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ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴀ ᴄᴏʟʟᴀʙᴏʀᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴅɪɢɪᴛᴀʟ/ᴍᴀᴛᴇʀɪᴀʟ ᴘʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛ ʙᴀsᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴘʀɪɴᴄɪᴘʟᴇs ᴏf fᴜɢɪᴛɪᴠitʏ, ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ fᴇᴍᴍᴇ fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ, ᴡᴏʀʟᴅs/ᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴡɪsᴇ, + ᴅᴇᴄᴏʟᴏɴɪᴢɪɴɢ ᴅɪᴀsᴘᴏʀᴀ sᴛᴜᴅɪᴇs
the escape matrix
Joined January 2020
Hi! Hello. I'm Jacqui. No pronouns, please. I'm the newest Electrician for Electric Marronage. I'm a cultural organizer and apprentice scholar in Atlanta. My marronage work, which I'll share with you, is searching out the somatic circuitry of our cultural experiences. CHEERS.
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Reading Antonia’s La Parda’s story alongside Black Vampires, Witches, and Jezebel 🔥🔥🔥
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“Numerous enslaved insurrections, soft emancipations, and liberations were intertwined with witchcraft…many of us are still here because of it, tbh”!!! Antonia’s story: https://t.co/Wt3xMpaBcL
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“Antonia, an enslaved woman in Santiago del Estero, a province in northeastern Argentina, was accused and convicted—along with her sister and their mother, Simona, for practicing witchcraft.” Full story @ https://t.co/rdZOnbk0eF
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☔️INTRODUCING an ⚡️ELECTRIC⚡️ guide to Black and Indigenous American Literature, History, and Theories. Locate the stories, theories, and praxes of Black and Indigenous American authors under the “Black and Indigenous Stories” tab on https://t.co/mnCcGjSI9W 💜
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Chickaua’s exceptional story of adoption into the Deer Clan spared her from much of the restrictive laws against non-Cherokee Black people and enabled her to have rights that other free and enslaved Black people did not. Full Story Here 👇🏾 https://t.co/5W2aPBEnMD
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Chickaua’s sovereignty and freedom were now threatened at a time when slavery and antiblackness had become legally defined in Cherokee legislation, particularly in the Constitution of 1827. Free...
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The Deer Clan Town Council held a talk at Chota Old Town on the Tennessee river where Molly was received by the clan and renamed Chickaua.
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Chickaua was an African American enslaved woman who gained full sovereignty through her formal adoption into The Deer Clan (Anikawi), one of seven matrilineal Cherokee clans.
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Chickaua’s sovereignty and freedom were now threatened at a time when slavery and antiblackness had become legally defined in Cherokee legislation, particularly in the Constitution of 1827. Free...
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⚡️ELECTRIC BIOGRAPHIES⚡️ of Carlota and Fermina of The Lucumi Nation (Cuba) are now live on https://t.co/mnCcGjSI9W under the Black and Indigenous stories tab!
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“Carlota and Fermina made their mark as women leaders in the rebellion by being unafraid to harm enemies and unafraid to command others” ⚔️. Read the full story on our site!
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As we remember the real, lived battles for freedom against settler colonial regimes, we honor the maroons, insurgents, and enslaved peoples by saying their names and telling their stories. New bios dropping weekly. ☔️ https://t.co/8RmMC9qxvm
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In the Akan way, Queen Akua had chosen territory and had followers committed to her fight to place the island under Akan control. With knowledge of an emerging leader with influence over the island’s...
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