always grateful for an opportunity to get candid and speak on the state of black movements, black thought and the political culture. get into my latest interview for ⁦@BARBookForum⁩

as long as people dress up in blackface and fake american indian headdresses for Halloween ion see the problem

she really be in her lane, up to the right kinda white girl bullshit 😭

“I'm not suggesting that the beef was meant to distract from political issues… But there's a reason that this particular beef would attract this level of attention at this particular moment, and it goes beyond their respective popularity.” @AnkhDeLillo https://t.co/l9zg9hV8p9

AP has such rhetorical value as an analytic that non-readers use it against its core arguments. https://t.co/ivXYzXLUYy

Never seen a white person make themselves lighter to be a black person 😭

Bari Weiss just fired her.

'The Living will have nothing to do with the Dead if it does not make itself more palatable—in made-up, morticianed, and mortified silence.” A Black Trans Haint on living and dying in a society that denies them authentic grief, trauma, and existence. ' https://t.co/w9xgCdootK

“Slavery makes the use of violence by the captors and the slave an ordinary and routine response. Slavery is violence and the only response is violence. Violent acts do not make the slave a martyr or a more sympathetic figure as violence is the predicament of the condition.”

“Intimacy is not the balm of Black accumulation and fungibility but its intensifying factor.” Patrice D. Douglass ‘Engendering Blackness’

absolutely diabolical

From Decaying plantation houses, & dark family secrets, to curses, & taboo desires, religious fanaticism, madness & profound despair, the Southern Gothic genre is defined by many motifs. Here’s a list of genre-defining media curated by @sherrondajbrown

Happy Halloween! As spooky szn gives way to Election Day, @SherrondaJBrown offers this critical review of Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS,’ connecting white supremacy’s vampirism to voter suppression & anti-Black underdevelopment in the South https://t.co/ZFy3DhnMx0

Again and again, stories indistinguishable from sci-fi and fantasy narratives are used to justify fascist endeavors and uphold white supremacist understandings of race, history, indigeneity, colonization, and the world at large. https://t.co/9ahojgQD9j

While @KamalaHarris was Vice President, Israel pursued a 15-month policy of deliberately starving children in Gaza. She never called for conditioning U.S. military aid. On May 20, 2024 the ICC prosecutor applied for arrest warrants for Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel) and

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For those interested in the background to the war brewing in the southern Caribbean, I’m resharing my essay on “Oil War in the Americas” from February 2015. A reminder that the stage was set over more than two decades. https://t.co/fLPC8ShOjj

A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. via ⁦@WIRED⁩

One of the greatest jazz compositions ever created

Dahmer is more possible only in a post-Mapplethorpe/Warhol queer cultural context. and to miss this is really a rehearsal of the very form of sadistic violence Dahmer mobilized—but this time at the level of discourse and memory. disappearing this context disappears his victims.

the amount of victim-blaming in this thread is not the analysis of racial fetishism or internalized anti-blackness y’all think it is and all of a sudden care about so much it’s symptomatic of the cultural crime R. Murphy committed in butchering the very memory of these black men