Alyasah

Black Queer Femme-inist. Voice of Consciousness. Freedom Fighter. Pat-Parker-turned-Scientist. Sociologist. Professor. Synergized the Racism Race Reification Process. The Roadless Traveler.

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Oh, I forgot...I went to LA for the first time in my life, ever. Generally I understand why people don't like the place. But, I'm not one of them. I LOVE LA. It's bright. There's water. And interesting things to see...like this Tupac Museum. https://www.instagram.com/p/CiqzQaTMXWk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The lamb burger @bantampub was good, but also slowed me way down. Barely made it back up the hill. The day started with such high hopes. 😞 I’m ok though, since you asked. https://www.instagram.com/p/CipyykBgrKX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Noodles that look burnt are 99% more likely to taste burnt than noodles that do not. 🙄 The result of a late night craving is a fragrantly seething Chicken Chow Mein. A downside of studio living is the identity crisis from not being able to separate your resting and cooking selves. We are all blessed that I never took my eyes off the stove…for more than 60 seconds, ok 90 seconds. You cannot trust me in the kitchen — we should trust that. (at Old Fourth Ward) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiZLZ3qgIXb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It’s Sunday/Funday Labor Day Weekend/Atlanta Black Pride…and cloudy and rainy…But we can still have a good time though. #atlantablackpride #lgbtq🌈 #lgbt #atlanta #locstyles #naturalhair #naturalbeauty #genderfluid #nonbinarypride #atllgbt #blackqueer #blacklgbt (at Old Fourth Ward) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiFkmp-AbIY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Out here at the LGBT Greek Brunch representing for the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey. @adahduval and I cutting up at the church, @stmarkumcatl. When I came out at 17, there were less than a handful of Black LGBTQ Greek Organizations across the nation. This afternoon about a hundred people filled the room. This marks a massive change in the social lives of Black LGBTQ Women communities near and far. Thanks for inviting us in! Please, tell your fellow orgs and your members, join us and Take The Survey! @lgbtqwsurvey (at Saint Mark United Methodist Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiDrE2Ygx9P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’m choked up right now. My lil homie bff forever that’s my nucca right there don hit the Jackie Robinson 42. There is nothing more beautiful than the way @iamcynthiaray and @sociologistray have opened up their family to me, blessing me with the one thing I thought I had lost forever. When you intervene in someone’s life the way that Rashawn has intervened in mine, there’s no post/pre-them. It was destiny from the beginning. It just happened to be that 17 years and 6 months ago, the universe said, let me show you your destiny right now. I could have never imagined what a single recruitment call could do. Teach me how to talk and walk, shake a hand and act right, absolutely not. Teach me that my awkward strangeness wasn’t my barrier to a happy life but its very avenue, not possible. Teach me how to trust again, yeah right. Show me that someone could actually love you unconditionally, almost definitely not. Show me how healthy familial and friend relationships look, definitely not. Show me that health is wealth and that my most assured way to health is just to sit down and write, please tell me how. Change my life, prove me wrong. And, Rashawn, you did just that. I met you in the darkest hours of my life. And literally, and emblematically so, you rolled up quick to the curb one day as I was fleeing from hell and yelled, “Get In! It’s time to go!!!” That’s the story of our friendship, we let go, breaking down every stereotype of social life and its inequities that was always to have been thrown at us. We been side-stepping and swaying, ripping and running, ducking and dodging. We both, in our own ways, hit that Magical Homerun. So it is my sincerest pleasure to say, Rashawn, Happy 42nd. I am so happy and blessed that I was able to share with Cynthia, you, my adopted family, a fabulous pool and awesome t-shirts (I got like 4 of em, Be The Change), Uncle Earnest, and the best turkey burgers ever, this most fortunate weekend. Bettin we gon do it again, the universe had already decided it was always gone be on our side. Glasses up! Welcome to the Mountaintop. See how limitless the rainbow actually is! #happybirthday #bff #destiny (at Mitchellville, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chj7PEOAUqR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Honoring Our Queer Mothers

Today, I am paying a tribute to my Queer Mother, Robin G. White (Bobbie). She is the sole reason I became a co-principal investigator of the National LGBTQ+ Womxn*s Community Survey (https://www.lgbtqwomensurvey.org/) -- the first-ever large scale study of women who partner with women. She has not only saved me from myself on so many occasions. Most importantly, for today, she led me to understand that: My pen is my savior, and my ink is my breath...so just let go, and breathe... Love you Robin!

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Shotz! Shotz!! Shotz!!! Shotzzz!!! #AndTurnDownForWhat! #GeorgiaFlipsBlue #BidenHarris2020 #Warnock2020 #Ossoff2020 #Georgia2020 #GeorgiaWentBlue Brought to you by #LilJon and #DemEastSideBoyz And, Turn.Down.For.What? #Welcome2021 🥃🥃🥃🥳🥳🥳 (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJuFKmqA-NL/?igshid=1dgna5lvl6ryy

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These are like red fire trucks, or red toy bikes, or my red Superman costume, or red bottom shoes. Well...maybe not the latter, but you get it!. And, just in time for the new year celebrations! (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJID32HAo7z/?igshid=1jco11yhyrx1s

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Check out this post… "Kamala Harris, 46th VPOTUS: The Visions of the Second Generation Immigrant".

Kamala Harris, 46th VPOTUS: The Visions of the Second Generation Immigrant

A blog on the worldview of Alyasah “Ali” Sewell, Ph.D.

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During the watch night hours, I did a bit of meditation on the biography of #KamalaHarrisVP that speaks the most to me, her positionality as a second generation immigrant of the #British colonial empire. I call to the connections #VPElectKamalaHarris has to #EpsyCampbellBarr (the first Black Woman #VP in all of the Americas, 2018), #MayorShirleyFranklin (the first Black Woman Mayor of a major Southern city @ATLShirley), and #MarcusGarvey (the most formidable #PanAfrican organizer). I call into the room my family's history of being 4th generations removed from British emancipation of enslaved Africans in #Jamaica and at least 6th generations removed from Costa Rican emancipation of #Jamaican Africans enslaved by the British. The story of #KamalaHarris is one of global racial colonial capitalism (@karida_leigh @JoseItzigsohn, "The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois", Ch 2). It is time we must all know it. The political economy of postcolonialism is the unstated narrative driving the social constructions of her ethnic identity. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHVp6enAXwq/?igshid=1s6qw0m1ee3p4

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It's starts early. #KamalaHarrisVP, The Archives #kamalaharris #kamalaharris2020 #BlackExcellence #BlackWomenLead #BlackWomen #blackgirljoy #blackgirlsrock #black #blackgirlmagic #blackhair #blacklivesmatter #blackwoman #caribbean #caribbeandiaspora #southasian #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #secondgeneration #ScienceIsReal #hbcu #HowardUniversity #kamalaharris #aka #youngblackandgifted #blackpeople #afrocaribbean #jamaica #india #jamaica🇯🇲 #jamaican #africanamerican (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUWTY_AIQ0/?igshid=1jlvj0awohft3

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@blklesfeminist thanks for posting this. Great pic! The VP portrait of @kamalaharris should be epic. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUHEEdgxCv/?igshid=kv50zwjlsviy

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Watch this story by Alyasah Ali Sewell on Instagram before it disappears.

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Clutch! #BlackWomenLead #StaceyAbrams #KeishaLanceBottom #KamalaHarrisVP #Atlanta #JoeBiden #HBCU #Spelman #SpelmanCollege #FAMU #Howard #HowardUniversity (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUEba0ApNK/?igshid=1scohbib4ueca

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Systemic Racism was on fleek today. Both @KamalaHarris and @JoeBiden said they will face #SystemicRacism head on. Both called in the work of Black women and African Americans. The spirits of @StaceyAbrams, @MaryJBlige and Langston Hughes sat alongside that of @BarackObama. 👌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUB5k0Ax-8/?igshid=xzi7az81w20f

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#Georgia #Election2020 is trickling blue. In addition to a Biden flip (4,020 votes over Trump) that has triggered a recount, we now have two (2) runoffs scheduled for Jan 5th -- 1] Dem. Jon Ossof gets to challenge Sen. David Purdue's Senate seat; and, 2] Reverend Dr. Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church has risen split a field of 20 competitors. Warnock received the largest number of votes at 32.9% - 6.9 points over Governor-appointed Senator Kelly Loeffler (R). Icing on top of the cake -- Dem. Carolyn Bourdeaux wins Republican dominated GA 7th Congressional District. Atlantans often describe ourselves as purple in a sea of red - I'll take it. I might offer, though, one day we might just be blue. (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHRekmzgELE/?igshid=1syrs08il3ccw