If you haven’t yet started your New Year’s resolutions, we have compiled a list of 20 tweets of inspiration from Twitter user PantheR (@____PantheR). The list isn’t your traditional fare. Instead, it features things to leave behind in 2015 that are harmful and violent, especially toward Black women and LGBTQIA folks.

PantheR describes himself as a “Designer, Artist, Musician, Pro-Black, Intersectional Feminist, Advocate of Human Rights, Awareness Spreader, Alumni.” He also hails from “Black Twitter.”

He sent on out an epic thread of resolutions to his over 17,ooo followers on Saturday morning which were no doubt inspired by the ongoings of social and mainstream media over the course of this last year.

Here are our 20 favorites:

 

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680634273943048192

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680634413013569536

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680634947409846273

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680635092230770688

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680635353850482689

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680635773020798976

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680636038318960640

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680636379076808704

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680636758048903168

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680637651989299200

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680638291629084672

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680639178405588992

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680639681860481025

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680640058861305856

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680640414584406016

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680643579530719232

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680644016329785344

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680645181150867456

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680646050105839621

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680648020111671296

 

https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680651306843783168

Go read the whole thread to get yourself together for 2016. Happy New Year!

 

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  • Jenn M. Jackson was born and raised in East Oakland, California, a fact which motivates her writing and academic ambitions. She is a scholar, educator, and writer whose writing addresses Black Politics and civil and public life for young Black people with a focus on policing and surveillance. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Water Cooler Convos, a culture platform for Black millennials. Her writing has been featured in Washington Post, BITCH Magazine, Marie Claire, EBONY, The Root, Daily Dot, The Independent, and many others. Jackson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago studying American Politics with a focus on political participation and engagement, public opinion and social movements. For more about her, tweet her at @JennMJack or visit her website at jennmjackson.com.