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Writivism

Good morning. It is a Sylvia Tamale day. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism will be launched today. 9am EST, 2pm WAT, 4pm EAT. https://facebook.com/events/s/decolonization-and-afro-femini/752516101987766/?ti=cl RIGHT ON TIME @firozem welcomes

wwx be my bf..f. yeah, bff.

binaneunhoshi

Asian-Americans & African-Americans: Why is There so Much Tension?I keep seeing both groups fight and argue with each other and it breaks my heart. I need y’all to know why

#StandWithTracy!

theleilaraven

what's wild about all these white women pretending to be Black by saying they're puerto rican & dominican from new york is that i'm actually puerto rican & dominican from

Euresilience / Massimo

Euresilience

I’m excited about our new initiative to to strengthen collaboration between European and African astronomers.I’ll explain the project in this thread: The African continent has an immense astronomical heritage. Erathostene,

James Bessen

JamesBessen

Some people claim there is no systemic discrimination in the US. Our new paper https://ssrn.com/abstract=3628729 finds that a recent policy change reveals how much institutions have been perpetuating pay inequities.

Amina Patel-Khan🇿🇦🇮🇳🇨🇦 (Bawa Amra Bhaiyat)

aminapatelkhan

I hope this inspires solidarity. A lot of people don’t know South African Indians, privileged over Black South Africans, played & continue to play a massive role in a newly

Chris Green

cewgreen

Cornel West is right: it is a wonder—a miracle—that black leaders in America have responded to the systematic abuses of their community not as terrorists but as prophets. "Whenever you

Defense News Nigeria

DefenseNigeria

(1) The great irony here is that both Nigeria and the United States are victims of French covert operations. American taxpayers are paying for French neo-colonialism in Africa. The Americans

Alexis

blckgrlguidance

So Africans is trending in Missouri rn. What I will say is it goes both ways so let’s not. I understand the xenophobic or disheartening comments you all have experienced

omooba adebisi 🔴

aremuadebisi_

Usually, I stumble upon writing opportunities and being Ubuntu, I share them with friends. MFAs, Contests, Writing Scholarships, Writing Jobs (regardless of the writing stage), Calls for subs, and other

Takondwa Semphere

Takon_dwa

(TW)I saw a clip the other day of a young woman performing a spoken word piece about how men "are not" trash, and how "half time the women who call

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

I totally love the GnomAD papers here, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2308-7 but I want to get ahead of the almost inevitable quoting /showing of Figure1 as "showing there is genetic support for ethnic

Wogan

WoganMay

I don't usually comment on politics, but I feel this is worthy of some context: https://businesstech.co.za/news/finance/435855/taxpayers-should-foot-the-bill-for-a-r1500-basic-income-grant-in-south-africa-unions/Paying every South Afric

Jeff Simmons MD

jeffsimmons

The disconnect between #COVID19 Disease reality and work/life is on my mind today. I am hoping that this is not divisive. This disease has caused so many loose ends and

Rebecca Stone Gordon 💀

meanlouise

I’m reviewing a book built on a White savior narrative which uses African American kids as canon fodder (naming & killing w/out introducing most as characters), uses rape to bring

Coyoteblog

Coyoteblog

This election season, I was reading political web sites and thinking about the best ways to help African Americans in this country and time and again I come back to