Absolutely none of this is true @shinkirin.bsky.social, but since you’ve disabled replies and quote tweets, wouldn’t that be the real definition of gatekeeping?

Good morning. Donald Faison should’ve said the “disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand-ticket holding friend of Dorothy” line in Waiting to Exhale and “faggot, gay, homo, it’s all the same” line in Clueless.

I’m going to write more on this somehow but one big thing that has changed recently in Detroit that didn’t exist in my lifetime is the stigma of repping the city when you live in CERTAIN suburbs. Cause Harper Woods is just another eastside hood at this point. Oak Park is just 7 Mile with synagogues.

Viv really trying to get me to watch Y&R again

I love that #BeyondTheGates is bringing back the B-list musical guest to Black shows. Vesta would’ve loved this shit if she was still here.

Since Detroiters are on intersections and streets today keep those men in any suburb west of Telegraph far far away from me chile

I love working in an all-Black environment. Dude wore a turtleneck to the office today and is getting roasted on levels I haven’t seen since 8th grade

I’m always going to recirculate one of my favorite clips every time I have an excuse to point out how soaps are key to Black Hollywood: www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...

Saw this vid of Teena Marie talking about taking her daughters, plural, to see Aretha backstage at a show. Someone in the comments reminded that Maya Rudolph is Teena’s goddaughter. Maya was/is in a Prince tribute band but her godmother’s situationship was Prince’s worst enemy. My brand of chaos.

I didn’t know Jamal Bryant organized the Target quote-un-quote boycott nor that he had this much clout to get so many of yall to do so

98% of the time if I go to an event alone I’m good — always see someone I know, can enjoy my own company, etc. That 2% when it’s evident I need a wingman though? Takes me to the depths of my self-esteem I haven’t seen since the ‘90s

Maybe it’s the seasonal depression lifting but I feel like writing.

“Justify” x Norman Connors, Ada Dyer and The Jones Girls

Didn’t realize Tayari Jones was eight years between books until she told Seth Meyers just now. I feel better now lol

We were having a conversation about where the highest concentration of scammers are, Nigeria or Atlanta? And I piped in and said the actual final boss of scammers is the Black gay bottom with a corporate AMEX.

But also

jentrification@jentrification.com · 5mo ago

did y'all know all of these funny dudes are from the D? this is my type.

That mixing feature on Apple Music when you’re on shuffle is diabolical and catches me off guard every time. You’ll be listening to Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye transitioning to I Can Tell

Think I missed my calling in whatever it is Marie Kondo and them be doing because I’ve been organizing a friend’s house on and off for the past few days and with the way it’s been lifting more emotional than physical weight off said friend, HGTV might need to see me

I wrote something on how Detroit’s mayor wore Cartier frames in public, the first(?) time a sitting mayor has done so, and how it reflects a larger culture shift pushed by influencers — including one who unexpectedly died last weekend: michiganchronicle.com/a-bejeweled-...

A Bejeweled Detroit Style is Going Mainstream. Its Biggest Influencer Won’t Live to See It

A Bejeweled Detroit Style is Going Mainstream. Its Biggest Influencer Won’t Live to See It

michiganchronicle.com

At this restaurant I shall not name and remembered the pettiest reason why I haven’t been here in a while cause they have books on display from every local author and none of my shit lmao. And don’t let my mama come here cause she’d be talking to the manager about it

Saw on TikTok someone describe Minnie Riperton’s “Les Fleurs” as an “ethnic Black American hymn” and I just…

And here we are, a 60-year journal of how the late Jesse Jackson spent his time in Detroit, making a case that while he was loved everywhere, Detroit had some of the biggest impact on his trajectory — and why the city needs to be discussed more in Black history: michiganchronicle.com/jesse-jackso...

Jesse Jackson’s Detroit: How a Country Preacher Spent Six Decades in the Motor City

Jesse Jackson’s Detroit: How a Country Preacher Spent Six Decades in the Motor City

michiganchronicle.com

Aaron Foley@aaronkfoley.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m about to publish a 5,700-word piece I wrote over the last few days and realized if I do this nine more times, I’ll match the length of my first book.

I grew up with Naima and Nia, bc they were living two doors down from my grandmama on Lesure, which meant every new episode was damn near storytime. It was a real victory for the crib

Aaron Foley@aaronkfoley.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I can’t remember who came first on ANTM whether it was Eva or Naima, but baby that season Naima won? Once we found out she was hometown? All of Michigan State was locked in.

I can’t remember who came first on ANTM whether it was Eva or Naima, but baby that season Naima won? Once we found out she was hometown? All of Michigan State was locked in.

Vivica starring in a prestige film hitting theaters at the same time as her Y&R run is honestly iconic

I’m about to publish a 5,700-word piece I wrote over the last few days and realized if I do this nine more times, I’ll match the length of my first book.

I love all my Aquarians and Pisceans but it’s too many of yall born around this time, I’m tired of being broke Q1 of every year

RIP Jesse Jackson, whose colorful personal life inspired the play “Purpose” originally staged in Chicago with Tamara Tunie as a politico’s long-suffering wife successively played by LaTanya Richardson after its move to Broadway, thus clearing her schedule to star in #BeyondTheGates

MC Lyte in “Cold Rock a Party” says “wetter than the waters of Kalamazoo” in one verse and how did this slip past me? Cause I’ve been listening to this song since middle school, but anyway ma’am, what water in Kalamazoo?

It definitely was not this many 40-somethings dying like this when I was a kid, that’s for sure