Me & America used to be tight. But lately, 👀 she on some other stuff so we don’t really kick it “✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

“Me & America used to be tight. But lately, 👀 she on some other stuff so we don’t really kick it “✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿—

Trump is so obsessed with President Obama that he spent his ENTIRE four years undoing ALL of Obama’s work and implementing policies that were harmful to the Environment especially our air and water. The complete OPPOSITE of the Obama administration.

He has targeted minorities especially communities of brown descent. Going so far to lock children in cages. Separating families, allowing young girls to be molested in detention camps which were really “for profit prisons” that Obama had closed under his administration. However, Trump ordered Sessions to re-open them. Just in time since we had a “caravan” of immigrants heading this way. His words.

He loves to attack the rights of women. He is a self confessed man who assaults women and is STILL in the Oval. In 2020 this election is mainly about the SUPREME COURT! Two of the justices are in the 80s and RBG should be the personal hero of every child male or female. She should be a fucking Marvel Avenger! Tony Stark would lunch with RBG for sure.

In four years women have shared deeply personal stories about their lives due to attacks from his administration.
(pro-choice, abortion stories, stories of assault during the Kavanaugh hearings)

These four years have also brought out a surge of women in politics. We are angry and we have every right to be and it is just getting started because the future is female. I like to call it the ‘Trump effect.’ While we don’t hold that top seat, women are the ones getting bills thru and the job done.

These past four years have been hell. This is not the America I know. The one I was born into or the one I want to leave for my children. We were once a beacon of hope for other nations and within four year we have become the laughing stock  as well as an Embarrassment! Come November like Hamilton, we have ONE SHOT at returning to the America everyone knows and loves and looks up too. Unless we UNITE, & VOTE JOE BIDEN we are screwed. The Supreme Court will undo any progress we have made these past fifty years😢🤷🏽‍♀️

In case you have been living under a rock it clear by now the fake president is racist. They are currently trying to undo Roe vs Wade. Telling a women she doesn’t have control over her own body so him trying to undo rights from the “Civil Rights Era” doesn’t seem like a big stretch.🤷🏽‍♀️

For me this is personal. They continue to attack the innocent by trying to gut Obamacare’s pre-existing clause. We are talking thousands of special needs children, cancer patients young and old, people on dialysis that would lose the insurance and miss life saving treatments. During the Corona Virus Pandemic once New Jersey started showing positive cases Senator Booker asked Trump to open the Obamacare enrollment just one time so ppl with pre existing conditions could enroll and be cover if they did catch the virus. Trump said no. Like he can’t be bothered that people are dying. Families are being destroyed. children are losing a parent.

His response to this virus SHOULD BE IT. The open racism, straight lies & denials. In four years no accountability has been taken for several things. Whenever pressed on a difficult decision or choice he made it ALWAYS circle back to being Obama’s fault. I guess that’s in the New Hire Packet for all Trump hires. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Four years blaming Obama, trying to undo him. Trump makes his staff praise probably because Obama is still favored upon the people. Barack wasn’t a perfect president but he had three MAJOR things we are missing. He had Empathy. He is Sincere. He had compassion and showed it when he had to make that gut wrenching speech at Sandy Hook.

Trump is so obsessed with Obama it sure would be THE SWEETEST VICTORY to lose the election to Obama’s VP and Best Friend?

To have to look up and see Barack and Joe BACK IN THE OVAL (can you just think it?) That would drone Trump to the looney bin part of the Prison for him.

This upcoming election is life or death.

For so many more reasons.......but don’t get started......

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The shirt is NOT just a political thing. I am a proud member of #Resistance but it’s about more than resisting this administration. Everybody has something they are fighting. For me it is several things, a tumor, depression, teenage girls, and being a single parent. #Resist is NOT just a political thing but so much more. It is also a call to action against whatever you are facing in your life.For some, it's medical issues, bullying, sexism, homophobia, etc. To remind you to keep fighting because you are NOT the only one fighting, or resisting. WE ALL ARE. Resist Shirts

Homeless

I read this and 😢😢😢 I’ve been saying this for 10 years and many don’t have the support to explain and help them complete the MOUNTAINS of paperwork insurance and the government sends you in order to get help. Thank God for my mother who completed all my paperwork and argues with caseworkers when they try to drop me almost every month. Paperwork is even more difficult when you have a TBI. 🙋🏽‍♀️Speaking from experience even the most simple form some days can seem overwhelming, if you don’t help, you will be on the street with no support or assistance.😢


Half of homeless people have experienced traumatic brain injuries., new UBC study suggests

Thoughts

I had so many ideas for my blog and my brand “Real life makes you an advocate” but the truth is that REAL LIFE IS HARD when you are the single mother to two beautiful daughters who have their own issues on top of dealing with having a brain tumor that is constantly attacking your body. I have so many ideas that I want to do. Honestly, I don’t have the energy, time, or mostly the FUNDS to follow through. Yes, I’m aware, I could do a kickstarter campaign or things like that. After 19 brain surgeries I am not very tech savvy and I’m low on patience. Time is something I have very little of and I don’t have time to figure out the ins and outs of something and how to make it work when I have short term memory issues and when I’m supposed to be healing and taking things easy following my latest health issues. It’s always something. 🤷🏽‍♀️I take two step forward and one back. I’m tired. I’ve been sick and fighting for over ten years and did it as a single parent with the help of my wonderful village but I need to take a step back from my brand and activist work so I can figure out with the new year approaching on how I can do this better and reach my goals especially since i need funds or investors to make this work. A wing and a prayer maybe? Who knows? Cuz I don’t! Talk to y’all soon! 💋

My Condition

First Thank you to everyone that left a sweet comment or note, said a prayer, or thought about me. I truly appreciate it more than I can express. Being transparent and sharing what I’m going through on this journey helps me deal with the depression and I’m glad to know that it helps other people. I firmly believe I’ve made it through 19 brain surgeries to tell my story and do exactly what I am doing. I honestly just struggle with the fact that THIS IS A LOT.

At times I feel like why wasn’t I the girl who had a tumor with zero complications and went back to her life two months later? Why did MY husband leave? I could go down the “why” rabbit hole forever.🤷🏽‍♀️ This is MY life. Yes, it’s hard AF but my Lord seems to think I can handle it cuz he keeps me BUSY! Part of my depression is having this illness that attacks your body all the time and I get no breaks. It feels like I am always at the doctors for some sort of complication. I have lost basically everything in the last ten years. Those who I consider friends are my family bc they have been there during the bad times when others have walked away. They are my village and they know who they are! The girls and I would be lost without our village.

I’m still sore from my procedure a few days ago. The doctors removed a large mass from my colon. I know now that it’s common for your body to produce masses in other areas of the body once you have a tumor. It’s pretty crazy because Jordan was born in 2001 and right after she was born I had a large ovarian cyst removed. I wasn’t sure if I was able to have more kids.which at the time I was ok with until I got married in 2007 and Jordan asked for a baby sister. Being in love and not wanting Jordan to be an only child, I went thru fertility procedure to get my miracle baby Aaliyah. 3 weeks after her delivery we find the large tumor, now ten years later I have a large mass removed 🤔🤔

Depression is real

BEING FULLY TRANSPARENT: I am tired. I am past tired. I was tired years ago. For TEN YEARS I’ve been fighting this tumor and the complications, battling the depression that comes with having your life turned upside down by an illness, having your husband walk out and leave you with a toddler while you are going through radiation, a divorce, and STILL manage to attempt to parent two future Queens. Right now I am on a liquid diet and NPO after midnight in prep for my hospital procedure tomorrow. I’m struggling honestly😩 I feel like I need a win. I’m tired of always being dizzy, off balance, or sick from complications. It sucks. BAD. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. Also pray for peace and strength for my mother Renee Petties Jones. She is my rock as my caregiver, which is NOT an easy job to someone who has a rare condition like mine. Plus she is a HUGE part in raising my Queens. Grandma Priscilla would be so proud😇. 

Also, Thank you to everyone in my village. Signing off for awhile to get my mind right but I will keep everyone posted. #mytruth #mytestimony #prayers 😘❤️🙏🏽

RIP

WHY CUMMINGS BEFORE TRUMP LORD? Even from his hospital bed he was sending out subpoenas to help put an end to the corruption of the Trump administration. 😢


“When we're dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact? Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? Did we play games?” -Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Feb. 27, 2019. 

Black and Brown lives matter!!!! Stop Killing us!

Dear America,

Black people are tired of dying, are y’all tired of murdering us yet?

We don’t need Kanye’s “church” service or Jay Z’s NFL apparel to save us. We have taken knees, marched, protested, yet twice we have been MURDERED in our own home.

If you can’t trust the police, who can you trust? (Real question)

Sincerely,

I might be next.

#AtatianaJefferson #SayHerName #IMightBeNext #AmINext

#IMightBeNext and they will go through my feed and say I was anti-government, anti-cop, and a radical because I hate Trump and the complicit GOP. Their corruption is INSANE. I will never be silent about injustice and I fear that makes me a threat in this political climate.

***This post was featured on Pants Suit Nation today with over 19.8K views 😊💛 Thank you!

Atatiana Jefferson was murdered

Something I wrote for Atatiana;

Excuse me, What is it about my blackness that is a threat?

#BothamJean was eating ice cream in his HOME.

#AtatianaJefferson was playing w/ her nephew in her HOME

Police saw their blackness, their presence as a “threat”. They were simply LIVING. Are they jealous that we come from Kings and Queens? Black and Brown women know how to endure and survive true heartbreak and pain. This country has stolen land, men, women, children, and babies from us. This too shall pass. But first we must let it hurt.😢

Don’t ask me why I keep shouting in my posts. I’m furious, we all should be!!

Don’t ask why we protest, why we kneel, or boycott. There have been too many hashtags.

Ask America and our leaders why this keeps happening. I don’t wanna see no damn hugs from judges period. I’m not a conspiracy person but I’ve followed the money and Trump is backed and funded by the police union.  This woman was murdered a year to the day Bothem Jean was killed. Last week the main witness Joshua Brown was murdered.  I’ve been saying minorities are under attack in Texas. Either by Police or Ice.

#blacklivesmatter #brownlivesmatter #IMightBeNext

TEXAS

I will say this AGAIN, POC are being targeted in Texas! FOLLOW THE MONEY!

- What bothers me and is NOT being discussed or highlighted is that Texas LEADS in the deaths of Trans WOC. It’s not even discussed on the news! All they care about is Joe and Hunter Biden and he isn’t even the front runner!

- TWO Black people have been murdered by police in their home by police 

- ICE terrorizing brown people 

Trump is backed and funded by the police unions. He ran on law and order. He constantly breaks the law and has YET to be held accountable. He thinks he can treat minorities any kind of way and get away with it. I’m not blind to the fact that Amber G. gets 10 years when the Dallas police expected her to walk. Then Joshua Brown was murdered LAST week now this. A year after Bothem was murdered. Speak out!✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿🏳️‍🌈

#IMightBeNext
#AmINext
#SayHerName
#AtatianaJefferson

Venting

Typed this in my Acoustic Neuroma support group today. Whatever you have, or are going through, it helps to find a supportive support group. I’m involved in several online since I am a complicated and rare case as well as have attended some in person. My online confession/rant today:

Need to rant/ vent: I HAVE REAL FREAKING PAIN! Your migraine or cramps don’t compare! Maybe if ppl stopped judging and being condescending they could empathize what it feels like NOT to have control of your own body plus being in pain is BEYOND frustrating! Yesterday I woke up and 🤮, today the left side of my head is killing me. 🤷🏽‍♀️ #tired

Fatigue is common with this condition. After ten years I understand why. Your body is tired of doing it’s normal job plus fighting off this daily headache. I do Botox, epidurals, & occipital nerve blocks and that just takes the edge of the daily attacks. They are the worse. It’s an invisible disability so sometimes I feel as if people aren’t as sympathetic or empathetic to how bad things are because they can’t physically see the pain.

My Name is Kimberly and I suffer from depression. Check on your friends💛🌸#WorldMentalHealthDay #mentalhealthawareness #thursdaythoughts #thursdaymotivation

SHAME! We can impeach Trump but the damage is DONE. MY Love, thoughts, and positive energy ✨ goes out to ALL the women who came forward with their stories as well during the Kavanaugh hearings. This administration has attacked ppl that look like me and my children and that is PERSONAL like a motherfucka! (And I’m NOT sorry about my language) 🤷🏽‍♀️
Since our POTUS thinks we make this shit up to “con” people. They demonize POC for things they did in their youth everyday and call them thugs but wanna promote BK. I wonder how many POC he has convicted for the very actions he is being accused of. 🧐🤔 Hate to bring up race but as Childish Gambino says “This is America”.
The way these women are being treated even after we had the #metoomovement is why we don’t come forward. Women have always been treated as less than plus if u are a minority woman you already have two strikes against you. I pray we get out and vote cuz I don’t want that world for my girls. #whyididntreport

Chanel

This is Me. #alterego #Chanel #KimberlyChanel #fifthgrandchild #Sheisme #blackgirlmagic #favescent #Chanel5 #brownskingirls #browngirlbloggers #blackbloggers 

The start......

This is what I wrote 8 years ago as my status. 

So tired of being the poster child for "wow, your story is a miracle and keep up the fight but we can't help you or we don't have the funds to help you but don't give up even though it's been two years of dealing with agencies not set up to assist my situation."SMH

#VOTE

Another Mass Shooting

It’s Labor Day Weekend and there has been ANOTHER Mass shooting under THIS administration. Most of America agrees to common sense gun reform except our President is owned by the NRA and lacks common sense. Again the suspect was a White Male. But the Republican and Conservative talking points want us to believe that we should fear Muslims and Migrants even though not one mass shooting has been by anything other than white males who they claim have mental illness. Well, if Trump had not rolled backed Obama’s safeguard so people with mental illness could not purchase firearms maybe some of those lives lost could have been saved. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Trump is quick to blame Mental illness when he knows he cut the budget to MHS. It took me over three months to find a therapist for my teenager due to their cuts in funding but she was 18 so she could easily go purchase a gun. If this administration is not going to move on gun reform they can AT LEAST stop trying to gut Obamacare because it protects people with pre existing conditions and every person injured in a mass shooting has just had their life turned upside down. They are going to need medical treatment as well as Mental therapy for PTSD. I watched an interview with family members of those killed in shootings and they said the nation never gets a chance to learn about the victims and grieve for them because another shooting has happened.💔 #prayersfortexas 

Pants Suit Nation

My story of my ten year battle with my tumor was featured on Pants Suit Nation on Facebook. This is like the fifth time something I’ve written has been featured on their site. I love the community there. Everyone is super supportive. It’s like each person is giving you a hug of support. It is really appreciated. When you have a brain tumor or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) it’s easy to get really down and depressed. In those ten years I’ve lost the majority of my friends. I’m not as close with my family and my husband cheated on me while I was still in the ICU. The first thing I did when I got out of the hospital was file for divorce, then I had to do radiation, a fast moving toddler, and a crumbling marriage on my own. But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger 💪🏽💪🏽💅🏽🙌🏽

Thoughts ten years later

The day after finding out you have a Brain Tumor.......I don’t remember much, I found out about the tumor in the ER but they couldn’t give me details until I saw the surgeon. That was the longest night of my life. I remember meeting my neurosurgeon selected based on the insurance I had. I’m about to sound like Bernie for 2.5 seconds Let’s be clear, YOU THINK YOU HAVE GOOD INSURANCE UNTIL YOU FIND OUT YOU HAVE A BRAIN TUMOR! 😑 My doctor had never operated on my type of tumor before but I could go to LA where they commonly treat them, if I could get my insurance to authorize me to go out of network, you know the deal. In the meantime, this whopper is pressing on my brain stem and had been the entire pregnancy. I was in a learning hospital so doctors and interns kept coming in to read my chart amazed that I survived my entire pregnancy and the birth with such a large tumor. Plus the type of tumor I had was rare and was usually found in older people. My doctor said I was dying when he met me; basically walking and dying. I was going to drop dead at any moment. I was the youngest patient diagnosed but even still I didn’t know how much time I was working with. Basically, pay attention when you select your medical plan! So many ppl think “I don’t get sick” “I don’t need insurance” are the same one ppl with GoFundMe pages when they get sick 🤷🏽‍♀️ Vote so we all can have quality insurance. Your life can change in the blink of an eye, 10 years ago mine did. #votebluein2020 #saveACA #saveobamacare

Ten years and still fighting

TEN years ago on August 9th my world changed in a blink of an eye when I walked into an ER and heard “u have a mass” and didn’t come home for a year. After just having a baby 3 weeks prior. Aaliyah and I learned how to walk together. (She will always be faster lol) but Jordan suffered the worst. The tumor doesn’t just affect you. Its a cruel disease to sit back watching it change you AND the people around you. So naive ten years ago but what choice did I have but to fight? I don’t regret one surgery cuz I’m alive with my girls. I’m blessed. Thank you to every person who has ever said a prayer for me in my journey. I truly appreciate it. I love my village. 💪🏽🙏🏽💛💋#tenmoreyears #nineteensurgerieslater #VPshunts #acousticneuroma #anniversaryofmyrebirth
#tohellandback #stillfighting