Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

I will never get over the fact that none of this had to happen. The country chose all of this.

Words fail to express my rage and fury with the state of the world. I never thought it would be possible to be this furious.

Netflix has picked up Sesame Street. Brand-new episodes, as well as past seasons, will premiere this year for its 300 million subscribers and will also air on PBS.

Being in a musical >

Being in a musical with your 6 yo as he makes his stage debut >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

#musicaltheater #actorlife #boymom #hollywoodfringefestival #pippin

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” -Oroma Elewa

#selfportraitphotography #selfportrait #rooftopphotography #lamodel #detroitmodel #curlygirls #curlyhair #fitmom #fitmoms #boymom #triplethreat

#Chain #reaction setups are called Rube Goldberg machines, named after the American cartoonist who first illustrated them in the early 1900s.
Built for fun or challenge

I love Florida’s leos 😍

Time will tell who’s really about it when the rubber actually meets the road (think Amritsar, but with drones), but we’re up against true believers this time. You gotta have that dog in you and be a true believer in something yourself to even have a prayer….and that’s just not most Americans 🤷🏽‍♀️

Resistance isn’t glamorous. It’s bloody. It’s thankless. And that was before the comfort and excess of America today. No one wants to be tortured or to see their loved ones be tortured in the name of doing “the right thing”. More than half of us still can’t even grasp the gravity of this moment.

The US isn’t built for resistance. If it were, Trump wouldn’t be in office. “Don’t let the oligarch wannabe win the election” was a very basic test. Get your ass off the couch and vote for harm mitigation. We failed.

The people who couldn’t do that much aren’t going to take a bullet for freedom.

There’s a reason why every. single. attempt at reformation within Christianity has failed. Denying facts so one can distance oneself from MAGA to feel better about oneself isn’t helpful right now. If you believe in Christianity, own it for what it is fully, and then be the change. No excuses.

“A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” Matt. 7:18. A thing that is inherently good cannot be corrupted by the intentions of bad people, and a thing that is inherently bad cannot be reformed despite the best intentions of well-meaning people.

Everyone wants to distance themselves from Christian Nationalism, but the truth is that, as a rule, Christianity is no more a “real” reflection of Jesus than Christian Nationalism is.

It’s very, very easy to find an accurate breakdown of Christian history, both from a global perspective and its impact in the US, specifically. If you are a Christian in the US today, you have a responsibility both to learn that history and to be honest about the implications of it.

And that isn’t to say that being a Christian is “wrong,” but it IS to say that Christians as a collective have never had a healthy ability to balance faith with individual autonomy and what the government’s responsibility should be in maintaining those boundaries. To suggest otherwise is dishonest.

Christian Nationalism was an inevitability of white American evangelicalism and while many may not agree with *all* of what’s happening right now, plenty of “real Christians” are still aligned with Christian Nationalism on certain issues of “morality” and “traditional family values” etc.

“Real” Christians not understanding how they, too, are complicit in enabling the systems that ultimately spawn something like Christian Nationalism. Because white supremacy isn’t just racism. It’s homophobia. It’s patriarchy. It’s sexism. It’s control through fear and ideological manipulation.

Christian Nationalism is Christianity, and Christianity has historically been used as a “divine right” basis for white supremacy since before “racism” got its name. And that’s part of the problem.

If you have a dictionary that you don't show love
Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.

Wooooow

Trinity calling out the judges for overscoring OU 😭

Our country is incredibly racist, misogynist and deeply uneducated. The majority of people have no idea how the world works or how the complex systems we have in place work together. They can't comprehend the economy let alone look at the data and make decisions. America is a mess run by idiots.

The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

This hits hard…

“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”

You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.

Straightened my hair for the first time in 3 years….and yes, I’ve been acting brand new 😂💀

GOAT greatest of all time Simone Biles with a goat

Simone Biles is a comedian

I auditioned for Cathy Rigby today 😭🙌🏽

All the theater people were so nonchalant, meanwhile I’m like “she’s Cathy Rigby THE GYMNAST bro!!”

Literally watched her Peter Pan as a kid because of learning about her gym career lol full circle moment 🥰