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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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The more I see of Ethiopian-Israelis, the more flabbergasted I become about what Frank Wilderson said
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Eyal Yakoby
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The European white colonizers who American students are protesting against.
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@AkuaSankofa
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Getting mad that a white woman called you a white supremacist shill, when you just bragged about working for a white supremacist entity is exactly what I expect from Black women on the other side of terror 🌚
@PplsCityCouncil
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"The same people that spend $1 trillion blowing up other people's kids are saying it's a wish list? I'm sorry, that's propaganda." @ButchWare "It's not propaganda. I've worked on Capitol Hill." @angela_rye Talking points straight from capitol hill & the DNC. Not propaganda lol
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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A lot of y'all fantasize about them getting with the white male characters
@JillRobiFangirl
Jill STAFF ME Robi - Fangirl🐬
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Do you know what these characters all have in common?
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@AkuaSankofa
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"NIGGAS AIN'T SHIT👹" The "niggas" in question:
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@AkuaSankofa
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Too many (some of them radicals/revolutionaries) think dissatisfaction will push people towards change. In reality, it tends to lead to despair. More than dissatisfaction, people need to believe something else is possible. Not just conceptually, but feel it in their bones.
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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I would go a step further: The West does NOT hate Hitler 🤷🏿
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Ademọ́lá.
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Before there was Hitler and the holocaust, there was King Leopold of Belgium who killed millions of Congolese. The west hates Hitler because he took colonialism inward—because he was violent to white people.
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@AkuaSankofa
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Pure. Fucking. Evil.
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@AkuaSankofa
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I think it's because I mainly met RICH (or wealth aspiring) Africans in undergrad, but I kinda got it when African Americans didn't like us. AfAms might've made fun of my accent and asked silly questions about Africa and said "Africans think they're better than us", but many
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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So... intersectional feminism?
@lonesomelovee
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Intersectional feminism except it’s at the intersection of genocide and the prison industrial complex
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@AkuaSankofa
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I'm still so impressed with how quickly Palestinians shut down the "Palestinian men are oppressors even if they are oppressed" dogwhistle. The feminist collectives still did their best to project their womenandchildren discourse, but thankfully it fell flat 🙏🏿
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@AkuaSankofa
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People who study real Black/African history know that while the African male has been positioned as the perennial threat to Black people's success (that's not misogyny or androcentrism; just the truth), it's actually the Black "elite" who consistently sell other Black people out.
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@AkuaSankofa
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Elite Black women have benefited from people projecting radicality on them, and now the same people are upset that these BW aren't doing shit. Why would they do anything? All it took was them breathing, and it was decided they were doing shit they weren't doing.
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
6 months
@LifeStarMedia Apparently 63% of diversity and inclusion leadership roles were occupied by White women as of 2022...
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
2 months
Okay but modern day "patriarchy" cracks me up because it's so blatantly incoherent.  So, patriarchy is a system where all men dominate women regardless of race and class? Then why are BM not doing as well as WM? Matter of fact looking at this data, why are WW right below WM?
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@AkuaSankofa
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Hers is not a "rags to riches" story: she came from money. So of course she thinks this way. She's part of a long tradition of second gens complaining that their parents used their braces money to pay school fees for relatives who didn't even "deserve" it.
@OneJoblessBoy
@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆
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“Sending money back home to your extended family is such a common African practice that I absolutely hate” ⁃Elsa Majimbo
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
2 months
Here it is:
@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
1 year
Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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@AkuaSankofa
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And what aspect of Black femininities do we need to unpack fully? Because the mom is right there! Is she not a willing participant in bringing these children into the world? What's with the implicit assumption that he's driven by a patriarchal impulse, but she isn't?!!!
@rrandolphjr
stony morrison, PhD
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This patriarchal impulse, to sire so many children, has always baffled me. And it’s an aspect of Black masculinities that we rarely stop to unpack fully, especially the sexual/erotic implications.
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@AkuaSankofa
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PSL should turn the "Socialist Reconstruction" book into a website where they provide answers to questions or common myths ("Do socialists have a plan for housing?" or "Socialists will take away our homes"). The book is already arranged in a way that makes it pretty easy to do.
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@AkuaSankofa
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South Korea: *experiences structural crises that impact men and women, leading to declining birth rates.* Radlibfeminists not in South Korea: how do I make this about me? OBVIOUSLY it's connected to my idiotic movement! Western chauvinism remains undefeated in its narcissism 😂
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@AkuaSankofa
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Sidestepping the people trying to pass off their ignorant liberalism as informed-but-cynical leftism: if you're a nominal leftist or an admitted liberal who sincerely wants to learn about creating a socialist society, this book from PSL is a great place to start.
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@AkuaSankofa
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I've heard people claim that bell hooks' Ain't I a Woman makes a compelling case for black feminism, when in chapter 4 she actually called black feminists reactionaries who expressed anti-white racism. So, you'll pardon me if I don't take ANYONE'S word on ANY author.
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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Once again, bell hooks and Michele Wallace will pay for their crimes...
@Dewi_Godiz
Thee Barefaced Beauty ✨
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You don’t know your history and that’s ok. It started on the plantation babe
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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Never forget that for at least a decade, Tommy Curry provided a principled, evidence-based critique of intersectionality and Black feminist thought. But he was excoriated by proudly uninformed, bandwagoning posers. Now that non-BM say it, ppl are pretending they always knew
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@AkuaSankofa
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Wild that a Black Republican who works for Prager University becomes a reason to call African Americans as a group "the weakest link." Also, his father's family was/is part of the Haitian bourgeoisie. Does that make Haitians the second weakest link?
@ArameKane5
Myriam Kane 🍉
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When I say African Americans are the weakest link is an understatement cause if you did a lil bit of of research you could've seen how many of Palestinian are in open air prison, and how many of them are being tortured and raped in Israeli prison but you chose being stupid
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@AkuaSankofa
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It's not just the Central Park 5 thing, which is already bad enough. She said Black power was loyal to imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy; WW slaveowners and her Black male slaves performed domination for their white daddy (?!!?). What part screams "I love BM"?!
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@AkuaSankofa
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Black male revolutionaries eventually broke away from Western notions of "man"/"woman" to develop their own formulations of humanism and liberation, but we're supposed to believe that the revolutionary Black feminists who still rely on "man"/"woman" are secretly doing something
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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Here's E. Franklin Frazier saying the same thing...in 1957. Since people are quoting and replying to Nina's tweet as if she's the one in her feelings...when she's the one pointing out facts.
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@ninamonei
Emphatically Fallacious 💅🏽
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Mfs go to white ass schools, live in white ass neighborhoods, pride themselves on being the Only™️ in every space they occupy and talk daily about not wanting too many Black people around, detest everything Black people do, but be proud “Blackity Black Black” online for likes.
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Apparently Angela Rye and Kamala Harris are both members of the ultra-exclusive organization called The Links, Incorporated? I had never heard of them before today...Any investigators have intel on The Links? @DabSquad_Slank , perchance?
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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@AkuaSankofa
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People say this, and I'm not saying Arab anti-blackness isn't real, but do y'all realize that phrase itself *in connection with Palestine* is a result of AP? It wasn't "popular" discourse to say "Arab anti-blackness is real," in connection to PALESTINIAN solidarity and/or
@Sain4847
vanishing mediator
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Arab anti-blackness is real, but I always thought the anecdote plausibly entailed the 'shock of proximity' that comes with being brutalized by other visibly nonwhite peoples and the compensatory cruelty they bring to it (something you hear from afropalestinians)
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@AkuaSankofa
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Now everybody and their mama claims they always knew BLMGN was fucked up, but most still haven't dealt with the fundamental issues. From the onset, how did people think it was logical, moral, and/or revolutionary to build a movement off of murdered Black men and then tell the
@RenyTure
📚pedagogy in black✊🏾
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By far the best critique of BLM I have read
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@AkuaSankofa
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the academy actively discourages students from reading primary sources for the same reason churches don't like their parishioners to read the entire bible, or to inquire about their church's history: it will reveal the institution to be smoke and mirrors. in this essay i will...
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@AkuaSankofa
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Rich Africans use Western racism to their benefit. They wouldn't have the temerity to stand in the middle of Makola and say "the poor should starve", but they say it on the internet and people are like "interesting, we should listen, because they're speaking from experience🤔"
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A-kwee-ya
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Are you just now discovering bofa?
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@AkuaSankofa
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bell hooks and other Black feminist academics said Black radical spaces didn't accept them because they wanted women's liberation and those spaces didn't. That non-BF BW rejected them because they wanted BM approval. And people didn't stop to consider that these specific BW
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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Not y'all reverse colonizing white women's stuff 😂 How is the original feminism (white feminism) no longer feminism? You joined their movement, created offshoots that are still tethered to white feminist logics, and now you're "kicking them out"? How's that work?
@1Farhana29
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@hausofriya White feminism isn't feminism. It's white supremacy held by a girl boss cosplay
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@AkuaSankofa
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It's deeply unethical to say you're preparing learners to think critically about liberation, when you won't even read actual revolutionaries who fought for liberation. Yet you malign them in your writing. You insist the cage that you're steering people into is actual liberation.
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@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
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“You’re not a colleague. You’re a colonizer”: The queerphobic antiblack logics of white Gays® unmatching with me on Tinder 🥺
@LeftSentThis
L E F T, PhD ⚫️
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Kendrick’s line, “You’re not a colleague. You’re a colonizer” will be the title of somebody’s dissertation.
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@AkuaSankofa
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This is why cop propaganda works so well.
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When you give a theorist a pass on proving their argument, simply because their argument "resonates" with something that feels axiomatic to you? That's not radical. At all. Because that's literally what hegemony does: it makes the dominant worldview seem "natural" and axiomatic!
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In the feminist manifesto for Palestine, they make the genocide into a womenandchildren issue; NEVER mention Palestinian men; but manage to call on "all women", which logically would include Israeli women. So I'm not convinced that they aren't compromised.
@De_Coloniality
Insurgent Decoloniality
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Feminism isn’t a monolith. The Palestinian Feminist Collective, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Combahee River Collective, and many other decolonial feminist movements are anti-imperial, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial, not only anti-patriarchal.
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@AkuaSankofa
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You don't get to lie that Black men oppress Black women, that Black male slaves weren't raped due to "homophobia", that Black counter-violence was just yearning for white supremacist power, and we're supposed to ignore that because later on you said "women aren't so innocent!"
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@AkuaSankofa
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The shift from "Black women's experiences are one specific location for understanding oppression" to "Black women are best positioned to understand oppression" is insidious. Because now we're having inane arguments about who's better at understanding oppression.
@RenyTure
📚pedagogy in black✊🏾
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The interesting thing about arguing the notion that Black women possess a better epistemic advantage bc of their race & gender stands in contradiction to the foundational ideas of the scholar who originated Black feminist thought, particularly her views on Standpoint epistemology
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IMO this is a huge effect of the psychological warfare that the state engages in: not only are people dissatisfied with their lives, but they'll rip you to shreds for daring to suggest it doesn't have to be that way. Easiest way to curb the likelihood for resistance.
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@AkuaSankofa
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It's bad enough when the Israeli settlers do it, and it's obvious they are the biggest threat. But Sameer more likely meant that as an indigenous person, it hurt to see a member of an oppressed group participate in settler violence
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@AkuaSankofa
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If "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house", how to make sense of accepting the master (white women) into movements that claim to be about dismantling? Either you can't discern what is a master/master's tool, or you don't want to dismantle the master's house.
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@AkuaSankofa
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Seriously though, a huge outcome of the post-structuralist turn is that everything-and I really do mean every thing-is treated as a text that can be interpreted through any lens. People, places, historical events, politics, every single thing can be whatever you want it to be.
@queersocialism
josh!
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kamala harris is not your mother, or aunt. not an embodiment of experiences of ordinary black womanhood, or the time you experienced a micro-aggression in the office. she is campaigning to be the face of empire so unless identify with that, there are no parallels to be drawn!
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@annie_etc_ She's giving me hardcore "root for everybody Black"/ girlboss/"Black capitalism is Black liberation" vibes lol
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"Race is the modality in which class is experienced" but when you say "class is the modality in which race is experienced", Black elites get mad lol
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@NobleQAli Yup, that's exactly it
@AkuaSankofa
A-kwee-ya
1 year
Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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@YNB
yvette nicole brown
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One more thing, know what’s a bigger threat to us as Black people than an animated tv show? The amount of US who aren’t registered to vote or who don’t #VoteBlue because people like #NinaTurner tell them every politician is the same. Which is a LIE. They are NOT.
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Very misogynistic of you to ignore the fact that these white women are being forced to vote against their interests🥺 Black men may not be in this photo, but the white men definitely left this event to high five Black men and say "men won!"
@thurgoodhamer
ig: profponton | no thrones on arakko
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Look at all the black men in this photo.
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@AkuaSankofa
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Intersectionality has been a liberal project from the start. But supporters redefined it to make it "radical" and now they're mad at the progenitor of a liberal theory, that they've decided is radical, for not acting like a radical, even though she's always been liberal.
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A-kwee-ya
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This is definitionally impossible, since you're an incel!
@RenyTure
📚pedagogy in black✊🏾
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Gonna officially be a married man in about 6 hours 😬
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Notice how she talks about the Combahee River Collective. Putting aside the (glaring) inaccuracies, any honest engagement with this text that has somehow become a foundational Black feminist text should make you question the canonical stories about the field.
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IDK Spivak, but what do y'all expect from Crenshaw? Her work involves arguing for basic legal reforms, and critiquing people who point out that civil rights wasn't radical. She's worked on Warren's campaign, hangs out with Clinton. Y'all are just playing yourselves 😂
@UdsiAsli
SaveGazanLives
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In conclusion: Wilderson's own recollection of the event doesn't support the assertion of Palestinian anti blackness. Soooooooooo for y'all who are invoking unfounded shit to back your equivocation about Palestinian counter violence: find some other evidence.
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The nonviolent turn laundered Black Rage into a cheek-turning supplication for entry into white spaces. Whites then assassinated leaders and found new ways to re-entrench white supremacy. "In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The US has none."
@Sturgeons_Law
Sturgeon's Law
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Since this topic is creating a lot of discussion now: one example of this extreme discipline is what Black orgs in the 60s called "tolerance trainings." They'd train protesters through simulations of racist harassment until they developed the self-control not to react violently.
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Nahhhhhh this is wickeeeeed 😭 Even the pigs look embarrassed 💀🤣
@OG_Humble_One
Tragic Bi-Ethnic Negro
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@craigtoennies an elite grifter. he really posed for this.
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At this point, I've read 8.5 bell hooks texts (currently working on reel to real). As a not-fan, I respect her more than her many stans. The most respectful thing you can do for a scholar is to read their work. Idolatry, pedestaling, and uninformed defensiveness is not respect 🤷🏿
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Writing a feminist manifesto in support of Palestinian people where you talk about womenandchildren as the main ones harmed (especially when it would be just as accurate to say "men and children are the main ones harmed) reveals the limits of your politics
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He looks 32?!! 😭
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@jenbegakis
Jennifer Begakis
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why did i think Hunter Biden was 32 he is 54??? wow he looks great.. that was crack?
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If white women are the primary beneficiaries of even policies aimed at “marginalized” people (thinking about affirmative action here), at a dire cost to colonized people of any gender, perhaps the discursive suturing of white women’s interests to that of colonized peoples,
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It's due to race? Okay. Still though, if it's all men shouldn't the data show WM ➡️ BM ➡️WW ➡️ BW? Since it's not that, wouldn't that mean that WW can oppress BM by race and gender*? What do you mean that we should reject positivism? I'm just trying to reconcile what you said.
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And it doesn't even have to be "overthrow the system" type shit. "Negotiate as much as possible-housing, salaries, work, relationships" "How dare you suggest that? Do you realize the other party could withdraw their offer if I did that?!" People want high rewards with zero risk.
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No 🫶🏿
@honeyfromants
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@AkuaSankofa Tbh being black, esp. as a woman, in certain spaces can be be, at least superficially, radical and subversive in its own right.
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It's not their job to perform labor for you and find what you should be locating for yourself. And don't say you can't "find" it; once my brother said he couldn't find something but when I looked it was right there. That's probably what you're doing😒 Stop using Black women👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@RenyTure
📚pedagogy in black✊🏾
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For research purposes, could anyone direct me to a Black feminist critique on any of the following: 1) Black feminist criticisms of how other Black feminists critique Black male nationalist, 2) A Black feminist exegesis on the early sexual experiences of Black boys losing their
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This is what I mean when I say people are mad at simulacra of flesh and blood people who've never embodied the characteristics projected onto the simulacra. Why are you disappointed she hasn't spoken about something that you yourself show she's literally never spoken about?
@thrasherxy
🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻
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2. It seems like @AAPolicyForum co-founder and executive director Kimberlé Crenshaw ( @sandylocks ) has NEVER used words “Israel,” “Palestine,” “Gaza” or “Palestinian” on here
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@AkuaSankofa
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Shame and humiliation are nowhere near synonymous with sense of threat. It's more likely that Sameer just meant it was extra painful and distressing to have an Ethiopian do the will of the Israelis.
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One of those books that forces you to understand that "womanhood" has no internal coherence. Because what in the world can the slaver "woman" who sued for the return of her slaves, after her husband sold them without her authorization, share with an enslaved "woman"?!
@JelonAlexander
Je'lon Alexander, M.A.
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Just finished They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. This book literally deserves to be read in high school, college, & grad school because it lifts the veil off white women as damsel & distress when they were co-conspirators in slavery. 🧵
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Maybe I'm stuck on the wrong thing, but it bothers me that he keeps calling the rectangle a square; it's not equal length! He's unclear in his language. And the bottom of that pyramid IS a rectangle even when you cut in half. He refuses to view things from a different perspective
@Southside_Gunn
🍊Elgin Barrett Eugene Smith lll🍊
7 months
Umm y’all, please look at this…
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A-kwee-ya
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Michelle Obama is the perfect neoliberal shill. Born into verifiably working class family that lived in crowded housing. Perfect "rags to riches" avatar, who can then tell everyone else that change starts close to home. Not housing or job policies. Fix your lives 1st or shut up!
@NotAntXIV
Indigenous to🌍❗️Get over it!
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@KamoseMills 2018 Women’s Summit
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A-kwee-ya
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There's a reason why those "racialized men aren't targeted by virtue of their gender" people cannot contend with genocides themselves: it becomes embarrassingly obvious that their "theories" are full of shit. Like a flat-earther who won't look out of a plane's window.
@ireallyhateyou
B.M.
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IDF spokesperson commented that the photos are "blatant and ugly behavior that will be investigated", but ultimately Abergel wasn't punished in any way, supposedly because her actions demanded only an in-house disciplinary hearing, and she was already out of the army at the time.
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Anyways, given what we agree on: wouldn't you need to update your definition of patriarchy because if WW can oppress BM, wouldn't that suggest that all men can't dominate all women, since white women dominate Black women AND men? Waiiiiiit, why are you yelling at me?!
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Y'all are mad at simulacra you created. Like, yes they most definitely played into it in significant ways. But if you read their shit you wouldn't think they were radical, which is why it's embarrassingly obvious when people uplift Crenshaw's work as anything other than liberal.
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We're told to critique freedom FIGHTERS ("no one is above critique! This is how we can learn from their mistakes") but when you critique people whose political work has only involved "saying names" and working for liberal politics, it's "STOP ATTACKING YOU *insert vile insult*!"
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I KNOW that Gloria Steinem has bh on her altar. Truly one of her elite employees.
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6 months
"I love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me"
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Had an elder "check" me when I noted how Safiya Bukhari provided a strong and useful analysis of issues of sexism in the BPP without invoking feminism. This elder said Bukhari was still feminist, and went on a mini rant about how feminism is what made the party stronger.
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They're hiding disdain of Black people by using the most accepted for of antiblackness: anti Black misandry. Because if he's reflective of Black male pathology, she's implicated as well. But now as long as you don't explicitly pathologize her, you're good to go...
@DrTJC
Prof. TJCurry Ph.D MPH
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@AkuaSankofa Exactly, so the male is driven by patriarchy to reproduce, but the female is not even though she chooses to have the said child. This is just a pathologization of Black male sexuality.
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So, to recap: Sameer feels extra shame and humiliation when dealing with Israeli violence from an Ethiopian Jew. FW concludes Sameer felt extra THREATENED from a Black soldier than an Israeli. Does that make sense to you? Sameer says "shame" and FW concludes "threat"?
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9 months
Goes back to a convo from last week: people will die before they admit they took a hasty, uninformed stance. So when faced with undeniable proof of their idiocy, they'll either pretend they never took that incorrect stance, or they'll find a new reason to defend that wrong stance
@RenyTure
📚pedagogy in black✊🏾
9 months
The color purple twitter not gonna like this one.
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I...don't like this framing. If there's something that prevented you from becoming homeless, then you...weren't...homeless. Reminds me of the "middle class doesn't exist because they're one paycheck away from poverty" thing. Potentialities are not actualities!!! Am I tripping?!!
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6 months
In the 1990 intro to "Black macho and the myth of the superwoman," Wallace admits to the falseness of her argument that black male chauvinism destroyed the Black power movement...But then she's featured in Riggs' 1994 documentary "Black is, Black ain't" spreading the same lies...
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A-kwee-ya
7 months
This is the Middle America/working class that people love to bring up lol.
@interesting_aIl
Interesting As Fuck
8 months
How much did your Super Bowl ticket cost?
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Why is Angela Rye "triggered" by Butch Ware mispronouncing Kamala's name? Like, did someone mispronounce "Angela"? "Rye"? I don't get it 🤨
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And if some of y'all Blacks (both elites and the aspiring elites) weren't caught up in the bullshit ideas that you got from the white people whose approval you seek so desperately, you'd realize how counterintuitive it is to point fingers at poor Black men.
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A-kwee-ya
2 months
But when Curry said feminism was racist backlash...🤷🏿
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Sana Saeed
2 months
didn’t have liberal exaltations of *white pride* on my 2024 bingo card, but
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Are of these kids seem to be from the same two parents. He doesn't seem to have stepped out to have children outside of his union. How dismissive of her agency does one have to be to completely erase her from the narrative so that you can (yet again) pathologize Black manhood?!
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I'm not exaggerating. You can legit find them at every point in the history of Africans. From European contact for the purposes of slave trafficking, all the way till now. They're such obvious dangers to Black ppl that the fact that people don't get that, it can't be coincidence.
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"I won't condemn Hamas. Why? Because FUCK YOU!" - Steven Salaita
@MAKCapitalism
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
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In a few minutes!
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When separated from their families, some enslaved Black males would risk lashings, punitive amputations, and even death to reconnect. Some chose to remain enslaved where their families were being held hostage, because otherwise they had to leave the state (or the country!).
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A lot of people say that because they themselves don't know shit, and having to explain would've revealed the sheer ineptitude lurking behind their leftist righteousness. So, they frame themselves as overly burdened with the responsibility to educate.
@jdragsky
jay Dragon 🔜 home
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i unfortunately think "it's not my job to educate you" , as a phrase, has done tremendous harm to leftwing communities and communication and we all gotta put in doubletime to recover from the harm its caused
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My theory is that it's for the same reason that bell hooks and Michelle Wallace could publish genre/field-defining texts based on poorly written undergrad research and/or unprocessed personal trauma: they spread common sense racist ideas about Blackness and/or Black womanhood.
@its_lindz
Afro-Chicagoan
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Regardless of the content, why the hell does someone born in 92 have a memoir? A memoir at 26 in this day & age is wild AF to me.
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Reminder: the only analysis in "Afropessimism" of Palestinian antiblackness doesn't even match the evidence that is provided in the text. Call me kooky, but there's no way I would hear this story from a Palestinian and somehow find connections with the Ethiopian soldier 🤷🏿
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Came back to Twitter after a hiatus to find that people are still quoting FW to talk about Palestinian anti blackness. Just a reminder that FW based that whole part of his theory on this comment from Sameer Bishara. (Could only fit some of the text in the alt description sorry!)
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They built a fucking tourist hotel on killing grounds. I remember seeing something recently about how Isntraelis were looking forward to building condos and hotels in Palestine, on killing grounds. They've been doing shit like this since the founding of the United States.
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"The Barbie movie is Feminism 101! I know it's not far reaching enough, but it's still teaching some important stuff about feminism that we all need to know!!" The feminism in question:
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Katie
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It’s here and it’s fabulous 🩷
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When students complained about the volume of readings assigned in a grad-level ✨critical✨ feminism class the professor encouraged us to "engage in a radical skimming" and draw on our ✨lived experience✨ for writing essays on the readings 🥴
@moontwerk
🦋🌸Gimme the Lute🌸🦋 סלע
1 year
the fact that it’s a normal, sometimes even encouraged and expected, thing in grad school to 1) skim readings and skip chapters of texts + 2) write publishable *expert* level papers on said texts in the span of a few months is so disingenuous to me, one hill im dying on for sure
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