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Briana š“ 34. Black since 1502. š Salem Had It Coming š Swimming thru the depths in the Great Lakes region. She/Her.
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2018
I wrote about the fires in Southern California as part of a series in prescribed burns, fire and anarchism I an doing on Substack but hadnāt shared here yet bc I been trying to stay off this joint, and I will leave again in a few days, but until then:
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Iāll never forget when I was at an anti-racism workshop and they had us do this interactive game where theyād say a privilege and if you had it youād step forward and ofc I was all the way in the back behind everyone, and one white person kept on looking back and making this face
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Images that would go triple platinum on Tumblr
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Fashionable e-girls with their Midwest hardcore boyfriends
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It was so obviously this weird theatre FOR white people and did nothing for the Black people present. But I will never forget that face it was so funny and I thought it was so weird to be doing to me š but yāall yāall privilege ppl got it.
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Is your outfit actually good or are you just skinny? š§.
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Me: Itās so fucked up when white people-.White women: Youāre talking about men!.Me: No, white people. WW: Rich white men?.Me: No, white PEOPLE. WW: White men regardless of class?.Me: You know what, fuck it, Iām talking about white WOMEN. WW: *calls police*.
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The Latinx/Lat Am culture in question: š©š½āš¦±š±š¾āāļøš©šæš§š¾šØšæāš¦².The Latinxs who get paid to write about it: š©š»šØš¼š©š¼š§š»āš¦°šØš»āš¦°.
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White peopleās obsession with goodness, being told and seen as such, is such a socially and politically destabilizing thing. Like they do not care about putting in any effort or actually doing anything positive for people they just want the affirmation that they Arenāt Bad.
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She THICC (Thot who Hates Capitalists and Cops).
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Ableism pretends that people who are autistic, deaf, blind, etc are HORRIFICALLY limited in communicating when rly abled ppl refuSE to accept the multitudinous ways people communicate outside of very strict parameters and accepted neurotypes.
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Young Black woman says āWhat if we wanted more for Black women than just attaining luxury itemsā and people freaked out lmfao yāall lost.
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Ariana Grande being mad at us for laughing at her bad small bbq finger tattoo when sheās the one that got it while also āsplaining āappreciation vs appropriationā and saying āUH I TOOK DOWN MY JAPANESE LANGUAGE MERCH ACKNOWLEDGE IM A FLAWLESS QUEENā is. peak white woman.
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Itās wild how the whitewashing of cults has led us to this place bc Jim Jonesā Peopleās Temple, arguably the biggest most infamous cult of this past century, targeted and victimized Black people. Almost half the people who died in Jonestown were Black women.
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Me: Men are trash. Yāall: But you mean systemically overall as a group with social power, not that individual men are all trash, lots of them are great! š. Me:
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The media could easily churn out articles about how much healthier masks make us, how they protect us from constant surveillance, what a comfort they can be to chronically ill and disabled people to see the rest of us take more responsibility for community health, but alas.
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I feel deep sorrow for the people who died in the twin towers. And I absolutely hate how itās been politicized and weaponized to justify so much more violence, imperialisn, hate crimes, surveillance, murder and the shifting of the US political system even further right.
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White autistic people keep on announcing to us that autism actually imbues them w/ this innate unshakeable ability to see inequality and a superior sense of justice and morality and I fail to see how thatās any different from the other times white people have proclaimed as much.
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āOh so weāre cancelling the founding fathers nowā wait was u fr rockinā with them in the first place?.
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āLight colored eyesā this is a white woman. Being Mexican doesnāt negate this. Sheās speaking a European language. Thereās nothing interesting going on here.
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I really like your clever and informed take on suits and menswear, and I know with this tweet youāre mostly referring to weird white right wing Alpha men who are trying to channel a certain type of old white American masculinity with their cigars, but youāre def wrong on this
im supportive of everyone having a hobby but there is no cool way to smoke a cigar. it always looks really dumb I'm sorry.
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I donāt believe pre-colonial or Indigenous people were/are right about every single little thing bc frankly thatās impossible, they donāt need to be, thatās dehumanizing. But some of yāall truly believe that and it is strange! Gonna cook yourselves alive in the sun for what?.
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@GhettoBasquiat Iām very concerned that you looked at the sheer amount of multiples of everything that these people have and got mad that their own CHILD is taking *one* of each for themselves. .
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The Jameela Jamil situation is exactly why POC and LGBTQ as umbrella identifiers is inadequate when it is time to name the REAL hierarchies and complexities of ID when marginalized people are violent, exploitative and hurtful towards Black LGBTQ people in particular.
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The nuclear family is a white, capitalism familial structure that isnāt sustainable or healthy for communities. Non-white cultures have systems where everyone is minded by and accountable to more than just immediate blood family, and the state has done a lot to dismantle that.
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To Italian Americans worried that without Colombus they donāt have a historical figure to look up to and be proud of, consider this: I donāt give a fuck.
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I hear a lot of reformers/liberals/carceralists say āAbolitionists are overly idealistic and think everyoneās just gonna get along if we got rid of prisons and police, they have no plan other than unfounded optimism!ā I wanna talk about that a bit šŖ”š§µ:.
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OK I have a story related to this response to this tweet. I was in line at coat check at the end of a show with my partner trying to get our stuff. Behind us was two young women of color, barely old enough to be there. They had gotten the gem, a setlist from the headlining band!
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This is a great lesson in how Christian colonization has created a world filled with self affirming and fulfilling prophecy. Thereās actually MANY non-Christian ways to track time (ask Jewish and Muslim ppl what year it is) but colonization makes it so we go by Christian measures.
Atheist: There is no Jesus. Me: Okay, when was the wheel invented?. Atheist: Around 300 B.C. Me: Before who?? Before who???
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Iām done. Iām finished. Goodbye! Shdhshhahadbudwjhe
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They were all Indigenous Maya. Felipeās mother spoke Chuj.Jakelin spoke Qāeqchi.Claudia was of the Mam people. The complexity of border violence must be named lest we lose their truths to flattened ideas of Latinx identity. Art by TK Tunchez (@ lasofrendas on IG)
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The way that white people of any political or religious background pretty reliably talk about Black people like we are their petulant children they either adore or chastize if we step out of line is a deeply racist dynamic.
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Thereās something deeply wrong with settler society that those ppl think technological advancement and colonialism need each other, and that theyād pick a fucking smart phone over the life of the planet and billions of people, thousands of civilizations and nations etc.
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I keep seeing radlibs decoupling mutual aid work from its other key intracommunal and radical praxis and educational aspects to just make it about charity and passing around the same $20 bucks and I think thatās a huge disservice and misunderstanding of the work of mutual aid.
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I outed a prominent spoken word poet as a rapist (he harmed a friend, they asked for support in exposing him). People rallied to forgive him on the behalf of my friend and other victims that came forward. He went on to abuse another young woman as well as his dying wife.
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Anyways Iām a writer and my latest piece (with great analysis from some rad folks) just came out today! Check it out šš½.
Whatās the deal with the Latine vote? @brujacontumbao considers in a new op-ed. The diverse Latine experience, shaped by factors like class, immigration status, race, & class, is too often oversimplifiedāboth by outsiders & within our own communities.
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Re: Zimmerman was community police-we conveniently forget when talking about how police come from slave patrols that those slave patrols were comprised of deputized private white citizens who were called by other private citizens to police and catch runaway slaves.
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@alexissgraceee Ahh yes all the conjugations for the Latin word meaning āBuried in Debtā.
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Beyond AAVE being a legitimate form of English & an example of afro-syncretism and creativity, it just does and described things standard English cannot. Say āYou got me fucked upā in Standard English.
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Over half of Border Police are Latinx/Hispanic. Absolutely NOT surprising. Iāll say it again and again, Latinidad alone IS NOT a cohesive or radical social or political identity to organize under or thru. It just isnāt.
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I challenge people who are immediately impatient or mean to folks who might be a little rude, socially awkward and offputting bc I long learned these people are often ND/autistic, looking for connection and deserve patience snd inclusion. But they can be in the wrong! The end!.
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One of these days you will understand your RACE is NOT your ethnicity, not your ancestry or culture(s), not your blood quantum for this and that, but how you are PERCEIVED and PLACED in a colonized white supremacist world. Thatās it.
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Nowās a perfect time to remind everyone that Camilla Cabello is not a woman of color, her ethnicity doesnāt magically make her brown. Sheās a white Cuban.
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Hey, itās cool to be new to abolition as a framework and concept. Whatās not cool is to spread the lie that we ādonāt mean it,ā that itās an intentionally sensationalized statement and what we āreally wantā is defunding or reform. We want full abolition. We mean it. Now.
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Yāall owe Black radicals who did not vote an apology. You owe us an aggressive contingency plan for how you plan to be responsible and accountable for your vote for Biden.
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Leaving aside the junk race science of genetic testing, this really pushes the nonsense conspiracy theory that the colonizers of the world were Secret Jews All Along, which is simultaneously antisemitic and a convenient way for white Christians to once again blame someone else
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Cakes Da Killa, Kalifa, Big Momma, Mykki, Junglepussy, Dai, Zebra Katz, Njena Reddd Foxxx, Maluca, Kiddy Smile, Rye Rye, Venus X and REAL ghetto goth, Bug Freedia, Nicky Da B-everyoneās talking about indie sleaze but the Black queer underground was where it was ACTUALLY at.
Iāve been showing the children this video a lot this year, THEY WERE NOT THERE. This on tumblr CHANGED MY LIFE.
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@ivieani Iām saying bc how are people forgetting the order of things so quick? Cleo been out here.
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Me: As a white person, you-. White person who is Latinx, Ashkenazi, Italian, touched a Black person once etc: UHM EXCUSE me I PREFER white passing! š. Me: Uh ok, as a white-passing white person who is very much white white, you-.
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Yep. I post periodic reminders to people that your voter info is not only accessible by the public in court but people put it online and they have no obligation to take it down bc itās public record, so you can get doxxed with it. Itās unsafe for many people for many reasons.
fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug.
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This is at the heart of ppl being afraid of being criticized for being ignorant, they donāt care that their ignorance is harmful or serves power, they just care that it Feels Bad and Youāre Telling Me Iām Bad and threaten to leave bc they canāt handle that.
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EVERY TIME a story like this comes out some chucklefuck white person has to say something like this. Indigenous people were and are yet relentless in their resistence. Europeans played dirty and were deceitful as fuck. Yāall donāt read any damn books.
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He was autistic, infodumping, and splaining and microaggressive! . Note: I am ND! Most of the people in my life have always and currently are ND and/or autistic! I fell for my partner bc they were INFODUMPING ABOUT PUFFINS TO A CAPTIVATED CROWD IN THE MIDDLE OF DANCING AT A SHOW.
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Europeans refuse to accept that theyāve been routinely evil like this to the point of it being mundane for centuries now so they need this scapegoat, which is a reason for the Holocaust Awareness Industrial complex, itās part of apologetic mythologies colonizers tell themselves.
Reducing the Nazis to the level of an average colonial empire is absolutely disgraceful. They were uniquely evil. Europe didn't just collectively decide to pin Germany to a cross and put all their sin upon it! The Holocaust was the worst single event in human history!.
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Degendering/making your language gender neutral greatly radically changes the way you look and engage topics in a very powerful way. It doesnāt ruin your potential for discussing power, gender dynamics or sexism/patriarchy at all, it frees you to do so much better.
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He was clearly very autistic in a heightened space where a band that is of great importance to hin had performed and he was excited and physically overstimulated and trying to work thru the excitement by talking to other fans! But he was deeply sexist and racist while doing so!.
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CW YTs. Europeans killed so many Indigenous people during colonialism they changed the temp of the earth. The slaughter of Africans in the Middle Passage changed shark migration patterns. So on and so forth. You canāt be a white colonial dickhead and be an environmentalist.
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SWers have LONG named this misappropriation of their work by civilians repackaged as girl power feminism in which you pretend you can half heartedly sugar yr way out of patriarchy, get showered in gifts and still resent and divorce yourselves from the SWers who do it for a living.
Someone on TikTiok said the girls are taking too much dating advice from sex workers and that's spot on.
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Itās so funny how many Western diets are so oriented around meat and dairy even with vegans and their uber expensive substitutes.
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So thereās a really fucked up and racist post circulating FB of a white goth furious about Black people āAppropriating goth musicā and I am here to tell you:. Goth music is Black, and POC. We influenced the music. We were in the bands and scenes. Thereād be no alt without us.
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Not all Latinxs have Native ancestry OR are connected to their people if they happen to. Ancestry alone doesnāt make you Native. Latinxs are not monolithically anything. Not one race. Not all one trajectory in our various histories. Not a country. Not even a shared tongue.
.@AOC speaks out against ICE and CPB: "We are standing on Native land, and Latino people are descendants of Native people. And we cannot be told and criminalized simply for our identity and our status."
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Ava DuVernay is not the revolution, is not on the grounds with us, and is not at the most risk with us. She doesnāt have our perspective or goals in the struggle. Sheās frankly not the one to ask or offer any imput or perspective.
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You didnāt āfind out about mole people,ā theyāre homeless, itās just that everyone ignores and misunderstands homeless and poor transient folk (who have always created and had their own systems of community, belonging and governance) bc weāre taught to look away and hate them.
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OK so fuck it, let me talk about my experiences with the DSA, why I have SO many issues with them, and why I *know* majority white leftist spaces like theirs can actually only ever replicate whiteness, not liberation, and Iām going to do so by starting with this pic.
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Yāall need to go to events at the library more. Free and open to community, kid friendly, you can often see a great author, learn a skill, get some free stuff like tests and masks and NARCAN. Yāall sounding like Batman bc you donāt have lives and community and it is scary.
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White Argentinians have a lot of gall talking about who does or doesnāt belong from an area they colonized and only came to a few generations ago themselves š.
I need everyone to understand that being a latino is not something that passes on from generation to generation, but a social-economic constructed identity that comes from the common experience of living in Latam. This is what they teach us in school, here in actual Latam.
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Itās not that abolitionists think people are perfect angels who donāt commit *acts of harm* and thus donāt need checking and minding, itās that we understand the carceral system we have is.1. Much more harmful than any one individual .2. Not about ending harm, but for punishment.
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So I will say, the issue w/ RosalĆa taking up space in Latinx music is primarily bc sheās not Black, not necessarily bc you canāt be white and Latinx. You can be. But she isnāt. Sheās purposely bandwagoning onto Latinidad bc we allow white Latinxs to exploit Black Latinx culture.
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Iām actually rly tired of people saying suburbs and rich communities āarenāt policedā amd leabing it at that, or acting their alleged lack of policing and ample wealth and infrastructure are the models for a world with less policing.
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At a rather large club show with mostly white people with different band shirts and merch to pontificate on at hand, how did he manage to find the gender marginalized Latines of color, including my Black ass, to be a fucking Scene Cop to?.
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Do yāall ever realize that the reason why celebrities are so big on that weird bootstrappy self-help optimistic life advice bullshit is because theyāre winning in a system youāre losing in, that you HAVE to lose in for them to continue to win, and they want to quell you.
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Again: This is a white man and he has to be closer to my age in his 30s and these girls were barely legal, why he was even talking to them much less being so fucking rude and condescending was beyond me. I was listening in with my jaw dropped.
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Twitter Leftists every other week when the convo of Black and Indigenous Autonomy/Sovereignty comes up
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One of the toughest things to realize is that relationships are more than affection, desire, āsparkā or connection, they are built and kept by mutually respectful and agreed upon acts, dedication, consistency, commitment, work. Whether they are platonic or romantic.
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Now my rule for shows and being in the scene is extreme, in that unless you are a trusted friend I do not like to talk music with men especially white men, much less at shows. Iām a Black woman who has been in these scenes for 20 years. IYKYK. I have to be strict about this.
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You all keep talking about cults like they are simply a moral or racial failing, but it isnāt true. Even if we can say Certain demographics are more likely to fall for Certain types of cults, that doesnāt preclude any demo from being vulnerable to the Right person or group.
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At this the girls balked. If you donāt know, heavy/extreme music scenes generally arenāt like mainstream ones, thereās still fan culture bs but we generally arenāt remembering the individual names of every band member like that. We just dig the music. But dude got mad at them!.
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We have to preemptively reject how the West is going to decide to apologize for or rehabilitate itself for what is happening in Gaza right now. The tide is turning which means power will just try its best to look good while maintaining control.
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He sincerely gets more upset and starts interrogating them! Eventually theyāre like āI donāt know what you want us to do? We donāt know the name of the band member we got the set list from. Itās fine if you do but we donātā He goes onto tell them they arenāt really fans šµ.
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He was like āUHH WAS IT *band memberās name here* or *other band memberās name here*?ā It is IMMEDIATELY clear to me that although this is NOT common for this scene, he finds it normal to know names and a lot of details of band members. Again the girls insist they donāt know.
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Mexico itself has to apologize for its treatment of Indigenous people like tf.
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Woman gets stalked, fucked up, abused and/or killed by her male partner: wow that sucks but u canāt just be with anybody u know??? Gotta pick better!. Woman leaves before it gets that bad: WOW u canāt give him another chance?? Yr so stuck up, ur gonna fuck up his kids!.
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I know people want to combat the vilification of autism by noting the way itās positive and an asset but this over-valorizing of autism especially by white people who already have this gross undue sense of superiority is just the other side of the vilification coin imo.
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SO a felon canāt vote, but a felon can be president? Through this can we perhaps see how these legal criminal distinctions are often arbitrary and social, and have little to do with some sense of good or bad, and everything to do with power, class and race?.
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It was wild bc they were honestly too shocked to be rude to him at all at first, they kind of just let him rock with his interrogation until the end when they were more sick of him asking 2887 questions more than anything, they didnāt accuse him of splaining, they just got tired!.
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Hereās what I feel people (tbh white westerners largely) get wrong about neurodivergence: The main push we should be fighting for regarding ableism is dismantling European cultural norms, settler capitalism and carceral systems that deem certain disabilities as āundesirableā.
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Light skin and/or mixed women, regardless of ethnicity or background, get fetishized as EXOTIC and are preferred by everyone. Brown and Dark skinned women, esp if they donāt ālook special,ā regardless of their background, are denigrated and treated like shit. Bc Colorism yāall.
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Listen, fuck electoral politics forever, so as someone who has that position Iām astonished at how much electoralaboos (mis)understand the Latine vote and demo. No one except Black Latinas understand Latines as a group it seems, bc we have been sounding the alarm on this.
Trump is receiving more Latino support than before. And that tells me so much. Voting for a person with an anti-immigrant and pro-deportation agenda which will undoubtedly impact you FIRST says a lot.
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A white man who had seen this happen at the end of the show or just noticed them with the setlist in hand approached them and asked about the setlist. They politely and excitedly relayed their experience. He then went to ask the name of the member that they got the setlist from.
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PSA: This fall donāt share tired revisionist white feminist narratives about The Salem Witch Trials as the persecution of (white) womenās traditional practices, misogyny etc. They omit the truth of the racist, Christian, white settler context of Salemās society and the trials.
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Will maybe write more about it later, but: Iām 100% here for dismantling celebrity activism/organizer bullshit and the capitalist, individualist practice of reducing movements to singular leaders. That said, you need a lot of strong participants for a leaderless movement.
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Weāre just ācr*zyā and āparanoidā for āstillā wearing masks. That would be a very shitty and disingenuous way to paint people if the pandemic was over, but itās ridiculous and irresponsible to do that when the pandemic is in fact far from over. We still need masks.
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Letās retire āwhite passingā as a racial ID. I am moving beyond it. It has a space when we talk about histories of BIPOC, SPECIFICALLY Black people, coding and passing for white in spaces where it was dangerous or illegal to, but it isnāt a racial identity. Yr white.
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@DoreenGLM Twitterās been having this take lately and I donāt like it. Men hate women and they seek the approval of men bc theyāre horrible misogynists, it isnāt about them secretly being gay. Gay men are also very misogynistic.
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Like earlier today I saw this sticker on a car that was of a hand holding a g*n pointing at you and saying āNothing in here is worth losing your life overā and in my head I was like ā???? Then nothing is worth killing someone over!ā.
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Man. Be careful meeting online friends and boos yāall. Might be a big wave of this in the next few years after ppl start meeting up post pandemic. Not even on some stranger danger shit, just ppl be lying about the weirdest shit online.
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The whole time this white dude had no idea what he had done wrong even as people explained how he was crossing lines but realized someone yelling at him āPick up your damn ticket off the desk and go to the back of the line far the fuck away from usā meant he was in danger lol.
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