i ......... did not think this was about blouses and i was like, i understand sis. 😂
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the way she loves her grandmother. the way they hug each other. this joy. black love. amen. 🌸💕
yall know that AAVE isn’t just slang words, right? that it’s about grammar, about pronunciation (phonology) and intonations (morphology) and sentence construction (syntax), right?
BLACK PEOPLE WILL STAND IN LINE FOR HOURS FOR CHICKEN BUT WON'T VOTE OMG OMG OMG
meanwhile ...
one of my absolute favorite things to remember about aretha franklin is how she cared about angela davis and followed her case and posted bail for her. from jet magazine, december 3, 1970.
very difficult to focus. reading feels hard. writing too. recreation doesn’t feel relaxing. where is the pedagogy for the existentially exhausted? can we acknowledge and honor the uncertainty and deep dread of our times? or do we just trudge along, pretending?
i have been thinking a lot about what toni morrison said about baldwin in her eulogy for him, about how around him she felt “more capable” and how she “want[ed] to be worth the love [he] lavished.”
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my good sis elmo listened to mo’nique’s rant about bonnets now look at his hair ……
during a pandemic you want me to vote for someone that doesn't support universal healthcare. DURING A PANDEMIC?
whew, chillay!
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people choose the misery of stability over happiness every day. it's terrible.
“when you've hurt people and they have said so, silence and time are not apologies.”
—mariame kaba
you see how very *easily* they change the meaning of a “biological truth” for a social reality? it’s not that they don’t understand gender. it’s that they want to control. and this is antiblack racism + transmisogynoir + ableism ++++ so many other things.
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They’ve set a limit to the amount of plasma testosterone may be naturally occurring in a woman’s body in order for her to compete. The limit bans Caster Semenya, Christine Mboma, and Francine Niyonsaba from future competition (all previous cisgender champions).
what if—hear me out—"intellectual debate" as a concept is what *allows* racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, transphobic ideas to be produced, to be accepted and to be spread, precisely because the concept transforms real people and their lives into disembodied abstractions?
when you don’t understand globalization, imperialism and colonization, you can pretend everyone “immigrates” to the US “willingly” ... as if the border crisis RIGHT NOW isn’t partly because US destabilization of local economies and, thus, folks seeking asylum from violence.
so many folks think children are the private property of parents, and that whatever a parent does is *always already justified* because the child is the property of their parents. so we justify abusive language, traumatic violence, and we say "children will drive you to do it."
the obamas use the history of black radical freedom struggles to talk about the opportunities made available to them and then use their positions of power and authority to justify their dismissiveness and contempt for contemporary black radical freedom struggles.
so much unhappiness masquerading as critical thought. so much unkindness masquerading as critical inquiry. it’d be honest, at the very least, to say that you are brokenhearted and afraid and uncertain, that you are unfulfilled, that you need care.
because this shit ain’t it.
“uplift” black folks not as your brand and marketing strategy but as your ethical and moral commitment challenge
the most beautiful thing i’ve seen today. a gesture so minuscule it could almost go unnoticed.
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a movie about race relations and how we can all love each other ... look at this stage
what’s FUNNY is yall sayin “he goin STRAIGHT to hell!” as if he didn’t make a video that said, ok, i’ll go to hell, ok, fine, i don’t care. what do you have, in terms of power to control, when the thing you try to wield against us ain’t a thing we’re afraid of?
this story just reminds me and confirms all over again that blackqueer life ain't new at *all* ... it's something that has been with us.
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i say it a lot so i’ll just repeat:
i watch cartoons for kids because they very often focus on empathy, care, love, friendship and dealing with difficulty in healthy ways. Steven Universe, Avatar, She Ra, Summer Camp Island, Craig of the Creek ... all joyful and lovely.
i’ll just say what’s happening right now in chicago with the police violence against protesters is one MAJOR reason lots of us say, again again again, the “””representation””” gained with figures like mayors or veep candidates that “look like us” do not at all mean liberation.
it’s the “politely” part that made me cackle because truth 🤣🤣🤣
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the reason abolition is so difficult to imagine and practice for so many of us is because we only wait for “spectacular” moments to think about it, rather than attempt to daily put into practice an abolitionist way to relate to one another.
boycott walmart, amazon, fedex, whole foods, target, shipt and instacart tomorrow, may 1, 2020. stand with the workers that deserve better pay and safe working conditions.
university of minnesota ending their contract with minneapolis police department. this is a good thing, the only reforms to be in favor of are those that reduce, limit and end interactions between police and civilians, taking money away from their budgets.
"I let the CRITICAL RACE THEORY into my house, and you know what happened? CRITICAL RACE THEORY fucked my husband!"
“Everything has changed on the surface and nothing else has been touched. … the state is more powerful than ever, because it has given us so many tokens.”
—James Baldwin on white supremacy or maybe 2021 holidays, who knows?
[in “Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1982)]
my commitment to my undergrad students this semester: no exams. no final papers. an adapted final assignment in which the students choose their own final project—a zine, a podcast, a comic book, a painting, a paper if desired, whatever—and create the rubric for being graded.
how yall gonna win 2020 when you still don't understand 2016? you wanna blame nonvoters/green party voters/"bernie bros" and you haven't done anything about voter disenfranchisement and *nothing* about the 53%? how, sis...?
i argued in 2008. a lot. and in 2012, less than 2008 but still a lot. i ain’t arguin no more. do what makes you happy. empire is violent. representation ain’t liberation.
so i definitely wasn’t gonna RT the original post of this i saw because that tweet was trash and this dancing is beautiful and i LOVE the light work.
borders are literally made up. borders are fictions. borders are imagined and, like any imaginative and fictive practice, are worthy of thought and interrogation.
i do not understand the affective connection and deep emotional investment people develop for politicians, especially those that want to be the head of US empire. folks really do end up caring more about politicians as celebrities and characters and less about policies.
when i say defund the police, i mean the immediate reduction of their budgets, the immediate demilitarization ridding them of combat weapons.
begging disney to make an animated film about african american spiritualities and also diasporic altars (???) and then also begging min lanuel do the music??? what circle of hell is this?
i talk to my students, especially but not only during this crisis, about the concept of “essential workers,” always asking them to interrogate why this form of labor is often underpaid, and the laborers often disrespected and exposed to harm by various structural vulnerabilities.
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"We risk our life every time we grab a garbage bag"
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"i paid back my student loans so there shouldn't be loan forgiveness for others" is TERRIBLE thinking and i wish people weren't so trash ...
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there are three black people on this stage for a movie about american race relations ....... how unsurprising #greenbook
abolition is not an identity primarily (though it is useful sometimes to designate oneself as abolitionist). abolition, for me, is a practice. it means that we can fail at it. it means we can continue to cultivate our habits towards its becoming reflexive.
i just did the math from october 1492 to october 2019 [(2019-1493)*365]*5000 = 961,775,000 which is really angering.
nobody—and i mean NOBODY—should be a billionaire. it is violence. twitter.com/_Floodlight/st
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but...in the era of cell phones, social media and rideshare apps, this just doesn't work as a plot. sure, he's home alone and forgotten. which is almost immediately rectified by, like, texting people? phoning a neighbor?
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tell your children that they are beautiful, that they bring joy and delight and wonder, even when there are difficulties.
nobody:
Hamala Karris: Do WHAT now?! Why would we do it now when we could? Listen. We could do it later when we won’t be able to so if we did it now, what would be done? You never thought about it that way did you? If not now, when? When is now? And so we should do things when.
baldwin speaking truth. in “meeting the man: james baldwin in paris.” ❤️
aetna, cigna and anthem are waiving out-of-pocket fees for teletherapy between march 19 and june 4, 2020. this is really great.
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to be loved is to feel more capable, to be able to exceed whatever you think possible.
ABOLISH "FINANCIAL LITERACY" —
it's a nonsensical topic that moralizes against the people targeted by an inequitable and exploitative and fundamentally racist economic system.
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"We're working on a program for the inner-city kids of Atlanta to teach them financial literacy. Not just the kids, but also their parents." - @DwightHoward
the way this baby whispers “jaden broke” then CACKLES 😩😩🤣🤣
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people love love love to make a categorical distinction between “spanking” and “abusing” and if you ask them the difference, it’s always about the posture and mindset of the parent and NEVER about the child. because what does this distinction mean to the one receiving the harm?
min lanuel went from DEI hip hop rapping slave owners to a nonblack washington heights … how you got black and other pee oh sees in the antebellum era “rap singing” about liberty but a washington heights with afrolatinx folks is a step too far?
the jig? it’s way up there, yall.
Ross Gay's "A Small Needful Fact" is one of the most beautifully terrible poems i've ever read. i return to it often.
comparing helicity fuffman to criminalized black mothers to say she should get more time uses those black women as an abstractions because if the point is justice and equity, incarcerating her “more” won’t get that for those black women. at all.
please remember to sign outta your real account and into your burner account before tweeting ...
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so you will take medicine for horses created by a medical industry but not medicinal for people because…?
"the only way to protect joy is by practicing it."
— fred moten
may we practice joy daily.
sis……………
AAVE is such a beautiful mode of communication. and it’s not slang. it’s a way of languaging the world. inventive possibility with the word.
i don’t get the dave chapelle support. the same week we talked about two black transwomen being murdered. i don’t. i don’t.
honestly, the best thing i’ve watched this week. i’ve watched it over and over and over again. the genius of black music, found in relation. RIP Shock G. 🌸💕
💕💕💕 may all black kids receive this kind of love. consistently. the joy they have, the way they celebrate zaya. it’s beautiful. 💕💕💕
i wrote a bit about jeremiah wright and how the obamas keep misrepresenting him, and thus, black liberation theology.
i feel safer already.
would you like to have dinner? it’s just leftovers. collard greens and cornbread, some candied yams, a little potato salad, fried chicken, peach cobbler and a few slices of ham……………
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i appreciate this post reminder from [ig: @/kindredthewife] because what sha’carri has is what all black girls should have, to be exuberant and free and colorful and expansive and loved and loved and loved.
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i think one of the things that struck me about sha’carri richardson is that it is clear, so very clear, how loved she is, that the love she experiences is lavished on her.
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it’s why baldwin says love is a growing up, because you live into love, grow into it, let it unfurl and bloom and it expands your sense for (my predictive text brought up the word “joy,” which is not incorrect but i wanted to say) the possible.
first course i ever taught was titled “hearing race” because yes, there is this terrible assumption that racism is only about sight but it is practiced through the range of sensual registers one has. twitter.com/stark_hive/sta
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things like this—the punitive measures, the surveillance, the unkindness—really underscores and makes clear that a lot of faculty think the purpose of teaching is discipline and acting out power inequity fantasies. i hate it. i hate them. 🗑
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The ProctorU software— even the Review+ version— is harmful and invasive to students.
so. these assholes think. he stole an iv. and a gown. put the shit in his arm. found a drip. and decided to chill around the hospital? these assholes are loonies.
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Illinois man Shaquille Dukes was arrested for allegedly stealing an IV after following his doctor's orders to take a walk outside the hospital. pic.twitter.com/R6EcugtX1P
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*indian, thai, himalayan, ethiopian food have entered the chat*
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There is no doubt that being veg is less delicious. People who argue otherwise are kidding themselves. But a lot of that is because there are fewer options on menus, so much less money driving creativity. The more plant-based eaters and chefs there are, the tastier it'll get.
i’m so glad imperialism is diverse now.
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“I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come.”
— VP Kamala Harris during news conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei
is it a normal artist thing to kinda procrastinate doing a thing because you're afraid of how it will turn out? like, you have the idea but you just kind of don't implement it because you're unsure about it all? i don't know how to explain it.
one thing i know:
cultivating your friendships, intentionally tending to your relationships, is a practice that is healing and necessary and we all should engage.
she gon keep clutchin her pearls hoping for *more* free lunches.
1) misogynoir is real
2) saying "look at her record, particularly as a prosecutor" isn't misogynior
3) using the word misogynoir to refuse to hold her accountable *is* misogynoir bc you don't think a black woman is a full person with complexity and, perhaps, fucked up politics.
my only offering to the critical race theory debates is this meme i just saw on fb because it is RIGHT 💀💀😂😂
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the black people that hate black people are also the ones getting resources to make “black things” and it is terrible.
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it was all in the way she collapsed into her grandmother’s lap, all in how her grandmother held her head, pushed her back to look at her face and smile and kiss her, and then hug her again, the way she gently rocked her.
i am so happy for her, for them both. what they share is really beautiful and i hope it prompts in us ways to honor desire and find purpose and joy in one another, that it allows more of us to be surprised by where love can be and is found, and to delight in that surprise. 💕
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i love this. and i feel this so much. to exist in shadows under the torment of fear. and to leave it. i love life, and i love my breath. it’s real freedom. twitter.com/Hess2Love/stat
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