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Trigger: sexual assault, violence against womenI woke up this morning thinking about #PromisingYoungWoman and nice guy culture.I'm pretty sure every man whose ever sexually assaulted me was a "nice guy."

Imagine what the world be like if more people saw safety as a right rather than a privilege. Most of the issues that we continue to be divided over are

People are allowed to remember the harms you committed against them. People are allowed to confront you even when you'd rather they never hold you accountable. People are allowed to

Reading is hella fundamental. A few things for the basics.https://twitter.com/JennMJacksonPhD/status/1308861205101113351 For folx saying I should have been in school when I was arrested *as a child*, I was a high

I was arrested by police in the 2000s as a high school student under the truancy system that Kamala Harris so proudly strengthened when she became District Attorney. We keep

I really want us to move past the idea that voting is the only way to participate in politics *and* that (when Black ancestors fought for the right to vote)

Y'all realize a white person is walking the streets murdering people for exercising their right to protest and petition this government for a redress of grievances?This is terror. This person

Something else we need to talk about in academia is information hoarding and how it often harms women of color the most. When I got to grad school, I had

So, a prominent thinker and scholar of race wrote a cover story saying Tr*mp gave us a fighting chance to end racism. They said that Tr*mp has revealed the depths

I talked to @eveewing about this but I disagree with this ethos wholesale. Capitalizing the "w" is only a performative act for white people. The rest of us are already

I really want white academics to chill on writing about Black lives right now. And also forever. Literally, leave us alone. You don't get it. You won't. There are other

Hey y'all, can we talk about that time that bell hooks said (in conversation with the illuminating and radiant goddess that is Janet Mock) that Beyoncé was terrorist to young