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Brittany Packnett Instagram - what’s understood doesn’t need to be explained. 🤷🏾‍♀️

honestly all of them should find themselves anywhere else that day….a King Commemoration… a Day of Service…a hot dog eating contest…changing tractor belts at Four Seasons Total Landscaping…

I don’t believe in treating fascism like it’s normal or acceptable.

But I digress. Carry on, Auntie Shelly. Carry on.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - incomplete thoughts and instantaneous reactions.

something more coherent tomorrow 🫶🏾

#Debate2024

Brittany Packnett Instagram - pro-segregation 👉🏾 anti-abortion 👉🏾 pod bros & trad wives 👉🏾 #KatieBritt 👉🏾 #Trump the King 👉🏾 ✋🏻 supremacy as the New (old) World Order.

Stay til the end cause there’s stuff we almost didn’t catch.

class is in session.
it was never just a trend.

(If this 7 mins is too long then just put it on like a podcast the same way you did for Reesa Teesa 😂😂😂)

#tradwives #podcastbros #election #EXPLORE #ClassDismissed #SOTU

Brittany Packnett Instagram - to my unborn son, on my 40th birthday,

you are the most beautiful surprise I did not know to ask for. in the shadow of the failures of a nation, you grow as a testament to impossibility and abundance. before you came, i did not know to dream of you. Now that you are on your way, my love for you is boundless.

you are proof of miracles, signs and wonders. proof that songs of joy are always worth singing. proof that God’s promises are yea and amen even and especially when they least look like it.

i vow to protect you and your most precious brother with my life, not simply by my sacrifice, but by the way i live. in my now 40 years on this earth, i am clearer than ever that no matter what they say, i am free. you and your brother will bear witness to a free Black woman so that you will know you, too, are free. you will bear witness to a woman who is proud to be a mother-and everything else i was born to be. you will bear witness to the unbent backs of every mother in me and before me, to the victorious lineage that runs through you, to the unbowed heads of Black people who give your lives pride and your names meaning.

you will know a woman who embraces evolution with courage and the unexpected with great faith. you will know a friend who finally knows her sensitivity is not a flaw, but a blessing of compassion that fuels her imperfect but very big heart. you will know a mommy who knows my power and my joy don’t come from the world—and that makes it unbreakable.

what a gift you are, butterfly.
happy birthday to me.

on this, the dawn of a new decade, with more love than there are words,
mommy.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - SCOTUS GOT US ALL THE WAY F’D UP. if UNDISTRACTED were back, that would be the name of this episode.

so before the pod’s Season 3 drops this September (🙏🏾🙏🏾), here’s what the episode woulda been.

our options aren’t the ones I want, either. I’ve been publicly and *directly* critical to risk I’d take any day. and—not but— I’m not voting for a person or a party: I’m voting for US—and our ability to fight another day. This ain’t “vote Blue no matter who” or “vote harder.” This is a chess move among many others.

Trump doesn’t want to be president—he wants to be dictator. And dictators don’t respond to movements—they CRUSH them. he said he plans to do the same (receipts enclosed). There won’t be a next election. So while we *have* some semblance of Democracy, I’m gonna do my best to use it.l every way I got—long before and after Election Day, in the streets and with every tool I have.

It’s time to strategically set the conditions for our struggle-because the struggle will indeed continue. Today, tomorrow, and long after Election Day.

#Explore #SCOTUS #J6

Brittany Packnett Instagram - MUST WATCH:

“WHEN IS IT ENOUGH?!” - @corybooker. Being a patriot. Because this is not normal.

None of this is normal. Thank you, Senator, for disrupting the ABnormal business of the Senate!!!

Brittany Packnett Instagram - “The filibuster is performative” is OUT.
Taking action is IN.

Don’t trust folks who tell you everything we can’t do when there’s always a chance to get active. Let’s squash this convo and get to work, family 🙏🏾.

#CoryBooker #Filibuster #Senate #explore

Brittany Packnett Instagram - tax dollars being spent WISELY. Finally 😭😂🥰

by lil_mac_fam on TikTok 🥹

#Situationsssssssssss #Usher #UrsherBaby

Brittany Packnett Instagram - you may be thinking that one day can’t make a difference. “but it could be one day or day one.” @adriennemareebrown.

many of us are part of generations that lived after civil rights, Roe & more protections were already in place. Our elders tried to spare us from having to know that kind of life—or the many sacrifices one must make to secure our freedoms.

but Coretta Scott King reminds us that “freedom must be won with every generation.”

So if you’ve never boycotted, protested, or engaged in direct action before, let tomorrow be a first step and a day one.

consider it exercise—to build the muscle for the season to come.

If you never had the muscle, now’s the time to get in the gym.

art by @martharich63!!

#boycott

(NOTE: I want to add that I don’t have any information on where donations to “The People’s Union” go which is why I *have and will not* share them as a resource or encourage you to donate anywhere today. Y’all know I’m big on knowing what’s what before I share!

I’m following the lead of a number of Black pastors and churches I trust, like @otismossiii in participating today. Any dollars I spend will go to Black small businesses ✊🏾)

Brittany Packnett Instagram - I listened to COWBOY CARTER at midnight. This morning when I rose, I thanked God for making me a Black girl.

This album made me feel the way I felt the first time I read Nikki Giovanni’s ‘Ego Trippin.’

The way I felt when I met Della Reese, who hugged a young me and said, “just a pretty chocolate thing, aren’t you?”

The way I felt when I’d watch Diahann Carroll galavant and Tina Turner be…Tina Turner.

The way I felt that day I flipped the page and met my great-great-great-great grandmother Joanna, who kept our family together through enslavement. Who raised two brave sons who, in their capture and death, gifted Civil War pensions that secured our lineage.

All of it convicts me to stand ten toes down in the inheritance of Black womanhood. Of the ways we reject fear, break boundaries, carry the lineage and redefine power.

Ours is an inheritance that redefines power to set everyone free—but compels us to free ourselves first. To see ourselves as full and complete. To accept and affirm first everything beautiful we bring. To give our progeny the permission our ancestors gave us: to LIVE, and live freely.

This album is stunning. Beautiful and adventurous. Deceptively simple but truly layered.

@Beyonce understands: Black women’s thriving rests in a simultaneous knowing that we must love us radically and always be “part of something way bigger.”

For me, that’s the true beauty of this album. Yes— it disrupts racist establishments and makes white folks itch but this ain’t about them—it’s about US. Reverence for US. For Linda, Rhiannon, Tanner, Brittney & Willie. For me & you.

I didn’t grow up spending that much time thinking about white people because I was “lifted so I could be raised” with deep esteem for Black. The people. The land. The gifts.

Some revolutions are waged because the opposition is hated. Some revolutions are waged because the people are loved.

I want to be a part of the latter. Those revolutions don’t simply destroy—they build.

This is not to say Beyoncé is a revolutionary.
This is always to say that Black women are a revolution.

Our inheritance is to accept the task. What a gift.
[lemme go write this last part in my book 😉😏🤠]

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Iono what yall really want from a DEI but I DO know that I aint earn nothing the way *y’all* earned it. And its gotta make you mad, Elon. Its got to. 🤭🤭

had to slide this in before the yee haw agenda begins at midnight 🤠🙃

#DEI #DidntEarnIt #ElonMusk #YouTriedIt

Brittany Packnett Instagram - the name of this chapter must be “anyhow.”

Lil man arrived over two weeks ago, completing our family and already bringing a lesson.

They can threaten us on every hand, but we will create new life anyhow.

Circumstances can look impossible, but we will be victorious anyhow.

Prevailing wisdom may say it can’t be done, but we do it anyhow.

the world is demanding that you shout, but we chose peace and silence anyhow.

The enemy is coming for folks like you, but you’ll be blessed anyhow.

Things may look grim, but new suns are coming anyhow.

Life may make no sense, but we say Hallelujah anyhow.

This pregnancy, in this time, in this country, from this Black body, for this Black boy to be born is daring me daily to look in the eyes of widespread despair and declare joy, peace, protection, safety, provision and love *anyhow.*

because, lil man, you and your brother MVP deserve that. My children deserve that. all our children deserve that.

despite the world you have been born into, you have brought your family the light of hope and possibilities. The gleam of God’s unfailing character and unyielding love is in your eyes.

you are a force already. thank you for letting us help you carry your purpose into the world.

welcome Lil man. the world is yours 🫶🏾

Brittany Packnett Instagram - seen:

1. can confirm.

2. quite the endorsement 🎅🏼

3. I smell a collab @kamalaharris.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Record broken.
24 hours and counting.

with inspiration, let us act.
unrelentingly. thank you @corybooker.

#CoryBooker

Brittany Packnett Instagram - my mama always taught me to believe who people say they are. Black women are going to tire of repeating ourselves—meanwhile, they don’t care about *any* of us.

Clock it.

#harvard #claudinegay #BlackWomen #WeBeenToldYall

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Katie Britt is going to be parodied on #SNL and that’ll only make her audience love her more. She bugged *me* cause she was lying thru her teeth and sounded like Chelsea crying to Jimmy but I’m not her intended audience.

The “traditional wives” they want to organize are a direct response to DeSantis’ fails and the pro-abortion women’s wave.

The GOP messaging strategy has shifted and it’s scary. And I hope we’re paying attention. Don’t be fooled. #SOTU #SOTUResponse

Brittany Packnett Instagram - This sadly reminds me of the piece I wrote about Jordan Neely for @thecut called “The Cost of White Discomfort.”

Nearly a year ago on those pages, I said, “White supremacy gleefully uses violence as both a cudgel and a cautionary tale. Its true patriots get their hands dirty, meting out violence with the blessing of those with more sensitive stomachs.“

In America, the police are used both as a tool of the government and of the privileged. For the latter, police are the line of defense between “us” and “them,” who perform the dirty work of white supremacy culture while they rack up numbers of “acceptable losses.” Who the individual officer is doesn’t matter, nor does their background, gender, race or zip code. They are very simply performing their duty.

And today, on the 4th anniversary of the murder of #BreonnaTaylor, I am clear that Ryan deserved to live. That is the only justice.

Repost from @thereclaimed
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Ryan Gainer should be here.
Neurodivergence shouldn’t be a death sentence.
Autism shouldn’t be a death sentence.

More must be done. So much more.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Prepare to be SICK of me…j/k 😜 Huge shoutout to @mspackyetti for getting @tiffanydcross and your girl all the way together!

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Solidarity 👉🏾 a just peace.

Solidarity with the student activists of Columbia, Wash U, and the many campuses around the country reminding everyone what it means to be creatively subversive enough to change the game for justice—and to do it together.

I am angry—but this was a beautiful reminder to me, and maybe you, that love fuels our movements for justice. Hate is what we are fighting.

Bless you, Gen Z. You are teaching and leading and we will follow.

Ceasefire now. Free Gaza.

EDIT: the pinned comments show dialogue, not comments I endorse. But I think many of the exchanges are fruitful and instructive. But hateful comments are deleted and their posters blocked. I’ll shut all the comments down if needed. These students’ message is too important. It should show us that demonizing Jewish people and faith IS NOT the way forward-and that dehumanizing Palestinians will NOT create a just peace. Solidarity is the tool. Freedom is the goal. Y’all be easy.

Repost from @joyannreid
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There is a real and aggressive attempt out there to bully peace protesters into silence and into changing their minds about how they feel about what they’re seeing in #gaza. Instead, it’s just making them stronger, even as university presidents cower and capitulate to craven politicians like Elise Stefanik, right wing donors who want to drag elite US colleges to the pre-1960s right, and the military industrial complex then benefits from constant war. And even as extremist infiltrators try to drag down the peace movement using clearly provocative hate speech that’s designed to distract and divide. It’s time to be brave enough to #breakthenarrative. There is nothing shameful or hateful about calling for peace and justice. God bless this brave generation ❤️🕊️
Repost from @cnn
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On the sixth day of Columbia University’s protest encampment, and the evening of Passover, CNN met Jewish students celebrating Seder while supporting the pro-Palestinian movement.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - To say that the conversations of men I know and once venerated disappointed me when Cassie first revealed her years of torture would be an understatement.

The equivocating from intelligent, well-read, seemingly “allied” Black men was honestly breathtaking. It literally took my breath away to find spaces and people I once saw as safe as clearly not.

Even conversations now are staggering, as people discuss the fate of Diddy’s career or how bad his cover up strategies must have been before they ever mention being disgusted by the terror they saw in full color, or what their role has to be in creating a world among men where this doesn’t happen.

Patriarchy is insidious like that. Because you can easily never be the man who’d raise a hand to a woman—but you can often be the man who’d help him weasel out of accountability, or contribute to cultures that allow this to happen for years, intentionally and unintentionally. Those cultures live in the world, yes—but also in your friend groups. Your professional spaces. Your group chats & your frats. Your churches and your block. Your homes. Your. homes. You cultivate them there just as much as anywhere else.

Have you stopped to ask yourself how YOU help create something DIFFERENT?

Start by knowing this:
We don’t need allies. We need traitors.
Traitors to the patriarchy that raised you, upholds you, and is killing you while it kills us.

Bless every survivor who saw herself in that video—or can’t and doesn’t ever need to bring herself to watch it, because she knows the face she will see is hers.

Bless every woman who has known the emotional, psychological, financial, spiritual, and/or physical abuse, control and narcissism that hides in too many corners and is too little believed. Having experienced one, some, of all of these is never your fault, always too much, and never ever ok.

You are still here. We are still here. And we deserve every ounce of love and protection this green earth has to give. Times 100.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - a very old tweet. a very present reminder.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - “And if the [Mississippi] Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America.”

It has been 60 years since Fannie Lou Hamer and the MFDP were denied access to being seated as delegates at the DNC.

it dishonors her legacy to deny a Palestinian American a place on the stage. there is one day left, and I pray the hearts of the decision makers we can’t see are convicted to do what’s right.

The Polins, the Israeli-American family who tearfully compelled us all for a ceasefire as they spoke about their son Hersh being held hostage, said this:

“In our Jewish tradition, we say kol adam olam, every person is an entire universe. We must save all these universes. In an inflamed Middle East, we know the one thing that can most immediately release pressure and bring hope to the entire region, a deal that brings this diverse group of 109 hostages home and ends the suffering of the innocent civilians in Gaza.”

May the DNC hear their appeal, and see all the universes in us, allowing a Palestinian to speak from tonight’s stage.

it is the very least. The very least.

Edit: because I see some misunderstandings/info in the comments, I want to make sure we’re all working from the same set of facts: The Uncommitted movement does not want Trump to win—which is why they’ve been engaging with democrats and have specifically shared that VP Harris has been far more engaged and open. They did not specifically aim for Thursday-they’ve been trying for a min in good faith thru Democratic Palestinian lawmakers, hoping to give their base motivations to vote Harris based on democratic commitments. I, for one, value Palestinian lives and Black lives and want as many people as possible to feel like they can confidently vote for our VP. Uncommitted has not been publicly harassing Black people and chastising any of our support of Harris—and while I won’t demonize various people who have different strategies nor will I demonize Black folks who have been understandably frustrated by the actions of some, I want us to have the same facts. Because I’m not letting this psyop win.

I need Kamala Harris to win.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Look at these Black girl champions teaching us how to be excellent *and* share power for a just world.

Class is in session! 🏅✊🏾

Thank you @jordanchiles, @rebecarandrade & @simonebiles for being champions of our hearts and the futures we deserve 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾. We love you real big!!!

#Olympics #SimoneBiles #RebecaAndrade #JordanChiles #BlackHistory #Power #Community

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Christ,

Born in a lowly manger. A little Jewish boy. Born a refugee. To a mother of faith and a father of commitment. In a city called Bethlehem. That sits in what we now know as the West Bank of Palestine…

Please forgive us.

Please forgive us for not loving our neighbors across the globe as you commanded. For ignoring the crises in Sudan and Ethiopia, the cleansings in Congo and your beloved birthplace in the land known as Palestine.

Please forgive us for confusing and confounding faith with state violence, hate, antisemitism and Islamophobia. Forgive us for hurting, abusing, and maiming people and claiming it is in God’s name. Forgive us for spreading falsehoods and doctrines that don’t serve peace.

Forgive us, Lord. Forgive us for the sins of white supremacy and poverty, militarism and colonialism, abuse and oppression worldwide and right here at home.

And in your forgiveness, please correct us. Urgently. Fully. We desperately need a course correction on love—that can not be born of violence-and peace-that can not be born of oppression.

You gave us this day, to celebrate your birth, but we have not honored You. I know it’s a lot to ask on your birthday, but there is no Christmas in Bethlehem today.

It is being bombed.

I love you. Amen.

#CeasefireNOW

Brittany Packnett Instagram - I put this in my stories but I wanted this on the record. #actii

Brittany Packnett Instagram - I don’t have a caption cause I’m SICK of this.

She called for protection.
But she needed protection from the police.

#NianiFinlayson

Brittany Packnett Instagram - A dispatch to humanity. I pray we answer with loving and persistent action. Yes, even and especially now.

Repost from @wizard_bisan1
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Hi everyone, it’s Bisan from Gaza, I am still alive Alhamdullah.. it’s been 107 days of genocide, 15 weeks, 2568 hours of killing us, taking over our homes and lands in Gaza Strip, and forcing us to choose between leaving or death.. and sometimes we can’t even choose.. the Israeli air strikes simply kill us without any warnings.

Now, we are without any connection, neither the internet nor the cellular, we can’t reach each other’s inside Gaza, we don’t know if our families and friends are alive or not, wounded or not.. still in their places or not! We take hours of walking and searching to reach someone, while moving became very risky! We can’t reach to you as well! The footage, information and news from Gaza are not reaching you as before because the Israeli army intentionally destroyers the signal towers and the servers, even using the E-SIM requires being in a high place which is very risky!. I borrowed this vest to upload this post!

I am not scared of death, but of being displaced, scared of losing my family or friends, scared of being wounded and can’t have my treatment because the health system is collapsed in Gaza, and to die in pain! I am not scared of the destruction.. I lost my work place.. my home and my family work place and source of income, I am terrified of being killed by an occupier, and to be forgotten, one oppressed Bisan of a whole occupied people.

The strongest governments and weapons manufacturers are supporting this genocide against my people, and you are our only hope! STRIKE globally and call for a ceasefire! Strike, protest, stop the economic movements and make pressure on your countries to stand against this and stop it, if ISRAhell don’t find the financial and weapons support, or governments to hide their crimes they will be forced to stop the genocide!

Go to the streets, protest and Globally strike for a week, (21-28) January! YALLA Brave and free people of the world, CEASEFIRE NOW!

Brittany Packnett Instagram - good morning, Black girls. good morning Black queer fam. good morning @niecynash1, who brought a word on a stage and the benediction after.

Thank YOURSELF.
Because you are the only one who knew what it cost. 🫶🏾

#emmys

Brittany Packnett Instagram - TRIGGER WARNING. @washu, this can’t be what “Strength Through Truth” means.

I don’t have the words to express how shattered my heart is that a university that just celebrated my own activism, which began in its modern form as resistance to police violence, and celebrated my endurance through precisely this kind of violent response to protest, answered current students, faculty and community the same way these same police departments answered us in Ferguson and across STL.

I am shattered that the home of the Black Manifesto, where Brookings Hall sit-ins and campus encampments as recent as *5 years ago* against Racism, war, labor abuse and more were not only largely uninterrupted and allowed, but resulted in change across the university. This includes anti-ROTC and anti-Vietnam protestors, who occupied Brookings Hall in the 1968 after attempting to raid the rifle reserves on campus and more. They weren’t swept or raided from their encampment.

And after the disruptive and dangerous racism from white fraternity members in Bear’s Den just last month that did not receive this kind of response, this can not be the place I once dreamed of sending my own son.

Is this who you are? Because for many alumni, it stands in clear opposition to who we thought you to be.

Insurrectionists and tiki torch bearers disgustingly screaming “J*ws will not r*place us” being treated better than people who know that killing over 30,000 civilians is an abomination should haunt us all.

I’m not saying anything I haven’t said directly to you on multiple occasions and in email this morning. Grant amnesty for these non-violent protestors, protect first amendment protest and marginalized students, and cut partnerships with war profiteers. #WashU

Brittany Packnett Instagram - so much for a day of love.

my heart is with my home state. and so is my anger.

it’s the guns. in this “uniquely American hell.” - @shannonrwatts

#KansasCity #SuperBowl #Explore

Brittany Packnett Instagram - this I believe, #election edition.

late post but relevant: many things are true this election. and plenty of people are telling you what to do, say and believe. I promise to do my best to use I statements and be transparent when I use them.

this is what I had the day I posted it, and what I still got today.

98 days. Let’s go.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Imma wish y’all a happy King Day if you actually make it one.

#MLK

Brittany Packnett Instagram - @speakermccarthy I hope you know we can see you. AND @repmattgaetz of FL. AND @mattformontana OF MT. AND @reptimburchett of TN. AND @realannapaulina of FL. AND @rep.elicrane of AZ. AND @repandyogles of TN. AND @andybiggsaz of AZ. AND @repdanbishop of NC. AND @repwph of TX. AND @repcorymills of FL.

And more than that: the God in whom you claim to believe can see you, too.

So can the women and children on WIC, families w section 8, farmers, the people of the military, air traffic controllers and the federal workers who have to lose their paychecks while you keep yours.

And we won’t forget come election time.

(One correction: while inflation is higher now than 7 years of the last 10, it’s not the highest in the last decade. Added the source and tagged who shared it on the original thread on Twitter!)

Brittany Packnett Instagram - “Founding Father” Fan Fiction, Book One:
All Men Are Created Equal (Trust us, we really mean it!)

Alt: Nikka, please

[had to repost bc IG keeps forcing my videos into :90 reels even tho I click post!!! 😭😭😭]

#NikkiHaley #Racism #America #Explore
#SheThoughtSheAte

Brittany Packnett Instagram - we in our test case era. white supremacy is throwing some very vile spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks—so they can apply it liberally.

Sign the petition at JUSTICEFORMARILYNMOSBY.COM TODAY to make sure the latest one doesn’t stick!

#BlackWomen #MarilynMosby #Trump #DEI

Brittany Packnett Instagram - not the activist/organizer/strategist/author/opera singer Coretta. Nah. Y’all made her Louie from Snowfall.

And RIGHT before #MLKDay, too.

THE SHEER DISRESPECKT!

#corettascottking #jonathanmajors #WhyHeSoObsessedWithYou? #Apology #Embarassed #AsHell #explorepage

[REPOSTED. IG cut me off!]

Brittany Packnett Instagram - if today is about love, then let it be so.

“Power without love is reckless and abusive…”

because the continued slaughter of nearly 30,000 Palestinians and counting, the bombing of Rafah, a promised safe zone, and the refusal of dozens of hostage deals by Netanyahu—even ones written by his team—is reckless power, devoid of all love.

“…and love without power is sentimental and anemic.”

And yet, in this moment it is not enough to love. Not if the love isn’t powerful. Not if the love isn’t radical. Not if the love is meant more to make you feel better than to stop atrocities.

“…Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” -mlk.

So we have to be it. Be love. It’s most powerful version.

Powerful enough to shout and stand for people whose name we may never know and who we’ve been taught to vilify. Loving enough to raise our voices and refusing to stop just because some folks have moved on. Enough of both to be inspired by the fight and community and love Gazans have maintained for one another despite what is being done to them.

I can’t think about love today without thinking first of the places it has been replaced by bombs.

#CeasefireNow is the least we can do.

Repost @adriennemareebrown:

don’t look away. that feeling in you is the brakes of the collective system in the face of irrevocable harm.

#freedomsonglab

Brittany Packnett Instagram - i am struck both by the ceasefire agreement finally coming on what would have been Dr. King’s birthday—and by how prescient a reminder his words are. thank you @berniceaking for lending them to us today.

the mourning is not over. it is just beginning. the fight for lasting peace and freedom for the oppressed and occupied is not over. it is just beginning.

and yet, may this critical milestone be a lasting one.

i’m short on words today. all I know: may there be no more stolen souls. no more stolen souls.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - Watching you create life has been one of my life’s greatest privileges. I adore you. And I thank God for you.

#fujix100v #x100v #beyonce

Brittany Packnett Instagram - so listen… I’m truly not interested in arguing with folks about this. I *am* interested in conversations about Black American identity.

For *me,* I saw reclamation immediately.

I saw Langton Hughes’ “I, Too, Sing America.” Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial. Memorial Day actually being founded in part by freed Black people.
I saw my ancestors, James and Ebenezer, joining the US Colored Troops in the civil war, fighting and dying not just for their freedom but to free the soul of a nation* from the tyranny of oppression—a fight we continue to this day. And I think often about if I’ve allowed white supremacy to diminish what that flag may or may not have meant to them.

A Black American’s relationship with the USA is individual and complicated—and I ask, to whom does the shame belong?

I think, in her very unusual turn of giving us paragraphs for a caption where she normally gives us air (lol), this is what she was expressing regarding *her* intentions. That’s what I read, anyway.

AND. (Not but!)

I know that it was actually triggering for others, and that is more than justified.

Especially in the context of what this government has done & is doing across the world in our names. Palestine is but one example. The current unrest in multiple Black countries can absolutely be traced back to American (and euro) colonialism and industry, to say nothing of Indigenous sovereignty right here on Turtle Island.

I read this as a Black church girl from heartland America. And a Black girl who grew up right next to me might have seen something totally different.

Which leads me to my hope, as stated in the threads shared above. Black American identity is COMPLEX and filled with enough to reflect on for a lifetime.

But it is rare, at least in my view, to see Black Americans get the space to grapple with this in ways that aren’t either judged harshly or co-opted by xenophobes with Tr*mp ties.

And if you, like me, are a Black American, descended of enslaved Africans, watching this conversation and wondering where you land: it’s ok to take this as an invitation to feel and journey without judgment.

We deserve that.

Love y’all, fam.

Brittany Packnett Instagram - I think I love @beyonce so much because we grew up together.

In the proverbial way, of course—but also in the way that Black girls who experience metamorphosis parallel to one another know each other’s story without knowing each other.

I’m who Church Girl was written for. If you skip that song, it’s cause you ain’t in this life! I’m a double PK. I wasn’t older than 10 when the spotlight already felt hot in my world-which felt massive to a child learning who she is under the scrutiny of the saints.

I grew up a Church Girl thinking DC’s “Nasty Girl” made perfect sense, hiding from the body God gave me and rarely finding the freedom that felt elusive.

Everything was twice as good for half as much in white spaces, and perfection is a virtue in the Black ones. It was be brilliant, but don’t be too bold. It was confusion between haughtiness and confidence and just choosing neither since humility was next to holiness.

And without knowing all the Church Girls in the world, she knew that she had friends in us who moved mountains and cried fountains.

She knew the oceans of tears we cried because she cried them herself. And she understood well that being who God made you to be and not who man demands you be is how to be placed at the Center of His Will, like our icon @officialtwinkieclark wrote in that sample.

In the show, during Church Girl, Bey turns her virginal, papal white coat into one of many colors-which has Biblical meaning and personal meaning for the women, the queer folks-the cast aside by the holy institutions who love God and know God loves us: we don’t have to perform pure for you because God already made us so.

If I’m an alien superstar (which coincidentally are the risers on which we sat 👽 🎫🙏🏾) then that means when I’m myself, I’m closer to God.

Shout out to some of the people that I love in these flicks who understand this life (@yvettenoelschure 💃🏾, @stevie_elem 🌹, @jovianzayne 🫶🏾), @cheyennekimora for this 🔥durag, and to my man my man my man @kidnoble who I think has had a pretty good start to his birthday 🫶🏾🐝.

Here’s to our collective liberation.
Here’s to the R E N A I S S A N C E.

x✌🏾

Brittany Packnett - 146.3K Likes - one thing about me? imma call a thing a thing.

this was a violent insurrection, by a mob of white supremacists, participated in and permitted by police, incited by members of congress who stood on the capitol floor just hours later with blood on their hands.

and none of them will defeat us.

with Brian Williams on @msnbc

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Caption : one thing about me? imma call a thing a thing. this was a violent insurrection, by a mob of white supremacists, participated in and permitted by police, incited by members of congress who stood on the capitol floor just hours later with blood on their hands. and none of them will defeat us. with Brian Williams on @msnbc
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Brittany Packnett - 81.7K Likes - “The revolution is about to be televised.

You picked the right time.

But the wrong guy.”

KENNY.

The ancestors are pleased.

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Caption : “The revolution is about to be televised. You picked the right time. But the wrong guy.” KENNY. The ancestors are pleased.
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Brittany Packnett - 75.6K Likes - at some point in 2020, I became the Black death girl on tv.

Nevermind my intellect or expertise on any of the things they originally hired me to discuss. Most of the time, I had to say the things exploding in our collective hearts and hold myself together enough to say them.

The days I held myself together poorly ended up being my most “viral” moments—ones I had to be convinced by my friends to post because they were too hard for me to look at. I was never ashamed of speaking up for us—but I was worn down by the assignment. I don’t want the viral moment from Black pain—because I work daily to ensure Black pain stops being the constant.

Being that person forced me to consume the media of terror we face in order to be prepared to speak to it. Eventually, I began to avoid it and refuse to watch it.
But then it would be time for broadcast. And the video would play over the screen before the camera cut to me. And the unending dam of my grief would open wide on television, live after seeing what I thought I had escaped.

The hotbed of these conflicting feelings are so known to us that the heat never escapes my chest. It’s a permanent fixture. Whether I’m responsible to find words or not, share knowledge or not, give meaning or not, the pressure sits like a knot behind my sternum and gives me grief—grief I often don’t have real room to release.

Because what Black girl truly has the room right now?
We are prepping for virulent misogynoir this election while trying to get one of us across the finish line and simultaneously push for peace across global genocides. We can’t scroll without unprovoked attacks on everything from our dateability to our femininity to our bitterness—all results of the very systems and attitudes you depend on us to fight for you. We set the blueprint on Sunday calls and wake to videos of a brutality specifically reserved for us.

I see and thank the Black girls making room.
And I see those of us who just can’t bear to yet.

And I see you, Sonya Massey.
I can’t make another name a hashtag.

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Caption : at some point in 2020, I became the Black death girl on tv. Nevermind my intellect or expertise on any of the things they originally hired me to discuss. Most of the time, I had to say the things exploding in our collective hearts and hold myself together enough to say them. The days I held myself together poorly ended up being my most “viral” moments—ones I had to be convinced by my friends to post because they were too hard for me to look at. I was never ashamed of speaking up for us—but I was worn down by the assignment. I don’t want the viral moment from Black pain—because I work daily to ensure Black pain stops being the constant. Being that person forced me to consume the media of terror we face in order to be prepared to speak to it. Eventually, I began to avoid it and refuse to watch it. But then it would be time for broadcast. And the video would play over the screen before the camera cut to me. And the unending dam of my grief would open wide on television, live after seeing what I thought I had escaped. The hotbed of these conflicting feelings are so known to us that the heat never escapes my chest. It’s a permanent fixture. Whether I’m responsible to find words or not, share knowledge or not, give meaning or not, the pressure sits like a knot behind my sternum and gives me grief—grief I often don’t have real room to release. Because what Black girl truly has the room right now? We are prepping for virulent misogynoir this election while trying to get one of us across the finish line and simultaneously push for peace across global genocides. We can’t scroll without unprovoked attacks on everything from our dateability to our femininity to our bitterness—all results of the very systems and attitudes you depend on us to fight for you. We set the blueprint on Sunday calls and wake to videos of a brutality specifically reserved for us. I see and thank the Black girls making room. And I see those of us who just can’t bear to yet. And I see you, Sonya Massey. I can’t make another name a hashtag.
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Brittany Packnett - 73.8K Likes - God is BEYOND. Black girl. Black EIC. Black designer. Black twists. And the most brilliant Black photographer I know, @kidnoble, whose work is so meaningful, the team ditched their original plan and asked him to photograph me. On the cover of @BritishVogue alongside heroes and friends alike. Incredibly honored to be part of @edward_enninful’s masterful vision, focused on expanding the necessary work of the discipline of hope worldwide.

If you had told me a few weeks ago this would have been my first Monday of #BlackAugust, I would have told you it was impossible. But God is in the business of doing exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ever ask or imagine. Think about it-the things we don’t even think to ask God for because they are so impossible, He sees fit to gift us. Thankful for God’s favor, but ever focused on bearing more fruit.

I could only show up in something for us, by us. So so grateful to @lpeopleswagner for the quick connect to my fave @hanifaofficial, who let me wear this incredible gown from her Pink Label Congo collection for this shoot.

Ma. we’re on the cover of British Vogue. The September issue. Pinch me. God is better than good.
______

Rp: @britishvogue

The September 2020 issue of @BritishVogue features a special fold-out cover starring 20 inspirational activists dedicated to making a change. Read the full story by @AfuaHirsch in the new issue, on newsstands Friday 7 August.

#LinkInBio

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Caption : God is BEYOND. Black girl. Black EIC. Black designer. Black twists. And the most brilliant Black photographer I know, @kidnoble, whose work is so meaningful, the team ditched their original plan and asked him to photograph me. On the cover of @BritishVogue alongside heroes and friends alike. Incredibly honored to be part of @edward_enninful’s masterful vision, focused on expanding the necessary work of the discipline of hope worldwide. If you had told me a few weeks ago this would have been my first Monday of #BlackAugust, I would have told you it was impossible. But God is in the business of doing exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ever ask or imagine. Think about it-the things we don’t even think to ask God for because they are so impossible, He sees fit to gift us. Thankful for God’s favor, but ever focused on bearing more fruit. I could only show up in something for us, by us. So so grateful to @lpeopleswagner for the quick connect to my fave @hanifaofficial, who let me wear this incredible gown from her Pink Label Congo collection for this shoot. Ma. we’re on the cover of British Vogue. The September issue. Pinch me. God is better than good. ______ Rp: @britishvogue The September 2020 issue of @BritishVogue features a special fold-out cover starring 20 inspirational activists dedicated to making a change. Read the full story by @AfuaHirsch in the new issue, on newsstands Friday 7 August. #LinkInBio
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Caption : what’s understood doesn’t need to be explained. 🤷🏾‍♀️ honestly all of them should find themselves anywhere else that day….a King Commemoration… a Day of Service…a hot dog eating contest…changing tractor belts at Four Seasons Total Landscaping… I don’t believe in treating fascism like it’s normal or acceptable. But I digress. Carry on, Auntie Shelly. Carry on.
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Brittany Packnett - 57.3K Likes - we love and will protect that building, its gifts and its people.

and, not but…we have always been and will always be bigger and tougher than brick and mortar.

on memory, what we need to survive, and what no one can take.

thank you @nmaahc. we will continue to fight for you and always, for us.

#NMAAHC #Blacksonian #DEI

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Caption : we love and will protect that building, its gifts and its people. and, not but…we have always been and will always be bigger and tougher than brick and mortar. on memory, what we need to survive, and what no one can take. thank you @nmaahc. we will continue to fight for you and always, for us. #NMAAHC #Blacksonian #DEI
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Brittany Packnett - 55.3K Likes - fyi.

that man sang “SIT DOWN, BE HUMBLE” while standing in the middle of an American Flag made of BLACK people.

and if it bothers you….you, too, are not like us 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Caption : fyi. that man sang “SIT DOWN, BE HUMBLE” while standing in the middle of an American Flag made of BLACK people. and if it bothers you….you, too, are not like us 🤷🏾‍♀️
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