#Tropes

Thorne_Identity

GeoffThorne

So, I watched BLACK PANTHER again this week. I wasn't and am no one fo those who had some sort of religious experience over this film. I've been reading comics

Aliza Ovadia

OvadiaAliza

This whole ‘Jewish indigeneity’ rhetoric is going to fall like a house of cards, and it will probably happen sooner than later. To think that some of the more well

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

They’re re-playing the 2013 Reith Lectures by @Alan_Measles on @BBCRadio4 right now. Hearing Grayson Perry questioning whether what he repeatedly called “Aborigine Art” is, ahem, art was shockingly offensive. So

Lula

xLulaCrossingx

This is going to be my Halloween movie thread It's tradition in my household to snuggle with the cats and watch a movie every night in October. I steer

Morgan | an ill-made knight

windhounded

opinions incoming: The thing is, right, shipping is a default lens lots of fandom looks at everything through. Want to explore any form of intimacy or emotional connection between characters?

Oni #BraylaStone Blackstock

DrOniBee

Day #12 of Jones’ & Okun’s “Characteristics of #WhiteSupremacyCulture”.Today’s featured characteristic is #Objectivity. A hallmark of #WhiteSupremacyCulture is that there is such a thing as being #objective. #Objectivity“ th

Anarchism Now Redux

IsraeliPsyOp

Broke: Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn accepted up to £20,000 for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV Woke: Former PM and Labour Party Leader Tony Blair accepted £5,000,000

Justin Schlosberg

jrschlosberg

1. A timeline of Jeremy Corbyn’s key interventions and public statements about tackling antisemitism... 2. In April 2016 Jeremy Corbyn said he wanted to ensure the party took robust action

eBernice⚙️♥

bernEATS

tropes in smut fics that should stop existing (or don't make sense)•please feel free to add to this thread• Using spit as lubeIt does not lubricate. IT DRIES TOO QUICKLY.

Brendan McGeever

b_mcgeever

Just published: our article for the Guardian on antisemitism, co-written by me, Ben Gidley (@bengidley) and David Feldman (@PearsInstitute). We make two key points.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/08/education-labour-antisemitism-pa

whore(mi)

kuromantic

Do Japanese gay men read BL? What do they think of women who read BL? A thread, summarizing an article. The chief editor Ryu-san of Barazoku, a gay specialized magazine,

Grímnir Mäyrä-Parta: Master skeptomancer & skáld

Grimasaur

Orcs in fantasy are mostly traced back to Tolkien, but they also stem from the myths and legends Tolkien drew from, particularly pre-Christian Celtic, Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric myth (trolls, fomorians,

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

There’s a persistent community of taste emerging around sensemaking of noisy social media around developing events. It’s like fandom, with connoisseurs of the play by play getting snotty. Things like

Maitreya Bhakal

MaitreyaBhakal

Thread on a certain class of people I describe as "self-hating Chinese".Similar to "self-hating Jew":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_JewUsed to describe Chinese diaspora in the West (mostly journalists) whose hatred for

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

thebrownhijabi

I am absolutely fuming. Just watched @BBCTwo's "Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men" presented by Mehreen Baig and I am in shock about how disgracefully she happily used

Lord Matzo the Unleavened

MatzoBalling

The prevailing Corbynista narrative all along is that antisemitism 'has been weaponised' against Jeremy Corbyn. But this is flawed for several reasons. 1/10 First, antisemitism can't be 'weaponised'. It's already