Dr. Rumya Putcha

@rsputcha

Brown Feminist | Professor-Activist

College Station, TX
Joined February 2011

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    3 Nov 2018

    “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.”

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    10 things white women should do in 2019 8 Stop being conditional ‘allies’ 9 Stop being fragile when confronted with your bigotry 10 Stop centering yourselves and listen 2/2

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    Louis CK is a good reminder that when people with power ask for respect it’s called “civility” and is sacred, but when people without power ask for respect it’s called “political correctness” and is the butt of jokes.

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    Yoga studios have emerged in the United States as homogenous white spaces, which are in turn positioned as “safe spaces” for white women, writes .

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    29 Dec 2018

    I think probably the most important lesson I learned this year is that sometimes people pretend you’re a bad person so they don’t feel guilty about the way they treated you.

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    The right-wing conspiracy theory that @Ocasio2018 is secretly wealthy reveals their deep discomfort with class mobility. With all the lectures about bootstraps, conservatives don’t believe a poor person can ever be their equal. She MUST be a rich girl in disguise.

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    True love is radical because it requires us to see ourselves in all people. Otherwise, it isn’t love. Love is revolutionary because it has us treat ALL people as we would ourselves - not because we are charitable, but because we are one. That is love’s radical conclusion.

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    Sometimes racism isn’t an action. It’s a look or a tone that makes it clear that you are not welcome. People of Color know what this feels like. White people often think you are making it up because they want “hard visual or audio evidence.” It’s like getting insulted twice.

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    17 Dec 2018
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    14 Dec 2018

    The one lesson I've learned this year is this: you can not expect to speak up about race/racism etc and expect to get away with it: you WILL face relentless institutional harrassment. The second lesson is this, the one I'd still advocate: don't let it stop you.

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    14 Dec 2018

    Border agents have thrown out 3586 jugs of water left for migrants in the desert. They did this knowing that 7000 migrants have died attempting to cross. THIS is why the death of Jackeline Caal, the 7yo migrant who died of thirst in US custody, should be referred to as murder.

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    8 Dec 2018

    If you shut up, it affects your health. If you speak up, you’re seen as a troublemaker or worse. You can’t win.

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    7 Dec 2018

    "Still, the question should not be “How can I do what I want?” but “Why do I think I have a right to what I want?”" Super important piece from about the colonization of yoga and the very real damage being done.

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    5 Dec 2018

    Dr. Rumya Putcha writes powerful words about white womanhood & the colonization of yoga: "...it performs a sense of virtue-signaling which recenters Whiteness, all while providing a deflecting shield against scrutiny under the logic of “private spirituality."

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    Massachusetts was just named the most liberal state. Researchers almost picked California, but then they stopped for gas in Bakersfield.

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    3 Dec 2018

    85 percent of yoga practitioners in the United States are white. Many are also wealthy. “Yoga studios are the new country clubs,” writes .

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    Yoga studios have emerged in the United States as homogenous white spaces, which are in turn positioned as “safe spaces” for white women, writes .

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    29 Nov 2018

    Y’all throw “Trap” on all your brunches and yoga classes but don’t have any real respect or understanding for the people who really come from the hoods that you’ve curated your whole upwardly-mobile Black aesthetic around.

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    Yoga studios have emerged in the United States as homogenous white spaces, which are in turn positioned as “safe spaces” for white women, writes .

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