Brianna Mercado (@BriPositive) header
Brianna Mercado (@BriPositive) profile picture

Brianna Mercado

@BriPositive

#BriPositive | Dance Artist, Choreographer, & Educator | @TEDx Speaker | @UCBerkeley Grad | Grad Student in Mind-Body Medicine @SaybrookU

 New York City
bripositive.com
Joined July 2011
  • Tweets4.4K
  • Following582
  • Followers602
Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America? , by @RBReich open.substack.com/pub/robert…
63
The Gospel According to Dogs open.substack.com/pub/thecor…
1
90
To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller - The Atlantic apple.news/AXjjhcWlkQnKNFfb4…
To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller

To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller

Self-esteem is overrated. The better path to enlightenment is through contemplating one’s insignificance.

apple.news
80
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here - The Atlantic apple.news/A_5WXybq8Swmy7WFN…
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.

apple.news
41
"The aim of all #education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves." Arnold J. Toynbee
30
Northern Lights from Harwich Port, MA
Image from Brianna Mercado (@BriPositive)
Image from Brianna Mercado (@BriPositive)
78
"The world’s poorest countries will suffer the most from climate change despite being least responsible for it." nytimes.com/2025/10/28/clima…
For Years, Islands Have Warned of Climate Disaster. They’ve Seen Little Help. (Published 2025)

For Years, Islands Have Warned of Climate Disaster. They’ve Seen Little Help. (Published 2025)

As Hurricane Melissa threatens island nations across the Caribbean, many are already burdened by debt from a string of climate-fueled crises.

nytimes.com
59
At Stanford, amara tabor-smith Explores a More Expansive Vision of Dance Education dancemagazine.com/amara-tabo… "My greatest hope is that people are teaching in ways that are liberatory and contributing to social transformation, recalibration and collective well-being..."
At Stanford, amara tabor-smith Explores a More Expansive Vision of Dance Education

At Stanford, amara tabor-smith Explores a More Expansive Vision of Dance Education

An award-winning performer, choreographer, artistic director, and educator, amara tabor-smith taught at University of California, Berkeley, for more than a decade and, since 2017, has been an artist...

dancemagazine.com
28
“I’m trying to shift from extrinsic validation to intrinsic validation, the belief that I am using my skills for a worthy purpose.” apple.news/AAq3yJUNFRCGbp9NO…
Column | A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness

Column | A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness

How can we stay happy in an age gone mad, when it feels as though all is unstable? A study out of Cornell suggests a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a happiness hack for our...

apple.news
11
Practice is a rehearsal open.substack.com/pub/lisaol…
92
Brianna Mercado retweeted
Maria Popova (@themarginalian) profile picture
Maria Popova
@themarginalian7 Apr 2024
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” Baldwin's timeless advice on writing, which applies to all creative work themarginalian.org/2016/02/0…
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing

James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”

themarginalian.org
1
94
5
302
24,140
#AaronBushnell bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
Aaron Bushnell: US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington

Aaron Bushnell: US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington

Secret Service agents extinguished the flames during the incident on Sunday afternoon.

bbc.com
116
“You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.” - #AudreLorde
87
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -#AudreLorde
56
When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love themarginalian.org/2024/02/1… via @brainpicker

When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of...

“All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms.”

themarginalian.org
43
The Israeli military is bombing Rafah, the most densely populated area in the world, while Americans watch the Super Bowl. This is intentional. This is genocide. We're demanding the world watching the #superbowl turn their eyes to #Rafah. #alleyesongaza #CeasefireNOW
Image from Jewish Voice for Peace (@jvplive)
436
11,962
375
18,094
985,215
"Whatever one’s views on the fairness, or lack thereof, of individual cases, the evidence now clearly shows that, in many cases, talent and power have been valued over acceptable human behavior." chicagotribune.com/entertain…
When the abuser is the job-creator, speaking out becomes harder

When the abuser is the job-creator, speaking out becomes harder

In an interview given in support of “Michael Jackson’s This is It,” the 2009 documentary about the London concert series that was never performed due to Jackson’s death weeks before it began, leading...

chicagotribune.com
27
When the abuser is the job-creator, speaking out becomes harder chicagotribune.com/entertain…
When the abuser is the job-creator, speaking out becomes harder

When the abuser is the job-creator, speaking out becomes harder

In an interview given in support of “Michael Jackson’s This is It,” the 2009 documentary about the London concert series that was never performed due to Jackson’s death weeks before it began, leading...

chicagotribune.com
28
Brianna Mercado retweeted
Lodro Rinzler (@lodrorinzler) profile picture
Lodro Rinzler@lodrorinzler13 Oct 2023
Society is made up of you, me and many other people. The practice of seeing another’s suffering and opening our heart to them is one that will help create a positive and peaceful ripple in our society More on this topic in the first piece on our substack: thelaundry.substack.com
Image from Lodro Rinzler (@lodrorinzler)
1
1
141
Brianna Mercado retweeted
Misan Harriman (@misanharriman) profile picture
Misan Harriman
@misanharriman20 Sep 2023
This film is nothing short of a masterpiece. An intimate observation of the symphony of life told with such an assured and honest lens by Mathew Heinermann And as for @JonBatiste and the hypernova that is @suleikajaouad , your love is the prototype. We are all so lucky to be able to bear witness to your waltz through life together. Astonishing in every way.
Image from Misan Harriman (@misanharriman)
3
64
314
16,720
Load more