#Colonial

Inbal Harding

InbalHarding

Couldn’t let today’s #MuseumsUnlocked pass without a thread about the outstanding work of Sudanese potter Mbitim, collected by @PowellCotton in 1931 and displayed for decades by the museum as an

Sura Mbaya

surambaya

The story of Col John Ainsworth1/When Nairobi started under Ainsworth, the first municipal budget was 7,161 rupees (± Sh150K), which only paid for the uniforms and salaries of 6 Swahili

Sajilu Kamwendo

Sajilu

1/11 @tlsibanda here is a thread on the Yaos in Bulawayo. The Yao form a significant and if not the most fascinating group of the Malawian migrant population in Zimbabwe.

Laycon💡🐺

itsLaycon

Women, Women, Women... lol... In my opinion, women held more power than men, for real they do... The situation with men and women is more like the situation of Africa

Abdulla

KarakMufti

Lots of people have rightly started using the term settler-colonialism to describe the movements that the Indian government is initiating in Kashmir. This thread is less a scholar's analysis and

Amy Fallas

Amy_Fallas

What does Teddy Roosevelt have to do with Egyptian Nationalism? As it turns out, some.TR in Egypt, 1910... So after deciding not to run for a third presidential term, Roosevelt

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

Read Black Marxism

decolonialcommi

A thread of literature where people can read about & understand settler-colonialism. Not as an ontological temporality, but as a continuing structure, not an event. One that continues to be

Southeast Asian Historians

SEA_historian

Hello! I'm Fiona (@fionally). Thank you, @ratuteragung, for inviting me to tweet on here this week. Let me start by telling you a bit about myself and what I’ll likely

Alexander Leon

alexand_erleon

The majority of countries that criminalise homosexuality do so because they inherited laws during European colonial rule which were informed by a Christian understanding of morality. Yet the focus is

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

Roweena

r2ph

The dead cat routine by #BorisJohnsonWhen he swore on his life he wouldn’t ask for a Brexit extension (and then did) to distract you from the time he unlawfully shut

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

I remember Germans wanting to decolonize “Jewish physics”. They called it Arische Physik.The beautiful vision of “decolonizing science” through ‘diversity & inclusion’ is *not* what it appears. It‘s mostly an

Khalid Anis Ansari

KhalidAAnsari4

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan had a feudal-casteist orientation and is an icon of the Ashraf (high caste) Muslims. He looked down upon the subjugated caste Pasmanda Muslims with contempt and

Kai Cheng, Priestess of the Old Religion

razorfemme

We can debate & debate, but transformative vs punitive justice will always come down a question of belief: Do you believe that humans - that our world - can only

Dani

xodanix3

Since the factoid about Maslows Hierarchy having Blackfoot originsis recirculating. I figured I would cite my 2018 #Schemesbecomeschema piece on patreon about how societal perception parallels with concepts like self