#Erasure

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Have been reading John Chester Miller's 1977 book on Jefferson and slavery and it is _fascinating_ to think about Miller's liberal anxieties and red-lines through the prism of the current

kai

elytrallium

today is #lesbianvisibilityday so here‘s a huge thread of things that are lesbophobic and explaining why they are non-lesbians rt!! 1. calling men lesbiansthis one should be obvious but i

Kristina Harrison

KJ_Harrison

It's shocking that you imply women's existence as an oppressed sex, protected under the Equality Act explicitly, is merely a belief, not a biological (& socialised) reality, one which in

Brian Rahmer

brianrahmer

Whose land are you on?https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/decolonize/this-app-can-tell-you-the-indigenous-history-of-the-land-you-live-on-20180416 You cannot find a corner of this continent that does not hold ancient history, Indigenous value, and pre

Laura Bingham

laurambing

Background reading for #HudumaNamba hearing today in #Kenya high court. Petitioners @NubianRights @HakiKNCHR @thekhrc argue the digital biometric ID system’s adoption followed an unconstitutional path (see #aadhaar) and the system

Erica Buddington ✨

ericabuddington

#thread: The erasure of the Black, Brown, and Indigenous people of Forsyth County + Lake Lanier starts long before the destruction of Black-owned Forsyth.Pictured: Children of the Brown family, expelled

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

Nope.I've been very clear that there were a whole lot of disingenuous and unfair attacks on Bernie re: misogyny.That doesn't change the fact that we (as supporters) and the campaign

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Fun fact: in the US, farmworkers have always equalled or outnumbered farmers, including today!https://twitter.com/UrOrientalist/status/1378673871944040454 For those asking "but aren't farmworkers the REAL farmers??"That's

evelyn araluen

evelynaraluen

A thread on blind judging and why I don’t like it: An article was recently published criticising a new procedure around blind judging that we’ve begun developing at Overland. I

Visvajit Sriramrajan

vsvjt

Indigenous communities have historically been some of the most oppressed communities globally. Indigenous People’s Day comes and goes once a year but Indigenous people face discrimination day in and day

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V0REKUN

1 like = 1 unpopular kpop opinion that may or may not get me ratioed 1. i don't personally like the way most girl groups sound so i don't stan

david

RedConversation

The word communism was first noted decades before Marx adopted it.And like every other well-known formally educated white male revolutionary writer, there was a sea of people with more opsec

Barb Chamberlain, Masked Because Civilization

BarbChamberlain

Starting now. Such an essential conversation: Does planning care about Black lives? #WalkBikePlaces https://twitter.com/PPS_Placemaking/status/1288811386605383682 #WalkBikePlaces @Mitchell_Silver notes that zoning was clearly set up to prot

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songmessmusic

(cracks knuckles)OK, @Bandcamp Day is here and with the zeitgeist focused on unlearning / pummeling racism and uplifting Black voices, this is the perfect opportunity to share music by Afro-Latinx

, B.S.

Pacheco_JA_

So, Virginia Tech has officially announced they will change the names of Lee and Barringer Hall. [THREAD] If you don’t know why Claudius lee is bad, here’s a link:https://twitter.com/Pacheco_JA_/status/1117467094810013696?s=20 If

Caroline - Real Feminists XX 🇿🇦🇬🇧

radicalhag

I keep seeing these sanctimonious throwaway remarks about "our new understanding of gender" (which seems to mean we ooh and aah over the details instead of abolishing the fucker.) There's