#Colonial

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was born on this day in 1900. She was one of the most important leaders of Nigeria's anti-colonial struggle. She mobilized women against corruption, unjust tax on

Dana Fried

leftoblique

One of the things we don't acknowledge enough is that there aren't really any ancestral homelands. We think of, for example, Wales and Ireland as being the homes of Celtic

Sarah May

Sarah_May1

Between @DavidOlusoga fantastic 'Forgotten Slave Owners' based on the UCL research on compensation records, & @ColonialCountr1 working hard with @nationaltrust to present the slavery that built so many 'heritage sites'

Kelsey D. Atherton

AthertonKD

For @sciam I took a look at less-lethal weapons. As is probably unsurprising, weapons designed for narrow use in edge cases are easily & commonly misused against crowds. People suffer

Don Robotham

dondee_don

An interesting question: why did a small country like JA have this outsized global cultural impact. Some thoughts: a) JA had most extensive oppressive large slave plantation regime; b) long

PirateSpitter

PirateSpitter

So there was a story earlier today about a private school in Nashville that was ending "George Washington Day". My initial reaction was that this was obviously wrong, seeing as

Janine Francois

itsJaninebtw

Responsibility is important when putting stuff on here also, not about any diasporic wars bc we all dying out here. Firstly, citing & thanking @fanoniscanon for calling me in privately

man residue

nanayasleeps

Still not over that time when a white Australian decided to name their steampunk-themed business “Colonial [Metal]” bcos [Metal] was like their name and they were from ‘the colonies’.https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/1298110

Read Black Marxism

decolonialcommi

I spend a lot of time criticising Marxists so Anarchists can get it too now. This is a perfect example of the types of Eurocentric chauvinism which generalises concepts, analyses

ngalula.

byjenkatshunga

y’all pls stop reducing several ongoing conflicts in DRCongo to a single issue of “mining”. There r so many issues that extend beyond that. I don’t have the range yet

Asad أسد

DandiaAsad

It’s wild to see well-read folks defend Jeff Goldblum by mentioning anti-gay laws of Muslim states, w/o interrogating how the violent imposition of colonial/secular institutions and modalities created the space

𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻

thekervincible

we don't "hunt" heads. we TAKE them. headtaking serves as vengeance, form of payment, settle disputes, or displays of strength, and a rite of passage. as opposed to hunting (from

David🌍👨‍🎤🕷🐶★Gowey

DGoweyAuthor

Using soldiers from elsewhere in the empire to occupy regions with civil unrest is a basic colonial tactic because the mercenaries have no loyalty to the areas their occupying and

Jeremy Kamil 🇺🇦

macroliter

Huge part of why @GISAID & local ownership of viral sequence data matters!! To achieve a robust warning system against the next pandemic we must earn the trust of ALL

Ann des Landes

Ann_dLandes

other stuff I find very illustrative/handy in Spanish. thread. 'solidarity' is a verb (solidarizar). Marriage is also handcuffs (esposar). conseguir is just somehow a better way of expressing 'to get'

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kitttenqueen

do people know that when they use the term "Judeo-christian" they're fulfilling colonial Christianity's goal of destroying Judaisms individuality and replacing it with Christian beliefs christianity has historically tried