#Colonial

Shea Vassar

justsheavassar

I got an email earlier today that asked what I meant when I said “so-called” and “known as” before names of this country and individual states in my latest article.

Fuzzy

coolieduppy

A snippet of Indo-Jamaican history: A Thread. Being born and raised in a Coolie Town/Hindu Town, the word Coolie confused me. We referred to ourselves as Coolies, but NEVER the

Louisa 🌈👭

LouisatheLast

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The harvest festival version, not the weird colonial fiction we learned in school. I’m about to get on the road back to Pennsylvania to celebrate with my

Ash

ashermaj

Who would have thought that "there are two sexes and some people are homosexual" would be a controversial statement in 2020. I've reached the point where believing otherwise is a

🍾Tom🥂

NewSovietPoster

This is a wild misunderstanding of history. I am so tired of thishttps://twitter.com/purelypurgatory/status/1315616319451082753 “Germany was inspired by US policies”- Hitler liked the American expansion westward and the destruction of N

Amy Kapczynski

akapczynski

Vaccine apartheid is cleaving the world in two. How to fix it, part I. https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-to-vaccinate-the-world-part-1/ /1 The key to solving this problem is seeing it for what it is. It

michael

Sisyphusa

dude has done more than any individual to intensify the already inherent violence of the US settler-colonial empire in the last decade. he has superintended state violence & incited increased

Duberoux 💤

cayoce

Esse prédio fica em Boa Viagem. Av. Conselheiro Aguiar, 5000. Sua arquitetura sempre me chamou atenção, nunca soube o que era até que resolvi pesquisar e descobri coisas tenebrosas. Segue

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐬

therestofus5

So it appears there are people on twitter who think biology is a white colonial notion imposed upon the rest of the world to make us believe in the "European"

Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸

gauravsabnis

The are few examples of colonial hangover more blatant than how India turns the results of a civil service entrance exam into like a super duper exciting media circus despite

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Aw yeah. #cocotwistory in , , ... First, the coconut is a lie. It isn't a nut. It's a drupe, a stonefruit or berry, but instead of eating the fruit

(m)ying

sxshw

two different thingshttps://twitter.com/klvssie/status/1248708960745590784 The skin bleaching stems from discrimination, colourism, generations of people perpetuating the idea that the darker you are the uglier you are (etc.) In the newer generations

Lewis 'Horticultural Lad' Bartlett 🐝🍰

BeesAndBaking

Every single ecologist / conservation biologist should be absolutely disgusted with the ongoing colonial, white supremist attacks on Mi'kmaq assets and leadership in Canada; under some bullshit guise of 'agroecological

HERI-tage Month #Language Matters

heri_uct

Hello everyone; just so you know it’s @Mavumavu91 here. I’m taking over in preparation for our #LanguageMatters series for Heritage Month. Come back at 6pm SAST Time and let’s start

Dr JM Field

JM_Field5

With all these bonkers visa restrictions, I've been thinking a lot about Aboriginal English. I used to be so shame about how my mum chose to speak it (chose, because

Ali

RotaryCup

Don’t be pedantic. European Jews launched Zionism, which sought to establish a physical nation state exclusive to Jews. It was a typical settler colonial enterprise, complete with the narrative of