I was very afraid of my family all suddenly dying in their sleep as a kid so after everyone went to bed I’d do the rounds at night checking they were breathing. Just standing at the end of their bed like 🧍🏾♀️
Had a yt woman come in and ask me where I’m from so I said kenya & Rwanda . Big mistake she then gleefully asked me how many of my family members died , how my mom felt and how “excited” she was to see the mass graves for the 30th anniversary. And of course she is doing a “film”
@gIowiny
He’ll drop me off or pick me up but he’s not coming into the space it’s not for him. Lol when he dropped me at the black queer party people thought I was bringing him to the cookout and I was like nah.
Oh my god did vegans just put dead Africans on my fucking timeline? What is wrong with you ?that is so far from compassionate there is nothing else I can say.
In the months preceding the slaughter, the Rwandan killers staged a number of mini-massacres in order to gauge international reaction. Indeed, by January 1994, Rwanda had become so militarized—and imported machetes had becomes so omnipresent—that the UN commander in Rwanda, Major
I wasn’t going to post this on social media because fatphobia abs shit but I legit had so much fun on the beach yesterday and idgaf if you hate my body this is what joy looks like life is too short.
@LisileM
@BALR___
@too_posh_to
@MsaMkhize_
I am a good person I just meant he’s the chef of the family he’s the one who understands the best food we share different skills . He does food I do some of the house care we’re balanced in different ways nothing 50/50 though our money is shared
General Romeo Dallaire, urgently cabled Kofi Annan, the UN peacekeeping, in New York. Dallaire warned that militia could exterminate ''up to 1,000'' Tutsi ''in 20 minutes.''
Annan, believing the United States and its allies were unwilling to confront the militants so soon after
Kofi Annan was wrong not to blast an alarm, but he accurately predicted the U.S attitude: stopping Rwanda's massacres was not in the Us national interest. CIA & Usembassy warnings of large-scale arms imports periodic ethnic massacres and radical propaganda likewise went unheeded
the Somalia fire-fight, opted not to cross what became known as ''the Mogadishu line.'' He buried what has become known as the ''genocide fax,'' and the militia-members took their cue.
DR Congo: In Lubumbashi, the government sold part of the Kibembe cemetery to the Foreign Company, they razed the graves without notifying the population...Under neo-liberalism, states protect capital, not the people alive or dead.
I had horrible migraines in my teens and would often sit in the back crying because teachers wouldn’t let me go see the nurse or to the bathroom. Because I couldn’t possibly have that many headaches.
@ProximaCB55
@pot8um
Tw/cw : sa
We had a man come regularly into the phone shop and pretend his phone wasn’t working with graphic porn on the screen everytime. He’d act totally normal and i was told to not react or he got pleasure from it, fucking terrible
I’m so annoyed when people say that Congo hasn’t had millions of people die in their history I don’t want to hear it when those numbers are probably deeply underreported
More shocking than the U.S. avoidance of military intervention in Rwanda was the fact that President Clinton never even convened his Cabinet to discuss what might be done about the murder of nearly a MILLION human beings.
@Imani_Barbarin
Mind you were currently begging a province to search for missing indigenous women’s remains in a landfill here and they’re saying it’s not as important as if they didn’t do that for one white missing man
@ChrissyRonkz
I’m in a Facebook group about racism in Scandinavia and woo it’s high like last week a woman was asking for help because her son was being bullied so much he had a mental breakdown and instead of helping they punished him for behavioural issues !
Once the massacres have begun [in countries that do not implicate traditional economic or security interests] ''mere genocide'' does not command high-level attention or resources.
@heyyguido
Having no sex drive because of mental health medication is really hard because it almost feels like I have to choose one or the other it makes me really sad and I know my partner gets it but like it still sucks.
@TanyaCompas
Volunteer tourism makes me so angry as I’ve seen how they’ve exploited some of my direct family I hate these people I wish they’d stop getting visas and access especially in Uganda where Whitt’s men have learned it’s an easy space to sexually exploit children under lies.
@cillahope_
This happened to me second year in uni, I was asked why my english was so great and I said because I was from kenya and she was like 'oh so you went to an english school?' and i had to be like no we all mostly speak english because of colonisation lol
@keyon
You may be thinking of the coronation that happened in may she’s been dead for a while they even did a whole thing about how Charles spent Christmas without his mom
Happy non binary awareness week.
Reminder 1 I am non binary,
Reminder 2 : non binary people don’t owe you androgyny and also it has nothing to do with my personal gender identity
I am not half boy and half girl I’m a third secret thing.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.