Decolonial Feminist Collective
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utilizing decolonial feminist approaches in popular + political education and solidarity-building.
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Join our upcoming collective study group of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire by Erica R. Edwards. A relevant book for our current political moment📚
Register here:
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“What my body-mind needs is not to make the choice to rest and to heal, which isn't a real choice to begin with. What my body-mind truly needs is the fall of empire.”
So, over the last couple months I’ve been writing an essay that I feel especially vulnerable about.
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“Ontology of Betrayal*: A conversation on Politics, Theory, Antiblackness, Gender and Freedom” with Frank B. Wilderson, III, Selamawit D. Terrefe, and Joy James
11/15 @ 6pm
Join the webinar:
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Today we honor the life and legacy of Black revolutionary,
#ClaudiaJones
! On her birthday and beyond, we honor her legacy by forwarding her liberatory
#decolonial
praxis.
#decolonialfeminism
#DecolonialFeministCollective
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Upcoming virtual reading group discussions of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar's who examines how biopolitical forces work to control populations through the logic of elimination - maiming, injuring, depriving.
Register:
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Correct. & Patricia Hill-Collin’s also gave us the “matrix of domination” which is 100x more useful than “intersectionality.”
yikes. i know many folks see Crenshaw do this + say “see, intersectionality is liberalism!” but it’s so important to remember that Black queer feminists like the Combahee River Collective brought us the analysis of interlocking systems of oppression before Crenshaw gave us a term
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The defense of that artist by U.S. Black feminists really illuminates why decolonial/Global South feminists often describe the feminist form emanating from the imperial core as hegemonic.
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"How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" — June Jordan
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Somebody said it’s Women’s History Month! We want to highlight words from Professor Sylvia Tamale’s groundbreaking text, Decolonization and Afro-Feminism.
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“What are you prepared to do on behalf of the Palestinian peoples?” — June Jordan
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Oh look, intersectional imperialism.
In celebration of Black History Month, Black members of staff from across the Biden-Harris Administration met with
@VP
.
Our Administration is proud to recognize the staffers who help lead on building a democracy rooted in fairness, freedom, justice, and opportunity.
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“I start with the recognition that we are at war.” — Toni Cade Bambara
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"The liberation of women is a basic requirement for the Revolution, the guarantee of its continuity and a precondition for its victory." —FRELIMO
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Join the Decolonial Feminist Collective for a roundtable discussion on “Reproductive Imperialism at Home and Abroad” with Dr. Joy James,
@JalessahJ
, and
@Ash_Bash23
.
Aug 11 @ 7:30 PM EST
Register:
ASL will be provided.
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Mind you, the “one issue” is the US’s funding/equipping a genocide (with our tax dollars) being carried out by a military that exchanges tactics with US police forces.
Whoopi tells the voters in Michigan not to throw away their vote on ALL OF THE ISSUES over their concern over ONE ISSUE. This is a great message for a lot of Democratic voters this year.
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Between Dec. + Jan. We co-hosted 3 collective study sessions for The Right to Maim by Jasbir K. Puar. Linked are definitions, notes, commentary, reflection questions, & rec. readings informed by community members and ourselves, compiled in a study guide:
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There’s simply no way you can be attuned to what’s taking place in DRC, Sudan, and Haiti, and think the Americana shtick at this political moment deserves defending. Can we be just a little bit serious?
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is a must read! You can download it for free until Friday and the link below.
FREE EBOOK! Download HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA by Walter Rodney for free - until Friday!
As part of our Student Reading sale, we're giving away free ebooks in September. Don't miss out on this exemplary work, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis:
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+ before you come over here with the “we shouldn’t expect a musician…a billionaire.” Nobody is expecting her to lead a liberation movement. HOWEVER, anything that resembles patriotism is fair game for critique as there are multiple U.S. funded genocides taking place. Get clear.
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Today is the
#InternationalDayOfSolidarityWithThePalestinianPeople
. Sharing words from June Jordan who embodied anti-imperialist and internationalist feminist solidarity.
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Solidarity with workers 🤝🏾 COVID protocols that reflect it.
COVID-19 mortality rate five times higher among labor, retail and service workers, study reveals I think the fact that it affects others that many perceive as inferior is one of our biggest issues
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Fact: The U.S. maintains nearly 800 military bases in 80 countries around the world.
“If u don’t like the US then leave!”
Where on the planet can I escape US hegemony, pls tell me?
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Happy Birthday, to Trinidadian, Marxist, feminist, journalist Claudia Jones! Born today in 1915.
Today we honor the woman who our organization is named after, Claudia Vera Cumberbatch Jones, born
#onthisday
in 1915 in Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad (then the British West Indies).
Source: Left of Karl Marx by
@Ca_Rule
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Save the date: jan 8, 2023!
Join us for a discussion of Part 1 of _The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire_ by Erica R. Edwards.
Register:
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Next up, our reading group reads Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature by
@DrYoFiggy
.
Email decolonialfeminism[at]gmail[dot]com to join us on 5/30 and 6/6 for discussions of the text.
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Join our June reading group session on 6/25 @ 2:00 PM EST!
We’ll be discussing Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici.
Register:
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Join the Decolonial Feminist Collective’s monthly reading/poli-ed group for our April 30th session @ 1:00 PM EST!
This month we’re reading _Assata: An Autobiography_ by Assata Shakur.
Link to a PDF of the text in the registration link:
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Join us this Sunday, July 25th for a timely read! We’ll be talking the coloniality of gender and The Invention of Women by Oyeronke Oyewumi. DM for a PDF and zoom info.
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We are in solidarity with the peoples of Haiti and Palestine, and affirm an
agenda of decolonization! 🇭🇹 🇵🇸
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Happy birthday, Assata Shakur!
“I advocate revolutionary changes…an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.”
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Join us this Sunday, September 12, 2021 @ 2:00 PM EST for our virtual decolonial feminist reading group!
This month we will be engaging with texts that have a focus on African *women’s liberation struggles as well as discussing the limits of feminism(s).
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Free Mumia! Free Palestine!
“Brothers and sisters and students at City College, it is not enough to demand ceasefire. How about this? Make your demand cease occupation!” says still incarcerated Black Panther and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal from a timed prison call that was amplified from someone’s phone.
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SAVE THE DATE: Sun Jan. 30, 2022!
Join us for our reading group discussion of _A Decolonial Feminism_ by
@phamthikang
in conversation with María Lugones’ groundbreaking article, “Toward a Decolonial Feminism.”
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Ah yes, the organization with the eugenicist origin story siding with reproductive imperialism. Sounds about white (supremacist).
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“Our struggles are interconnected across borders; winning substantive change requires making broader demands of the existing order, and seeing reproductive justice not as a single-issue but as one component of a larger struggle against capitalism and imperialism.”
The maternal mortality rate in the US was 24 in every 100,000 live births.
Amongst Black women, 55 in every 100,000 live births.
In DRCongo, 547 maternal deaths happened for every 100,000 lives births.
Supporting maternal health in Congo is vital to the future of Congo.
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“Mask or no mask” is dangerous and intellectually dishonest. Yes, the state is responsible for a comprehensive COVID response. The genocidal state has chosen public health abandonment instead. We now know that masking reduces the spread of this deadly virus…”
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Save the date: March 26, 2023!
Join us for our March session, “Zine-Making as Method” facilitated by East African researcher, educator and cultural practitioner, Nd00ta.
Register:
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“For those of us who want to challenge all power hierarchies, we must begin with the interests of the poorest women—again, not only in theory but in the way we organize and in what we organize for and against.” — Andaiye
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Did you know that Girl Scouts partners with weapons manufacturer, RAYTHEON? Real solidarity with trans kids can begin with connecting the dots on violences. Neoliberal reductionism gets us nowhere.
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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They know the Americans are watching the Super Bowl.
BREAKING| Violent and unprecedented airstrikes on Rafah right now.
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We’ll be discussing this universalization this Sunday in our reading group discussion of The Invention of Women.
one of the great missteps of mainstream liberal feminism is the universalization of womanhood, that somehow always implies there can be something innately “progressive” about white womanhood
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“We were told that violence in itself is evil, and that, whatever the cause, it is unjustified morally. By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”
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They start recruitment early.
So NYPD cops at our subway station asked my 3yo if she wanted stickers and then handed her these. I am livid. Handing out well-known white nationalist stickers to kids???
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Upcoming Virtual Reading Group:
#DecolonialFeministCollective
reads The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye edited by Alissa Trotz ✨
REGISTER HERE:
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What does it mean that the U.S. reproductive justice movement has largely been silent about one of the most egregious examples of reproductive oppression in our lifetimes?
ARC-Southeast’s letter to reproductive justice allies reminds us that “just like the movement to expand abortion access, we know that being vocally supportive of our Palestinian siblings is crucial because silence only supports the oppressors.”
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This month we are reading Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies
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Happy birthday to revolutionary cultural worker, Lorraine Hansberry!
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It’s
#BlackAugust
, and this month we’re reading Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion.
Join us for a discussion of the text on Sunday, August 29th @ 2:00 pm est!
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“…a feminism that fights only for gender equality and refuses to see how integration leaves racialized women at the mercy of brutality, violence, rape, and murder, is ultimately complicit in it.” — Françoise Vergès
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Free book alert On Racial Capitalism by Cedric Robinson:
We're celebrating
#BHM
! Each Tuesday this month we will offer a free ebook, available for 24 hours.
This week, it's Cedric Robinson: On Racial Capitalism.
Download here 👇
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“The 72-year-old, known as Mãe Bernadete (Mother Bernadete), had spent years demanding answers for the unsolved murder of her son Fábio Gabriel Pacífico, who was gunned down outside the community’s school in 2017.”
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Excited to announce that M. Bahati Kuumba, author of “The Limits of Feminism: Decolonizing Women’s Liberation/Oppression Theory” will be joining our reading group discussion on Sunday!
Bring your questions and reflections on her article.
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All this gnawing at the existence of the colonized tends to make of life something resembling an incomplete death.
—Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism
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“How does a system bent upon our ultimate destruction make the unacceptable gradually tolerable?” — Audre Lorde
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Today our reading group is wrapping our reading + discussion of Sylvia Tamale’s Decolonization and Afro-Feminism @ 2:00pm EST.
#decolonialfeminism
#panafricanfeminism
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Re: “you shouldn’t complain about tactics if you’re not contributing”
How do we expect to know if people are taking actions in their daily lives? Hopefully sharing photographic proof of all of our plays on Joe Biden’s internet isn’t the metric.
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"The liberation of women is a basic requirement for the Revolution, the guarantee of its continuity and a precondition for its victory." —FRELIMO
Third World News, Vol 15, No. 2, Black Panther Party, periodical. Philadelphia, PA, 1975.
#DecolonialFeminism
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On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco
#MarielleFranco
#MariellePresente
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Have you decided which texts to zine-ify for our upcoming workshop, “Zine-Making as Method” on March 26th?
Link to readings + registration:
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SAVE THE DATE: Nov. 7, 2021!
Join the Decolonial Feminist Collective’s monthly reading group for our upcoming session on Sunday, Nov. 7 @ 2:00 PM EST! We’ll be discussing the revolutionary legacy of groundings and relevance to y/our work. Registration:
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"Those who commit the murders write the reports." — Ida B. Wells
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If you’re in the Atlanta area, join us on October 8th from 4-7:00 PM @ Little Five Points Community Center for a film screening of "Walter Rodney: What They Don't Want You to Know,” followed by a community dialogue.
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Love this, it’s not just about ensuring the individual “I” is cared for, but rather the collective “we” is cared for. How are you also caring for others despite needing care yourself? How might we contribute to collective care, advocating beyond our individual care needs?
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Thank you,
@DrYoFiggy
for joining our reading group today! If y’all haven’t already, grab her beautiful book, Decolonizing Diasporas —>
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Out today! Grab your copy ❤️🔥
"We must grow new bones to recoup our generative and reproductive labor from those who enslave and imprison us-new bones that move beyond the rhetorical to materially confront imperialist violence and premature death.”—Decolonial Feminist Collective
Joy James’s “New Bones Abolition” is out tomorrow. Centering caregivers in the movement, this book reconceptualizes our strategies in the fight for Black liberation.
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Lots of talk about democracy on here lately, so we wanted to share some excerpts by decolonial feminist, Breny Mendoza from her (translated) essay titled, “The Question of Coloniality of Democracy.” A thread🧵:
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U.S. Reproductive health, rights, + justice movements are down bad because of a refusal to develop an anti-imperialist political agenda. Our question is: what will be the response from the U.S.
#ReproductiveJustive
movement which claims to be a liberatory intervention?
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SAVE THE DATE: August 12th @ 7:30pm EST!
@lipatel
will be talking about her newest book, NO STUDY WITHOUT STRUGGLE, with
@jalessahj
of
@decolofeminism
and karen marshall of
@RethinkNOLA
at
@chariscircle
.
We hope to see you (virtually). Register at the link in our bio!
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The concept for this discussion sponsored by the Williams Just Futures Mellon Project and the Oakley Center originated with Black doctoral students/postdocs immersed in the possibilities of organizing and resistance against repression.
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Join Decolonial Feminist Collective (DFC) + The Conflicted Womanist (TCW) for our Feb./March collective study group of New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (After)life of Erica Garner by Joy James 📚
Registration required:
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Telling people they are not organizers < organizing to create the necessary conditions + support for them to join you in struggle
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Happy Birthday to Pat Parker, a revolutionary Black lesbian feminist blueprint who was born on this day! ❤️🔥✨
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All the US exports is violence.
Nothing to see here, just the US exporting rice with arsenic to Haiti.
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“An Afro-feminist decolonial project must go beyond GWS that focuses on elitist intellectualism by seeking to document non-academic and non-scholarly material. The aim is to erase the boundaries that separate and heirachize knowledge.”
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Worse than cowards, they are Compradors.
i don’t use “coward” lightly, but there has to be an even stronger word for “racial justice advocates” who are not only accepting Kamala and Joe’s holiday party invitations, but also have the nerve to post them on instagram? Are we reading the same news? Is it really worth it?
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Coalition work is not work done in your home. Coalition work has to
be done in the streets. And it is some of the most dangerous work you
can do. And you shouldn't look for comfort. 1/2
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That’s odd, we’ve yet to see said accountability for genocide and crimes against humanity perpetuated domestically by the U.S., of for the war crimes committed internationally.
The United States is committed to accountability for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Today, we welcome the opening of
@IntlCrimCourt
trial proceedings against Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a former Séléka commander in the Central African Republic.
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#ReproductiveJustice
includes Palestinian liberation.
@ARC_Southeast
has put out a beautiful letter and a call for RJ practitioners —orgs and individuals—to sign on in solidarity.
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Over the last 5 years, we’ve hosted 40 collective study groups with consistent transnational attendance and participation, created and contributed to political education resources, and hosted community workshops and events.
Thank you to all who’ve rocked w/us in any capacity!
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Important thread 🧵:
you can only have the “telling people to wear a mask is authoritarian” take if you agree with the state line on public health: that it is determined by a series of isolated personal choices, the repercussions of which landing only the supposedly insular individual who makes them.
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Happy birthday, June Jordan! Grateful for her pen and revolutionary blueprint.
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“To argue that an increase in numbers of women in political office equals prosperity for all is not only deceitful but is also an erasure of everyday radical acts of freedom by women including persons without political power.”
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We will situate attacks on abortion access, including but not limited to, the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe within the larger context of state violence in the forms of surveillance, criminalization, and militarization that the U.S. imposes on its citizen and exports abroad.
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Missed our live conversation on reproductive imperialisms? Don’t worry, we got you:
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The focus on same sex marriage is interesting. The new Family Code also includes protections of children rights, non-traditional family formations, and protections for the elderly. Much more comprehensive than
@CNN
’s headline would lead one to believe.
#CodigoS
í
Cuba has legalized same-sex marriage after Cubans voted in favor of a family code that extends greater protection to women, children and the elderly. It now will allow LGBTQ couples to marry and adopt children.
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Necropolitics: the regulation of populations through exposure to death, abandonment, violence, injury, enclosure, and heightened mortality.
Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney warned that Mississippi has the highest rate of preventable deaths in the nation and urge lawmakers to work with health officials to address the dismal outcomes.
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Claudia Jones was a pioneering Black feminist and communist activist, editor, journalist and writer who believed, “A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.”
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Thank you for all that you have given us in the name of Black feminist theory, pedagogy, and praxis.
Rest in complete power, bell hooks.
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How does the flattening of “masks or no masks” confront the reality that, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is amongst the 3 leading causes of deaths in the US, disproportionately impacted communities of color?
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“Violence aimed at the recovery of human dignity and at equality cannot be judged by the same yardstick as violence aimed at maintenance of discrimination and oppression.” — Walter Rodney, The Groundings with My Brothers
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Yesterday, over 66% of Cubans voted YES on the revolutionary Families Code — a legal code that recognizes the rights of non-traditional family structures, affirms the rights of children, and provides protections for the elderly
#CodigoS
í
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Erica Edwards on June Jordan:
“…she turned her attention from the work in the university to the state violence that secures work in the university, keeping white life safe on and off campus while exacerbating the conditions of premature death for Black and brown people.”
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Moten said, “there are international communities and there are internationalist communities.”
Issa difference.
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“And asking me to dream more aspirational dreams does not neutralize the threat. Confronting the threat. Confronting the nightmares that are not just in my emotional intellectual landscapes. They are actually in the local precinct.” — Joy James via Groundings Podcast
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María Lugones said:
I call the analysis of racialized, capitalist, gender oppression “the coloniality of gender.” I call the possibility of overcoming the coloniality of gender “decolonial feminism.”
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Is there not a contradiction between the fact that healthcare in the US is tied to employment, and over 18 million adults suffer from Long COVID, a debilitating/disabling illness preventing many from returning to work?
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So, we need to mask to keep as many of our people alive to fight for what we deserve.
Question: whose interests does it serve to absolve ourselves of this responsibility knowing we have a pro-genocide government with a history of eugenicist practices?
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SAVE THE DATE: March 8, 2022!
Join Decolonial Feminist Collective,
@Blacks4Peace
- Atlanta Chapter, and
@chariscircle
for our International Women’s Day event, “Recovering International Women’s Day: A Decolonial Feminist Teach-In”
Register today:
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