It's not "zoom fatigue" nor is it "burnout", you're literally experiencing the material consequences of being overworked & underpaid.
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Evolutionary Biologist & Geneticist 
/Bio Anth (MA), Soc (MA), EECB (Ph.D.)/I study Race(ism), Evo Eco Human Health, & STS/Du Boisian/Nkrumah-Toureist
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she fought his ass EVERY TIME she saw him for 8 years. truly an "on sight" icon.
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You are not “burnt out”.
You are exploited, overworked & underpaid.
Use language that accurately describes the underlying problem.
Your body isn't broken; the conditions you're enduring are what's broken. Your body is accurately & normally responding to exploitation.
Y'all gonna have to accept the fact that anti-racism is not a feel-good, warm, chic self-improvement experience.
war crimes but make it gay
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"I want to be the first openly queer U.S. Secretary of Defense." —Jacob Meiner, #HBS2020
After commencement, Jacob plans to return to Boston Consulting Group: hbs.me/2yKiOyy
I look at this picture & I can hear a Black woman in the crowd yelling "that's alright baby!"
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Hi, I’m a transgender biologist, specifically an evolutionary geneticist who studies humans.
In humans there are 6 common sex karyotypes: XX, XY, XXY, XXXY, & XYYY. & there are 4 rare sex karyotypes: XO, XO/XX mosaicism, XY/XXY mosacism, XXY/XXXY/XXXXY mosaicism.
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The biological sciences overwhelmingly support the claim that there are precisely two sexes (no more, no less) in almost all complex multicellular life.
Here are 40 peer-reviewed journal articles from biologists on the evolution of sex and why there are only two sexes.
thinking that putting a pussy hat on a Harriet Tubman statue is solidarity with Black women is THE WHITEST THING I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE
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White folks greatest fear is that one day someone will treat them the way they've treated everyone else.
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Glenn Beck says migrants "will be killing farmers for food, and then it will turn into killing farmers for the land and they'll say 'this is my land'"
kinda wasn’t founded on the principles of liberty then huh?
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America was founded on principles of liberty and built on the backs of enslaved people.
capitalism is an economic system that is fueled by human suffering & death 🙃
This is what you get with pure STEM education & NO social sciences, history & humanities education. You produce scientists who can tell you about how the solar system formed billions of years ago but they can't tell you the history of anti-Blackness & race/ism.
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I'm exhausted by people who think that people can just have ”opinions” that are blatant human rights violations. That's why society is trash, because y'all justify shit as somebody’s opinion instead of looking at the material life consequences of hate speech.
Being vaccinated doesn’t mean you can “go back to normal”.
The vaccine lowers risk of death & hospitalization, which takes pressure off of hospitals.
But you can still get COVID-19, it still SUCKS to have COVID-19 & you can still spread the virus. You still have to wear a mask.
There is no racial genetic predisposition that makes Black people susceptible to anything.
We live in a world that is structured, shaped, & fueled by Anti-Black racism which have life or death consequences.
White supremacy is the risk factor, not Blackness.
Its funny how whenever we talk about equality, people say "IT TAKES TIME." But in 4 days the US gov rolled out how many repressive policies.
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young white men aren’t self destructing due to deteriorating mental states, they’re enacting white supremacist violence they were taught.
There are women with penises. There are men with vaginas. There are people with ambiguous genitalia across the spectrum of vagina & penis.
These are the facts of life. Once again, biology doesn't support your transphobia.
Europeans colonized half the planet for spices & they can't even tell the difference between seasonings & dead ants
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never go to pita pit ever OMFG literal dead ants all over my chips and I thought it was seasoning so I ate them
told y’all
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23andMe has sold the rights to develop a drug based on its users’ DNA newscienti.st/35Nbhd6
Eugenics. That's called eugenics.
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Men and women who have bad genes with genetic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc should not produce children. They have no right to make others suffer.
19-Year-Old Indigenous Climate Activist Artemisa Xakriabá: “We Fight for Mother Earth” democracynow.org/2019/9/23/braz
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What white settlers have told us about what the world is & what the world ought to be is false & never was about biology.
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An additional point: gender is not biological sex.
"Hip Hop promotes violence"
Me: What tracks was Christopher Columbus bumping? What mixtape started WW2?
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My mentions have been a mess since I said $15/hr isn't a living wage. So many folks making excuses for corporations to pay people less than a living wage.
You hate to see it.
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Since colonial crackas like to justify their bigotry & appeals to lies by calling it ”science”; my qualifications are listed below:
Biological Anthropology, BA
Sociology, BA
Biological Anthropology, MA
Sociology, MA
Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology, Ph.D.
2016 is canceled. This year has been disrespectful AF.
Okay, so there is research on how 40 hr/week as full-time is not good for human health. If we lived in an equitable society that practiced communalism in a modern setting, full time would be 20 hrs/week, free healthcare PERIODT, & we’re talking at least $30/hr as minimum wage. t.co/dY5qDJ37lp
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my gender: I am what I am
my sexuality: I like what I like
they were murdered. depriving a human of water for 7 days is how you kill them. it's called murder. they didn't just "die" passively.
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Milwaukee inmate died after being deprived of water for 7 days nyti.ms/2oHGAQW
Fuck a safety pin. Open ya mouth. Throw hands. Solidarity is grounded in practice. Defend marginalized people as we fight for our lives.
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Mind you, there is also the YO karyotype that is fatal in utero.
There is documented scientific proof of the existence of 11 total sex karyotypes in humans & only 1 out of the 11 sex karyotypes is fatal in utero.
capitalism is what creates scarcity. there is more than enough for everybody but that’s not profitable.
Nobody. The desecration of the Black Hills is not the kind of thing anybody should be aspiring to.
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Whose 4 faces belong on the Black Mt. Rushmore?
There needs to be a greater emphasis on the fact that binary gender is what’s new, not Trans & non-binary people.
PoC: Do not forget that white people collectively mobilized to protect the privilege & power they've spent all that time denying they had
Dear STEM scholars,
Without social science & humanities knowledge you can’t do decolonial work.
Sincerely,
Basic sense
Racism is not a monster or an invisible & intangible force. Racism is the result of actions coordinated by governing bodies that control power & resources. Racism is in the laws, its in the procedures, its in the protocols, its in the contracts. HUMAN BEINGS ARE DOING THIS.
Me walking into the library when they say the book I requested is available to pick up
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All this shit is happening & rent is STILL due, bills STILL due, they expect us to show up to work *deep sigh*
I DO NOT KNOW why the fuck this has recently become more popular, but “womxn” is transphobic af. It’s just women. When we say women, that includes trans women off the cuff cause, they’re women.
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Settler colonialism is the environmental disaster that is causing the climate crisis
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Prof: Out of the 50K troops France sent to repress the Haitian Revolution, 40K were killed
Me:
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Me: people shouldn't starve to death, be homeless or go w/o healthcare
Y'all: nah I don't really agree with that
Me:
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This passive language being used to describe very violent interactions with obvious aggressors.
Breona Taylor didn’t simply die. She was murdered by the police.
George Floyd didn’t “die”. He was murdered at the hands of the police.
Call it what it is: state sanctioned murder.
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Welcome to the literal material limits of human biology under conditions where there is chronic over-exposure of the living organism to major stressors.
Coronary heart failure is one of the leading causes of death in the US & a category Black people lead.
Also, there’s an entire conversation to be had about the impact of state violence & stress on the health & wellbeing of Erica Garner.
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JUST IN: Doctors have declared Erica Garner brain dead with no chance of recovery after suffering a massive heart attack nydn.us/2llIwyN
capitalism is disgusting
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Is $500,000 a fair price for a drug that can cure you -- with a single shot? nyti.ms/2wWH0Zn
Its clear that a lot of y'all don't want freedom. You just want swap positions in an unjust world. Freedom is not the ability to oppress others.
Y'all: We let Trump win
Me: We? Oh y'all speak French now?
- Suspend rent
- Suspend utilities
- Replace the minimum wage with a living wage
- Make 25-30 hours a week full time
- Give everyone paid sick leave
- Make healthcare free
the concept that “self-diagnosis is dangerous” rests on the assumption that patients don’t understand their own bodies. & it also assumes that physicians are good at diagnosing things. t.co/W9ZTGlMtHk
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i wanna live in a world where we don’t have to come out because nobody is forcing binary gender or heteronormativity onto anybody 🙃
Calling racism a disease allows white people to be positioned as innocent or mindless victims who can’t help but murder Black people.
Whomst the fuck is "We"?
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Opinion: We knew who Trump was but elected him anyway. We can’t impeach him for that. wapo.st/2Mr8H88
Wonder what the cost of living will be by 2025 🙃
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BREAKING: The House just voted to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025.
LOOK YALL ITS EUGENICS!!!! 👇🏾👇🏾
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Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility | Law & Crime lawandcrime.com/high-profile/l
it’s not “white privilege”, it’s white supremacy
it’s not “male privilege”, it’s patriarchy
thank you for coming to my TED talk
all of these people saying the pandemic is over must also be people who didn’t lose any loved ones & think public health measures are personal inconveniences.
“nobody wants to work”
finish the fucking sentence.
it’s “nobody wants to work for poverty wages”.
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, & then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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Malcolm X
The literacy rate in the US is 79%, meaning 1 in 5 adults (21%) in Settler America is illiterate, which is about 43 million adults.
The literacy rate in Cuba is 100%.
Hi. Biologist here. That's not how any of this works. & it's funny bc you call biology simple but I see you don't understand it. 🤔 twitter.com/carrillobroo/s
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This whole country has BEEN a sundown town tho...
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The whole country is about to become a sundown town.
The Black youth in Minneapolis made this happen!!!
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BREAKING: Minneapolis City Council members have announced their intent to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and invest in community-led public safety.
She's directly responsible for his death & has the audacity to show up to his funeral. Our communities can't even mourn in peace.
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Haiti Begins General Strike
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“Burn out” makes it sound like it's you. It draws the attention to your body rather than the conditions that is causing allostatic overload.
Don't associate AAVE with her weak ass wrists. Leave us out of y'all cursed liberal bs.
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Neil, stick to Astrophysics please. As a social scientist I'm begging you at this point bruh
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In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…
500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
*we* live in a *world* that problematizes suicide & not the *relations* & *conditions* that make being/existence untenable & unbearable.
heartbreaking.
I shall not go to the polls. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, & it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, October 20th, 1956
*deep sigh*
Racism is NOT a fucking pandemic. It’s a shitty biological metaphor for a social problem that causes harm though racializing biology.
You are not fighting racism when you call it a pandemic, you’re perpetuating it.
The democracy which the white world seeks to defend DOES NOT EXIST.
- W. E. B. Du Bois in "Dusk of Dawn" (1940:169)
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Transgender & Non-binary gender people DO NOT "CHANGE" THEIR GENDER. I'll explain why this premise is WRONG & essentialist.
y’all: we need the police to keep us safe. what will we do without the police?
police: *guards dumpster*
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Portland police guard dumpster, face off with residents trying to get discarded food from Fred Meyer trib.al/dn4M3T6
i am tired of repeatedly being told that I should be nice, graceful, or kind to people who clearly communicate that they have an explicit interest in threatening my well-being.
this cat looks like anthony mackie & I can’t unsee it 😂🤣
CIS FOLKS:
You did this.
With your glares & stares at trans & non-binary people as we go about our everyday lives.
What gets me is her comment "you change gender".
Let's discuss this. Please, take a seat. twitter.com/wilfredchan/st
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Y’all. PLEASE stop referring to systems of domination & issues of power as “epidemics” & “pandemics”.
Racism is not a disease.
Transphobia is not a disease.
& using disease as a metaphor to describe these social problems obscures rather than exposes the root causes.
*clears throat*
I just want everybody to remember that 46 plans to give MORE MONEY to the same police you saw provide private security services to other white nationalists who stormed the Capitol building where the work of white supremacy is done.
BIG CROWDS OF STRANGERS ARE EVERYWHERE THATS PUBLIC
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BREAKING: U.S. health officials say fully vaccinated Americans don't need to wear masks outdoors anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers. apne.ws/ZDhHWKP
Freedom is not the same as having "Black" versions of what "white" settlers have
Capitalism is killing people. Their schedule is structured by an economic system that prioritizes the exploitation of workers to generate profit.
If we gonna have this conversation, we gotta say it with our chest.
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Modern lifestyles are at war with the way our bodies evolved to function. pops.ci/PPVuEg
Y’all.
I have a shit ton of free learning materials on my website decolonizeallthethings.com
There are essays regarding race/ism, decolonization, gender, sexuality, & a shit ton of other stuff.
If you don’t know what this stuff is or are confused, here is a place to start.
Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution 🇭🇹❤️🖤💚
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Prof: Out of the 50K troops France sent to repress the Haitian Revolution, 40K were killed
Me:
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