that we had some tough defeats yesterday. But we had so many great wins! For justice! Healthcare! Representation! Y’all. This is just the beginning. This is the start of restoring checks and balances. Women are going to lead us. And very specifically women of color. Black women, Latinx women, Muslim women, and Native American women have all won incredible victories! • We are celebrating Colorado electing the first openly gay governor, Jared Polis. And Key West, Florida elected its first lesbian openly lesbian mayor in the state. Former commissioner Teri Johnston! These are fantastic wins for the LGBTQ community, as is the #YesOn3 victory in Massachusetts. It’s an anti-discrimination ballot measure that explicitly protects “transgender people from discrimination in public spaces like restaurants, hotels and hospitals.” The Trevor Project called this a campaign “for fighting to protect the basic rights of transgender individuals across the state.” • Voting rights won major victories with Laura Kelly defeating notorious vote-suppressor Kris Kobach in Kansas. And Florida passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to over 1.4 million Floridians, who were being denied this right because of prior felony convictions, despite having paid their debt to society! This is major. • In Virginia, gun sense advocates won a major victory, unseating NRA darling Republican Barbara Comstock, who lost her race to Democrat Jennifer Wexton. This is what the tireless advocacy of groups like @momsdemand is capable of! • Both @laurenaunderwood and @ocasio2018 won incredible victories for young women! Underwood is the youngest black woman running for Congress this year, and Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest women ever elected to Congress! • In Wisconsin, Tony Evers won a major victory for public education when he unseated Scott Walker, who routinely attacked public schools and their teachers. • There is more work to be

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Stay in line!! Races are coming down to 10,000 votes. Each and every one of you matters! #California! ALL western states. Stay in line. Make your vote heard! #GOTV

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THIS. #KnowYourRights • And if you’re told (for any reason) that you can’t vote?? Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE to report it and get assistance protecting your RIGHTS!!

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#Repost @shaunking ・・・ ‪Some foolishnsss already happening in Georgia. ‬ ‪If anything like this happens to you immediately call 1-866-OUR-VOTE.‬

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I voted early. It was honestly so much fun. So poignant. I went skipping down the street singing afterward. No joke! • Today is your day. Our day. Make it count. • If you have questions, or are turned away (DO NOT LEAVE!!) call: English: 866-OUR-VOTE Spanish: 888-VE-Y-VOTA Arabic: 844-YALLA-US Asian/Pacific Languages: 888-API-VOTE American Sign Language: 301-818-VOTE • If you need to know where your polling place is? Text WHERE to 97779 to find out! • @cleowade reminded me that: the destiny of this country is not determined by our thoughts and prayers, but our actions and deeds. Vote Because “Faith without works is dead.” Vote Because The arc of the universe is long and WE must bend it toward justice. Vote Because The opposite of justice is not injustice, it is inaction, indifference and apathy. Vote Because “if there is no struggle there is no progress.” Vote Because there can be no harvest of blessings without tilling the soil, planting the seeds and doing the work. #Vote #GOTV #WhenWeAllVote #IAmAVoter

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Y’all know what to do. • Each and every single vote matters. Let’s do this thing. VoteSaveAmerica.com #electionday

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Well tonight was great. #TelethonForAmerica @whenweallvote • Need info to better understand your ballots? Head to VoteSaveAmerica.com and plug in your zip code to get started! They’re a fantastic, nonpartisan resource that’ll help you make sense of everything! • Need a ride? Both @lyft and @uber are offering free rides to the polls!! Check out their socials for info and codes for your ride. • If you wind up in a long line tomorrow? Head to https://polls.pizza/ or tweet @pizzatothepolls and they’ll send free pizza to your polling location so that you don’t have to get out of line!! • Now get out there and grab ‘em by the midterms, y’all! #GOTV #Vote #IAmAVoter #VoteSaveAmerica

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This @betoorourke. This gives me hope. This lights a fire. This is what the future looks like. #AllPeople #Texas #GOTV • I had the pleasure of meeting Beto O’Rourke last year, in Chicago. I got to speak to him at length about his passion, his purpose, and his beliefs. About family. Community. And his home state that he loves so dearly. This man is the real deal. Texas fam, get out the vote!

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I am a voter. • Of anything that I’ve done in my life, that I could possibly be proud of, this matters most to me. • Thank you to the team @violetgrey for including me in this story about why we deserve to, and must, make our voices heard. • #IAmAVoter @diegouchitel @apriluchitel @cassandragrey @sascha_breuer @lisastoreymakeup

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OKAY TEAM! Soooo many folks are asking me how to make sense of the ballots in their area. THIS IS HOW! • VoteSaveAmerica.com • #VoteSaveAmerica put together this awesome, easy to use guide to help you walk into the voting booth feeling confident that you know where you stand on candidates and initiatives!! • Here’s how it works: go to the site, type in your address, and BAM! You’ll get the run down on everything you need to know. Who's running to represent you. Which measures YOU can help decide. The list goes on! • Y’ALL! These ballot initiatives are beyond important. They’re what truly allow us to make decisions about real, concrete issues in our communities. Like what? Well, things like who gets tax breaks and why, how we take care of our veterans, and what the requirements should to be for casting a ballot in the first place. Yeah. THIS election year, millions of Americans can cast a vote to help ensure more Americans get to cast their votes. We get to protect the Constitution. That’s badass. • These initiatives are often written in really confusing language, so this site will help clarify ALL of it! That way you can make your decisions and walk into the voting booth informed and EXCITED! Being a voter is key, and being an INFORMED voter is easier than ever! So head to votesaveamerica.com/ballot and start being a superhero of civic engagement in your community ♥️✌🏼#GOTV #IAmAVoter @iamavoter

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Back in May, I posted these photos after visiting the archival library at the New York Historical Society. Being there took my breath away. And being lucky enough to touch a copy of The North Star, published by Frederick Douglass, gave me the chills. Today, @shaunking announced that he is bringing back #TheNorthStar. • Shaun wrote, “In 1847, with slavery still in full force, 2 brave men, Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany started an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star — named for the star, Polaris, that was often used as a guide for those seeking freedom in the North. Douglass and Delany knew then, as we know now, that in order to fight back against injustice, their stories had to not only be well told — with the color & dimension & nuance that was frequently missing elsewhere, they knew they needed a newspaper that represented the cause of liberation with urgency, clarity, heart, & soul. We need that right now. This past week proved that to me. And we’re going to build it together.” • Kenneth B Morris, Jr., great great grandson of Frederick Douglass and president of Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, said “Frederick Douglass was a radical reformer. He published The North Star to give enslaved ppl a voice and to hold a hypocritical Christian nation accountable for the atrocities committed on its blood-drenched soil. We have to tell our own stories. I just joined the team. Won’t you?” • Won’t you? 1) Follow think LINK IN BIO son @shaunking’s page, or visit BuildingTheNorthStar.com. 2) Invite two friends to join you. 3) SHARE on your socials, and call your communities to stand up and show up. • Douglass said it best. “Right is of no sex — Truth is of no color — And ALL we are brethren.” Let’s all show up and do the work. Let’s build it. #BuildTheNorthStar #FrederickDouglass 📷: 1) image taken by me, at the New York Historical Society 2) illustrated graphic by @nikkolas_smith 3) same as # 1.

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Um hi hello. Is that my heart exploding at the sight of all of these amazing humans dressed up as Voyd!? ✋🏼🕳💥 Yup! Sure is! • @pixar @theincredibles @disney #Voyd #Incredibles2 • Also, early voting has started in so many states, so tomorrow you can be a voter! No costume required! 👏

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10.15.18 Early Voted ✔️ And I’m still helping organize pals and strangers alike to get out the vote! My #votingsquad is STRONG!! How’s yours? Make a plan, talk it through, and vote together! • CONFUSED ABOUT BALLOT MEASURES!? (I know, there’s a lot!) Check out VoteSaveAmerica.com for all the facts and easy breakdowns of ballot measures in YOUR state! • Thank you to my soul sister squad @ridershop @conniebritton @mspackyetti @jsmizzie @vanessamagos @nialauryn @ruthielindsey @alextcooks @mandanadayani @abbywambach and @glennondoyle. We got boys too! @jedidiahjenkins @kennyjamez @glassofwhiskey @wakingupwithryan @princeflips @get ardocelasco and more. Like I said. My squad is serious! We really love America! #WhenWeAllVote (swipe to hear from the First Lady of Voting herself, @michelleobama!) #GOTV #VOTE #WhenWeAllVote #IAmAVoter

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If somebody asked you, “what do you care about?” What would you say? • I care about women. Children. Healthcare. The environment. Family planning. Climate change. Equal pay. Equality for all. Freedom of speech. And the freedom to assemble. The whole Constitution, in fact. I care about my LGBTQ family. Sexual violence. Gun violence. Human rights. OUR rights. I care about getting big money out of politics and corruption out of our government. I care about my neighbors. I care about you. • What am I going to do about it? Vote. In fact, I already did. Have you? • TEXT “VOTE” to 433-67 to make a plan #BecauseItMatters.

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In the wake of tragedy, art has the power to uplift. To explore. And to heal. I could not be more proud, in a time that requires thoughtful and tender investigation, to be one of the producers of this truly beautiful film. A Girl Named C is a new documentary directed by filmmaker Emily Kassie. The film explores art and trauma in the wake of childhood sexual abuse, through the story of C. In the midst of the #metoo movement, A Girl Named C personalizes the awful reality of 1 in 4 girls, and challenges us to see and experience its effects through the eyes of a child. I hope that this film touches your heart. I know it will facilitate the kinds of conversations we need to be having. #AGirlNamedC @agirlnamedcfilm

49,128 Likes | 1978 days ago | 568

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I was struggling to find the words, so I borrowed these two images (swipe left) from sister @glennondoyle. • As for me, I’ve been ... I have spent all day trying to find the words — the right ones — for the events of this week ... Kentucky mere days ago. Bombs sent to the homes of human beings. Pittsburgh this morning. The illusion of “us and them” is killing us. Quite literally. The lie. What I know to be true is that supremacist ideology is a cancer. And what I also know to be true? Real love is ferocious and fierce. Real love says no. And to this kind of hate, I find myself growling “no.” I don’t know what the answer is. I know that it has to do with waking up. With seeing the divine in each every single person before us, and taking that as FACT. Today I’m holding my loved ones close. Today I am holding even more space in my heart for people’s pain and for people’s value. I know we have so much work to do. To undo the sociopathy of our fragmented society. We have to organize and vote and reach across lines and shed light on truth and ALL of it, I know. But for now I’m just holding, holding, holding onto love. I’m making ferocious, mama bear, lioness love my damn mantra and my war cry. This is so awful. This is unimaginable. All of it. And I know we can do the hard work of beginning to suture these wounds. Because I know how damn strong we are and how ferocious our love is. • I love you. All of you. Be good to each other. ♥️

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Yessss!! @laurenaunderwood is my hero. Let’s goooo #Illinois!! ♥️✊🏽📢 #Repost @refinery29 ・・・ @laurenaunderwood is a Black woman, a registered nurse, AND, a Democratic candidate for Congress, representing the IL-14 district. _ #Midterms Election Day is Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Video: @frillychampagne

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These incredible boys. These incredible leaders. These awe-inspiring activists. Last night I was both honored & humbled to hold space for three of the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglass in Parkland, FL. We spoke before an audience of close to 1,000 in Seattle, WA. • These young men are poised, wise, brilliant, & honest. They shine, vulnerably. They don’t hide the struggle. Yet they find moments of humor. The pain does not, for one minute, slow their determined energy. They have a wellspring of purpose. They know that this movement is greater than any one of them. They use their platform to highlight their story, but also the stories of other survivors of, and communities affected by, gun violence who have not had the twisted fortune of capturing national media attention. • They dispel falsehood quickly. Crisis actors? Nope. Just kids who’ve been studying civics & producing their school news for years. So they know how it works & put their education to good use. Too media savvy? No these kids grew up with social media, so of course they know how to clapback and meme. They’re good at it. As for those who claim they’re “anti-gun?” Nope. And they’re firm on this. David said to me last night, “no one who instituted drivers licenses, speed limits, seatbelts, or stoplights was anti-car. They were anti people dying in cars. We aren’t anti-gun. We’re anti people dying who don’t have to, from guns. Safety laws & common sense practices exist for the sole purpose of increasing safety.” Um. Yes!! • Throughout our talk, each of them demystified so many things we’ve been taught, or that we seem to feel, with incredible amounts of research (collected over more than 100 years). These kids have become EXPERTS because they have no other choice. They’ve taken their pain and turned it into action. • Jammal looked at the crowd last night, and distilled it in a perfectly gutting & simultaneously inspiring sentence. “Don’t wait to see your best friend in a casket to get active in your

43,297 Likes | 1983 days ago | 280

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MOOD ✊🏽 #MondayMantra #MakeYourVoiceHeard • Some Monday facts about why voting these morons out matters so much: • The President is lying that he’ll “talk to people” about pre-existing conditions. The GOP has voted over & over again to gut pre-existing conditions, and they have actually gone so far as to bring A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE GOV’T to end them. No matter what they say in their new TV ads. This is a fact. • The economy is NOT “up.” Economists are warning that we are careeening toward a recession. The deficit is enormous b/c of the billionaire break tax plan - 83% of Americans wages are only up an average of 0.07% - Compared to the consumer price index, up 2.9% (highest jump in 10yrs) - Gas up 29.8% - Food up 3.6% - Healthcare up 2.4% - Rent up 3.5% - Transportation up 3.9% The cost of living is rising for Americans and the President is lying about it. Period. Because it’s his fault. Bad economic policy = danger. Most Americans don’t have $500 on hand in case of an emergency. Rising costs mean people will be unable to handle ANY unexpected issue that comes their way. Healthcare issue, for example? People will die. Think I’m exaggerating? (hint: I’m not) Two weeks ago a man in his early 20’s died because he was forced to ration his newly-unaffordable insulin. As healthcare costs rise, more tragedies like that WILL happen. • The President and his son-in-law are actively participating in the cover up of the brutal murder of a journalist in Saudi Arabia. Why? Well he’s in deep with them financially. This is why tax returns matters. This is why we should refuse to elect anyone who violates the emoluments clause. They are OWNED. And making the world less safe. WHILE lining their pockets. Let’s not forget that crucial detail. • This list goes on... But I’m not looking to depress y’all. We have to be emboldened to ACT! We can change this!! Don’t be fooled. They’re trying to shout “look over here!!!” while they’ve set a massive dumpster fire in the opposite direction. Do

34,096 Likes | 1984 days ago | 71

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We celebrated the inimitable @egreener. We set some intentions and threw them (figuratively not literally, because litter sucks!) into the ocean. We said some prayers for the healing of our country and our world. That’s the kind of human Emily is, y’all. On her birthday, she takes all the love being aimed at her and holds up a mirror to bounce it back at the world around her. She’s a damn unicorn. HBD my soul sister! ♥️👯🦄 • *I’d also like to clarify that no rioting happened in the making of this picture. There’s actually no rioting happening in the state of California, but the crazy orange guy is getting extra crazy this week because even though he and his regime are doing their damndest to keep Americans from exercising our Constitutional rights and, ya know, voting ... we are anyway. All you early voters? You’re some sexy beasts. Civic engagement is a great birthday gift to pass along to any of your best pals who may be celebrating in conjunction with mine! 😎

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Guys. I posted the following as a #MondayMantra in November of 2014. Over the last week I’ve traveled all across the country and spoken in front of some amazing audiences. With @mitchalbom in Detroit. At @northwesternu in Illinois. At the @harvardiop w/ fellow activists & students. Tonight I’ll be in Seattle w/ some incredible students from @marchforourlives. • All of these conversations revolve around unity. Around humanity. Around caring for one another and voting like we mean it. About how we can stop buying into the hype from media and politicians who are bought and paid for, and how we can take back our lives + drive forward progress in our country, and, most importantly, truly carry each other’s hearts in our hearts. This felt fitting to circle back to... here we go. ••• 2014: #YourHeartMatters This is a human heart. Researchers are learning that this incredible little machine, the size of a fist, possesses a level of intelligence they are only beginning to understand. "The heart is a sensory organ and acts as a sophisticated information encoding and processing center that enables it to learn, remember, and make independent functional decisions," says a paper from the Institute of HeartMath. Now what FASCINATES me, is the new information we have about the heart's ENERGY. Like the brain, the heart generates a powerful electromagnetic field. The largest in the body, in fact. Studies suggest this field can be detected 8ft outside the body (5ft for the brain). Guys. Your heart radiates energy EIGHT FEET from your body. It literally touches other people. And it does so far more than your brain. Your life force, your love center, your pulse, TOUCHES other people. People you don't even know can feel your heart. People you pass on the street. People in line with you at the grocery store. Someone you smile at walking through the airport. That's so powerful. We are intermingling all the time. You give energy to other people simply by being. Your heart matters. YOU matt

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Babes. Yesterday was my sweet sister @ruthielindsey’s birthday. And while I gushed and told her all the things I love about her on a FaceTime, I feel like her ringing in another year in the wholehearted beauty with which she operates deserves to be celebrated all damn weekend! • This woman. Y’all. THIS WOMAN. What an honor it is to walk alongside her in this life. To call her my sissy and my best and my framily. Ruthie has taken pain and tragedy and turned them into luminescence and love. Her heart glows for whatever stands before her. Sunsets. Flowers. Friends. Animals. Did I mention sunsets? She is always the first to point out what’s beauty-full in people, and in the world. She reminds me of what it means to live centered. Watching her evolution over these past years, her hard won triumphs, and her courageous vulnerability has made my heart grow a size. And she has — how lucky am I!? — proved to me that my heart has a safe place to rest. Because of her friendship, and the friendships like this one that exist in our precious community, I have torn down protective walls. Life is so much gentler and easier this way. • And I say all of this to illustrate a point. That this is possible. That real connection and selfless friendship can foster magic. And that having a bestie you share a meat tooth and penchant for real dirty hip hop with doesn’t hurt either. And margaritas. And podcasts. And cheese. We will eat all your snacks and dance all over your house. And we can rarely stop laughing for a photo. You can’t take us anywhere. • Happiest Birthday my sister. Happiness looks damn good on you. ♥️🎉🎈👯✨💋 #SisterSister #HappyBirthdayToYou #SmallAndTall #Framily

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Y’all! On Monday I had the supreme pleasure of meeting with Lauren Underwood @laurenaunderwood in Chicago. She’s running for Congress in the 14th district in Illinois and I could not be more inspired by her passion! • She’s a nurse, and thus is fighting for the healthcare of all in Illinois, and beyond. (HELLO she was one of the people tapped to work on the ebola crisis in the Obama administration. She is legit amazing!!) When she found out that her congressman voted to strip protections for those with pre-existing conditions, even AFTER he promised not to, she sprung into action. As a nurse she knows exactly what that kind of coverage loss means for families, and how devastating it would be for both the people and the economy. I am so glad that someone with her knowledge, expertise, and drive is running in my home-away-from-home state! • EARLY VOTING IS ALREADY UNDERWAY IN ILLINOIS, y’all! Please go vote. Please take 5 friends. Every. Single. Vote. Matters!! And a major perk of early voting is avoiding any last minute blizzards, so hey, get out there!! #GOTV #Vote #Chicago #Illinois #laurenunderwoodforcongress • AND if you can canvass for Lauren, please do! Get active via the link in her bio! ✊🏽♥️📢

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Friday #MOOD, courtesy of brilliant and beautiful sister @americaferrera ・・・ It’s FriYAY y’all! Have a great weekend! 🎉(Oh, and also, it’s 18 days until the midterm elections and I don’t want to live in A Handmaid’s Tale without knowing I did everything in my power to stop it. Please do something this weekend to Get Out The Vote! Grab your friends and volunteer for a congressional candidate near you so we can win back the House & Senate! Donate! Register your friends and family! Get out & vote early if your state is early voting! I love you all so much and I want us to feel so proud on Nov.6th that we stood up during our time in history for what’s good and right!!! And if you need musical inspiration go listen to @andradaymusic RISE UP and imagine us all showing up in record numbers on Nov.6th to save our country! It always works for me!) #fridayfeels Who’s with me? *update- evidence of said @andradaymusic moment might exist in my instastories

19,531 Likes | 1988 days ago | 273

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LEGEND. Yes to all of this! I would NEVER have let my grandparents pick my playlist, my clothes, my college, or my boyfriend. Would you? Nah! Why the ffff would we let them pick our future? ‘Cause that’s what elected leaders control! Let’s #VOTE like our lives depend on it, because we’re the ones who are going to have decades of their policies to deal with. #Repost @attndotcom ・・・ President Obama doesn't have time for these 7 excuses not to vote. Tag your friends now and get all your voting info at Vote.org

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Yesterday marked 50 years since @tommiesmith68 and John Carlos raised their fists at the Summer Olympics. The year was 1968. They were standing atop a platform in Mexico City. The gentlemen raised their fists to protest inequality and the horrific treatment of people of color. This was the very definition of peaceful protest. Yet the stadium erupted in jeering and racist slurs, the men were stripped of their medals, and received death threats at home. Much like what we’re seeing today, the backlash was swift, intense, deeply racist, and the feedback centered around the “not this way” rhetoric. • Apparently it’s never the “right” way, the right place, or the right time to take a stand. History often celebrates the protestors and the martyrs decades after their struggles, but in the present their experiences were awful and unjust. This “not this way” notion? That there’s some better way to do the right thing? That’s a lie. Protest makes oppressors uncomfortable. That’s the point. To highlight what those in power do to those they try to keep power from. And this is where we are today. Y’all, it’s up to us to dismantle systems of oppression and also the lies they’re founded on. There is no finite bucket of power. No finite bucket of success. Everyone deserves equal access to life, liberty, and a pursuit of justice. It’s our birthright. And anyone who tells you differently is operating small. They are motivated by scarcity mentality. Let’s not be those people. Let’s be Tommies and Johns. • Last night, as we kicked off @mspackyetti’s study group at the @harvard IOP, we watched a video from Tommie Smith. He asked our class to join him in a third salute to mark this monumental anniversary. To commit to the fight for equity and justice. I was so proud that virtually every student stayed for the photo. For the cause. For a commitment to unity. Y’all are the future. You will change the world. Now do me a favor and prove me right. #Vote like you mean it. #HarvardIOP #HarvardKen

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#AboutLastNight Anyone who says millennials aren’t engaged in civic action + responsibility hasn’t met this crew. ✊🏽♥️📢 #Illinois #Northwestern #IAmAVoter @northwesternu @whenweallvote @iamavoter @ppillinoisaction

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Happy 1st Birthday @detroitblows!!! I am so proud of this business baby of ours, @nialauryn! • A few years ago, a group of gals needed to get our hair done for a friend’s wedding. When we went to a popular service salon, the WOC in our crew were charged extra service fees for “thick hair.” This was despite the fact that one (non WOC) gal had longer/thicker hair than any of the rest of us. Passing friends with wildly curly hair didn’t experience the “texture” upcharge either. We were pissed. And as we learned about how toxic the products are — & thus the polluting footprint is — in most salons, our anger turned into ambition. We decided we would try our hand at changing the industry. We knew we could build a salon that was really a space for women to feel both safe & beautiful. We knew we could create an intersectional community gathering venue where women could commune. We knew we could commit ourselves to non-toxicity standards that align more with Europe than the USA (where beauty product ingredients haven’t been regulated since the 1920s & thus are SCAAAARY!) We knew we could invest — through our own profits — money in other female entrepreneurs in the local area. That’s what #DetroitGrows is all about. And we knew we could invest in a city we love that deserves love in economic support too. And so here we are. • Building a business isn’t easy, y’all. No matter how things look from the outside, it’s crazy hours, tight margins, and a wild learning curve. But our business is now 365 days old! We have plans & goals to expand and to innovate the beauty industry as we do. And we will always stay true to our mission to elevate all women through love & community. • Thank you all for taking this ride with us. To the folks in our local community who show up for blowouts, roller sets, and the rest of our services; for nails, eyelashes and more; who help us pay it forward through #DetroitGrows, thank you. And thank you to our community at large that follows along via our so

33,363 Likes | 1991 days ago | 101

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#AboutLastNight Always so good to be back in The D. And especially when we get to ring in @detroitblows’ first birthday with the piano man himself, @eltonjohn. I am so proud of our business baby @nialauryn! #DetroitBlows #WomenInBusiness #EltonJohn #Detroit

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Released today, an @amnesty report found that “in 2017 and 2018, the Trump administration appears to have separated approximately 8,000 ’family units’ along the border. Even if half of the people referred to in that figure were parents, the remaining 4,000 children would dwarf the total number of kids commonly reported to have been impacted by the ‘zero tolerance’ campaign — that total tends to hover between 2,500 to 3,000.” • I am horrified and heartbroken by this. And by the people I see denying the humanity of these children. The people who are willing to ‘other’ their fellow man. There is a better way to keep borders strong and vet anyone seeking asylum. We’ve done it for decades. *And before you dare @ me about policies put in place by the last administration, which were set in motion to — and only to — protect children that agents believed might be victims of traffickers, don’t ignore the data that shows the Obama Admin deported more people than any POTUS before him. Not stating that fact because I even agree with it, but rather because if you’re claiming he was “too easy” on immigrants, you’re factually inept and your racism/partisanship is showing. • Our nation needs to get back in touch with both its heart and its ability to think critically. Luckily, my brilliant friend @minkakelly directed this video to help us reconnect with our empathy and our humanity. I am endlessly inspired by her commitment to the cause. • We are 77 days past the deadline for our government to reunite separated families. The fact that they’ve been lying to us, the citizens who pay their salaries, about just how many families have been destroyed by their barbaric choices should enrage all of us. In more than two-thirds of these cases children’s parents were deported without knowing how or even IF they might be reunited with their children. This is a true humanitarian crisis. • Please vote November 6. For these children, for human rights, and for the hope that we can become a better v

91,413 Likes | 1994 days ago | 2,989

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My SECOND day-maker!! Happy #NationaComingOutDay to all of my LGBTQA loves out there. It’s an honor to stand by your side and celebrate each and every one of you for the wonderful, joyous, perfect babes that you are! And if you haven’t come out just yet, no rush. Just know that there’s so many loving humans standing by to receive you with open arms whenever you’re ready. All love. #Repost from my dancing king @mkik808 ・・・ Happy #NationalComingOutDay 🤗❤️🌈 #pride #pride🌈 @dianaross • • • thank you @howbizarre for being my #rainbro

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Well this just made my morning! Happy #InternationalDayOfTheGirl! #Repost @globalgirlsalliance ・・・ Right now, more than 98 million adolescent girls around the world are not in school. We all have a responsibility to change that. Today on International #DayoftheGirl, the @ObamaFoundation is launching the Global Girls Alliance—a program which seeks to empower adolescent girls around the world through education, allowing them to achieve their full potential and to transform their families, communities, and countries. So follow along and join the alliance—because the future of our world is only as bright as our girls. #GlobalGirlsAlliance

44,206 Likes | 1995 days ago | 369

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Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. For some reason, our culture seems perfectly okay with fitness plans and food regimens and the latest workout craze, but we keep the reality of how much work it takes to be emotionally fit completely hidden. Mental health — and the attention we pay to our own — shouldn’t be buried. It shouldn’t be an afterthought. It takes care and it deserves respect. So, today, I’d like to share a few things that keep me emotionally fit. • • My friends, who welcome all of the deep talks and all speak the same language I do, which’s centered on the truth that vulnerability takes immense courage. • My pal @wakingupwithryan, whose morning practices center my day so beautifully. If you don’t follow him yet, you’re welcome! • My badass therapist, who offers me space to process thoughts and feelings and experiences in real time. I’m a verbal processor, so when I’m out of emotional shape (aka skipping therapy) I fall out of step with myself, and get really good at being “fine,” which isn’t fine at all. • Mediation. I learned TM 13 years ago and I’m better when I’m practicing regularly. No question. A great way to get started is with the app @headspace. • And finally, the most important place I’ve ever spent deep and expansive time focusing on patterns, inherited processes, and trauma. It’s called @onsiteworkshops and it utterly changed my life. My wish is that everyone on earth would have the time and resources to attend OnSite, and delve into whatever curriculum would best benefit their lives. • To everyone out there dedicating practice and attention to their emotional fitness? I see you. I respect the hell out of you. And I’m cheering you on! 🤓💪🏼🧠💭🌻✨♥️ Photo (it’s me!) by @juanazulay + @pandagunda + @maavven

112,170 Likes | 1996 days ago | 576

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Wore a pretty boss power suit last night. Loved it. That is all. 🖤 @maxmara @charitywater

50,270 Likes | 1997 days ago | 138

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Tonight I had the pleasure of interviewing my pal @scottharrison on stage in LA. We talked about @charitywater, changing the world, and how he’s managed to redefine “charity.” It’s all in his new book #THIRST. Scott’s story is one of the most inspiring I’ve ever read. He’ll help you double down on positive thinking, redefine giving as a blessing, and prove to you that you’re never ever stuck. It’s exactly the kind of practical meets magical inspiration we’re all so hungry for right now. Congrats on the book, buddy. So proud to walk with you! And ask you all of the questions 🤓📚♥️ #charitywater

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Hundreds of thousands of people have been purged from voter rolls. Are you one of them? #Repost @thenorareport ・・・ Guys! First set of voters registration deadlines start TOMORROW. Check the deadline for your state. If you think you’re registered, DOUBLE CHECK. People are finding out they were purged from the registration lists. Make sure to share with everyone you know. Are you one of them? #VOTE

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#MondayMantra ✨ @amberrosetamblyn

70,136 Likes | 1999 days ago | 1,072

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I am angry. I am heartbroken. My sternum feels like it’s going to crack in half. I’m holding friends and loved ones close today. And tomorrow, I’m ready to #RAGE. I love you. I see you. Don’t give up. ・・・ #Repost @sarahsophief ・・・ “Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” I don’t have many words. We’ve found our animal mascot. Some Thoughts: • Follow @womensmarch and #blackfridays for actions. • @sensusancollins voting for #kavanaugh is the perfect example of white women upholding white supremacist patriarchy because their adjacency to its power rewards them at the expense of black and brown women. #rebeccatraister said: "White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers." • I’m so angry. So sad. I’m out for now. #believesurvivors #stopkavanaugh #cancelkavanaugh #stayhuman #keepshowingup Image via #paultweedy on twitter.

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Exactly this. Let’s rage. #Repost @glennondoyle ・・・ ARE YOU READY TO TURN YOUR RAGE INTO CHANGE? Many of you have been waiting for me to share WHAT’S NEXT FOR US as women, as warriors, as citizens. You have no idea how seriously I take that trust and responsibility. It’s not easy for me to ask anything of you. Your lives are hard and exhausting and filled to the brim already. My job, my mission for the past thirteen years has been to SERVE you. In this moment in history, the purest way I can continue to serve you is to ask something of you. To invite you to rise up and unite your voices, bodies, power and say: ENOUGH. Enough systematic and celebrated racism. Enough ignoring and laughing at survivors’ pain. Enough terrified migrant children transported to middle of the desert, in the middle of the night. Enough institutionally enforced wealth for the richest Americans while so many Americans toil in intergenerational poverty. ENOUGH. I believe that THIS, this is the moment in which we each make a decision: We go either back to sleep or stay wide awake. We either give up or give hell. We either lay down and surrender or rise up and fight for each other. We either turn our rage into change, or we let it eat us alive. We’re going to turn our rage into change. For us, and for our children. For everyone’s children. So that one day, when my daughters and son ask how I reacted during these dangerous times, I’ll be able to say: Like this. I’ll be able to point to pictures and tell them stories about the power of sisterhood. I’ll be able to say: Right here, babies. This is how your mama showed up for you. And for her sisters. And for herself. A group of fierce and brilliant women activists (led by women of color) and I have been plotting tirelessly all week. We have a plan. THIS IS HOW WE ARE GOING TO SHOW UP: Every Friday from this Friday, Oct 5, through Nov 23, WE ARE GOING TO TURN OUR RAGE INTO CHANGE through #BlackFridays COME BACK TOMORROW FOR FRIDAY’S ACTI

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This honestly made me laugh out loud. Needed that. To all the ladies fighting the good fight out there with brilliant minds and beautiful hearts ... I see you, I love you, and I’m sending you hugs. You’re all my #wcw. I’m grateful for you today and everyday. Don’t give up. We got this. ✊🏽🖤✊🏽 *And to the good men out there who kept reading? The ones who know to ally? Thank you. Also? We need you to ally in your own spaces too. Not just in our comment sections. But on your profile pages. In your offices. In your families. We love your voices. We’d really really love them to get louder, with us. Thanks.

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Today is a big day. My brother @jedidiahjenkins birthed his book today. It’s called To Shake The Sleeping Self and it’s a brilliant, poignant, reflective, emotional, hilarious adventure tale of how a bike trip from Oregon to Patagonia helped a man come home to himself. • Jed is a voice for so many. His words will constantly leave you whispering “me TOO.” You will feel seen because of his fearlessness to examine both himself and the world around him. • I had the honor of being on two parts of Jed’s trip, and the SUPREME honor of finishing his trip with him, in Patagonia. It was so so special. It was there that I got to take the cover photo for this book — I’m a published cover photographer now y’all! With my soul-brother!! How cool is that!? — and when I close my eyes and think about it, I can still feel the rain hitting my face and hear the peals of laughter coming from both of us as we stood atop Torres Del Paine (pic two). • This book just might change your life. It just might reframe how you think about your own capability; about your place in the world. Hint? It’s what you make it. And now you have somewhere (#linkinbio) to turn for inspiration. • Jed, I am so proud of you. Happy Book Born Day!! ✨🖤✨ #ToShakeTheSleepingSelf #JedidiahJenkins • AND OH MY UPDATE!! If you order the audiobook, you get JED reading it to you! How fooking cool is that!? 💥📚💥

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Thank you Dr. Ford. Despite terror, lasting trauma, having to put your family in hiding, and death threats, you were brave and you did this for us. For both women and men. For the possibility of a new paradigm where we do not live suspended between the pasts and the futures of abusers. • I have been trying to write my #WhyIDidntReport for a while now. And I still can’t. For me, an added layer of paralyzing pain comes from having reported and from the unbearable retaliation that followed. From the flippant “well thank God he didn’t try to rape you!” response from the first person I told I’d been assaulted. To the fearful silence of every witness, who broke my heart by staying quiet and who my heart breaks for because I know the fear they felt was paralyzing too. And from the fact that I still don’t sleep well. The fact that I struggle to be touched by strangers. To every fan I’ve ever met who has asked permission before hugging me, thank you. Your thoughtful grace means everything to me and my reactive physical body. • Perhaps someday I’ll wake up and feel as courageous as Dr. Ford. Or @busyphilipps. Or any of the beautiful, brave, bold sisters out there who have shared their stories today. And perhaps not. No matter. I am in awe of all of you. I have your back. No matter what happens now, today has changed everything. Forever. As sister @glennondoyle said, “we will become disobedient. Strategically disobedient.” The world had better watch out for us. #BelieveSurvivors

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Today on #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, we celebrate our right to register and vote. Text VOTER to 26797 to make your plan. #iamavoter • PS. It takes less than 2 minutes. We timed it 💥

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A new day is dawning. #TimesUp #BelieveSurvivors #IStandWithDrFord #Wolfpack • Let’s do some unpacking, fam. If a healthcare company came out with a medication that could cure cancer 97%-98% of the time, it would be called a miracle. It’s proven that less than 3% of accusations or rape or assault are false. Meaning between 97% and 98% of women who report the most awful thing that’s ever happened to them are telling the truth. The awful truth. Fact. Period. So ... Why don’t we believe what would — if this were about the proof of a medication, or any “thing,” rather than of human beings — equate to a 97% success rate? Though there’s no “success” here. Why don’t we as a society believe women? It’s been proven over and over again that we should. We must. 1 in 3 women will be assaulted or raped in her lifetime. Anyone who doesn’t want to acknowledge this fact isn’t changing it. Sticking your head in the sand or covering your ears won’t change the reality. WE must change it. WE must undo the narrative that says “it was in his past,” or “what about his future?!” The narrative that suspends women in space and time, frozen. Because what about HER past? Her childhood? HER future? How this violation shapes it? Her every waking moment that carries memories and trauma in her body? • We have some healing to do, y’all. As a collective. And it begins with respecting credible women like Dr. Ford. Because what’s more likely? That many years ago she began faking PTSD and carried this performance through her marriage, with her husband, which led them to counseling in 2012 during which she told her husband and her therapist about this assault? Just in case a man she went to school with might potentially be nominated to the Supreme Court a decade later? Or that he did it? And she’s carried it with her every damn day since? #ThinkAboutIt #ICarryItWithMe and if you do too, #ISeeYou #IStandWithYouToo

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15 • break the labels • #OTHfam • If One Tree Hill felt like home to you too, please consider supporting the Carolinas alongside us with our #CapeFearlessChallenge to raise funds for #Florence recovery. ♥️ #linkinbio

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“Now make it fashion.” Full hands, favorite hats, can’t lose. 📷💥🤠 #NationalBusinessWomensDay

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SAME SAME, BUT DIFFERENT with @photobyhudson. • Two years apart, his abs are still fire. This is now our obligatory work photo. Internet, YOU’RE WELCOME. • * Although, even when you shoot ‘til 8pm on a Saturday, when you’re working with this bun and his babe wife @serenahawaii, is it really “work??” 📷💥👯‍♀️ #werkwerkwerkwerk #samesamebutdifferent HMU @debchungmakeup @thejoshliu. Outfits (or lack thereof @catapper)

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When sister comes home and humors your love of all things Casa. @thefutureperfect @nialauryn @detroitblows #BlowBabes #LadyDate #SBxDesign

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Dear @IvankaTrump, I figured after the last one of these calls for you to take action, you’d unfollow me. But you’re still following me!! So, let me use this opportunity to call you in. Rather than feeling called out, try to see this as an invitation to merge your words and your actions. Girl. You can do it. • There’s a lot of things happening in your father’s first term that are grotesque. From dismantling the protection of water and air and the EPA in general, to putting kids in cages, and then stealing money from health and human services to pay for more cages for more kids — yeah, more than $200 MILLION from cancer research and AIDS research and mental health services — the list goes on. A lot of it is wrong. But here’s the thing with what’s happening THIS week... • You’ve proclaimed yourself a feminist and a champion of women’s rights. Right now, you have an opportunity to actually fight for women. Use your access to demand that Professor Ford’s request for a full, fair, trauma-informed investigation by the FBI be held. There should be no rush when it comes to confirming a lifetime appointment for a man who’ll judge women until his last days. Why NOT investigate? After all, Dr. Ford WANTS a full investigation. Brett doesn’t. Your Dad doesn’t... but that’s a separate conversation. I’m asking — truly asking — what about you?? As a woman who, if not having experienced assault herself, must have friends who’ve been victims? As 51% of the population don’t we deserve equal protections? Don’t you think, our so-called “sister?” #DearIvanka

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It’s been a LONG week in the world, y’all. I know. But don’t feel helpless! The ladies of the #OTHfam and I launched our #CapeFearlessChallenge to support Wilmington and surrounding regions of the Carolinas. • And in addition to being amazing humans who donate to help those in need, y’all can get a SHIRT! (If you like it.) We designed these with the rad folks @shopstands and proceeds are going directly to families in need thanks to @randomactsorg! • Cut it into a crop top, rock it under a blazer, wear it to the gym. Whatever strikes your Love-For-NC fancy! You can find this shirt via the link in my bio, linked at the bottom of our Crowdrise page! #Wilmington #Florence #HoneAwayFromHome

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Last night, I watched @hadaskleinman sing from her soul. As woman who grew up in a multi-faith family, I often find identity in the spiritual rather than the specific. Last night I was reminded about the purpose of community. Whether religious, atheist, academic, or geographical. Groups who share the energy of the heart heal together. My brother @wakingupwithryan lead us in a prayer. • His words: “Rosh Hashanah is the lunar New Year, & it’s taught that on Rosh Hashanah the gates of heaven open & begin the 10 days of awe. The 10 days when access to a divine plain becomes even more realized. And so, these last ten days may have felt amazing & they may have felt really rocky. Know that the rockiness IS that access to the divine that’s wanting to clear energy for each of us to be actualized. To be living the DNA that’s been with us always. To clear the stuff that’s getting in the way. So if we can take a breath & breathe all that in - that divinity that’s in us - & on the exhale let go of all the resistance? This time is when we talk with God, with the Universe, & we talk with our community & we talk with ourselves & we ask for forgiveness. We recognize that in our humanity we’ve made mistakes & that we release the guilt & judgement that we hold? That we may step into the new year free. I invite you to reflect on the last year & bring to mind beautiful times. The successes. The love. The intimacy. And also bring to mind the difficulties. The health issues of ourselves or our loved ones. The deaths. The upsets. The things that didn’t go our way. What if we can see all those things, now, as whatever our soul has needed to walk the path to finding ourselves? Maybe now we can find some gratitude. However challenging it may be, for the things that happened that hurt us. The things that were said or done that hurt us. Causing them to come to more attention. To our needs. To the people that we seek to become. What if we can release those judgments & those thoughts? Those stori

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On Sunday night I had the supreme joy of looking to my left and seeing @hannah_gadsby. Right there! In the same room! I had to tell her what #Nanette meant to me. • Her courage at telling her story knocked the wind out of me when I watched it for the first time. Explaining what, as a comedian, laughter meant to her. But how damaging laughter that comes from reducing oneself, making oneself the butt of a joke before other people can do it to you, does to someone. What sexual assault does to someone. How our pain never leaves us. And how it factors into our legacy is both beyond our control and also squarely up to us. Both, and. • This woman’s @netflix special is a revelation. And a revolution. Hannah, thank you for being so gracious to each of us who had gratitude to share. I’m glad we’re no longer even one degree of @kevinbacon apart. And I’m sorry for standing behind @kevinbacon like a total creep so that I could fangirl you the moment he was done fanboying you. You’re a gem. ♥️ #Storytellers #ArtMatters

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THIS. All of this. #Repost @cindi_leive ・・・ Twenty-seven years ago almost exactly, I sat glued to my TV along with the rest of America and watched Professor Anita Hill deliver searing, credible testimony about sexual harassment in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was the first political proceeding I’d paid much attention to, and I was riveted—not just by her calm, poised demeanor but by the way she was dismissed, disregarded and smeared by the powerful senators who grilled her, the pundits who discussed her case on TV and the establishment in general. (The American Spectator famously called this accomplished lawyer “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.”) That weekend of hearings is part of what made me a feminist. Right now, as Professor Hill herself writes in @nytimes this morning, we’re in what feels like reruns, as Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh stands accused of assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, now a professor of clinical psychology, when they were both teenagers. We won’t know more about the case and these charges until Professor Ford and Kavanaugh testify Monday—but that hasn’t stopped some Senators from jumping to tired old 1991-style conclusions already. (Senator Orrin Hatch—one of the OG questioners from 1991!—had one phone conversation with Kavanaugh yesterday and told reporters “he’s an honest man” and that Professor Ford must have been “mixed up.” He hadn’t even spoken to her yet!) The message to our Senate must be: DO BETTER. As Professor Hill writes: “In 1991, the phrase ‘they just don’t get it’ became a popular way of describing senators’ reaction to sexual violence. With years of hindsight, mounds of evidence of the…harm that sexual violence causes…as well as a Senate with more women than ever, ‘not getting it’ isn’t an option for our elected representatives. In 2018, our senators must get it right.” Or get out. Please, America: Show us you’ve evolved. 📷: Greg Gibson/AP

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You can call us all Daddy. @netflix @queereye

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For everyone whose misogynistic tendency to demean women is showing on my last post... Think about it. #BlockBrett #StopKavanaugh

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Call your Senators #BlockBrett 202-224-3121. • To quote @duca.lauren ”It seems to me that when Brett Kavanaugh attempted to deny a 17-year-old immigrant an abortion, he believed that the decisions you make as a minor ought to have lifelong consequences. Let's treat him the same way.” YUP. • And. As pointed out by many activists I respect today... Anyone who thinks a powerful (white) man “was just a kid” when established his pattern of desire to control women — ie. his stance on EVERYTHING having to do with our bodies including birth control. Brett? It’s NOT an “abortion inducing medication” as you stated in your SCOTUS testimony. Science. Medicine. Try it. — but a young (black) boy shot and killed at 17 (Trayvon) or 12 (Tamir) was a “thug who got what he deserved?” Nope. No. Your double standard is showing. • There are PLENTY of qualified judges out there who don’t have a lifelong pattern of dominating women. Like who? Like Merrick Garland, for example. Just sayin’. #StopKavanaugh 📷 @mspackyetti & @michaelskolnik • UPDATE. Turning the comments off. Because facts and timelines seem irrelevant to people who want to spew vitriol on the internet and this is why we can’t have nice things. My most recent post is for all of you. Wake up.

155,747 Likes | 2018 days ago | 1,660

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#MondayMantra “There is only one Tree Hill, and it’s your home.” — Haley James Scott • And a bonus Mantra: “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” — Edward Everett Hale • We may not be able to fix everything that’ll need fixing after #Florence, but we want to do all we can. • Please visit the link in my bio to support our home-away-from-home community in the Carolinas. Donate if you’re able, but a shirt if you’d like to. We appreciate you! #OTHfam #CapeFearlessChallenge

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#AboutLastNight It was a joy to celebrate my fellow storytellers and powerhouses and pals and idols, kicking off #Emmy Weekend with @variety and @entertainmentweekly. • My V 70’s #UrbanCowboy moment brought to you by @amberdmakeup @carlyxhair and @ecduzit @maxmara @sophiawebster @jimmychoo 🖤 • And NOW that I have your attention! Do you know that the #OTHfam home-away-from-home is suffering the wrath of #Florence!? Well the ladies of OTH have organized a relief effort, and the link is in my bio! #ComeForTheFashion #StayForThePurpose #Wilmington #WomenInFilm #Filmington

86,152 Likes | 2020 days ago | 337

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Today was a good day. It’s an honor and mission to support the National @womenshistory Museum organization and effort! • Did you know that according to the International Association of Women’s Museums there is no comprehensive museum anywhere in the U.S. solely dedicated to women’s history?? • According to the Architect of the Capitol, of the 100 statues in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection, only 9 are women. • On average, only 14 percent of the figures in U.S. history textbooks are women, and most of those are relegated to sidebars. (And that % may go down AHEM Texas I’m looking at you for deciding to REMOVE Hellen Keller and Hilary Clinton from your school books. Erasing the legacies of women who’ve shaped this country is wrong. TX sisters please stand up!) • Of the 5,575 outdoor sculpture portraits of historical figures in the United States, 559 portray women, a mere 10% of all statues, according to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online inventories catalog. • Our stories deserve to be told. Fully. Complexly. And authentically. We deserve that representation. We may be 51% of the world’s population, but when we’re not represented we have no examples. If we can’t see it, we won’t know how to BE it. • It was so special to watch my pals @gabunion, @kristenanniebell, and @osopepatrisse be honored today. And the icon Kathy Bates!! It made me pinch myself that I received an award at this lunch a few years ago. What an amazing group of women to find myself among... What an honor. #sheroes #WomensHistoryMuseum ALSO @iamavoter #IAmAVoter #DontYouWannaBeAVoterToo

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Mood AF @iamavoter • New York! You have an election today! All the info is in my stories. GET OUT AND VOTE! • And if you believe in subways that work, healthcare, public schools, women who work for the people, campaign finance reform, legalizing marijuana (to make that tax money and pay for those schools, as a serious racial justice issue, and more) and rent control — I used to pay rent in NY and that issue is no joke — for the people!? Well then I’m sure you love @cynthiaenixon for NY just like I do! @zephyrteachout too! But no matter WHAT your most important issues are (though I can’t imagine anyone who hates that badass list) go vote! ✌🏼♥️✔️ #IHeartNY #PartTimeResident #FullTimeLove

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“The Braves of 9/11” by Eduardo Kobra 🎨 @kobrastreetart • Unveiled in Manhattan today. The painting is seven stories tall. #IHeartNY #FDNY

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Challah, after the kids got to it. And yes, I may or not be considered a “kid” in this whole bread-massacre situation tonight. What’s your point? • In all seriousness, shana tova to all celebrating ✨

23,705 Likes | 2026 days ago | 94

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@iamavoter #iamavoter

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#selfcaresaturday with my natural beauty queen @sonyadakar. Fun fact? This woman is a skin expert AND a chemist. She mixes all of her own products like a boss! And she makes me a shake when I come in. She knows I like snacks 😎 8 weeks of boot camp start today. #HereWeGo #PilotReady #GoodRiddanceRosacea #IHeartScience

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This is a lie. A downright lie. It flies in the face of medicine and science. And it’s a clue as to the danger Kavanaugh would pose to all women and all families — even those who are firmly anti-choice. Birth control is healthcare. For women AND men (because hello who do you think gets women pregnant!?) This is dangerous. Just as Kavanaugh and his cronies hope to gut Roe, they also hope to dismantle coverage for birth control. If couples cannot plan their families, it’s women who lose all autonomy. Stop this madness. Light up the phones. Do not stop. Flood the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. #WeAreNotGoingBack #StopKavanaugh #NowDoYouGetTheHandmaidsOutfits #NotAnExaggeration

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@deadline called the pilot order a “blockbuster commitment.” Yeah. That’s exactly the kind of BDE I’d like sprinkle onto the intentions I’m setting for #Surveillance 😎 • THIS is what I’ve been developing this year, y’all. The team at 20th, at 6th & Idaho, and I have been pouring our hearts into this one. I cannot wait start shooting for @cbstv this fall, and I CANNOT wait for you to meet “her.” Can’t tell you her name yet. Gotta keep you in just a little suspense... • Never give up on your dreams, my dears. Work HARD. Harder than anyone can see. And then double down on that. You can do it. WE can do it. #linkinbio

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Also #wcw to all the ladies fighting for our rights in DC this week. #StopKavanaugh • #Repost @cindi_leive ・・・ The Senate hearings on #Kavanaugh start today—and I’m cheering on these handmaids who are there in protest. (And no—this isn’t hyperbolic, not with a president who rails against the free press and a majority who inveigh against women’s basic rights. It’s pretty dead-on.) You can support the handmaids—and stand up for the civil liberties of all Americans—by encouraging your Senator to oppose Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Call 202-224-3121 or 202-684-2473 (the latter goes through Planned Parenthood). Or see @ppact’s dearsenators.org site for more ways to speak out. Under her eye... 📷: Win McNamee/@gettyimages (and well done Melissa Byrne for organizing 👏👏👏)

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We are not meant to be boxed in. To be labeled. To be defined by the outside world so that it may feel more comfortable when it looks at us. So that it feels like it has us figured out. We are multifaceted. We are MANY things. • Me? I’m a daughter. A friend. A feminist. A seeker of truth and a warrior for justice. A dog-snuggler. A belly-laugher. A giver of hugs. A TV binge-watcher. A voracious reader. A writer. A storyteller. A director. A producer. An investor. I am a student, forever. I am a professional foodie and an amateur chef. I am road-tripper. A world traveler. A global citizen. A goofball. A serious soul. And an empath. And I firmly believe that empathy is a superpower. #IAMMANY • And lastly, I am honored to be one of the women that my friend @rebeccaminkoff chose to remind myself and my sisterhood that molds were made to be broken. By us, in our multitudes. Thank you, RM, for using this badass tee to donate to my favorite cause, #TheGirlProject. I am also honored to be an ambassador for that organization and fight for girls everywhere. #IAm #WhatAreYou #wcw • Tell me what YOU are in the comments below!

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Never met a door I didn’t like ... #BackHome #StillInCroatiaInMyMind 🚪

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Haters will say it’s photoshopped... #ThatSky #ThatLight #Rome

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Hike, scramble over ruins, gasp at glorious sunset, snack, snack again, repeat. I’m sold. #Croatia #NeverComingHome #ToDoList

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Two boys investigating the sea organ and its nature-made music. Magic. ✨🌊🎹 You can hear what the waves create in the second slide. #SeaOrgan #Croatia

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Can’t let a getaway keep me from an epic #NationalDogDay slideshow! #AdoptDontShop and enjoy some throwbacks of Griffin — how tiny was he when came home!? — Penny, and the best in the west, Patch. Especially him young and thrilled at having destroyed a chew toy, and him ancient and napping in @marinasqu’s arms. He was snoring so loud she could not stop laughing. So good. 🐾♥️✨♥️🐾 @bestfriendsanimalsociety

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☀️ beach bum ☀️ #italy #dontmakemeleave

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John McCain’s words ... I can’t help but cry. "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it...I hate to leave it. But I don’t have a complaint. Not one. It’s been quite a ride. I’ve known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make a peace. I’ve lived very well and I’ve been deprived of all comforts. I’ve been as lonely as a person can be and I‘ve enjoyed the company of heroes. I’ve suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest exultation. I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times... The bell tolls for me. I knew it would. So I tried, as best I could, to stay a 'part of the main.' I hope those who mourn my passing, and even those who don’t, will celebrate as I celebrate a happy life lived in imperfect service to a country made of ideals, whose continued service is the hope of the world. And I wish all of you great adventures, good company, and lives as lucky as mine." ・・・ Let his life and legacy be a reminder that many of us have differing opinions, different points of view, but at the end of the day we must support one another and work together. McCain defended Obama against racism, voted to save the ACA because he knew the American people deserved healthcare protection as a personification of life, liberty, and justice for all, and he stood firm against impending tyranny. Both in his storied military service, and in our current administration. We may have had differing opinions on some things, but dammit I respected this man. I learned from this man. And I’m so sad to hear of his passing. Sending love to his family. #JohnMcCain #RIP

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They say you inherit the @juventus fandom. Whether it’s from your grandparents, or your great grandparents. It’s still a family owned team. The longest in all of sport, in fact. I like that. And I think my great grandpa Mario would be real proud today. Of Juve, and of my jersey-themed pants 😜🖤⚽️🏆 #MadeItHome #Juventus #MY7H #ForzaJuve #FinoAllaFine #JuveRagazza #Italy #THISisFootball

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when the location transforms the idea of farm to table, and it becomes fish to plate 🎣 #TraboccoValleGrotte #Grazie #Italy #FoodieFantasy

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Back to my ragazza di campagna roots. This would make Momma’s Nonna very proud. ♥️🇮🇹 #Ragazza #Italy #FarmLife

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My #wcw is my brilliant + beautiful #soulsister, ride or die for life, business brainiac behind @detroitblows, @nialauryn. She is the ultimate example of a visionary with goddess energy. She reminds me that nothing is impossible. • How so? Well here she is speaking @afro.tech about #DetroitBlows — our Detroit business venture which reinvests in women in the community — in slide 1. (also hiiii @melissarbutler + @lipbar looking gorge and being badass up there with Nini!) And in slide 2, there’s my gal celebrating her first delivery as #ACarriageHouseBirthDoula. Because why not? She has a passion for women and babies and the scared cycle we carry out. So she’s done the work to support it. Literally. I could not be more proud to do life with you, Ni. • And ladies, next time anyone tells you to stay in your lane, or pick just one thing, let this magical human I get to call my best friend remind you that you can do and be many things. And all of them can be powerful. #wce #sistersister

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One year ago today I witnessed one of the most #Awesome sights I have ever been lucky enough to see. An eclipse, in totality, with some of my very best friends. • And a year later it feels like a fitting day to accept #TheAwesomeChallenge from two of my favorite ladies @busyphilipps and @stacylondonreal. • For EVERY post using the hashtag #TheAwesomeChallenge, @rocketsofawesome will donate much needed back-to-school clothing to a @baby2baby child in need! TAG THREE FRIENDS! (Okay I might tag a few extra because so many of my friends are #AWESOME mommas but you get the point!) 🐣🌖🌑🌔🐣 @badassboz @laurenpaul8 @jaimefeld @hilarieburton @marinasqu @joylenz @michellemonaghan @yael @therealdebramessing @therealmariskahargitay @karlawelchstylist

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Nap spot on lock. Annual rereading of #TinyBeautifulThings has commenced. In a place so beautiful itself that I cannot help but stare... Definitely not a no ✨ #BookClub #HavePassportWillTravel

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Nature is my sacred place. It’s the place my lungs and my heart open up. Where my mind gets still and I process my life. It’s the place that makes me understand my favorite poetry more deeply, that renews my feeling of purpose, and that makes me certain that everything is going to be okay in the end. A few days in nature reset everything. I am reminded of magic. I know what beauty is. Truly. • This past week I had a little escape with some of my nearest and dearest. Some of you may remember that last year I got to travel to Alaska with my pals @eddiebauer to talk about conservation, and why we absolutely must take care of our Mother Earth 🌎. This was a reunion. Not a work trip — though helping bring attention to conservation efforts feels more like purpose than “work” to me — but a first of many annual framily reunion adventures. That’s what can happen when you invest in and prioritize goodness for a job. You make friends for life. Friends who will travel to far away places with patchy Wi-Fi at high altitudes and hike with you until you feel like you’re going to pass out from the joy and the lack of oxygen. Friends who will stay up all night drinking whiskey and playing games, waiting for meteor showers to burst through the sky and for the power to come back on. Friends who will put on waders to fly fish, hop in hot springs, and befriend wild horses with you. Friends who will celebrate your highs and hold you through your lows. • The lesson here is the truth behind that @mumfordandsons song ... “where you invest your love, you invest your life.” So my friends, I suggest investing love in good people who love the planet and its forests and streams as much as you do. It’ll enrich your life in ways you can’t even imagine. And this, this dear ones, is #WhyIHike. Want to join? Check out slide 10 and turn your sound on 💚 • #framily #reunion #notanad #justacelebration 📷 by brother bear @coryt

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Because I could not have said it any better. Thank you for the memories, queen. ... #Repost @arakatz ・・・ Forget your guided meditation today. Open Spotify and find Aretha’s ‘Amazing Grace’ performed with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir. (It was one of a handful of songs that got me through high school.) Press play. Close your eyes. Feel the room it was recorded in. You’re welcome. She will be missed, but f*ck she left us with all the feels Maya Angelou says are the only things we remember. #restinpower

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Not no ✨ #Gratituesday

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#MondayMantra 🌾 “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” - Mary Oliver 🌾 And if I might add ... cultivate immense gratitude so that you are never not astonished in the face of magic, community, beauty, or kindness.

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When the fam rolls deep and shows how PROUD they are! Chatting with my sister @ibtihajmuhammad at her book signing yesterday was an absolute dream! We dove into her book, life, inspiration, work ethic, faith, the beauty of a multicultural society and how we must all strive to make our world more inclusive, how to ally, mental health, and more. As the babe @tanfrance said, “This is (also) America.” A dream come true, if you will. I’m so grateful for this community of friends, and to everyone who came to hear us speak yesterday. Your questions were thoughtful and your warm welcome made us feel so at home. Now be sure to pick up your copy of #PROUD and see for yourself why it’s such a PHENOMENAL story! #IbtihajMuhammad #Habibti #SisterSister #BestSellerBound ♥️📚🏆

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I got to spend some serious heart and soul time with my sisterfriend @ibtihajmuhammad yesterday. Talk about a #FierceFemaleFriday!! This woman. We really dove into some topics that inspired me, and were so deeply thought provoking. And our quick coffee hang wound up lasting for nearly two hours. While I only have about 45 minutes to INTERVIEW THIS QUEEN today, I cannot wait for all the folks who come to her LA book signing to hear her beautiful wisdom!! Ibtihaj, I’m so #PROUD to know you and to call you a friend! And I cannot wait for the world to get their hands on a copy of PROUD. It’s beyond! ♥️👯‍♀️🤺🏆✨

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It’s #BookLoversDay!! So I’d like to highlight four amazing ladies and their fabulous books! • @busyphilipps’ #ThisWillOnlyHurtALittle @ibtihajmuhammad’s #PROUD @glennondoyle’s #LoveWarrior @tracy.k.smith’s #LifeOnMars • Cuddle up with a good 📚 tonight, fam! ♥️ #BrilliantBabes

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Family Fire: a shooting that involves an improperly stored gun, often resulting in death or injury. Family Fire kills or injures 8 kids a day. 4.6 million children live in homes with unlocked and loaded guns, and 3 out of 4 kids know where the guns are kept in their homes. Do yours? Help #EndFamilyFire by properly securing your firearms. Learn how to make your home safer at EndFamilyFire.org • As a gun owner, I cannot stress this issue enough. Whether you’re for or against ownership is beside the point. This isn’t a partisan issue. This is about needless death and injury caused to our kids by parents who mean well, but miss the mark in irreversible ways. We can all commit to ending #FamilyFire, today. Will you take this pledge with me?

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Yesterday was #BlackWomensEqualPayDay. We must all acknowledge the compounding hurdles women face. While women’s equal pay day happens in April, highlighting the pay disparity caused by gender, women of color face gaps caused by both gender and race. Learn. Acknowledge. Support. Apologies for being a day late on this, fam. • Below is a section from a @voxdotcom article on the wage gap. I highly suggest reading it — ESPECIALLY if you’re going to be one of the ignorant fools who wants to jump in my comments to say pay gaps don’t exist. I hope that if you’re one of those willfully ignorant dodos, your moms smack you. • VOX: “Tuesday, August 7, is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which marks how long a black woman has to work into 2018 to catch up to the same amount a white man made in 2017. . The day is months later than National Equal Pay Day, which marks the same thing for women generally. This year, #EqualPayDay was on April 10, meaning that for women overall, it takes 16 mos to match what white men make in 12. . But these numbers change considerably for women of color. Black women, for example, needed 20mo to reach equal pay. Native American women will hit equal pay on September 27, while Latinas will hit the benchmark on November 1. And while Asian-American women technically hit the equal pay mark on February 22, suggesting that this group faces the smallest gender pay gap of all women, that date overlooks significant disparities in pay among different groups of Asian women. . Attention to pay disparities has highlighted how black and Hispanic men make less than their white counterparts, & how women overall make less than men. But there has been a failure to fully grapple with what the pay gap looks like when both race & gender are taken into account. For example, even as white women lag behind white men in wages, they often do better than black or Hispanic men. . And these numbers have particularly overlooked women of color who face both racial & gender discriminatio

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And y’all. Dana Delany!! Theatre goddess. I got to interview DANA FRICKIN’ DELANY about her new play! It’s called Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties. And I cannot WAIT to see it. What a day! I’ll stop now! 🤣 #DanaDelany #LiveKellyAndRyan #PinchMeMoment

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Guys. Today was a dream come true. An actual item crossed off the bucket list. I got to host one of my very favorite, iconic talkshows! The hour went by so fast. The giggles never stopped. I’m pinching myself. Thank you to the @livekellyandryan team for having me, @ryanseacrest for being such a gracious cohost and teacher, to the audience who was so engaged and interactive, and to my best friends for being the most supportive humans on the planet. And to MY team for making all of this happen! I love y’all!! ♥️🎉

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Sooo the last time I was a guest on @livekellyandryan I had the BEST time! But tomorrow may be even better because ... I’M HOSTING!! With @ryanseacrest. @kellyripa we will miss you / hope you’re having the best vacay / THANK YOU FOR BLESSING ME WITH YOUR SEAT I WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN! Make sure y’all tune in. Shenanigans are guaranteed and there may be dancing. WHO KNOWS!!! 😍💥💃🏻🎉👏 #LiveKellyAndRyan #KellyAndRyan #ILoveMyJob #PinchMeMoment

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#MondayMantra 🌺 @beyonce “If people in powerful positions continue to hire and cast only people who look like them, sound like them, come from the same neighborhoods they grew up in, they will never have a greater understanding of experiences different from their own. They will hire the same models, curate the same art, cast the same actors over and over again, and we will all lose. The beauty of social media is it’s completely democratic. Everyone has a say. Everyone’s voice counts, and everyone has a chance to paint the world from their own perspective.” - #Beyonce for @voguemagazine, photographed by @tylersphotos #TylerMitchell. • This marks the first time in Vogue’s history that the cover story has been photographed by a black man. Hats off to Beyonce for holding open the doors she has opened so that other artists may follow. Let us all take note and do our best to do the same. (The link to the full cover story, and more of her incredible words, is in my stories.)

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very into this whole train situation... 🚂 #IChooChooChooseYou @andnorth @elliatt #SoireeOnTheRailway

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This day. These ladies. This planet. Thank you thank you thank you ✨ #SoireeOnTheRailway #GetOutside #LoveYourMother #AndDressUpWhileYoureAtIt 💙🌎💚

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As many of us throwback on Thursdays, I think it’s important to use the trend to also take pause. To remember. To not let our less than sunshine-filled memories fade. To honor those who we must fight for, even after we’ve lost them. 10 days ago I wrote at length about #NiaWilson. About double standards. And about racism. And I will continue to #SayHerName. I will continue to do my best to ally. I will continue to stand for all of my sisters affected by violence, and acknowledge those who are affected disproportionately. My friends @ohyeswewill nailed it, and said exactly what I woke up feeling today. So I’ll #repost their words for you now... ・・・ The death of Nia Wilson has affected all of us. We can't stop thinking about her—the violent and unjust way she was murdered, the words her sister Letifah Wilson said to her before she passed on a BART platform in Oakland ("We're gonna get through this. I got you, you're my baby sister,"), and her young life and immense future taken senselessly. We, as women, need to stand up and acknowledge this tragic event and call attention to it. We need to talk about it LOUDLY. Do you have something to say? Are you angry, scared, devastated, and wanting to stand up against misogyny and more specifically racial misogyny? VOICE IT. Start by reading @mspackyetti's informative, call-for-action article for @thecut, #SpendYourPrivilege . Per a study done by Washington University last year, black women are more likely than any other demographic to have been unarmed when killed by police officers. Per the C.D.C., black women die by homicide at nearly three times the rate that white women do. All of us have experienced fear as women—but ask yourself, if you are white, have you ever put yourself in the shoes of someone of color? That fear is amplified. We need to #SayHerName over and over again. We need to stand up together in all of our communities and put an end to racial misogyny and the brutality against women. To quote Brittany Packnett f

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And my other #wcw is Duchess Milan, who I have not yet met but I want to learn all the things from... “My mother said when you die, you stand there before the light and you say, ‘Was I worthy of myself to know that I have liked me?’ Okay? I like me. Okay? And I tell the whole chorus, honey, ‘I like me.’ I don’t hurt anybody, I don’t do anybody wrong, you know. I’ve dealt with everything I can, as much as I can. So just find that inside yourself and take time with that person. Faults, flaws, wishes, all of it, it doesn’t matter. We’re not going to get it all. None of us gets it all. Okay? But what we do have, we can polish. We can polish it, honey, til it blinds them.” — #DuchessMilan, 69 and carrying the sacred feminine wisdom of lifetimes upon lifetimes. Thank you for sharing the beauty of this wise woman @newyorkermag and @ohyeswewill ✨ #beautyFULL

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Friends. Sisters. #Framily. And together #WeAreUnstoppable. Connie said it best, “just a few of the amazing women in my life who will always fight for their rights and yours!” Yes to that! Sisters, we are in this together. Swipe to slide 3 to read the manifesto. We’ll never stop fighting for you. Is it any wonder these angels are my #wcw, every day? 👯‍♀️♥️✊🏽 #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

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Did y’all catch the premiere of “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” last night? POWERFUL. It’s a six-part docu-series on @paramountnetwork and @BET. 71 seconds, so many unanswered questions... Cannot recommend it enough! And this video is @blackthought's original song, #RestInPower. It’s a beautiful tribute to the life and legacy of #TrayvonMartin and the title track of the show. Gives me chills. • Catch up on last night’s episode and let’s all continue watching together. ✊🏽♥️✊🏽 #SayHisName

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HERO @kingjames. Elevating the public school system while he changes the lives of kids. Hats off to you, man!! @ipromiseschool #IPromiseSchool. Quite the opposite of “shut up and dribble,” wouldn’t you say? 🤣👏💥 Yeah. Legend.

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Turns out someday was yesterday. And it was reeeeeeal fun @jameslafferty @stephencolletti @antwontanner2214 • Twon and I were the last guests on James and Stephen’s FB Live Chat for #EveryoneIsDoingGreat. Watching an old OTH episode from Season Four was HILARIOUS! And we raised a whole bunch of money for the #EDG IndieGoGo campaign in the process thanks to the #OTHfam. If you haven’t contributed yet, the link is in my bio! Let’s get these boys shooting this show already! • #BrotherBears #Framily #NameThatReference #HoneyGrove #Gang

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Soccer Sisters #LAFC Four of us love the game. Three of us live together. One of us built this stadium. Same diff, right? @lafc #BlackoutLA #VivaVela

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Facts about the kids. We all need to raise our voices. And while we’re at it, vote @riseupandvote #Repost @mandanadayani ・・・ Children led a sit in at Capitol Hill to protest family separation at the border. Today is the deadline to reunite 2,551 children who were taken from their families, but the Trump administration says only about 1,600 are "eligible" for reunification. The government has already deported 463 parents. Based on court filings, huge numbers of these parents claim they were either promised to be re-united with their kid or coerced into signing their own expedited removal papers in hopes of getting kids back. ▪️ 2,551: children separated from their parents. ▪️ 1,012: children who have been reunited. ▪️ 37: children whose parents haven’t been identified. ▪️ 914: parents not "eligible" for reunification. ▪️ 463: parents who may have been deported without their children. - stats via @ajplus & @fwdus - #familiesbelongtogether #endfamilyseparation #thisisabouthumanity Shout out to a few of the incredible organizers @paolamendoza @jesslivmo @aijenp @tonykchoi @ginnysuss @thebeckymorrison Please share about today’s deadline. It won’t be met. Repost @sarahsophief

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#tbt to a hopeful day. This wonderful crew rallied to help two wonderful humans, Nicole and PJ, rebuild their #Ojai property after it was devastated by the California wildfires. We spent the day hauling ash and debris, planting and potting a garden, landscaping, and installing a new sanctuary where they could rest and begin to plan the larger task of rebuilding their physical home. These two lost everything, and were living in a small RV that was parked where their house once stood. It was heartbreaking and painful. But their resilience and commitment to starting anew was incredibly inspiring. Spending a day with them reminded me of the adage, “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Why, you ask? Because we would have loved to actually rebuild their physical home, but time, budget, and insurance claim procedures/constraints prevented that. It would’ve been easy to say “oh well we can’t yet, it sucks,” and give up. BUT. There was still GOOD to be done. 20 of us, thanks to @seb100things, could still help make a change that these two couldn’t on their own. With trowels and shovels and rakes and hands and sweat and laughter and some tears too, we cleared away the devastation and gave them their garden back. And that was damn good. Do what you can, when you can, y’all. It might just change someone’s life. Even if you can’t do it all. Do something. Let it be enough. 🌱♥️🌱 And let’s also use this tragedy as a reminder that #science matters, #climatechange is real, and the escalating devastation caused by wildfires on an ever-warming planet is our responsibility. Demand that your elected officials take it seriously. We have work to do to preserve this planet for our children and our children’s children. Let’s make sure their gardens can grow.

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Sometimes when the world gives you a heavy heart, one of your bests @alextcooks comes over with your favorite @cactus_tacos, plops your puppy nephew @mraxlrose in your lap, and hands you a cerveza. All to make you smile. I am the luckiest. Look at that furry face! That little perma-tongue-out face! And yeah yeah I know it’s #NationalTequilaDay and that I’m an unofficial Reposado ambassador, but gimme till after sundown y’all 😎 #Framily #FriendsMakeMyWorldGoRound #PuppyLove #TequilaTia #CervezaSisters And yes that’s a purple @mybyta in the background. I walk the talk peeps 😜♻️☕️

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Say her name. #NiaWilson She was 18. Heading home from a family gathering with her sister. Standing on an #Oakland train platform. She could’ve been you. She could’ve been me. She is us. Violence against women is a societal issue that is all of ours. And violence against women of color needs to be called out by ALL of us. Nia Wilson was murdered by a white supremacist on parole. John Lee Cowell. A man who singled out two women of color & slashed their throats in a stabbing that BART Police Chief Carlos Rojas deemed a “prison-style attack” that was among “the most vicious” he had ever seen in 30 years of policing. Her sister Letifah survived, cradling Nia in her arms & says she looked back at Cowell & “he was wiping off his knife & stood at the stairs. Just looked ... he just stood there, like it was nothing.” The next day he was apprehended on another Oakland train, when a woman saw him standing over another #WOC, hand reaching into his pocket. The police apprehended him today without incident. Which I must be honest, strikes me... We’ve all seen videos of unarmed black men being tased for simply sitting on the sidewalk, or being thrown violently onto the hoods of cop cars over traffic violations. Yet this man, this racist criminal intimidating riders on a passenger train a day after murdering a teenage girl & attempting to murder her sister, is gingerly handcuffed & spoken to in soft worlds? The double standard must end. The silence around the death of women of color must end. And WHILE we’re at it, the behavior of news media that attempts to tarnish a victim after her untimely death must end. Running a photo of Nia smiling with a handgun on the news? (Which UPDATE was a freaking rubber cell phone case!! TF!?) Rather than an image of her from her recent high school graduation? I own a gun. I own a few. If I were murdered by a senseless maniac & my family was robbed of me, do you for ONE MINUTE think the news would run photos of me at the shooting range first & fore

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This is INSANE. And this is not a drill. Light up the phones. Email link in bio. #Repost @momsdemand ・・・ URGENT ACTION NEEDED: A few days from now, *anyone* with a regular internet connection and a 3D printer will be able to make their own untraceable guns in just a couple clicks. This includes terrorists and people who can’t pass a background check. Incomprehensibly, the Trump @StateDept is about to allow a company run by a self-proclaimed anarchist to post its gun blueprints online in files that can be sent directly to a 3D printer to print guns on demand. To add more danger to this situation, many of these guns can be printed entirely in plastic, so metal detectors won’t catch them. These plastic guns could easily be snuck onto airplanes, into music festivals and government buildings. 3D printed guns will also undermine the work of law enforcement, who may recover untraceable guns at crime scenes and find their criminal investigations stymied before they even get off the ground. Downloadable guns completely undermine our federal and state firearm laws, which at their core block gun access for the people who pose the most serious danger to the public.⠀ ⠀ ‼️ Tell @SecretaryPompeo to #StopDownloadableGuns at the link in our bio.‼️

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As I think about inspiration today, and how to add light to the world, I find myself coming back to @alittleradical. It’s technically a “children’s book,” but I read through it all of the time. It’s the A, B, C’s of Activism. It teaches kids, and adults too, how to love on the world. How to be part of a team, and how each person’s heart, commitment, and action can make the world a better place. • So, I’m reading you the first chapter today because I love you all. And because sometimes we all need an uplifting poem. If you want to read the rest of the book, written by my brilliant pals @jasonradical and @danicarussell, head to the link in my bio or the one on @alittleradical. Sometimes restoring our sense of childlike wonder and motivation is all we need. #MondayMantra #AisForAction

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The perfect #MondayMantra via soul sister @hilaryswank and @refinery29 🌞 • How about we all commit to not asking “why aren’t I enough for _____?” and to start owning the truth that goes something like this: “I deserve what I want/more than mediocre/better/_____.” Now don’t settle for anything less, fam! #YouAreTheSun

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Issa WRAP!! 7:12am #NightShoots #HardLuckLoveSong #ILoveMyJob

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About last night. Waiting for dark. 6:27pm #NightShoots #SetLife

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About last night. Week 4. 3:22am 📷 @michaeldorman81 #NightShoots #HardLuckLoveSong

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About last night. Week 4. 4:18am #NightShoots #HardLuckLoveSong

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A reminder ... #MandelaDay Madiba 100 ✨ #NelsonMandela #HappyBirthday

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In happier news — because honestly we all need it these days — my love for my Fab Five Daddy Gang has been solidified as a meme and the people who matter to me have NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD 💥 @queereye @jvn @karamobrown @tanfrance @antoni @bobbyberk #DaddyPack #FabFive plus #TheFemaleSixth 😜💃🏻♥️ @commentsbycelebs #QueerEye #ImNotCryingYOURECrying

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For all the partisan folks who couldn’t be bothered to swipe through the previous slides... Stop claiming this is fine so you can go on pretending that you aren’t ashamed that you voted for a traitor. You got duped. It sucks, I know. And I feel for you. But this is about our country. Period. There is NO EXCUSE FOR WHAT HE’S DONE. Don’t wanna take it from a gal who should “stick to acting?” Take it from the former head of the CIA, 17 Intelligence agencies, and the REPUBLICANS who are bringing mounting charges against the POTUS. Wake. Up. (And PS, if our jobs keep us from being educated participants in our society, then stick to banking/cooking/prescribing/driving or whatever the fuck it is YOU do for a living.) ✌🏼♥️🇺🇸

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I’m still having a hard time finding the words to adequately describe my feelings, having watched the President of the United States commit treason on live television yesterday. This goes so far above and beyond party. This is about us. I cannot believe it. But we all saw it. This feels like a fitting time to circle back to the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero: • “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” • We have work to do, folks. Remember what we are fighting for and do not let the madness discourage you. Inaction is our second greatest enemy now. He is our first. #TrumpTreason #TreasonSummit #Helsinki

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Looking at the midterms like 👩‍⚖️ Because of COURSE we care, and we vote. • Follow @riseupandvote to stay informed on what’s to come. (And shout out to my sisters @thevintagetwin for making these jackets for me so quickly. I haven’t taken mine off in weeks and it’s been a fantastic conversation starter) #MondayMantra #OfCourseWeCare

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Night Shoots, Night 6. @michaeldorman81

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“I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too No, I'm not asking much of you Just sing little darling, sing with me” 🖤 @firstaidkitband • Call me Carla/Call him Jesse @michaeldorman81 • #NightShoots #ILoveMyJob #HardLuckLoveSong

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To all my lady loves... We were forged in the fire. I love your glow. Big Phoenix Energy, I suppose 🔥 #wce #wcw #BPE (via sister @astrologyangelmediums)

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Kenneth! Happy day of birth my brother! You are the very best. I’m so grateful that I get to do life with you. Adventure with you. Eat tacos with you. See all of the shows. Dance til sunrise. Drive all of the roads. • One of my favorite moments of ours, when I was reminded of how we’re cut from the same cloth? S: Hey. NYE is next week. Should we ... do something? K: whatcha thinking? S: some pals are going to Panama... K: where? S: dunno K: for how long? S: not sure K: who’s going? S: like 30 people. @nialauryn and @npdemember! And a bunch of people I don’t know. K: what are we doing there? S: there’s a definitely something about an island. So ... fishing? K: I mean. Yeah. Should we look up tickets now? Five days later we were swigging rum on one of the San Blas Islands, spear fishing dinner, and dancing under the stars. There were no beds. But with a couple hammocks and some beach towels, we had the best camping trip ever. And we came home with @mikiagrawal, @ramy, @love.radha, @karla7117, @danfredinburg, @maxstossel, and so many more homies for life. Because when you make friendships, they’re real and lasting. • Kenny. My OG. My ride or die. My fellow Always Say Yes adventure sibling. I LOVE YOU SO AND I’M SO HAPPY YOU WERE BOOOOOORN! 🌟 (photo by the amazing @danielnjohnson)

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Gratitude. So much of it. For another year. The supreme luxury of having made more memories with people I love. Of having had more adventures. Of having lived and laughed and loved. Oh my heart. Thank you thank you thank you ... ✨

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Just call me Carla ✨ #ILoveMyJob #NightMoves

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My friends feel like this ... incredibly bright, sparkly, shining lights in the dark. • Grateful for every single person who adds luminescence to this world. Through love. Commitment. Fighting for others. Service. Activism. Humor. Generosity. Kindness. I love you guys ✨

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my religion. period. @rupikaur_ #familiesbelongtogether thank you sister @glennondoyle

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Time for an unscheduled dance break with @bettywho fam!! • Y’all, I know times feel dark. And they are. But that makes it extra important to take moments for happiness. For self care. For wild enjoyment. I find that kind of deep, bone-shaking joy on a dance floor. And my sister baby angel queen #BettyWho just dropped the best, spiciest, makes me wanna dance all night, gender bending art piece on power and what it looks like and who gets to take it BANGER that I’ve heard in ages. Damn woman! • So BRB. I’m gonna shake it around my house. Then in the uber. Then dancing with the babes tonight. And again tomorrow morning on my walk. • Find some joy tonight, y’all. I love you. Happy end of #Pride month. Happy Friday. Recharge those batteries. Shake it out. #Taste #BettyWhoMusic #WWBD #ZADDY *link in bio* #YoureWelcome

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Even when we aren’t at a @cubs game, we’re reppin’ #TonyTonyTony #FlyTheW #HomeAwayFromHomeTeam #FamForever #Chitown

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speak/easy #wcw @jtoboni

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I pledge allegiance to the Diva. RBG, please JKP. #JustKeepPlanking #WeNeedYouSister #SuperDiva #RBG @notoriousrbg

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When “leaders” do the wrong thing, the people can still do the right thing. Thank you Judge Dana Sabraw. We have so much work to do, as a nation, to right these wrongs. But this is an important first step. #FamiliesBelongTogether

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this 🖤✊🏽🖤 • I’ve had literal chest pains all day, reading the news. Witnessing the erosion of our principals and Constitution. Seeing the hypocrisy in a court that allows vendors to discriminate on a class of people protected by civil rights laws so as not to offend their religion, and then persecutes others based on their assumed religions. The hypocrisy of family values turning a blind eye to modern day internment camps, and to the kidnapping of other people’s children. The attack on women’s rights and healthcare for children and families. Healthcare that those voting to take ours away get to keep. The countless jobs, more every day, lost because a deal maker (really???) is making “deals” that are destroying our economy for the 99% while the already obscenely wealthy get wealthier. The blatant lying taking place without challenge. The threats of violence being made by those calling for civility. BTW, they have historically always called protestors uncivilized. Well nothing is more civilized than peaceful protest. And we aren’t going anywhere. The list is long, y’all. I know. It’s hard some days to fathom how this can all be happening simultaneously. We need rest. And sometimes we need reminders. I needed this one today. Today, and every day, I am doubling down on being #punkasfuck. Wanna join me?! We have a long road ahead. Let’s stay radical, fam. (📷 @amandariskin / @efrainfernando)

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#loveislove #Repost @seed ・・・ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜Bacteria don't care who you kiss. And with each intimate, 10-second kiss, comes a healthy exchange of approximately 80 million bacteria¹, all contributing to the microbial diversity in your mouth. ⠀ ⠀ Happy kissing. 😉😘 And happy #pride! 🌈 ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ______________⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ¹ Kort, Remco et al. "Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing." Microbiome Journal. 17 November 2014⠀

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My best had a babe. I love him with my whole heart. Holding him, I cannot help but think of mothers and fathers who have had their children ripped from their arms. Regardless of party line, family is everything. Regardless of allegiance, parents love their children. Regardless of belief system, love is paramount. I’m holding my precious loved ones closer tonight. I’m wishing and hoping and praying that we can all wake up from delusion and see ourselves in our neighbors. I wish this kind of love for each and every one of you. No matter what or who you believe in. I wish it with my whole heart. #FamiliesBelongTogether

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Every. Damn. Word. THANK YOU @mspackyetti #Repost @mspackyetti ・・・ A family concentration camp is still a concentration camp. • In my freshman political science seminar, we learned about a concept called the Overton Window. The #OvertonWindow holds all ideas that are considered normal. Agreeable. Acceptable. The further outside of the window you go, to the left or right, the ideas get more radical. Extreme. Unthinkable. • Everyone from political strategists to real estate agents-like y’alls president-is obsessed with the idea of moving the window-so that the things they really want to happen no longer seem extreme. • How do you move the #OvertonWindow? You suggest something so far to the extreme, that the slightly less extreme alternative suddenly seems more acceptable to the public. • Moving the Overton Window can be used for good: Malcolm X intentionally presented himself as an extremist in certain respects, so white moderates would accept Dr. King as the reasonable one, even though they didn’t want to. • But there is a very real possibility, perhaps a probability, that this administration has been moving the Overton Window since they started campaigning. All of the tweets, the rallies, the antics, the previously unthinkable behaviors are the extreme. Now? A tax cut that hurts the poor and middle class, moves against health care, and yes, detention centers that keep families together-are suddenly thought to be preferable alternatives. • Lying and Gaslighting are tools of this strategy: Sec. Nielsen telling us that the administration’s policy was not actually to separate the families we watched them separate with our own eyes. • So is distraction: tweets on tweets on tweets, calling this TV star a failure and that dictator short and fat. • THIS IS THE TRICK OF THE ENEMY. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. • The executive order signed to keep families together STILL upholds a Zero Tolerance policy that destroys people seeking a better life, fleeing harm and persecution. A FAMILY c

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This World Refugee Day feels especially significant. All of us can play a role in resettling refugee families in our own hometowns. If you agree that we should build bigger tables, not taller walls, join @amnestyusa’s #LongerTable Initiative at http://bit.ly/LongerTable (link also in bio) • Some FACTS: We are in the worst refugee crisis in recorded history; there are 22.5M refugees worldwide. More than half of these refugees are children. More than half of the world's refugees are hosted by only 10 countries and most do not have adequate resources, leaving many to survive on less than 50 cents per day. America's refugee resettlement infrastructure was created by Ronald Reagan and some of the most powerful resettlement communities are in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, etc... red states! This should not be a partisan issue but a human issue. Refugees are not criminals and are, relatedly, highly vetted. They do not get to choose their destination and are only seeking to protect their families and simply be part of a safe community again. #AmnestyInternational 📷 @icp

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Your voice = your POWER. #Repost (🎨) @oliviawilde

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For every misguided human who has been lied to by leaders and/or every dip shit saying “if you knowingly commit a crime you deserve HELL” also known as the stains on humanity and history that are internment camps ... SEEKING ASYLUM HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN ILLEGAL. • Parents are entering through PREVIOUSLY LEGAL CHANNELS and being turned away because of this barbaric Trump policy. End. Of. Story. They are losing their children. And then being sent (in some already reported cases) to die. And if you don’t care ... I just ... I do not want to know you. I will not give you any of the square footage of my heart. Party bullshit aside. This. Is. Monstrous. • If you cannot agree that babies aren’t bargaining chips for misguided walls that a campaign SWORE that SOMEONE ELSE would pay for!? I. Just. Cannot. Image via @glennondoyle

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I have been in tears for days. Looking at these images. Reading about guards in these internment camps refusing to allow caged children to hold each other. Kids as young as 2, sobbing, with no one to console them. That does lasting psychological damage to children. As does being ripped from their parents arms, some so young they are still breastfeeding. There have to be some nonnegotiables in our society. Human rights violations like these should be one. Using children as bargaining chips? No ・・・ Quoting here from @valariekaur, via @sallykohn “FACTS: . 1. More than 2,000 children have been separated from their mothers & fathers since April, more than 100 under the age of four. They are held in tents, big box stores, & warehouses converted into detention facilities. Family separation can cause children “irreparable harm,” stated the American Association of Pediatricians. . 2. The Trump administration claims it is enforcing the law. This is false. *SEEKING ASYLUM HAS NEVER BEEN ILLEGAL.* It initiated a zero-tolerance policy in April to prosecute all undocumented migrants as criminals & separate them from their children -- as a deterrent. The administration has no plan to reunite families it has separated. It has the power to stop this policy at anytime. . 3. The U.S. has a long history of separating families of color, taking Native American & black children from their parents. Here's the truth: Lawmakers can only secure the popular support for such brutal policies if the targets are already seen as less than human. The current administration has primed us to see migrants at the border as "animals," "criminals," & "rapists." Once you strip a people of their humanity, you can do anything to them. Including take away their children. . 4. But we can insist on seeing migrants not as criminals but as mothers, fathers, sons, daughters seeking a different life. They don't have documentation. That's a civil violation, not a criminal one. It does not deserve state-sanctioned to

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UMMMM @jimmyfallon WE DID IT!! You are officially a #HotDudeReading and I am OFFICIALLY the world’s best publicist! 🤣 @hotdudesreading #FallonTonight #MCM #YoureWelcome #TheLTrain • If you missed the comedic bonanza and thus this post somehow makes no sense to you, be sure to watch me and Jimmy talk about books and subways on last Wednesday’s episode of @fallontonight 😜📚🤓

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#MondayMantra I got it (like, literally, I got this one) from my mama 💃🏻

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Whelp. This is beyond cool! Thanks for the zinc sparks, Dad! ✨ #HappyFathersDay 🤓🔬 #Repost @seed ・・・ Your first brush with science happened here: a sperm met an egg and sparks flew. 💥💥💥⠀ ⠀ The human egg cell accumulates some 20 billion zinc atoms in the 12 hours before ovulation, likely to signal the egg to stop maturing as it readies for a sperm. ⠀ ⠀ When that sperm comes along, it triggers calcium increase in the egg and prompts the first in a series of "zinc sparks", as billions of zinc atoms are released back out of the egg. Bound to small probe molecules placed by researchers at Northwestern, the zinc showers are captured here as a breathtaking firework of fluorescence, the first time they’ve ever been visible in a human cell.⠀ ⠀ So when you call your Dad later to wish him a happy father's day, say thanks for the zinc sparks. ✨🤓⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ______________⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Duncan F, Que E, Zhang N, Feinberg E, O'Halloran T, Woodruff T, "The Zinc Spark is an Inorganic Signature of Human Egg Activation." Nature. 26 April, 2016.

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My Proud Papa. How lucky I am to be your daughter. To have been raised by you. To have had your support to fall back on when I’ve learned lessons the hard way, and to have you cheering and shouting “I KNEW you could do this!” when I’ve succeeded too. You are insightful. Artistic. Tender. And tough. I am so grateful for the deep friendship that has become our adult relationship. I’m so lucky to have a champion like you. And just because it’s your day I’ll admit JUST this once ... every time you’ve given me your opinion about men — and aperture settings too! — you’ve been right dammit. Like I said, slow learner 😜 Love you Daddio. You’re the tops! #NumberOneDad

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GANG 🤓🔬🍸 @abqlondon • We’re all mixologists now, NBD

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Kiss the cook 💋 #ABQLondon

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Break Bad #ABQLondon • Hey @glassofwhiskey, are we doing this right? #PinkmanPosse

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Making a dash for the weekend like ... 💃🏻 #Incredibles2

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What can I say? I clearly love good food. And I love @chefsymon. And everyone at @abcthechew. I was so happy/sad/emotional to be their final guest this morning. What an amazing group of humans. Congrats on a beautiful run. • And PS, @carlaphall, it looks like we’ll just have to torment @bobbyflay on BBF more often. And Michael? May it’s time for our adventure travel food show!? Who’s comin!? 😜 #DynamicDuo #SteaksForSoph #TheChew #Incredibles2

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Being on @fallontonight makes me THIS happy! Chatting with @jimmyfallon is the greatest, and even more fun when we are chatting about camping, subway rides, and #Incredibles2!! • TUNE IN TONIGHT ON @NBC • #BestLifeOfMyLife #IHeartNY 📸 Andrew Lipovsky/NBC

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#wcw the matriarchs of our #framily. And also @alc_ltd for this DRESS. #TheyCallMeMellowYellow

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Humpday mood because #Incredibles2 comes out on Friday. YAS! 💥 via @violette_fr

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2 years ... Still hard to find the right words. This #PrideMonth, and always, let’s #HonorThemWithAction. How to begin? Vote. #Pulse • artwork @jonathan_kent_adams

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Rocklin’ my Byta and my Freda’s @mybyta @fredasalvador • The #Byta tour has landed in NYC y’all! They’ve spent the last two weeks traveling the country, encouraging everyone to join the #30DayNoThrowAway challenge. They say it takes 29 days to create a new habit. Imagine if we ALL just stopped wasting disposable things, and loved on ourselves and the planet a little more. • Check my instastory for details on where to meet up with this wonderful crew tonight (7-9pm) ☕️ #NoMoreTrash

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#MondayMantra 🖤 After a week of the highest highs (witnessing love personified not once, but twice) and some of the most heart-wrenching lows (Kate, Tony...) this truth feels more important than ever. Empathy can be the key. Pick up a phone. Show up for a meal. Shut your mouth and open your ears. Feel, truly and deeply, the feelings of another. On every level of life, we need to show up. And we need to lead with love. It won’t always be easy. You won’t always get it right. But it’s the most important goal we can possibly set. Let’s start this week with open hearts, y’all. Love.

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I♥️NY

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Proud. And all danced out. We did it right last night y’all. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #LoveIsLoveIsLove #HappyPride #Pride2018

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I love you @stacylondonreal. There is nothing better than celebrating the love of friends, with friends you love. This is what happiness looks like. #AnotherGoodHang #NotSeth #FlightOfTheConrads

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Fra•mily #AnotherGoodHang #NotSeth #FlightOfTheConrads

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Starting my @seed protocol before bed tonight. Proud of this innovative tech. Excited to take control of my body, my wellness, and the half of me I’ve never been conscious of before. Want to learn more? See below, and make sure you follow @Seed for a daily dose of mad cool science 🔬🌱🧡 ・・・ #Repost from Seed • Gut mania is a real thing. And there's a lot of noise out there. Every day we see more and more 'probiotic' supplements, foods, and beverages, but many people still don't fully know what probiotics are, how they work, and why they should take them. We're here to clarify the FAQs and break down some big myths. Learn with us—Probiotics 101 on seed.com. • SB here again! A lesson I learned from @seed that I’m OBSESSED with?! Look at this! (And yes I’m combining two reposts because this is THAT cool! 🤓)👇🏼 • Clocking in at 3-5 pounds, your #microbiome weighs about the same as your #brain. 🧠⠀ ⠀ And with a large majority of these #microbial partners residing in your #gastrointestinal #tract, we’re starting to realize that the #gut behaves more like a ‘second brain’ than we knew. Our gut #microbiota play a vital role in our #physical and #psychological #health via its own #neural #network: the enteric nervous system (ENS), a complex system of about 100 million nerves found in the lining of the gut. These neural #circuits control the gastrointestinal system from mouth to intestines, and along with #hormones and chemical #neurotransmitters, constantly provide #feedback to the brain.⠀ ⠀ They signal to our brain through stimulating our vagus nerve when we’re full. They’re responsible for the sensation of #nervous butterflies, or the pit in your #stomach, innate parts of our #psychological #stress responses. They are capable of producing #serotonin (happy feels 🤗) to affect our #mood or #appetite.⠀ ⠀ They give ‘gut instinct’ a whole new level of meaning. • We’ve got your Bac. Bac(teria) that is 🔬

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“Wheeeeeere’s my Super Suuuuuit!?” Right here, thanks to @pallasparis! #Incredibles2 #Voyd ✋🏼🕳💥 @disney @pixar #June15th

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Guys. I’m tremendously proud, and beyond excited, to introduce you all to @seed. Born out of the journey of one of the smartest people I know to understand health — and I mean really understand and participate in one’s own health and body — this company will change the way we know and care for ourselves. I’m honored to work with them, proud to have invested in them, and excited to begin my own journey to real wellness. Welcome to the family. I’d love you all to FOLLOW Seed and COME LEARN with us! #Repost @seed ・・・ ⠀ You are a #superorganism. An ecosystem. A world. Housed within and on you is a community of 38,000,000,000,000 microorganisms (mostly bacteria). It's your non-human half, that makes you human, and you can't thrive without it.⠀ ⠀ This is your microbiome. We think it’s time you met. What you learn will radically transform the way you think about your health.⠀ ⠀ Come with us—seed.com⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ______________⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ Bacteria art by @tdanino, our first BioArtist-in-residence.y

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Okay posting oooone more time because this is vintage @Versace people! And y’all HAVE to see the #Voyd bag @edie_parker custom made for me, and the manicure @esnail_la did to match Voyd’s supersuit! And MY ACTION FIGURE?! I’m obsessed. #Incredibles2 #ItsAllInTheDetails #PinchMe SWIPE! ✋🏼🕳💥 @theincredibles

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Clearly didn’t have any fun at all last night ... 😜🤩💥 @theincredibles #Incredibles2 #Voyd

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#AboutLastNight Hey Ma! I’m a Super! #Incredibles2 #Voyd ✋🏼🕳💥

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THIS! 👏✊🏽👏 CALIFORNIA today you must #RiseUpAndVote! • @riseupandvote thx @questlove

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A VOTE inspired #MondayMantra from Gloria Steinem. “We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful.” • Let’s RISE ladies (and gents)!! SWIPE to see a guide to #progressive voting in California — PART 2

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.@nfrothwell reminding all Californians why voting tomorrow matters so much! SWIPE to see how to vote as a #progressive. PART 1 @riseupandvote ♥️✌🏼🇺🇸 #VOTE All recommendations here vetted by the incredible team at #RiseUpAndVote

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palette pals 🎨 @seed #WeGotTheMemo #AGoodHang #SisterSister

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Love is the very best thing we do ✨ #be #AGoodHang

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Pals! If you’ve seen my stories this weekend, you know that on JUNE 1ST I joined #TeamByta and started the #30DayNoThrowAway challenge. NOW! They say it takes 29 days to create a new habit. So the goal here is to cultivate the habit of loving on our planet as she should be loved! No more mindlessly using disposable crap that winds up in landfills and oceans. • For the last three days I’ve taken a @mybyta everywhere (like I spent the weekend drinking cocktails at a wedding out of it!) and a big ol’ hydroflask for water. Habit. Happening. Wanna know why this is so important? See below. • Each year over 500 billion single use coffee cups are used and thrown away around the globe • That single use coffee cup, that you have used for less than 15 minutes, will outlast your time on earth (most likely somewhere in a landfill or in an ecosystem) • A LOT OF CUPS end up in the environment, where they become a major pollution hazard • Like most takeaway packaging, the cups are NOT biodegradable and most of them can't be recycled ** even paper cups have a thin layer of plastic lining, which makes recycling difficult ** • How difficult? Well, only 1 per 400 cups gets recycled • Approximately 200 liters of water are used in the production of one disposable coffee cup • The production of one single use coffee cup sends about 0,11 kg of CO2 to the atmosphere • Since you've started reading this article 100.000 cups have gone to landfills! • Y’ALL! We can (and MUST) do better. WILL YOU JOIN ME!? PS. You don’t have to use a Byta (though my bestie invented them so I think they’re extra special) you can use anything you want. Just be intentional about taking your cup/bottle everywhere you go and making the world a better, cleaner place! 💙💧🌎 Source article #LinkInBio

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“I know it’s freezing. You just have to get in to your tits and pits. Then you’ll feel fine.” • Instructions from Deena’s momma on how to coax yourself into a frigid lake 🤣 #OutdoorTips #TitsAndPits #SorryNotSorryToTheFishermanWeFlashed #BodyPos #AGoodHang

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June 1st. #WearOrange 🧡 Even at a wedding, I’m proud to support the movement to end gun violence today. I’m a gun owner. I believe in regulation. There is a better way. Our kids deserve our fight. Join us. Text ORANGE to 644-33. We can do this @everytown 🧡 #Everytown #2A #SensibleReform #ProtectUsAll

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California. June 5th. Let’s do this thing. Let’s RISE. @riseupandvote ✊🏽

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My #wcw goes out to my angel sister @ruthielindsey. • We were walking along a mountainside in Colorado, holding hands, and Ruthie was being her literal-human-sunshine self and marveling at the beauty around us, so moved that she was nearly in tears. Up ahead, I saw a tree that had split in two near the trunk, and said “aw sister it’s us!” I called back to our pal Brady, “B will you take our picture in front of the twin tree?!” Ru got so excited that she THREW her backpack off, and I saw it sail through the air behind us. I watched it hit Brady SMACK in the nerdles, and he dropped to the ground so fast that I screamed. Ru swung around to see what had made me scream, and because she’s built like a tall slender statuesque giraffe, one of her long ballerina arms came flying and she punched me square in the mouth. We both fell to the ground. • She took out two of her bests in 2.2 seconds flat, and despite the blood all over my face from where my lip exploded, I could not stop laughing. It was the most comedic moment I’ve experienced in a very long time. I am so damn grateful for my framily. For the hi-jinx and the shenanigans. For the deep love. For the care. Poor sister cried when she saw my face. Once she knew I wasn’t lying, and I was actually okay, we rolled in the dirt in a giggle fit. And sweet Brady managed to capture the aftermath while he was doubled over in man-pain. We still got our cheesy photo, and I’ve got the bruise to prove it. • Ruthie, sissy, I love you so much it hurts. Literally sometimes 🤣😘♥️ PS. If you zoom in my busted lip, the bruise is actually heart shaped. What are the chances!? 😍 #LoveTap #Twinsies #BruisedBabes

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In tonight’s dreams I’ll still be on this mountain. Goodnight team ⛰🖤⛰

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I made a wish for you ✨

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The hills are alive, y’all. Never not in awe. #TheRealLifeSoundOfMusic #TelluWhere #ProtectYourMother 🌎

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Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing the documentary #NotoriousRBG on Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It felt fitting, as midnight bled into this morning, to be looking back on her history demanding that America live up to its Constitutional ideals as dawn rose on #MemorialDay. Many of us wandered through town and discussed what fighting for the moral arc of the universe really means. We marveled at all she’s done. She is a beacon. She is a powerhouse. She has made us better, for all people. On this Memorial Day I salute all the men and women in all walks of service. May each of us, citizens and patriots, walk the path to true justice that this woman has carved out for us. • “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg #RBG #RuthBaderGinsburg #Hero #Icon #Dissenter #HERSTORY

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Y’all, this my pal @ben_moon. He’s one of the most talented photographers and filmmakers I know. He cares about nature all the way in his soul, and he’s an animal lover. He made my favorite short film I’ve ever seen, called #Denali (slide 3). It helped me prepare to lose Patch. It’s helped so many people process the loss of pure love. It’s a film I cannot recommend enough times. I had the pleasure of hanging with Ben, and his sweet new rescue pooch @noribythesea, here at Mountainfilm. He did me the great honor of shooting me for his portrait series. To be photographed by a fellow empath is a profoundly vulnerable, honest experience. His is a lens you should peer through. Check out his work on his page, and look up Denali on Vimeo. Just make sure you have a box of tissues near by. #MountainFilm2018 #BenMoon #DenaliFilm

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What should’ve been an 8 hour travel day became a comedy of errors. Full on Planes Trains And Automobiles style. But 17 hours, three flights, a diversion to Louisiana, and a mini road trip later, I fell into the arms of my sisters at midnight. • @MoutainFilm, I will never, ever miss this. Thank you for being our place of respite, inspiration, recharging, cocooning, and loving. For being so hard to get to that there isn’t a person present who isn’t deeply intentional. And for basically being a denim commercial. This wasn’t planned, but no one was surprised. #Framily #MountainFilm2018 #TelluWhere

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I spent yesterday in the archival library at the New York Historical Society. Witnessing attacks on our Democracy — on the values that America is meant to stand for — can be an assault on one’s psyche. It wears me down to see such rampant corruption and cruelty in the highest offices in our land. So I walked the stacks. Went back in time. I touched papers published in 1790, with letters from George Washington inside. Thumbed through Frederick Douglass’ paper, The North Star, from 1848. Votes for Women song books from Suffragettes. I touched the fibers of our revolutions. • In 1790, Washington spoke of America as “the government of the United States, which gives bigotry no sanction.” He understood a larger truth than one he even acted on. He foretold what was meant to come, how we were meant to grow. Here’s to remembering that we were founded on perfect ideals, and that even when leaders have fallen short, committed citizens — the Douglasses of the nation, the women demanding parity — have held them to a higher standard. Liberty and Justice for ALL. Because it was Douglass who said it best. “Right is of no sex — Truth is of no color — And ALL we are brethren.” • It’s on us, y’all. Fight for the ideals that none of our current leaders seem to have read. Fight for this country to be the best version of itself. For all of us. Stand for goodness. For your neighbor. For your brethren. It requires that we do. @riseupandvote @reformlajails #NYHistoricalSociety

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Well this was a highlight. Being a host of #BeatBobbyFlay with the inimitable, funny, bold, charismatic, and oh so cool @carlaphall was so much fun. Do y’all know that Carla has incredible comedic timing, and can sing, and does voice overs, and is basically the coolest chick on earth!? I learned, I laughed, I ate! I chased down a PA with a plate so I could eat some more... • And then @bobbyflay was kind enough to host a friend and I at GATO. Y’all. Real talk. I was blown away. Not just by the kale and mushroom paella (which was beyond bomb) but by Bobby. Now, @chefsymon has always told me what a good dude Bobby is, and that we’ve all got to be pals. So last night, he came to sit with my best friend and I for a bit. We talked about his daughter and how he sees the world around and for her. About responsibility. About social movements. About what #MeToo means to him as a man, an ally, and a father. He shared his theories on what makes a true gentleman. It was rad, moving, and beautiful. So, my new friend, hats off to you. Thank you for being a man who is for women! For offering us all a seat at your table, both literally and figuratively. And for feeding us so generously too, because snacks are the love language of my entire friend group! #BeatBobbyFlay #GATO #ParityAndPolarity #TimesUp • Keep an eye out for my episode of Beat #BobbyFlay this Fall!

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Are you ready to meet #Voyd?! #Incredibles2 premieres June 15th AND I AM SO EXCITED!! ✋🏼🕳💥 @pixar @disney

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A lot of people asked me about my outfit today. The patent red pocket caught everyone’s eye. The jeans. So many questions I got to answer. And there began an important series of conversations. • “This is a capsule collection for @levis designed by @karlawelchstylist. She’s a powerhouse/momma/#reSISTER. And every single penny goes to @everytown.” Everyone said some version of “oh it’s awful, what keeps happening.” “Why can’t we get it together?” And thus we got to the heart of it. • With the last horrific and senseless loss of life in Texas, it is officially more dangerous to go to school in the USA than to serve on active duty in our military. No explanation — of anything — no excuse of any kind will make that FACT okay. It should be an unbearable pill to swallow. For all of us. It’s not video games or movies causing this. It’s access to weapons. And like so many countries before us, we have a responsibility to act. • I say these things as a gun owner. I was on the range with my buddies doing target practice with AR-15s three days before Parkland happened, y’all. Three days. I love shooting that gun. And I’m perfectly happy to only be able to do so in an enclosed and protected range. I’m happy to have more stringent laws placed upon my hobby. Because it’s a HOBBY. Your children are worth so much more than an activity to me. Than ANYTHING. I’m a gun owner. And I am begging my government to do something about this epidemic. • Now. Arguments. “A well regulated militia,” eh? Well how about we regulate guns as well as we regulate cars? Each of us who drives abides by those laws. No “infringement.” What about protection? Women? Well women are 5x more likely to die in a domestic situation if a gun is in the house than not. Fact. Friendly fire — accidental firearm discharge in the home — accounts for 1,300 child deaths (and an additional 6,000 injuries) per year. Fact. We make up 5% of the world’s population but have 42% of world’s privately owned firearms. More guns = more

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Be a woman who is for women. Sisterhood is irreplaceable, y’all. Having this one cheering from the audience while I spoke today? Watching her scream for, Jenni, the creator of her show? Yup. Talk about a woman who roars #Variety #SophSpeaks #EmpowermentBrunch

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#MondayMantra • I had the honor of speaking to a room full of incredibly powerful women at the @variety #EmpowermentBrunch today. Thank you to each and every lady, and supportive gent, who came out. Nothing makes me feel more alive than being in the presence of women who roar • #SophSpeaks #Variety

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HBD 👑 @cher #Legend

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• church • @lacma #Rothko #MarkRothko

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Saturday Night Serra 🖤 @richard.serra @lacma

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This is America 💔 Our kids deserve better. We must do better @momsdemand (via @lenawaithe) #IAmAGunOwner #AndIBelieveInRegulation #WeAllShould

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Epic #fbf courtesy of my sister @brittdeyan. Who knew our beloved trucks had a holiday?! #Repost • #WorldLandRoverDay is my favorite holiday that I didn’t know existed. . Happy 70 years of the Defender, and 13 years with my own little gas guzzling wind tunnel box car. . The community surrounding this silly thing is one that waves and smiles at each other, leaves notes on windshields, and has endless sweet adventure stories. I just love it. . Also, #worldlandroverday was 2 weeks ago. It’s hard to keep up. • #LandRoverDefender #Defender #Defender90 cc @alloyandgrit @coryt

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We’ve marched, called, petitioned, protested. Now it's time to #RiseUpAndVote. • Vote June 5 in California — THAT’S JUNE 5TH MY PEOPLE!! — to make sure we get Progressives on the November ballot and take back Congress. FOLLOW @RiseUpAndVote • We’ve got to vote in ALL of our elections. It’s our most important civic duty #RiseUpAndVote #PeopleOverCorporations #GovernmentForAll #NotJustSome #CaliforniaStrong

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#wcw 👯‍♀️ #monicaraymund

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Mother Nature is my ultimate woman crush, today and everyday. Since y’all loved my last @theoutrageonline shirt so much, I made another! We should all be with HER 🌎🌱💙 Proceeds benefit @350org #wcw #ScienceIsntPartisan #ThePlanetIsntEither #ImWithHer #MotherEarth LINK IN BIO

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A few days ago I posted an instastory about skin. It was just a simple no makeup photo, on a vey red day for me. A little lovenote to my fellow babes who get called “Rudolph,” or “Cherry.” Who are dealing with rosacea. I didn’t even know that’s why I’d get red for years. Mine’s mild, but it’s always been something I’ve been conscious of because of job. And I was blown away by the responses. Some of your posts moved me to tears. So yesterday, when I went to see @simonourianmd1 for a treatment (thank you so much for connecting us @shanidarden!!) I asked if we could film my treatment, so I could share it with y’all. Then I chickened out!! I got super nervous. It’s so weird and vulnerable to open up about what makes you self conscious. But I don’t think that Instagram serving as a highlight reel and nothing else is helpful. So, my babes! Here’s a little demystification for ya. This is called a blue light. It’s a great treatment for redness. It doesn’t really hurt. This is my first try with this, and I’ll keep y’all posted on how it goes. Thank you for your notes, your encouragement, and your vulnerability. Here’s some from me, to you 💓 #LadyLoves #TickleTorture #IAmExtraRedToday

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This. Do not rush yourself. Do not minimize your life. No matter what they, or your inner critic, say to you ✨ #MondayMantra @iamhertribe

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For me, it’s impossible to reflect on relationships with mothers without reflecting on complexity. So much is tied to our mothers. And there are so many versions of what those ties can mean. While I want to love on my mother today, I want to acknowledge all those other versions of mamas out there. • So... To anyone who this day is hard for... To those struggling to become mothers, those mothers who have lost children, those who’ve lost mothers, I see you. To those with strained relationships with their mothers, or those with strained relationships with their children, I see you. • To my sisters who have chosen not to be mothers, those who are adoptive mothers, and my sisters who are strapped with crippling financial burdens because of how much they want to be mothers, I see you. To my sisters who have miscarried, and thus have future hopes tied to past painful losses, I see you. To the women I know who are pregnant and overjoyed, hoping that the next round of in utero tests come up clear like the last ones, to the mamas of babies with disabilities, to the mamas with sick children, and the children with sick mamas, I see you. • To the single mothers out there who manage to be all things, at all moments, and have more courage than most of us have in our pinkies, I see you. And to the women out there who have raised babies that are not their own, who have loved them like blood and sacrificed for them like family, I see you. • Mothering of any kind, nurturing, care-giving, LOVING. These are hard things. Beautiful things. Often thankless things. You turn love into an action verb. You are alchemists. You are loved. The world is lucky to have you. ✨ #AllKindsOfMothers

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The day I was born, 12 hours before I showed up. What a legend ✨ photo by my Papa. #MothersDay

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My Mother. I am from you and of you. Sometimes I’m struck by the depth of it. How my skin comes from your skin. How my eyes are the shape of yours and the color of Daddy’s. How my ferocity comes from you. My stubbornness. My wild sensitivity. I can feel the energy of a room, because I learned by watching you. You managed to encourage my vulnerability and also teach me toughness. You showed me how to throw a punch. You held me through my heartbreaks. You encouraged my curiosity, in all things and all people. You have taught me what lasting love looks like. How to fight and how to forgive. You taught me to study hard, work hard, pay my own way always, and be grateful for all things. To never settle. To reach for my dreams. Thank you for being my mother. I hope that someday I’m half as good at this supreme job as you have been. I love you deep in my heart and deep in my soul. #HappyMothersDay

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I love a good button. I love this country. And I really love candidates who work for their people. Here we go @betoorourke! #BetoForTexas #FromCongressToSenate #ButtonedForBeto #BetoBelieve 🇺🇸♥️

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Last night I had the great honor of co-hosting @betoorourke in my home away from home town, Chicago. Learning about how he serves his home state of Texas, his commitment to its people, its diversity, its safety, and its communities, I was floored. Hearing about his wonderful family, and how much they’re behind him as he runs for Senate, I was beyond touched. Civic leadership matters so much. And people who are answering their calling to lead with respect and dignity are invaluable! Mr. O’Rourke, I so hope that my family in Texas gets to call you “Senator” real soon. And I can’t wait to follow along. Thanks for the visit, the passion, and the encouragement. You’re a bright light! #BetoBelieve #BetoForTexas #MyOtherHomeAwayFromHome BetoForTexas.com

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#HumpDayMood Frances McDormand Forever • Directed by @bardiazeinali DP @kellyjeffrey Movement @mettenarrative Steadicam @yoshisteadiop Production @prodn_artandcommerce Edit & Post Production @modern.post Music @basement_jaxx #Mood #FrancesMcDormand #MetGala2018

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On this #GratiTuesday, which happens to be #TeacherAppreciationDay, I want to send my utmost appreciation to Christopher Smith, PhD. Professor Smith, you encouraged my critical thinking and gave me confidence in my writing. And thus you changed the course of my life. I adore you! #TeachersMatter #USC @USCAnnenberg • I had the good fortune of running into Professor Smith at a restaurant a while back, and we were SO excited to see each other. As he told me how he’s followed my career and been so proud of me, I legitimately got misty-eyed. I was so overwhelmed with excitement and gratitude. To have someone who taught you, who helped you shape yourself, tell you that they’re still actively rooting for you? The impact of a teacher cannot ever be overstated. • A little bit about one of my very best teachers: Christopher H. Smith is a Clinical Professor in the School of Communication at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where he teaches poststructuralist theory, cultural studies methods, and media industry studies. His research uses the tools of critical theory and cultural studies to describe and analyze the relationship between economic forces and social formations. • Smith also jointly runs the Media, Economics, and Entrepreneurship program. The goal of M{2e} is to provide insight and conduct actionable discussion about evolving business models for communication and journalism. As co-director of the program, Smith has successfully led a department-wide effort to make economic literacy and entrepreneurial acumen a cornerstone of the USC Annenberg experience. During the course of his work with M{2e}, Smith also founded the Women's Leadership Society, the first professional development organization of its kind at the school. (full bio online @USCAnnenberg.)

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‘Twas a Saturday Night Fever 🕺🏼 #USOW2018 #PantsuitNation @usowomen @maxmara

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These WOMEN. My sheroes. Still pinching myself. It is a tremendously powerful experience to be surrounded by so many people doing the work. To be recharged by your community. To be reignited 🔥 We are in this, for the long haul, together. #USOW2018 @usowomen @taranajaneen @alysonstoner @mspackyetti @aijenp @amandaseales @osopepatrisse @liftcommunities @npwf @parentvoices @urbaninstitute

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I had the supreme honor of introducing these four women to the stage this morning at the @usowomen. I am in awe of them, and tremendously grateful for their strength and bravery. • “On January 19, 2017, 18 women filed a federal lawsuit against Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics, and Michigan State University. It told how Larry Nassar abused hundreds of young women and girls under the guise of medical treatments. It showed that when courageous young women reported the abuse, no one at those institutions tried to stop him. That lawsuit was the tipping point in a decades-long battle by survivors of sexual assault to be heard, and to be believed. The four women you’re about to hear from are part of that landmark suit. It is an honor to bear witness to their experience. We must ensure that when women speak up the first time, we listen and we act. Please join me in welcoming Aly Raisman, Tiffany Lopez, Jeanette Antolin, and Jordyn Wieber." #sheroes #USOW2018 #StateOfWomen

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Girls just wanna have ... opportunities to speak about gender parity across industries and the importance of listening to one another. Fun. And powdered sugar-covered pastries. Obviously. Tell me when I’ve ever looked happier than carrying three bags of beignets hahaaaa! 🍭 #SophSpeaks #NOLA

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Beignet Buddies are the best buddies 🤓 After we speak, we snack. #SnackAttack #AboutLastNight #BeignetBuddies #ConferenceCrew @collisionconfhq

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It was another stellar year @collisionconfhq. The discussions were informative, timely, and full of action plans and inspiration. And we owe it all to this guy. @paddycosgrave, thank you for all you do! Thank you for working to give so many women a seat at the table. Thank you for being a great ally! Until next year. #NOLA #CollisionConf #Collision2018 #TimesUp

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Give me blazers. Always. #CollisionConf #SophSpeaks #BlazerBoss Thank you @collisionconfhq @sandroparis

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I had the honor of speaking at Collision Conference today with Susan Herman of the @aclu_nationwide and Nancy Armstrong of @makerswomen. My #sheroes. And we dropped some TRUTH. Thank you to the men and women who joined us, lent support, and to the allies all uniting to say #TimesUp ・・・ #Repost @collisionconfhq ・・・ “If you think you can’t work with or hire women because you fear being accused of sexual harassment, then you are part of the problem. People who don’t harass women are not afraid to work with them. Look in the mirror. Deal with your shit.” - @sophiabush speaking with Susan Herman about sexual discrimination in the workplace at #CollisionConf

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My girl! The Fearless Girl, by @kristenvisbal and the girl who is constantly learning — and relearning — to leap despite fear. After all, Mark Twain said it best, “Courage is not the absence of fear; it is acting in spite of it.” #TheFearlessGirl #MIGlobal #KristenVisbal #MyAutoCorrectChangedInSpiteToINSPIRE #ThatMakesMeEmotional #EmotionIsCourageous #EmpathyIsASuperpower

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Power panel. Blazer brigade. Whatever you want to call us, we had a damn fine time today! Honored to have spoken at the #MilkenConference alongside @damonlindelof @callmegubbins @georgehtakei and @juliaboorstin. (@theoriginalbigdaddy you were missed! Feel better!) #SophSpeaks #MIGlobal #ArtPoliticsAndPopCulture