#Privileges

Last night, I watched the @NatGeoChannel documentary #Jane—I wanted to see it for a while, but now that I have access to Disney+, it seemed a good time to catch
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Thread: While so many people are outraged at the death of #GeorgeFloyd, I am wondering in which sustainable actions educators are engaging to show #BlackLivesMatter beyond reading a book
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Hey maybe "let's solve *-ist language with a linter" isn't the best idea after all. This is http://alexjs.com , a tool that purports to "catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing." It was written
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Y’a quand même des mecs cishet qui ont tellement peur d’être problématiques qu’ils tentent plus rien et se transforment en blobs de mer alors qu’en fait on demande pas aux
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For those interested, the practice direction (which made these procedural changes) is here: https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-09/2020.09.21%20-%20Practice%20Direction%20on%20Indigenous%20Deaths%20in%20Custody%20-
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"Le racisme est une logique de supériorité inscrite dans la capacité à contrôler des privilèges (..) or très peu des personnes issues de la 'population majoritaire' se disant victimes de
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I really appreciate this very, very generous profile from @petercoy but I do want to disagree with the headline, which is reinforced by the article. I do have a credential-
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The Timbuktu Syllabus part 9Cultural DefeatHow Euro-Christianity meets Tradition divided Black SA It is no secret that The Cradle of Mankind began in Africa.It is also no secret that all
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This thread is NOT directed at any one person but instead is my thoughts after reading through a few tweets by a handful of individuals who are confused or angry
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**THREAD: A HISTORY OF POETRY**As an ongoing mini project I’m going to tweet the major literary milestones I encounter in this history of poetry so that by the end we
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1/ Seen this floating around and it’s a solid question. A bit hard to answer as everyone has different stories and backgrounds but I can share how it was for
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For @thenation , @suchitrav and I wrote about why the covid-19 vaccine should be a public good, and what the Biden administration can do to make that happen:https://www.thenation.com/article/world/covid-india-astrazeneca-vaccine/ The crisis
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[Thread] Apparemment, @martov souhaite la mort du cyclisme, dans ce papier d’une malhonnêteté intellectuelle rare qui frise souvent le mensonge par omission, et les sous-entendus dégueulasseshttps://www.sofoot.com/le-cyclisme-montre-t-il-au-football-
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Suite à ce sondage il y a deux semaines, je fais un mini-thread pour parler des "TERF" ! https://twitter.com/jpetazzo/status/1280074784097865730 TERF, ça veut dire "trans-exclusionary radical feminist". Les TERF sont d
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THREAD : Pourquoi les Imaziɣen marocains non-harkis doivent être anti Makhzen ? Tout d’abord définissions ce qu’est le « makhzen » désigne, à la fois le Pouvoir marocain et un système de
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If a small child scrapes her knee, her parent might "kiss it better". This does nothing, but both parties appreciate the ritual. Hanson finds that empirically, many medical interventions do
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