#Respectability

#ThreadWhen Modi came to Delhi in 2014 he thought he'll create a Gujarat model. Kept talking about it.He realised that the judiciary was still with Congress. Media was with Congress.
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It’s become cliche to refer to the MAGA movement as a cult. But in the 1980s, a major funder of the further right segment of the GOP coalition was the
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Watching #SelfMadeNetflix as a historian who specializes in Black women in work/business/industry, specifically uncovering their struggles 4 economic justice I thought abt the texts/contexts that would have helped clarify the
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Read bell hooks for a “material analysis of black patriarchy”. Must read!Bell hooks barely cites any scholars and avoids entirely any attempt at all of actually supporting the claims she
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Ok kiddos let's do this. Time to talk about my pretty-minimal-but-still-REALLY-WEIRD brushes with the MIT Media Lab.https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1170733320365379584?s=20 Two things happened.One, I applied for a job there ab
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are you aware of china's footbinding tradition? this is absolutely fascinating to me, my impression is that the average person doesn't know much about china, and I thought footbinding was
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Had a dream last night that I was trying to teach a college class about Lovecraft's racism. One of the students raised a hand and asked why there was a
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Today is International Sex Workers' Day. I'm sending love and gratitude to sex worker friends and comrades from numerous countries who I've worked and learned with. From Sri Lanka to
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Block Nate Silver and his org. It will improve your life. Today's block recommendation:Elon Musk Since they're shilling books and trying to trend right now for their own personal profits
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I've been sitting on some thoughts about "the Black middle class" as object of study/inquiry. First, I'll outline some of my latest reading:(1) Dána-Ain Davis (2019) Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy,
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(THREAD) "Blacks ops" means "covert military operations that may employ measures not generally authorized." In Portland right now is an interagency federal paramilitary force comprising 16 agencies; the force is
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Processing my emotions around this week/the last month and a half, and I wanna discuss what I've been calling "decolonizing our thoughts" around money/capitalism.Been getting called out lately for spending
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I couldn’t sleep after watching the Amy Cooper video last night. I found Christian Cooper's calmness remarkable, and was so glad he had the instinct to record. It brought back
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Okay so lots of thoughts as I’ve had this convo with some mutuals on here already.https://twitter.com/tramaracts/status/1390325996423888897 Moreso the conversation about the different types of trajectories women that occupied certain spac
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Without naming names there is a discourse I am hesitant to step into for many reasons, but I have a bit of knowledge to bring to the table, and a
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A quick thing about Isaiah on The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. About a decade ago, I interviewed Robert Morales, who invented that character for Marvel in 2001. The result
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