Read this Epic List of 20 Things to Leave in 2015
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,#PVAMU 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:
Leave victim blaming in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave respectability politics in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave rape-apologists in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave entitlement in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave the sexualization of children in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave misogynoir in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave getting pissed cause someone didn't respond to you in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave trying to live for white approval in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave the That's Why I'm Scared To Have A Daughter BS in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/____PantheR/status/680637651989299200
Leave wanting to own and control the bodies and dress of women in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave the idea that depression is a conscious decision in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave the people that don't make you feel appreciated, loved, or wanted in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave ignoring, belittling, and silencing the voices of BW in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave giving a shit if people are uncomfortable about you expressing your humanity in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave treating human beings like they aren't human beings because of their sexuality or gender in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave the queen vs hoe/bitch dichotomies in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave the process of sweeping your mental health under the rug because of any reason in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave trolling/slandering BW in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Leave trying to show out for other dudes by being just as damaging and harmful as they are in 2015.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Actually all these can be left now and started now. No need to wait until New Years to start. Lives are at stake.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) December 26, 2015
Go read the whole thread to get yourself together for 2016. Happy New Year!
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