burning sapphire
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Blacqueerfemme geographer in the south. a girl has no theoretical home. Currently lost in the wake. My tweets are my own.
Joined December 2014
Imperialist-white-supremacist-Heteropatriarchy: Racial Capitalism: Abolition: Racism: Heterosexism: For anyone still confused. #doyourownlearning.
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If your so-called global solidarity can’t withstand the ontological reality of anti-Blackness, I don’t want it. It will sacrifice Black people for someone else’s liberation. If global solidarity is so important to you, why not revive Pan-Africanism and get some attn for Congo,.
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Meteorologist, Scientist, not humanist are crying on air. Why you ask? They know the full extent of what these hurricanes do and how many lives will be lost. The political inaction, the organized abandonment, the unpreparedness is going to have us all in tears soon enough. 🔜 😭.
NBC6's @JohnMoralesTV is the longest tenured TV meteorologist in south Florida. When he gets this serious, this emotional, on the air, viewers pay attention:
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I know y’all love Ariana. And she plays vapid, shallow, calculating, and self-centered too well. But let’s be real: Glinda isn’t ‘good.’ And she’s not morally ambiguous because she had one moment of remorse. She’s a villain-in-pink who uses Elphaba to secure her spot with the
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@praxispapi I actually think this is very true and that yes, the Abrahamic god will only avenge your mortal and material suffering in death. It only comes to those who wait (for death).
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Children, particularly Black children, are the most oppressed class of people. Advocating for the basics—like not being hit, touched without consent, or having their bodies publicly commented on—often feels like the most radical thing people have ever heard. And we are nowhere.
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@LMToyotaPrevia It also doesn’t create kinship where there is/was none. I learned that in Lose Your Mother.
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To the Black men who believe in ‘misandrynoir’: your oppression is rooted in being Black and feels “gendered” because men and women are treated differently. But there’s nothing Black men endure that Black women and femmes don’t—you just fail to see the parallels or recognize it.
“Black men face gendered oppression” . OH —-I’ve never see that before except in texts like BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT…BLACK SEXUAL POLITICS…where Collins—a black feminist—makes it VERY clear black men face “gender-specific” oppression. Black men aren’t saying anything new.
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I think a better statement is landlords shouldn’t exist. It’s a feudal relationship where landless peasants have to pay the lord for the privilege of living on their land because a property owning class is hoarding all the homes.
"I don't think landlords should profit.". So if I own a home, and I allow you to rent it out so that you have a place to stay, I shouldn't profit??? People really don't live in reality.
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bell hooks never advocated for Black women marrying white men to end patriarchy. In fact, concubinage was a tool of slavery that reinforced white patriarchal power by sexually exploiting Black women. Her work critiques these systems, not supports them. Let’s get it right.
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This is just categorically true the average man is an awful person compared to the avg nonman. But if you look at the comments you will find more than a few men that blame the mother or gfs. Men’s bad behavior or lack of socialization must always be the fault of a woman 🤬.
Men are not socialized to be good people, I say this all the time.
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If theoretical disciplines across Black Studies—AP 2.0, CRT, New Slavery Studies, AfroFeminism—do not contribute to a liberation thesis, perhaps that says more about the existence of a liberatory narrative than the truths of the disciplines themselves.
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@TheZodiacHeir If a White man’s belief in Black pride was genuine he would understand his presence as a threat to ALL Black people.
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I expect nothing less from a columnist at Jacobin. White leftists making sure anti-Blackness remains unthought. Who exactly are you telling to read less Fanon and more Marx? Who do you want to make mules for your Marxist revolution? Also, isn’t your whole thing ‘make an.
Read less Fanon and more Marx.
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Happy Hispanic/Latine heritage month.
Friendly Reminder that Haiti is not only a Latin American country, but THEE FIRST one at that.
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Desire for men by men is real and doesn’t need to be justified but you can experience this with women and femmes. 😂.
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Finally getting to the anthology on Anti-Blackness, there are some heavy hitters here. I have read almost every Black author's seminal work in this book. Thank you @feelmyhelpcomin for the recommendation.
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Hating OF creators and pornstars while consuming their content every night before they go to bed.
What's your favourite misogynistic contradiction? Mine is that women mature faster but men are are leaders 💀😭.
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There is no prescription. Hooks is not telling BW to do anything. She is making an observation.
@burnedsapphire @feelmyhelpcomin Are you saying he misrepresented what Hooks says?.
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So many things. That they exist at all, they own property they do nothing to keep and make hand over fist for it. But also that I don’t know who they are. They hid behind Llcs and shit to hide themselves. And when you do know them they are usually awful.
What do you hate the most about your landlord?.
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Glinda’s goodness thrives on Elphaba’s wickedness, her green body acts a fetish object absorbing society’s disgust. Similar to Anthony Paul Farley’s argument about how blackness functions in “The Black Body as Fetish Object,” Elphaba’s otherness creates the contrast that makes.
Something the #WickedMovie improves on from the show is its depiction of Galinda's complicit nature & how she views goodness as a performance rather than action. She wants to do good but not at the expense of her comfort. Ariana Grande's quieter choices allow these ideas to shine
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Say I agree that EVERY person in the US is a colonizer. The prison slave, the indigenous, impoverished Black people, wife slaves, children who are forced to carry, etc. Does our survival not matter? Should we only make decisions based on others oppressions and not our own?.
No one’s misunderstanding her. She said: . - EVERY person in America is a colonizer. Even the ones who got colonized/enslaved. - Everyone who’s not in America is NOT upholding oppression. - Oppressed people in America are making these choices out of comfort.
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@thenation Can we not make the same mistakes as the last election? By picking the most milquetoast candidate to appease those shook by any move to the left. What was Hilary’s slogan America’s already great? It’s fine don’t worry. Change nothing. Be racist in private. Please not again.
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Until all these groups unite around ending anti-blackness ….
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Intervention – “A Femifesto for Teaching and Learning Radical Geography”
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I kept saying you don’t need their acceptance.
The sadness of Elphaba being genuinely excited to attend her first party and her face when she realizes Galinda set her up to be laughed at, the excruciating commitment by Cynthia Erivo to play this scene in wicked so tragically yet heartfelt.
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BP don’t to get to own anything they create. Black culture will always be picked apart for the enjoyment and capitalization of their human counterparts.
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I had to check to make sure I didn't miss something. And the subtweets didn't disappoint because "Husbeast" is wicked work.
Now my ex is white. Husbeast is Black. TBH I am a handful. Ambitious, highly active, and not willing to be unhappy just to say I am in a relationship. I love Husbeast down, I still almost left him at one point because we were not getting along. It's not always easy to be with me.
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Please use this information to shame any man who says men are the protectors.
UN Women's report on femicide showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men.
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Finally getting to Willie Wright’s As Above So Below. <3 the use of Baldwin and Simone but I can’t help but wonder is anti-Blackness —->environmental racism or is environmental racism a form of anti-Blackness. I’m partial to the later but he argues the former.
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Chicago is showing us how to hold our city officials accountable. We are sick of broken campaign promises. We are sick of waiting on hope and change. We are stronger together than we are apart. We want justice for all workers and if we don’t get it we’ll shut it down. We coming.
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If the internet’s taught me anything, it’s this: never trust a man who calls himself ‘King,’ and especially don’t trust his reading of feminist theory. Please take philosopher out of your bio. 😂😂😂. See @feelmyhelpcomin for the quick philosophy lesson.
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"The cosmogonies of black geographies are not about geography. There is no from, no place that a black 'from' is anchored to. Our present black geographies—the Africas, prisons, north stars—are from nowhere. They are inventions, just as we are." - Katherine McKittrick.
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They’re crying because they’re realizing how rare it is for them to see anything good or beautiful in Black people. It becomes a ‘magical Negro’ moment for them—a triumphant epiphany: ‘Look, I finally did it. I saw beauty in one of them, like that plain rock I overlooked.’ But.
I dream that one day all my people understand that these are not compliments—comparing our beauty to inanimate objects, referring to us as “things”—these are not compliments regardless of ‘intentions.’
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My political identity and thus learning is never fully formed. I relish in getting it wrong and I humble when called out to revise my bad and wrong ideas. We must be expressive and imaginative and unafraid to get what we don’t know wrong so we may get closer to getting it right.
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Pickett’s issue isn’t really about methodology—it’s politics. He claims the youth’s views are just echoes of the abolitionist space they were interviewed in. But then he backtracks because it contradicts his own research 6/
(2/2) . its members with abolitionist messages. If you repeatedly expose youth to these messages (a few of the Coalition's social media posts are below), and then ask them how they feel about police, you are going in circles. They're going to tell you what you told them.
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They need the captive maternals to save them from themselves.
Something that does sadden me is that after all of this, it’s going to be a black woman who is yet again burdened with the task of saving America.
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What about the bias inherent in whiteness—how it shows up in peer review, tenure & promotion, research topics, suggested solutions, and critiques of junior scholars' work? Suggested reading Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris.
(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards.
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I did take issue with it because it was a misrepresentation of her argument. And I stand firmly on that. I’m far from a hooksian feminist mainly because we have moved forward over the last thirty years but we don’t need to lie about what she said.
You took issue with Miron’s assessment of hooks’ work and now you won’t even stand on what was so problematic. This is stan behavior.
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Last week this yt lady taught a pedagogy workshop based on the Game of Thrones class she was teaching. But please tell me more about how classes on critical race theory and spaces for Black students to lament and talk about Blackness is useless.
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They were always going to be unimpressed. Might as well be authentic instead of performing. Tap dancing for white folks is not my ministry shouldn’t be yours either.
I hate “you’re embarrassing our community” blacks. Embarrassing to who? Who are y’all trying to impress? Cause I guarantee it hasn’t worked before.
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Do you feel this way about all philosophy or just ones made by Black people?.
This is the purpose of black academia: wasting time debating shit that truly doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things to appear smart while being useless.
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2nd read of @demonicground(s) for the Athena Co-Learning Collective. Led a discussion with Matt. Take aways: (me) got it from front to back (as much as I can). The collective agrees We cannot create what we can’t imagine. @mttwhrrs @JennRice_Geog @eponandre art by Olivia Krause
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@slooterman I have been thinking about this as well. I’m neurodivergent and would not like that weaponized against me. On one hand I’m against ableist attacks but I agree there are disqualifying conditions for President. The question is cognitive decline or speech Impairment. Not a doctor.
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@feelmyhelpcomin So it’s definitely logic and rhetoric where he got messed up. It’s like he saw the point, then ran a marathon to miss it entirely.
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If the Black isn’t primed to be your whipping boy, this is what you think of them? And how does this prove that you can have the capacity to humanize Black people?.
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It’s silly but please ask if he reads and what’s he reading. Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Art of War, How to Win Friends in his library
i think once you decide, as a woman, to deal with a man. all this advice and tips and tricks on how to do that the “smart” or “best” way are kinda silly tbh. youre gambling and the odds aren’t great. sure you can blow on the dice but what does it really matter.
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@SosoTheWayfarer We weren’t defining blackness as having shared ancestry or phenotype with people from the African continent. And even in your response blackness only exists in relationship to eurasians.
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She would have to endorse Project 2025, call for the police to have full immunity, plan to round up, detain, and deport 20 million migrants, push for a national abortion ban, and allow states to imprison women and nonmen for miscarriages — and assault someone. Maybe then.
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What I love about photography is the permission to look. To look for so long and so hard that you really see something or someone. I walk through life with blinders on trying not to .look to hard. If you stare they will think you off. 1/2.
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If I were interviewing them I would ask:. Did you anticipate the film would be so successful?.How familiar were you with Wicked before auditioning?.What was your experience like auditioning for roles that are so beloved among theater fans?.What did you learn from Idina Menzel and.
Jokingly applied to interview Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande and I got approved help I got 2 days to prepare what do I even ask them
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they don’t really want us, they just want to profit from our ideas. DONT INVEST IN THE MASTERS HOUSE.
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I know a—checks notes—History Professor did not say this demonstrably untrue nonsense about ancient societies. Your queerphobia is showing because you could have just looked this up. The universal existence of homosexuality as deviant does not exist. It was legitimate in many
This explanation does not explain why homosexuality have historically been deemed abnormal or not given the same legitimacy as heterosexuality. There was never a society in antiquity that sanctioned same-sex marriage despite homosexual acts being apart of that culture.
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Y’all claim to be against white supremacy while reinforcing how it polices gender and sexuality. The same system that labeled Black families deviant in the Moynihan Report is being weaponized against queer people and y’all are all for it, all the way down to using marriage as the.
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I’ve been obsessed with Decolonization is Not a Metaphor since 2018 and even hosted a panel on it. Published in 2012, it’s a prominent piece on decolonization, critiquing Occupy, coining the important term “settler moves to innocence,” and shaping discourse around #LandBack .
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You know why Black folks can’t be racist against white folks. Because they can’t weaponize their hatred to effect the life outcomes of white people. Thank you for coming to my #TedTalk #racism #WednesdayWisdom #eachoneteachone.
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And they’ll interpret it as a challenge to their manhood, further entrenching themselves in the myth of Black men being emasculated.
So many black men have increasingly rejected basic black history and politics because their commitment to masculinity makes them avoid “victim mentality.” That same black man will go off cuz a white waiter ignored him. Now racism is real cuz he feels personally disrespected.
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@Mrs_Gavin_Smith @itsgabrielleu This isn’t the flex you think it is. Forced penetration colloquially is understood as rape and even if NY classified it at the time as sexual abuse. So you are ok with a sexual abuser as long as he did use his peen?.
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At this rate, it must be that your selective outrage for the unborn has left you no energy to advocate for the living or do any research. Here are some tried and true data-driven ways to lower abortion comp. sex education, free birth control, economic support for parents. 1/2.
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Now this is a continuous gif I can get behind.
Love is a floating signifier. I’m more curious in learning about people’s associations, myths, attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, psychic investments, libidinal treasures, etc.
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White leftists love having someone white to worship, whether it’s Marx, Lenin, or Bernie—and you’ll go mask off to defend them. At least read current Marxist literature that actually addresses today’s issues and can speak to racism, anti-blackness, and gender. The idea that we.
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If all else fails to defend the indefensible, we can return to baseless claims rooted in anti-Blackness.
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Wait, ban abortion is not on that list. You'll only ban safe abortions. But what about the lives of the women? I thought you were pro-life. So it was never about the unborn. The zygote only matters if it's in a woman's body you say. So controlling women's bodies that's the goal.
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Let me put it in fewer words, gender-specific ≠ gender-based. Also what in the straw man? Who is advocating for unwarranted contempt and lack of study. But also who also deals with those issues alongside Black men and Black women and femmes.
@burnedsapphire The thing you're quoting directly contradicts what you're attempting to say. All you two are effectively arguing is that black men are worthy of contempt and unworthy of objective study.
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@demonicground Welcome to Geography. Black thought is welcome Black people once in a blue moon.
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I had to see this nonsense, so now you do too. This is the material we’re dealing with. How can I engage with this in any way but to make a joke at your expense? How did we even get to this phallic representation of mythical Black power living in every Black man’s Johnson?.
@burnedsapphire Furthermore, it was black pussy the white man feared. It was black dick. Or did we forget the castration rituals that went along with disproportionately lynching black males. No black female was EVER lynched for sleeping with a white man.
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The thing is that while the Dems have moved right to replace the Neo cons. The Right has moved right as well to become Christo-fascist. I just don’t think the lesser evil rhetoric is useful anymore.
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Did you misspell developers an millionaires? Let me fix that for you it should say self serving real estate developers and millionaires looking to profit off the need for housing.
I did a radio interview Monday (2:18 mark), during which the host had a solid comment on the downsides of democracy. He said when cities have low civic engagement, decisions get made by small groups of self-serving activists & interests. This is so true for housing!.
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They don’t like AP because they only want to feel optimism about being Black and they think it disrupts Black pride that leads to “success” (read as assimilation). The pride should not be placed in the positionally or the melanin but in resistance & decolonizing your mind.
“Rather than celebrate Blackness as a cultural identity, Afropessimism theorizes it as a position of accumulation and fungibility (Saidiya Hartman); that is, as condition—or relation—of ontological death. One of the guiding questions of Frank B. Wilderson III’s engagement with.
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How ridiculous would it be if I came into my classroom to tell students what to feel? Or to scold them for not feeling proud.
James Brown: “Say it loud, I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD!”. Ppl like you: “Wait a minute James, you shouldn’t be proud to be black. You se the material analysis of what it means to be black in America is juxtaposed to how white society values blackness blah blah blah
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@LMToyotaPrevia By word salad, I believe they mean the words that are the most important for them to digest.
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White people love taking stories rooted in Black trauma, putting them in whiteface, and using fictional characters to relate—while ignoring the real-life violence, dehumanization, and trauma Black people face daily. Depth and relatability, umm I think you mean clarity on the.
Elphaba being played by a black woman added depth and relatability to her character!
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@RealTimBlack They cannot be serious. Do they really need people to explain that Black and Brown trans homeless people have it worse than white homeless men. Like wtf.
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Bad feminist roll call ✋🏾.
Another bad feminist of color for Sanders. Maybe it’s the socialist politics or the commitment to an agenda to fundamentally change much of what’s wrong in this country. Maybe it’s the mov’t we want & not just the plan. Yeah, believe women even when we don’t agree with you.
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I never understood why we had to read Locke and Aristotle in my race and space class but now I’m actually glad we did because I understand liberalism.
Returning to this tweet and book. A lot of people continue to use the word liberal or liberalism very casually. It’s clear folks did not inherit their definition from political philosophy. Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 7 will give you clarity.
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Just a glimpse of our future here. The rich will baracade themselves in their climate safe house marking themselves safe while we will be amassed outside the gates dying.
Escaping to Mars may be a few decades away yet, but #doomsday mansions in New Zealand are a hot commodity among the #SiliconValley elite who are convinced a #ClimateCrisis will strike:
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If Pickett’s own quant research aligns with Serrano’s claim about these feelings about police coming from experience & Serrano has a rigorous methodology based on qualitative standards, Why the shade? Pickett can’t accept abolition's view of justice as not including the police.7/
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Hungry for Recognition and Redress. Join us on the Lawn. First 25 get pizza
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🧵I bookmarked this paper on carceral seepage, only to see it trending for the wrong reasons. It’s a prime example of whiteness in academia. White scholars study Black individuals, crown themselves experts, then dictate what can be said about Black experiences of injustice 1/.
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@AMReese07 beautiful talk on expanding our view to see the hypervisible violence and unseen resilience.
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@TheZodiacHeir Brain development is not done till around 25 and that effects decision making skills. After that there are other markers of power, level of autonomy, and command of your factualities than can level or maintain a power imbalance between people of different ages.
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When I read this it makes me want to cry. I don't know what I would have done if I couldn't escape in a book. Bring back Reading Rainbow, Levar Burton we need you.
The latest US literacy stats have just dropped and they are every bit as grim as you might imagine. "Approximately 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels"
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Universities need to rethink their admissions. Hear me out: if the point of higher education is to educate, why use aptitude tests and scores to keep people out? Don’t those with lower scores need more education? It feels like the same flawed logic as No Child Left Behind.
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Understanding the terms someone is using and how they are using them is essential to understanding their argument. Why even go back and forth if you are not interested in understanding what it is they are saying?.
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@LMToyotaPrevia This makes me think of the black subjects as inert props that you mentioned in your last tweet.
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It’s so hardctonprocess how violent this university handles Black Students. But as Christina Sharpe asks why are we surprised by Black Death and oppression when it is the antecedent to this modern life.
So impressed and inspired by @rsberry90 and the Coalition for Recognition and Redress demanding that the University of Georgia acknowledge its complicity in slavery, and implement concrete reforms that serve those directly impacted by its legacy.
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I think knowledge is empowering as is creating spaces where Black students are able to talk about their frustrations with narratives of pride.
I have to ask though. does this actually matter at this point? It's nice to acknowledge the ways in which race is socially constructed but, our entire world is built on constructs that inform the way we interact with the world and the way the world interacts with us.
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This reminds me of the disgust I felt when this white woman said, while working with impacted communities in Detroit, that she sincerely believed in incrementalism. It felt like she was asking: why don’t you accept my bandaids for your bullet wounds?.
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I just posted this last night: .Rent, Chicago, or Dreamgirls. Rent has an edgy,artsy, rock vibe. Chicago is all jazz, glamour, and crime drama. Dreamgirls brings soulful, Motown, girl group drama with show-stopping performances. Grease, Hair, Cats, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening,.
everyone on the tl suddenly musical theatre fans. NAME ONE MUSICAL THATS NOT WICKED, HAMILTON, MAMMA MIA, OR HEATHERS.
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