Wagatwe Wanjuki    Geverifieerd account

@wagatwe

Award-winning antirape activist & theorist on Title IX, abuse & trauma. Words in DAME, Teen Vogue, NYT, ESSENCE, Bitch. She/hers

Long Beach ca
Geregistreerd in april 2008

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    📍 intro thread time! I'm a feminist theorist, educator, antirape activist, and bunny lady. I read and tweet a lot. Best way to support my work & help me stay independent & snarky:

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  2. 22 uur geleden

    There is a new form of Black entertainment, where Black shows, articles, YouTube channels and podcasts, are all created to explain Black culture in detail to White and non-Black people. I hate it.

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  3. Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

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  4. how to write about your old employer without addressing any criticism about it's journalism or a business model designed to accommodate the desires of big business to influence politics. sigh.

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  5. 22 uur geleden

    Wouldn’t want to offend anybody on an album that features Marilyn Manson, DaBaby, and Chris Brown.

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  6. It's genuinely disturbing to see how American rape law deliberately changed to allow as much sexual abuse of Black children as possible through the years.

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  8. 8 uur geleden

    if youre spreading the ideas to thousands, great! i think boosting otherwise unknown organizing news/etc is amazing. but how many of those people will actually log off of twitch and help their communities? how does knowledge benefit the left if no one applies it?

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  9. 8 uur geleden

    This is something to think about. As a nation that used rape as a primary economic tool….you really can’t be too harsh on rape because it’s counter to your other goals and Christ that explains so much.

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  10. And there's a reason we don't go around calling the founding fathers and y'alls racist ancestors pedophiles. It's a stigmatizing label that obscures how normalized and profitable child sexual abuse has been through western history to present! It's colonialism & white supremacy

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  11. American rape culture and antiblackness are inextricable from each other.

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  12. Then American courts didn't accept the "she looks older than her age" excuse for statutory rape charges until 1964. REMEMBER WHAT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW IN 1964?

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  13. The age of consent was lower in Southern states for longer thanks to the myth that girls reached puberty sooner there. That's absolutely connected to anti-blackness and misogynoir.

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  14. Also worth considering how the United States has incentive to miseducate us about child sexual abuse. Slavery was trafficking. Many enslaved Africans were children--and remember, pregnancy from rape merely created more capital.

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  15. Ending child sexual abuse requires tackling all abuse. There are special strategies for preventing child abuse and for trauma care, but I don't think using "pedophile" genuinely helps.

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  16. It also pushes a misconception that sexual abusers are abusive in only ONE way. When we understand people who sexually abuse children are ALSO abusive in other relationships, we can stop focusing on "pedo or not?" and focus on the children.

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  17. The word also sets the stage for the "MAP" framing, which I think is crap. Abuse isn't a sexual orientation. Violence is not a sexual orientation.

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  18. The word itself becomes a blunt weapon to destroy productive discourse because then it's about OMG YOU SUPPORT PEDOS FOR NOT 100% AGREEING! it becomes all about label dodging

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  19. I honestly hate the word "pedophile" for many reasons, but one is that it makes discussion about child sexual abuse really tough. It turns into who should and shouldn't have the label. Instead of focusing on children's safety and abuse prevention.

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  20. 13 uur geleden

    For many educators and students the semester is already underway—so we’re re-sharing our toolkit, the “SW Centered Guide for Academics” + our other digital publications: Hope folx find the resources that we’ve developed over the past 5 yrs helpful!

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  21. 9 uur geleden

    No baggage fees. In-flight meals included. People could meet you at the gate because you didn’t have to have a ticket to get through security. Security itself was just…so much less annoying. ONE GUY put a bomb in his shoe and now here we are, all taking off our shoes still

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