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This book is for the union stewards, abolitionists, and organizers who make the workplace a site of possibility. It gives specificity to critiques of DEI, forces a reckoning with what's happened in our movements and draws a map for the future.
@KatyRODonnell
: Let's dance
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To a lot of Americans, war is abstract, unfathomable. You've never seen a city in pieces. You've never feared war planes overhead. It's so surreal that perhaps you reach for a joke out of discomfort. If this is you, don't.
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On this day two years ago I received my Ph.D and I'm here to tell you, you don't need one
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What is copaganda? It's Disney's Ms. Marvel showing us the NYPD protecting a Pakistani girl when in reality the NYPD settled a suit in 2018 because it surveilled 20 mosques, 14 restaurants, 11 stores, two schools and two Muslim student groups in New Jersey alone.
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Never teaching my kids to “rise above.” Going to teach them to be like Kendrick Lamar. If you’re going to hate, you must commit. Employ visuals. Enlist your neighborhood. Call the NBA. Don’t stop until everyone is dancing and laughing with you.
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The "inexplicable" decrease in monkeypox cases really makes you wonder how covid could have gone had we handed the response plan over to harm reduction queers
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Can someone please explain to me the impulse to turn white dudes in government into weird crushes during immense upheaval? We've seen it happen w/ Trudeau, Cuomo and now Zelenskyy. Why does this happen?
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When I first got involved in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, a friend warned that the appropriation of radical language to achieve capitalist ends would wreck me. He was right. It is heartbreaking to see harm reduction and transformative justice become management tools.
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It was beautiful to spend dedicated time learning from Queer of Color Thought, but don't be fooled, degrees won't save you and they don't make you smarter than anybody. So go, get free and don't let urself be defined by the letters you may or may not have at the end of ur name.
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Dear God. Please hire ASIAN AMERICANS to write your stories about ASIAN AMERICAN hate crimes. I'm so tired.
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Racism is not just who we hate, who we maim, who we kill with impunity. It is also who we believe, who we justify, who we free.
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It's okay to not understand something; to not have had your own life shaped by it. It's unconscionable to turn that space of unknowing into something that trivializes incredible suffering
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Meta is not a nameless, faceless robot. A handful of people decided to hand over a 17 yr old's information about her abortion. Human beings wrote, edited and published these nonsense PR statements. Tech companies are made of people who make decisions to do incredible harm
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Too often, being bisexual means every community gets to to gatekeep you out. To my bi people: we don't owe anyone gender ratios, explanations of our partners' genders, or rationales for how long term or meaningful our relationships have been. We don't owe anyone shit. Happy pride
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Unpopular opinion: we spend too much time centering people of color who grew up in white suburbs. Some of us didn't. Some of us saw ourselves reflected in everyday conversations, interactions, life. This experience is beautiful, challenging and equally deserving of attention
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The city of San Francisco will pay you $1,000 to stay your ass at home if you test positive for covid.
Call 628-217-6101 to and ask for the Right to Recover Program to access the cash. Undocumented status is totally fine.
Every single damn city should be doing this
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Let's all welcome Henry Golding to the Asians Against Yang Gang, shall we?
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The WNBA is an activist league. Clark's silence is out of place b/c Brink and Bueckers are the norm. In the W, players demanded police accountability before Kaepernick knelt. Entire teams protested white supremacy. There's a Social Justice Council fighting anti-trans laws.
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For the grad students:
1. Your dissertation is the hardest thing you'll ever write. You're writing under duress for other people.
2. Most of us finished an entire diss < 6 months. My fave was written in four.
3. We all hate ours. It doesn't have to be pretty, it has to be done.
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My heart to the millions of Cambodian, Argentinian, Bangladeshi, Chilean, and East Timorese families who this day are served the heartbreaking reminder that the architect of their pain lived a lifetime, something he received but stole from their beloveds
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A person cannot be 'intersectional' in the same way a person cannot be 'diverse.' These words and concepts don't describe singular people.
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When we consider that Border Patrol and ICE are exceptionally diverse, 50% of employees at both identify as 'Hispanic' or 'Latino,' it is much easier to see exactly how diversity can be a tool of state violence
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Almost every single person I know is incredibly anxious right now so I'm gonna share something that's always helped me: reading about freedom struggles. Read about Haiti. Vietnam. Cuba. Look to stories about third world resistance and take tremendous heart. People rise. Always.
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"You might know me as Kelly.
I am the first woman of color to have a leading role in a “Star Wars” movie.
I am the first Asian woman to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair.
My real name is Loan. And I am just getting started."
Loan. The real champ.
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Once I got scolded by a woman of color CEO of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion company for making a joke about working since I was fourteen cause it excluded people who, wait for it, didn't have to work. We are in the endgame now.
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Watch us do both. Watch us be overjoyed and critical of centrist Democrats. Watch us celebrate and organize against neoliberalism. Watch us protect the vote and question electoral politics. Watch us contain infinite multitudes. Pop the cork y'all, we keep fighting tomorrow
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Theorizing a queer response to covid was abstract until another virus disproportionately impacted queer community. We saw an immediate response, widespread vaccination programming, destigmatization campaigns. This is and always has been community care despite state sanction death
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Let me get this off my chest. The reason you don't know about Asian American organizers is not because we don't exist. It's because white supremacy has a vested interest in suppressing and erasing our activism and cloaking this imvisibilization with the model minority myth.
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Police in Chicago killed a barber. Then rushed the killer off the scene. Then charged protesters. Then tried to set dogs on them. All the while brutalizing journalists documenting the event. Tell me where policing isn't broken.
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I am no longer interested in "what I accomplished in 2021" threads.
Tell me how many days you didn't get off the couch
Number of times you took a bath
Meals you ordered in
Shows that you binged in a day
Books you read halfway
It was an entire pandemic. Tell me you rested.
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Today I confirmed SE Asian folks are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Families decimated. Factory workers getting sick. Undocumented folks getting ill. But no one will talk b/c reporters have done this community dirty and researchers aren't collecting data. Devastating.
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So much love for state school students who are overwhelmingly working class, many first generation, without a safety net for violence, arrest, or expulsion and doing this w/ little recognition. Truly a risk-taking principled stand in solidarity
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Reminder to everyone upset that Ali Wong isn't saying anything about David Choe: she said NOTHING when people pushed back against Dave Chappelle's transphobia. She also quietly scrubbed pictures of them from her Insta
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I see bad take Twitter has arrived. A suggestion: if you are not an Asian person, a woman, and have never worked in a service industry take this moment to listen instead of speaking.
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If you’re afraid to jeopardize relationships, risk your reputation or lose your jobs because you cannot deny genocide in Palestine, I urge you to remember freedom has never been popular, it has always been controversial, and some pay a far greater price fighting for it.
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Lived experience is a gateway, not dogma. For example, if you had a bad experience with a union, or a good experience with police, learn whether you are part of a pattern or an exception. Lived experience is not ground upon which to refute systemic realities
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Please someone let me write a long form piece about the diversity, equity and inclusion industry; it's origins as a corporate litigation shield, it's most famous and problematic progenitors and what can be done.
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Going to mute this, but before I do, let me be clear: I believe you can watch and enjoy pretty much whatever you want. I just hope we ask ourselves "what might be the impact of this narrative, what purpose does it seve? Why?"
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Imagine reporting this as a crime issue and not as a total failure of housing, mental health and policing policy. Imagine seeing someone OD'ing in front of you and worrying about YOURSELF and not whether narcan is accessible. Imagine not missing the whole damn point.
EXCLUSIVE: SF LUXURY CONDOS OVERLOOK CITY'S WORST SQUALOR; ‘I Don’t Want To Be Afraid To Live Here’
Willow St at Van Ness currently has the highest concentration of tents in SF, according to the latest city data.
@KPIXtv
@LondonBreed
@MattHaneySF
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I want you to know that queer and trans people of color have written powerful treatises on race, queerness, class and ability. We have spoken volumes. We have spent lifetimes not catering to white fragility. Our books are not new. You simply have not listened.
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You’re seeing the long term impact of campus organizing. Students for Justice in Palestine has been around since the 90’s. BDS since the early aughts. The architecture was there. For decades. So the folks saying this came from nowhere can be quiet now.
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I truly hope you're not buying your anti-racist books from Amazon.
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You can be part of a safety plan for queer and trans folks.
You can be part of a caravan to transport drag performers to and from shows.
You can train to de-escalate situations with police.
You can interrupt your family members who call us groomers.
Mobilize your outrage.
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Someone recently asked me how I became confident in my writing and the short answer is: I never did. I became more honest. Every sentence, comma, period has to be the most candid depiction of a movement, person, or feeling. I traded pride for authenticity and never looked back
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Please stop saying you're "native" to a place if you were just born and raised there. I love where I'm from, I bleed my city, but I am in every way, settler on this land.
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If you're a prof at a school with an encampment and your students are camped out, I remind you that you have complete oversight over your class, its requirements and how they're met. No final, no project, no exam, is more important than collective liberation.
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As a head student
@UCBerkeley
I made 20k a year while rent averaged 2,100. You read that right, rent was $400 more a month than salary. Even w/ additional fellowships, not to mention fees, books, rent is over half what people take home. Folks need a living wage now
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I train people on bystander intervention and here’s what I want you to know about the people on Jordan Neely’s train: who we see as a victim is racialized. Who we understand as dangerous is deeply racialized. Whether we feel a moment requires interruption is racialized.
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Black folks are speaking out against hate crimes in Oakland Chinatown and Asians4BlackLives has started a safety campaign to accompany elders with a solidarity hashtag, but watch Schaaf continue to pit our communities against each other.
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To my Asian women, be gentle with yourselves today. The misogynist, white supremacist world does not deserve you or the care you provide often with your bodily labor. Just be loved today.
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I ran into a houseless friend tonight. He was asking folks for money at the same place I was picking up food. When I gave him a hug, the emotions of the diners ranged from discomfort to disgust. It wasn't enough that they ignored him, I was supposed to as well.
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Bonus level:
For the queer, non-binary, trans, women and people of color who grew up poor: that voice that tells you that you cannot do this, that it is impossible? It is pure, uncut white supremacy. Fuck that shit. You can. You will. And it won't even be the best thing you do.
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Whoever did political education for Macklemore, you remain undefeated.
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What if instead of rebooting Mulan or talking about it incessantly, we direct our energy toward making a movie about--wait for it--Asian Americans that is class and gender diverse and reflects something outside of aspirational whiteness and orientalism
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56.6% of people who begin Ph.D programs don't finish and it has nothing to do with intellectual ability or worth. Nothing. Leaving (at any point) is a valid choice.
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Tesla employs 10,000 workers in Fremont. That's 10,000 people already being treated poorly. That's 10,000 people who know their injuries won't be logged for OSHA. That's 10,000 people a billionaire demands work under (yet again) dangerous conditions because he wants profit
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@scottcisco
Absolutely. People can watch and love what they want so long as we can recognize the cognitive dissonance in front of us.
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The capital under siege and Marco Rubio still getting some last minute racism in
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If you're watching Sex Education, here's some context: 40% of LGBTQ students receive detention, suspension, or expulsion from school. 45% of trans students face school discipline. All of this translates to higher rates of contact with the juvenile justice system and prison system
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Asian American is a specific term that comes from resisting white supremacy and imperialism and being in concerted solidarity with Indigenous, Black, and Chicanx communities. It is not a census category or a descriptor; it is a call to collective political action.
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The people who got fired for bringing up racism are never the ones hired a year later to fix it. That's the problem.
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@sunxalba
You can if you want! That's my point. You don't need the degree, get it if you want, not because you feel like you have to.
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Yesterday I spoke with a national immigration news reporter who had no idea that 33 Vietnamese men were about to be deported. The model minority myth covers up alternate realities of incarceration, deportation and the poverty that often enable them. This is also anti Asian racism
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I interviewed for a job where they emphasized scholar activism, lived experience and intersectionality. I would have been thrilled if they gave it to another qtpoc. Found out they hired a cishet white presenting dude who has never organized. Academia is a house on fire
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Trần Loan aka Kelly Marie Tran really hit the red carpet for movie about a South East Asian hero in a royal looking áo dài designed by a queer Vietnamese designer who is in a relationship with another queer Vietnamese person. Intentional. Refferential. Profound.
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Death toll in Senegal: 30
Death toll in Ghana: 31
Death toll Samoa: 0
Death toll in Vietnam: 0
Death toll in US: 94,594
“It has been well documented how a patronizing attitude to east Asia allowed European countries to be caught by surprise at the spread of Covid-19. Now a similar mindset seems set to ensure we don’t learn the lessons Africa has to offer in overcoming it”
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I celebrated my 16th birthday at a drag club.
I kissed my first girl at a queer club.
I came out at a gay dive bar.
Spaces like Club Q are sacred.
If you can, please support organizers developing plans to keep our communities safe.
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F*ck your imagine videos. This morning, Steph Curry went on insta live w/ Dr. Fauci to answer COVID-19 questions. If you were curious about how to use celebrity right now, this is it. What if everyday during the WH press conference we had a celebrity talking to an expert?
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69% of registered Asian American voters support affirmative action.
69% of registered Asian American voters support affirmative action.
69% of registered Asian American voters support affirmative action.
69% of registered Asian American voters support affirmative action.
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Taught Asians4BlackLives statement yesterday. Worth remembering: "We must recognize that the scapegoating of Asians as the harbingers of disease and the state violence against Black people (via systemic policing and state response to the pandemic) are two sides of the same coin.
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There have always been people writing critically about race. But for what seems like the first time, America's gaze is upon us. So we are creating, rapidly, urgently, furiously because we are terrified that you will blink. So I am asking you not to. Value this work now and always
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To the people coming through with claims that this is misogyny. I want you to know that if Hermione can explicitly affirm trans people after that author was on her shit, you best believe I will ask that Wong not platform a perpetrator. Stans are so odd.
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There are people who are fake Indigenous, Black and queer all over the academy. They're not outed because 1) you all love the performance of identity as opposed to the inhabiting of it 2) the academy penalizes specifically women of color who tell these truths
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Class mobility is a trip. There are things I didn't know AT ALL until I met people with money. Like people's dishes MATCH. They have a coordinated set of plates, bowls, cups. There's no mish mash of random awkward shit that doesn't fit together. Don't get me started on Tupperware
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White supremacist culture is extremely conflict avoidant and passive aggressive, so my recommendation is always ask. Uncertain if something's a microaggression? Ask. Don't know pronouns? Ask. Something you said might be offensive? Ask. Accountability is impossible if you don't.
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Including my (pre-book) long form thoughts on the matter since some of the industry I'm the most squeamish about are picking up this tweet
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No one is asking anything special of CC. They're asking her to be a part of the league, this league.
This was four years ago today.
We still have a long way to go.
Change starts with us.
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As we witness a new uprising, let's remember that organizing is diverse. Some of us are in the streets, others write to city council. Some chain themselves to buildings; others create a community watch. Each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
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bell hooks' writings about love went beyond the purview of ourselves and our partners. She taught us to love our students, our movements, theory and cultural forms. She taught us that critique is borne of love and those lessons are love actualized.
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Cooking/food shows are a whole mess of colonialism. I understand emphasis on good ingredients is a thing, but to say that you can't make good food without perfect ingredients is real ignorant. Poor people of color make amazing food with mediocre ingredients every single day
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Just had the best doc appointment of my life. The doc only used pronouns I used and asked:
What kind of partnership are you in?
Does your partner produce sperm?
What do you use to have sex?
I'm 32 and this was a first. M.D's be better, do better. It's possible.
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For those of you saying some form of "they were talking about surveillance the whole time." Sure, they had some great zingers and insights, that's why I watched the show. But here's what happens when we start talking about cops like there are "good guys"
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There's a massive heat wave in the biggest, most tech heavy state in the country. I am almost certain no Diversity, Equity and Inclusion people are asking whether people have AC, clean water, or steady electricity. But sure, let's keep talking about belonging.
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The difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation is structural power
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If you started following me for Asian American representation, I hope you stay for the intersectional conversation about abolition
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We just became the first state to offer prep and pep without a prescription. That's it. That's the tweet.
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Organizing can be hard to break into, so I'll get granular. You can legit search 'mutual aid' in instagram and find a bunch of folks doing work. Type (your city) + community bail funds into Google. Go to a city council meeting and see if folks commenting are affiliated w/ and org
For the "What can I do?" crowd.
Organizing is a skillset and hard work, but it's also not mystical or out of reach. After a year of mainstream media covering protests, defund the police, support/donate to grassroots orgs, volunteer w mutual aid, you can start there...
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For Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, American Studies, Queer and Trans Studies folks: they don't know how well read you are. They don't know that you've read numerous canons, that you think about things from multiple fields of literature. This is an advantage.
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Liberal Twitter: get out the vote!
Organizer Twitter: here's how to survive a coup
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For so many people, working in the eight billion-dollar Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Industry is the most radical thing they'll do. This is precisely the problem.
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Lost a couple hundred followers after tweeting about Lil Nas X? I don't quite know why folks follow me on here, but literally all of my work is on uprooting anti-Blackness and queerness. I am THAT Asian girl.
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Just got an emergency deferment on my federal student loans. I'm here to say it was a hella easy 2-click process. Login, click on alerts/messages and click postpone. They autofill everything including the cause (COVID-19.) Good luck and education should be freeeeeeee
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Let's talk about anti Asian violence. But that conversation is also going to be about mental health resources. It's going to involve housing. It's going to invite critical reflection on what accountability and justice mean for us and whether we really want or need cages
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Wish more journalists were trained to be accountable to communities. I wish more reporters worked as though they were in communities. I wish more journalists were from marginalized communities themselves.
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I'm not here to glorify the Dems or the broken thing that is America, but AAPIs did this with damn near nonexistent outreach from either party and that is wild.
Looks like Asian Americans—small but fast-growing share of electorate—broke 70-28 for Biden, continuing a shift that began in the ’90s. Asians were more D-leaning than Latinos this cycle.
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I'll say it again: being preeminently concerned with representation is a privilege. It means you're not putting your energy behind:
-abolition
-housing
-gender based violence
-education
-queer and trans liberation
-environmental racism
This isn't a zero sum game, do more.
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There is no other way to explain the disappearance of straight up revolutionary work from Yuri Kochiyama to Helen Zia to Mia Yamamoto.
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54,000 Salesforce employees who just went fully remote. Hear me out: use the towers to house houseless people.
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Before you tweet, before you write, before you pitch, please consider whether you should be the person whose voice needs to be heard in this moment. There are survivors of American imperial wars who we could all learn from. If that's not you, consider standing down.
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