#Whiteness

🏴 bauhinia black

bauhiniablack

1. Anti-Blackness is a huge fucking problem in Asian communities. We have a lot of unpacking to do.How did we get here? /1 2. Colorism in Asia is based on

Savi

dapiridoobman

Next up: very excited for the plenary panel on Race, Racism, & Racialization in Sign Language Research and Deaf Studies, moderated by @linasigns (who i’m fortunate to call my collaborator!)

Marisol LeBrón

marisollebron

Today for the #ScholarStrike I'm going to do a on the history of policing in the U.S. We can't understand how we got to where we are with policing today

אליהו - eliyahu

eliyahulann

threadthe mizrahi vs ashkenazi ‘debate’ which originally arose as mizrahim/sephardim voicing valid criticisms of the power dynamic, representation, and erasure between the two communities as well as ashkenormitivity has evolved

Helen Rosner

hels

There’s so much anxiety-release and serenity in outsourcing the work of identity-creation to someone else. If I let someone else decide what’s cool, what’s worthwhile, what’s correct, then I don’t

Martha Crawford

shrinkthinks

I don’t think our primary problem is “public shaming”I think our dominant culture-wide problem is that we have forgotten how to make good use of our healthy guilt. We’ve become

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DUMBCARTI

WHY THIS SONG ISNT JUST A SONG AND THE BACKSTORY TO THE WORD CHOLO: IN LATINX AND CHICANX CULTURE hello before you come for me in any way shape

UK. 🇬🇧

UkhanyoMdakane

@shondarhimes has brought us some powerful moments through Scandal. A Thread:First is the iconic introduction of Papa Pope. Bluntly exposing the realities of power in Olivia’s delusion to be with

Bachata in the mosh pit

brujacontumbao

I have seen a few people say “Adele’s hair isn’t appropriation, it is appreciation.” Now I’ve long been over cultural appropriation conversations, but one thing I really hate about it

Rianna Mathew

MathewRianna

From beauty standards to right wing extremism, Anti Black Racism is an issue that must be challenged in order to break the chain of racism that exists within the South

Keeping It 101

KeepingIt_101

so I think I'm going to cheat a little bitbc I'd planned to start from e101 and just tweet you through the anti-racist resources we've tried to provideBUT our work

Asa

warmjetztzeit

I grew up in the same tiny suburban Jewish community as Krug, and I've been going down a deep spiral all weekend. I've thought a lot about how this community

Young Daddy

Toure

Had a very unpleasant moment today with some disappointingly predictable white people when I tried to explain to them how the statue depicted below is insanely racist. It sits on

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

The whole Deaths of Despair thesis is mostly crap analysis anyway. It counts deaths by suicide, alcohol, and drugs as all caused by “despair”, which presumably is caused by neoliberalism,

GHI Washington

GHIWashington

Two years ago this week we were thrilled to host the conference “Defining Black European History” convened by @kira_thurman, @tlflorvil, and @jeffbsox. You can find the conference report here (https://www.ghi-dc.org/events/event/date/de

Bridget Stirling

bridgetstirling

Thinking a lot tonight about ethics of care, relationality, and the moral responsibility of a role within the structure of public education. A few months ago (it feels like years