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Dainty Smith

@Ms_daintysmith

Playwright. Actor. Speaker. Producer. Founder of Les Femmes Fatales: WOC Burlesque Troupe.

 Toronto,Ont.
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Joined August 2010
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Thanks so much for the shout out @weareyohomo ! yohomo.ca/blog/obsessed-augu…
20 | 30 • 10 YEARS APART • Baby sister, may the people you keep around you ALWAYS protect you. 🖤
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Police cannot be reformed. Solidarity with all who are grieving and raging today.
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Thank you @CBCArts for showcasing the artwork of Les Femmes Fatales. cbc.ca/arts/burlesque-troupe…
Burlesque troupe Les Femme Fatales are celebrating Black and Indigenous bodies like nobody else |...

Burlesque troupe Les Femme Fatales are celebrating Black and Indigenous bodies like nobody else |...

Canada's first burlesque troupe for women of colour shared a stunning performance for our Queer Pride Inside special.

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A BLACK WOMAN.. Was The First Black Person to Run for US President.. though I’m familiar with the history of Ms. Chisholm, it’s my first time hearing her speak and maaan 🔥🔥🔥
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sharine taylor@shharine10 Aug 2020
My favourite part of "WAP" is that it promotes women articulating sexual agency, prowess, desires, demands and autonomy, and it's also getting men upset.
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Janet Mock@janetmock26 Jul 2020
Thank YOU @SheaCoulee for loving us so well, for celebrating the brilliance and beauty of Black women and for raising the bar for Black excellence. You are an icon, and WE love YOU! Congrats!!!
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bri@briaunanowlin22 Jul 2020
homelessness could be ended with approx. 20 billion dollars and jeff bezos made 13 BILLION in one day. So yeah raise the taxes on the top 1%
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Normalize knowing that feeling anxious during a pandemic isn’t your fault – at Brooklyn, NY
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More people have been arrested for protesting the murder of Breonna Taylor than for the actual murder of Breonna Taylor.
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Protesters are currently outside of the Oakland County Court to demand justice for Grace, the 15-year-old Black student sent to juvenile detention for not doing her online homework. She was described by the judge as a “threat to the community.”
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Janet Mock@janetmock14 Jul 2020
The Black gaze matters: “He pushes back more toward the camera. His hand is at his waist — you know that line, with his profile going down the arm and coming back. So I was like: I can recreate this.” -photographer Dario Calmese on his historical reference nytimes.com/2020/07/14/style…
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The protests have taken on so many different forms. Everyone is showing up in their own way
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Protesters leading Midnight Yoga to help keep mental health in check #BlackLivesMatterPlaza #DCProtests
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Taryn Finley@_TARYNitUP9 Jul 2020
I tweet for the black girls adults called "smart aleck" back in the day.
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Breonna Taylor can’t celebrate her inalienable rights today.
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In the States, problems are magnified, but in the GTA, we have our own examples of times when mental health issues, a Black person or POC and the police combine with a deadly result. thestar.com/opinion/contribu…

Angelyn Francis: For Black people calling the police can be dangerous. It’s time we had another...

The police do not inherently make everyone feel safe. It’s time Black and Indigenous people, people of colour, people in mental distress, had someone to call who does.

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I’ve never seen this headline for a Kardashian.
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Jada Pinkett Smith using family drama to promote Facebook show trib.al/qCkGQJO
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