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a short thread on liberation:
people are looking for “easy”ways to understand and explain racism and liberation so I’ve seen this graphic making the rounds again. i want to make a case for liberation before you share it again.
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people are looking for “easy”ways to understand and explain racism and liberation so I’ve seen this graphic making the rounds again. i want to make a case for liberation before you share it again.
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removing the fence is not liberation, fam.
even when you remove the fence, the spectators still aren’t playing. the rules of the game haven’t changed.
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even when you remove the fence, the spectators still aren’t playing. the rules of the game haven’t changed.
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removing barriers isn’t liberation. it’s just destruction. when @lizziefortin and I talk about freedom-dreaming and action-planning toward liberation, we urge folx to dream beyond the barriers that already exist.
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in our work, @lizziefortin and I ask folx what liberation might look like in schools. Educators often say, “no cops in schools...no testing,” but if our liberation is just the absence of barriers, we’re not dreaming big enough.
(h/t @BLoveSoulPower, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley)
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(h/t @BLoveSoulPower, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley)
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we deserve more than this.
white supremacy wants us to just focus on destroying our what’s there. white supremacy wants us to spend our lives fighting it.
daring to dream beyond it and then creating that “beyond” is the liberation I’m working towards.
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white supremacy wants us to just focus on destroying our what’s there. white supremacy wants us to spend our lives fighting it.
daring to dream beyond it and then creating that “beyond” is the liberation I’m working towards.
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for me, this picture does not depict liberation.
I want to work with my community to change the rules of this game so that we all can play. I want the players to fly. I want there to be music and joy and justice and laughing and abundance and magic and holiness.
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I want to work with my community to change the rules of this game so that we all can play. I want the players to fly. I want there to be music and joy and justice and laughing and abundance and magic and holiness.
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as always, cite me. pay me. recommend me.
but more importantly, reflect on your own work and act. i’m not sharing for your applause. we’re working toward revolution, fam.
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but more importantly, reflect on your own work and act. i’m not sharing for your applause. we’re working toward revolution, fam.
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this idea is not really new. it was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend about Kap’s protest and blackballing back in 2017. my friend, Isao suggested that maybe liberation looked like being able to play.
But @Kaepernick7 played, protested, and they shut him out.
But @Kaepernick7 played, protested, and they shut him out.
I think @Kaepernick7’s protest and subsequent blackballing helped me understand that liberation must involve a redefinition of the game we’re playing. it must involve justice and centering folx at the margins. it must be intersectional, radical, and thrive on accountability.
