I hate how therapy speak gave us the whole “I don’t owe anyone anything” framework because the literal opposite is true I owe so many people so much love and community and solidarity and friendship and accountability wyd do you mean
Interrupting a sermon during mass because what was being said was explicitly violently homophobic transphobic racist etc is exactly what jesus would do, plus flip a table.
You know what defeated fascism across every regime in history?
Violence.
And when it was not met with violence, it lasted decades. There is no electoral way out of fascism.
When Angela Davis said we owe Trans folk everything because they gave us the blueprint for feminism - a feminism that has no respecter for the gender binary -
I fucking felt that! Fuck the gender binary!
Many people are asking what they can do, especially here in the US
Archive. Save the images, the videos, the tweets, the articles. Put those files in several places, hard drives, print it out even. Anywhere.
Denialism will be rampant for decades. You can do this. Archive.
I do a fun exercise about ID/place with my students where I ask “who is allowed to call themselves a NYer” and they are so quick to say “born and raised”
I complicate it by asking “what about the halal guy on 10th”
And suddenly it all unravels.
It’s giving Tenured Professor of Latin American Studies and his PhD mentee who just passed his dissertation defense (specialization in queer aesthetics in Cold War era Brazilian cinema) at the CUNY grad center
One day Puerto Rico will be free. Hawaii will be free. Palestine will be free. All colonized lands will be free. Borders will crumble. And finally a new vision of what is possible will become more than a hope.
NEW -
@NYCMayor
says Columbia protest has been "co-opted" and is going to share their intel, he says at 1 Police Plaza. He advises students involved in the protest to leave the area and tells parents to tell their kids to leave "before the situation escalates."
I wanna say thank you to every woman that was apart of my video! The fact that you made time in your schedules means alot to me! It was so important to me to include different women,that are different races and come from different backgrounds but are so powerful and influential.
For clarification this is about how language across therapy has been co-opted by people with large social media platforms and morphed into these strange frameworks of interpersonal relationships that are BAD lol relax I ain’t coming for therapy itself
No two words unite people on an MTA bus more than “BACK DOOR” 😭😭 suddenly everyone is READY to fight that bus driver as if the person trying to get out is their child
Spanish is a colonial language
And
Thinking how almost everyone across the continent has morphed ethpañol into thousands of distinct languages/modes of communication as simply replicating colonialism is mad disrespectful to 500 years of resisting obliteration
@nayibbukele
First time in my life I’ve looked up properties in El Salvador. I can’t be the only one. It’s a beautiful country with even more beautiful people.
God is real because every single time I’ve gone to mass since I was not about it the sermon has been the most lukewarm take like “yes love your neighbor be nice bake a cake” because I am always ready to make a SCENE
I do this to complicate notions of a static identity being unable to shift but rather they do constantly and are negotiated and are much more complicated than we want them to be. It also is a valuable lesson in seeing the obvious - that there are an infinite New Yorks
Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸
“I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”
I’m sorry but what in the pacific rim ass climate disaster are we in ????? You know what god send Godzilla or Cthulu or fuxking Goku this is ridiculous
My abuela is so unserious this señora has never cried in front of us about the civil war she survived but just started balling because I walked into dinner with two dangly earrings lmfaoooooo homophobia is so
They then get into heated debate - some doubling down some challenging he rigidity - but the lesson coming to the point - culture and power are made and negotiated at these points of how we define ourselves and the space we inhabit - community/city/state/ a people
Idk. I’m not trynna be controversial but
We have to talk about the ethics of telling working class students to pursue academia
Personally given the state of the world I don’t feel comfortable telling undergrads to pursue a PhD
Palestine will be free. Puerto Rico will be free. Hawaii will be free. Northern Ireland will be free. All colonized people will be free
We have struggled and resisted for 500 years. Even if it takes another 500, we will win. There is no other future that awaits us. Only freedom
Starting at the point where a natural drinkable earth compound that flows from one end to another to another larger body of water that has salt in it, Palestine will be free 🥰
Nah gender is CRAZY my abuela just told me ankle socks are for MUJERES like señora please I need you to enjoy your life and leave my gender alone 😭😂😭😂😂😭😭😭
At this point, if you’re not with the term Latinx, I’m just going to assume you’re homophobic - transphobic - and do not accept our non-binary kin.
Period.
A reminder, comrades
Once they believed slavery would never end, that the sun would not set on the British empire, once they believed that all of The Americas all of Africa all of the world would remain colony. They were wrong
Palestine will be free. It must. In our lifetime
Don’t ask for “Latino” stories. The best films and cultural texts are context specific and aware of the very specific lived experience of their characters and stories. The universal Latino doesn’t exist. Stop asking for that representation. Be specific. Say what you mean.
Fam. In all seriousness. Plan out where you're going to be and who you will be with Election Day. Prioritize safety, love, and do whatever you have to for your well-being, including logging off.
If you don’t have the range to speak about Cuba, just don’t (including myself). That includes stale theoretical analysis from the 60s - focus on what’s coming from activists, Cubans and the diaspora, etc. It isn’t difficult to uplift the folk who are doing the work.
I need some if you liberals to really internalize this. 45 THOUSAND people were deprived of power because of transphobia.
There is no “compromise” to be had here. This is violent. The right is violent. There is no room for decorum. Your halls of law are useless here
After targeted attacks on power stations left 45,000 North Carolinians without power, similar attacks have now occurred in Washington and Oregon. Let’s look at how they fit into the broader context of state-sanctioned violence against LGBTQ+ people by right-wing extremists: 🧵
Lmao some people missing the point 😭😭😭😭😭 this is about pedagogy and learning how complex and somehow simple it is to identify an identity/a community/a people etc.
People be chasing that primordial being down thirsty they whole life meanwhile my abuelo tío and mom just casually bumped into him in the Andes on horseback
“Latinidad” as it stands is without a politics of liberation. It’s a neoliberal identity politics abyss that makes us assimilate into white supremacist institutions. I want better for us.
To my fellow abolitionists,
This battle being waged, that to "save our democracy" is not our fight. This is simply the old guard split into two beasts of white supremacy. They are each vying for their own white supremacist vision. The old way, or the neoliberal way.
The media wants us to believe solidarity isn’t taking place but it is strong and growing, from our Jewish, Black, indigenous, Queer and Trans comrades, and from refugees/diasporas across the world, people are organizing and resisting genocide. We are not alone.
Important Reminder:
When organizing around abolishing police, identify any reform that gives *more* funding to police. Do not support it. Even in small steps, we should neutralize and freeze police budgets. Do not support an increase, ever!
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My hot take is that the mom and daughter duo should’ve been white. They were this weird neoliberal version of Hispanic that did absolutely nothing for anyone
Despite the love for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” not nominating America Ferrera for a
#GoldenGlobe
for her performance as Gloria seems to fundamentally miss a big point of the film. More snubs from today's nominations announcement here:
As a first generation child of working class immigrants Latin@ I struggled to pay for college and have financial stability. For that reason I’m partnering with the “Mama, let’s research” Hispanic Scholarship fund …
Got some bad news fam. Today I tested positive for COVID. My dad tested positive few days ago. We’ve been safe. Masks. Seeing no one and if we did social distanced. Followed every rule. And yet here we are. We both have mild symptoms and hoping it stays that way.
Not sorry but you should have zero expectation from a people who are living through a genocide being live-streamed for ten months to be gentle with you in their assessment of our political system and a vice president who is complicit
Hispanics of prominence who are said to be of “color” (Lin, Shakira, Christina, and now Melissa) are racialized in service of a white supremacist imaginary - not to highlight the lived reality of racialized latinx people including Afro-Latinx and Latin American Indigenous people
I’ve watched enough Netflix Hulu hbo to know this is a white ass middle child from wealthy families cult. Why can’t y’all just do this in your ancestral lands of Europa with sheep and a baguette
I love cardi with my entire heart but I hate when Latinos get up in arms about being called “Mexican”… there’s nothing wrong with being Mexican and these adverse reactions simply add to the xenophobia.
I just need us to realize that the impending Christian nationalist dictatorship will not be undone by voting 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. Like PLEASE point to the historical example where fascism was defeated at the ballot box
some of y’all are going to “but she’s a cop” your way right into a Christian nationalist dictatorship that will result in decades of civil rights progress being rolled back just for the sake of getting moral superiority points on social media. grow up.
Sandra told us to write our own stories
Toni Morrison said something similar, now an iconic line, about writing the books you want to read
The difference being Toni gave us the critical framing to not write for the white gaze
Sandra, in her praise for AD, does the opposite
For clarity on Latinx discourse
I don’t care much (at the end of the day) what we call ourselves collectively because the continent is so vast and it’s incoherent to try and understand its diasporas as a monolith. It’s actually quite idiotic.
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