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Live shooter drills that claim to be more ‘effective’ by not warning children, are a form of state terrorism designed to normalize gun culture. They do not protect children in any way. Abolish the police.
BREAKING: While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked gunman burst into the room and pretended to open fire. The lack of warning sent students diving for cover
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USians need to accept that fascism is not coming via a faketan dictator but via the systems & institutions built by enslavers revered as ‘founding fathers’. The state has always been a fascistic settler colony & ‘progression’ has been to this very point. It’s working as intended.
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Impossible not to notice that these students are being treated more harshly than the Jan 6 crew...
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Re. plagiarism and erasure: two small anecdotes. At a conference as a grad student, I watched a senior white male scholar take copious notes during my paper. I also gave handouts to the attendees. Those exact quotations, along with my analysis then appeared in this man's book...
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Acts of theft and erasure in academia and public writing are frequent, racialized and gendered. Some are tiny and everyday. Others are blatant and high stakes. The only recourse we have is to keep collectively naming what is happening. I wish more colleagues understood this.
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Recently I was putting together a conference panel. A white man scholar whom I knew sent in to me an abstract that was a complete regurgitation of an article I had just published. I was not named or cited, but paraphrased. The abstract also contained many swear words...
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I've been stunned to see the celebration of this piece by Adam Shatz which is a clear piece of critical counter-insurgency, along with his misreading and appropriation of Frantz Fanon. 1/
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A note, since my tweets are usually comfortably small! These stories should not erase or be confused with deep *systems of erasure* via which Black women scholars' work is often ignored.
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I had to leave UK academia because of traumatic systemic racism. I was forced to start at the bottom again on a US TT track job. They refused to count my previous 10 years of publications, service, teaching. Then I had to leave Texas when they made my area illegal 1/
I have always been incredibly lucky in my career, who knows why or how, but I was prepared to move literally anywhere for a tenure-track job.
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I hope we understand that what we are witnessing in Palestine is the end game of the racial capitalist settler colonial world order for us all. Annihilation of all life and the means of life in exchange for fabricated worlds of property and commerce. We are all expendable.
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Truly academia in in a crucible right now. We must read with our eyes wide open because those histories and stories are being co-opted and filtered for counter-insurgency. And beware the scholar 'celebrity' because that is always incompatible with material radicalism.
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I’ve been running from the crumbling cliff edge that is underfunded and systemically racist Higher Ed since I graduated. The point is, nowhere is safe but everywhere is much less safe for some of us- global south, BIPOC, women, queer, disabled folk, who are punished at all times.
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They moved interlocking oppression from being about focusing on *systems of oppression* to being about identity alone. This is where we end up: no focus on systemic power that creates genocide, but a celebration of identity politics for its own sake. Time to refocus.
INTERSECTIONALITY without a critique of imperialism, colonial dispossession, and genocide is COMPLICITY.
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@DrTELewis
One thing is that when they do steal especially theories from Black, Brown and Indigenous thought, it’s often poorly done. Yet, it can still get published! White appropriation is multi layered: while you and others take such care, they do not.
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White feminism British style- possibly my worst nightmare 😬Do not underestimate what these women of empire are capable of enacting on non-white people, at home and abroad.
Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have most female ministers in history
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And as for getting a permanent post in Ireland, my home, where I studied, it was never going to happen because the version of 17-19thc history and literature I specialize in is so heavily gatekept by white colleagues. If you’re from the Caribbean you can’t talk about colonialism
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There is so much more to be gained by understanding what genocides across centuries have in common than trying to emphasize their ‘uniqueness’. And it’s actually very simple, not at all complex: ethnic cleansing, labour theft, domination, possession of land and resources.
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@lusophona
@ISASaxonists
This is *so* common and blatant. This is why clear statements re. ethics in this area and clear good practices with named censures for bad faith would help in orgs and at conferences. We cannot assume good faith.
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This article is Zionist counterinsurgency disguised as reason, as balance, as historically accurate. It is none of those things. I hope people get better at actually understanding the word on the page in front of them. Anti-Palestinian racism remains the normative lens for many.
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Part of why I wrote this is because self-proclaimed (white) left voices in organizing spaces--including many pro-Palestine academics-- still persist in this kind of Zionism 'lite'. What we need is full, anti-colonial, Indigenous centred, abolitionist commitment.
"We must read Shatz’s writing as part of a wider discursive agenda, designed to rescue Zionism, rather than Palestinians, from the rubble of Israeli destruction."
Friday must-read: "Critical Counterinsurgency and Zionism" by
@kerry_sinanan
in
@MassReview
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Aimé Césaire: "that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization . . . is already a sick civilization".
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@Susiechatt
Great question. I think we need to have collective responsibility for ethical practices that are not only about citations (vital) but also about how others are engaged. No swift answer but a call for us all to take this more seriously and to shift the culture that enables erasure
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'Foreign Policy' IS 'Domestic Policy'. The US is a corporate-owned settler entity that takes your taxes out of your depressed wages to fund its imperial global wars while dominate global markets through force. It is unsustainable and you should want no part of it 1/
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Hiding in plain sight is Zionist apology in its account of "a ‘cultural Zionism’ that advocated the creation of a binational state based on Arab-Jewish co-operation". 2/
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Anyone who knows how little Yale as an institution does for the local New Haven community understands just what this solidarity means: it is protest against ongoing empire at home and abroad. Yale was founded by an enslaver.
HAPPENING NOW: After the arrest of the students occupying Beinecke Plaza at Yale, students and New Haven residents took the street and are shutting down the intersection of Grove and Prospect!
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Some news: I have been appointed by the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Global pre 1800 literature. I begin in July and could not be more thrilled!!
@UofWEnglish
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As Stuart Hall said, some of us are ‘in but not of Europe’. Some of us, too, are ‘in’ but not ‘of’ the university.
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@Fadi_S_Ennab
Oh my god. I’m so sorry, this is tragic and the silence is intensely violent. May they Rest In Peace and may their actions not be in vain.
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If you are not wearing a mask, but are supporting Palestine, please understand that Palestinians are facing the spread of Covid on top of everything else.
Liberation requires full commitment to protecting the most vulnerable: that is what solidarity is.
Almost everyone in my shelter is sick. We’ve been severely coughing & facing breathing difficulties, unable to go to a doctor as hospitals are already overwhelmed with victims.
Today a doctor in the house just told me it’s COVID, spreading rapidly in overcrowded areas.
#Gaza
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Slavery was genocide
Colonialism is genocide
Settler colonialism is genocide
Genocide Studies not understanding these facts speaks to the racism within white disciplines.
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Truly repugnant sentences like this which center Zionism and naturalize the murder of children: "The question is how many Palestinian children must die before Israelis feel safe". 5/
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More Zionist apologia here: "Zionism’s original ambition was to transform Jews into historical actors: sovereign, legitimate, endowed with a sense of power and agency." 3/
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A deliberate downplaying of decades of genocide as here: "The use of the word ‘genocide’ struck me then as typical of the rhetorical inflation of Middle East political debate, and as a symptom of the bitter, ugly competition over victimhood in Israel-Palestine." 6/
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Today is so much more shocking than Jan 6th. At first I was annoyed with my own level of shock at the support, especially from certain quarters, for the current US Democrat administration. But now I am proud that I can still be shocked.
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@PaperWhispers
@drhannahrobbins
They never ever realise this. I literally said this to a ww colleague in my last job who said cheerfully to my face that I was only hired 'because you aren't white'. And I said - 'what does that tell you about all the other hires who are?' She looked as if I had slapped her.
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TS wants "the 1830s but without all the racists". Why choose 1830s? One reason is it taps into the global cultural currency of Regency Whiteness that
@desha_osborne
& I argue is forged by Jane Austen's novels and reproduced globally by Austen cultures, afterlives & adaptations 1/
Too tired now, but tomorrow I’ll try to say something about how T Swift’s choice of 1830 also proves the thesis of my and
@desha_osborne
‘s volume on Austen and Regency Whiteness and global white feminism. Swift I think wants to be ‘Austenian’ and the Austenites claim her too…
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A false equation between resistance and genocide: "The far left’s denial that Hamas committed any atrocities on 7 October is mirrored by the genocide denialism of American Jews". An overall centering of whiteness throughout. 8/
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A both-sidesing of genocide and weighing of Zionism as legitimate counter, as here: "‘Palestine shall be free from the river to the sea.’ What many Zionists hear as a call to ethnic cleansing or genocide is, for most Palestinians, a call for an end to Jewish supremacy". 4/
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The refusal in real time of white women’s tears and affect is very satisfying 🔥
Karen starts crying because students refuse to talk to her 🤣
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Elected Dems are doing this: robbing public funds for the Prison Industrial Complex. This is fascism.
As corporate Dems on Atlanta City Council approved $67 million in public money last night on top of corporate cash backing CopCity, remember leaked transcripts show fascist right-wing cops discussing their ongoing intentional constitutional violations that are federal crimes:
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People are saying 'build community' while we watch so many do a 360 in real time over genocide. More bonds need to be broken than need to be made at this point, imo.
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So much more space and energy is being given by Academic twitter to an aggrieved white dude who thinks he is owed a job, than was given to the FACT that UT Austin recently fired 60 people, targetting especially women BIPOC stafff and faculty.
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I hope people were taking notes re Kenya and Bolivia. Things aren’t inevitable…
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The violence of this listing that places those of us working on critical race theory in 18th and 19thc studies alongside Robespierre...
@ASECSOffice
calling us “woke Diversity Radicals”? Do you seriously expect BIPOC scholars to attend?
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Bring this energy to a Decolonial French future! Free Haiti! Free Kanakay!
French 🇫🇷 socialists have a message for the fascists:
‘No pasaran’
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@SimonDor
I think this happens a lot and I really worry about bad faith abuse of accessibility copies. Something we need to consider more.
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A both-sidesing of putative 'extremism' as here: "Sayegh eventually moved to Beirut, where he joined the PLO. And in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967, the American Jewish community underwent what Norman Podhoretz called a ‘complete Zionisation’". 7/
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The population of Northern Ireland in the 90s was 1.5 million. During the Troubles ca. 2300 people were killed (not counting British army). Not one family is untouched in some way and the trauma lingers. Over 20,000 Palestinians murdered in 2 months is incomprehensible pain.
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I’ve just got my green card. For four years my H1B visa meant my husband could not work and I could only work for my employer. We are a family of four on a low assistant prof wage. With visa bills and not from wealth. It was/is very hard.
Not only should TT academic partner hires become more of the norm in academia, universities also need to support non-academic (liveable wage/full benefits) partner hires, particularly for working-class partners and families.
#AcademicTwitter
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How can universities ever talk about student safety, student welfare, student rights, student success, ever again? The utter contempt being exhibited by admins in this moment!
McGill admin announced it would seek an injunction Monday to force police to disperse divestment encampment. 150 rallied tonight for emergency presser in which student campers criticized intimidation tactic & announced plan to fight in court & maintain camp until demands are met
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This is the passage from Césaire that must be read again and again
Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism
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Love being called a slob by a senior prof in my field on a Thursday afternoon as I juggle research, teaching prep, anti racist pedagogy meeting at home while looking after my two small daughters on an assistant prof salary. And this is privilege compared to non tt folk.
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Some of us have been too naive - we must look this evil in the eyes and know what it is if we are to have a hope of protecting Palestine and the world from the normalized refusal of humanity. I still struggle to comprehend it.
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University campuses on Turtle Island are on stolen land! Much of that land is public land. 'Private property' is a myth to preserve settler power.
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Re.Racial Capitalism. My article, just out with
@18CTANDI
(issue delayed by Covid) writes a small history of Trinidad from my bedroom window: 'This wake is, in part, the “disaster” occasioned by the fact that, as Christina Sharpe notes, “the history of capital is inextricable 1/
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@tortiiIIas
Exactly. The Baracoons, Middle Passage, land theft, Indigenous removal, Reservations, taking water, land, & food ways to produce capital and make property- it has all always been there. This incredibly violent necropolitical system has been normalized as so-called democracy.
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The genre of the 'diversity statement' in all its iterations assumes the ongoing, never-ending whiteness of the academy while enforcing BIPOC scholars' cop-option into this persistent structure.
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U of Winnipeg People’s University for Palestine is up on Treaty 1 Territory
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Such syntactical clarity is notably missing in all headlines to do with the Genocide in Palestine that Biden has been committing
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It concerns me that research on slavery in the UK remains unaware of so much: the question of how to "ethically" undertake this work has not "been left unexplored". Please see the work of Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand, Marisa Fuentes, Stephanie Smallwood, Christina Sharpe 1/
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A reminder that student evaluation is a racist, classist, sexist tool of the neo-liberal academy and sharing your 'positive' results is actually harmful to your colleagues. We can care about our students' progress and growth without capitulating to academic surveillance.
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This is a subtweet (for what it's worth). Many (most?) non-Black historians of slavery and empire replicate 'specimenization' in their work: they gather data, plot points, study 'examples', all while omitting African, Black, Indigenous, Caribbean thought and praxis altogether.
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The white abolitionist narrative asserts that enslavers were 'good men' who ended slavery. No. Slavery became unviable due to incessant resistance and rebellion and due to massive public pressure that revealed the norms of slavery as barbaric. There is a lesson for now.
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Yes, those policing the boundaries of history could do with reading some Stuart Hall. Those of us from the Caribbean do not come neatly packaged for white convenience.
It’s shocking to see people who claim to be experts on the history of slavery to have difficulty imagining someone could be Black and Asian at the same time, when this is a very common identity in the Caribbean, particularly Trinidad and Jamaica.
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Maybe some professors of "Peace and Conflict Studies" should take note of this.....
The Martin Luther King Jr that never gets quoted
"If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it. If peace means a willingness to be exploited, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don't want peace."
Read it.
REPOST IT
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It was a privilege to work with
@PeterBrathwaite
whose work on Black Portraiture transforms how we see art and ourselves in so many ways. Thank you
@JRichardWFU
and
@18common
for your support and guidance.
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Not to mention the erasure of Indigenous peoples and the genociding of them by settlers….
This will come as no surprise to many of you, but the premise of the entire article--its unstated moral core without which it disappears into thin air--is that the lives of "native born Americans" are worth more than the lives of immigrants.
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There ya go- now do the rest!
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I’m not Palestinian. I’m Irish and East Indian Trinidadian. My people on both sides faced genocide, famine, forced migration, and indentured labour. I’ve lived under British occupation still ongoing. I advocate for Palestine against genocide. In these ways I’m also Palestinian ♥️
I’m not Palestinian. I’m Anishinaabe. My people survived colonization of our homelands, killing 100s of millions in policies & actions that continue today. I advocate for Palestine because my blood knows their pain & fierce love of their land. In that way, I am Palestinian.
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@sandeepbak
Also watch the rush to erase ‘Decolonial’ from their anaemic well-funded projects….Still profiting from vibes while contributing to white silence/genocide
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You are in the imperial core and are on stolen land. The system you support wants to kill everyone at home, especially Indigenous peoples, and abroad. These are facts whether you like them or not. You were all abandoned to Covid, climate disaster and more. Wake up.
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Re Harvard: I hope the main take away here is that silence will not protect us. Speak fully against all aspects of white supremacy at work in academia and speak fully against genocide.
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Be "adult" and "disassociate" from the genocide in Gaza. This is desperate messaging and despicable morality.
AOC is already rushing to convince progressives to stay loyal to Biden as they express frustration with his unwillingness to budge on his pro-Israel stance
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@EmmaDabiri
Agreed! a few of us wrote about these issues, too:
@MiraAssafK
@DrSepinwall
@DrDadabhoy
@ProvAtlantic
:
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At this moment I have friends whose lives are being devastated by genocide, Covid pandemic, and Hurricane Beryl. I am begging people to stop blaming individuals and to start thinking systemically and communally because we need other ways to rescue each other from imminent death.
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Being a parent is not a relationship of ownership, or even authority: it is primarily one of care. This means being child-led from day, one-seeing how we can best in our circumstances meet their needs. We need to take policing and power out of parental and care relationships.
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"Anybody who thinks that they can modify what they’re doing and be safe is deeply mistaken, because authoritarianism is never about creating conditions for anybody to be safe. It’s about making everybody feel insecure.” Thanks to
@meganzahneis
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We need new language. I’ve myself used the word ‘barbaric’ to describe zionism’s genocidal violence. But this word is half of the west’s civilized/barbaric binary which we must utterly reject. Along with all its eugenics, teleologies and death-driven ideologies.
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Here is our new piece on
#Bridgerton
and histories of race and enslavement. A Roundtable by
@MiraAssafK
@DrDadabhoy
@DrSepinwall
@ProvAtlantic
and me!
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@preraphsrule
Exactly. These high school kids know all about Uvalde and they know the police are the enemy
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They have done this since their East India Company, their Virginia Company, since all the money flowed from Caribbean plantations. The British are global historical thieves and looters.
So Yemen isn't actually stopping shipping in the red sea as long as it isn't headed for Israel, insurers are. The largest/most famous insurance market is Lloyds of London. The UK is preparing to go to war on behalf of Lloyds of London
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The rise of antisemitism where it truly resides, within white supremacy, continues to be ignored.
Nashville, you gotta Nazi problem rn. This is downtown today.
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@MsSylviaSanders
I think that, as with reporting other forms of abuse, power dynamics are set up to protect privileged perpetrators. Often the evidence is not deemed sufficient. It would be ideal if we could shift the culture towards preventing this seemingly ubiquitous culture of appropriation.
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Now we make clear: what is it that connects Houston, Haiti, Jamaica, the Grenadines? Borders evaporate when we look at who and what is abandoned and why. Racial capitalism, anti-blackness, anti-Indigeneity, ecocide. These are the vectors.
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AMONG BLACK FOLKS, on the occasion of being invited to an event, a common question is, “Who gone be there?” …If the answer is that that…too few) Black folks, or if other people in attendance are hostile to our existence, the answer about our presence is often a resounding “no.”
"Two Black academics discuss the rationale behind leaving Twitter or going down with the ship."
Check out this co authored piece. Me and
@hypervisible
had some deep convos lol!!
via
@wired
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Seeing this list of names as the Caribbean, source of Black Radical thought, is pummeled by climate emergency, and as multiple genocides are enacted, is enraging. But it also lifts the veil from industries of knowledge that are part of the same systems of domination ☠️
Imagine working on Black radical thought and accepting this prize at anytime, but especially now
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