Remember back in the day when I used to share one of these every year? I wrote my first 25 facts about me post in early 2013 when I was still an infant and hadn’t seen much shit. Wow how times have changed. Now that I’m an unemployed college graduate with more opinions than I can count, I wanted to update my 25 facts about me and expose more of my intimate details than I probably should.
- My dream job is to work for a nonprofit organization where I can write about mass incarceration (this one is the goal!) and simultaneously teach poetry classes in prisons. I would also love to do reentry work as well!
- Not a day goes by where I don’t shed at least a few tears. I’m a highly sensitive person okay?
- One day I want to run for political office on the promise of fighting for medicare for all, housing as a right, ending mass incarceration and police violence, tackle climate change, free public college, decriminalization of drugs, abolish ICE, women’s guaranteed bodily autonomy, inalienable rights for LGBTQIA+ people and immigrants, and extremely strict gun control measures.
- I’m passionate about therapy and I think that it should be much more accessible and affordable for all people.
- I now like Mexican food and I am unashamed about this announcement.
- Going to law school has slowly started to disappear from my future plans because I truly cannot contain my emotions when it comes to injustice.
- If I could sleep all day forever, I would.
- I’m convinced that I have the most incredible family and friends in the world.
- It’s taken me 10 years to get my curly hair to the ringlet stage it’s currently in and I’m terrified that the next time I get it cut, I’ll have to start from the beginning.
- I try to focus on consuming media created mostly by people of color as I feel much more connected to both the artists and their subject matter.
- I never want to get married or have children, and no, I won’t change my mind.
- One of my goals for the rest of 2019 is to perform one of my poems at a spoken word open mic night.
- I don’t believe in any religion because I think they do much more harm than good.
- My greatest fear is that I’ll never actually make a difference in society.
- Some of my most influential icons are Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Haunani-Kay Trask, Clint Smith, Bryan Stevenson, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Mariame Kaba.
- If I were an inventor, I would create a new fashion system that keeps women’s measurements on file and finds every piece that is not only chic, but also fits like a glove without having to try it on or alter it.
- I’m almost always overwhelmed by the devastating stories of violence, pain, and injustice around the world, and I have difficulty working through my emotions and feelings of complete helplessness.
- Publishing a poetry chapbook is one of my most important goals in life.
- Ever since I went to Texas and moved into my own apartment, I became extremely independent and learned to enjoy living my everyday life alone. I don’t see solitary time as a burden, but rather clustered moments of contentment.
- My grandpa and I both eat bowls of cereal almost every day at 1 a.m.
- Hopefully with more years of therapy, I’ll learn how to let go of the people who shouldn’t continue to reserve space in my mind.
- I believe that everyone can be rehabilitated and restored no matter what their circumstance.
- My travel bucket list consists of visiting Italy, Greece, London, and returning to Australia to buy all of the snickers pods that I can carry.
- I’ve been boycotting the NFL for the past two years and I don’t miss the professional league for one second.
- My biggest pet peeves are people who talk on the phone or text while they’re with me and men who mansplain everything to me.
