I don’t know if we have talked enough about Black, Indigenous, Latinx & other Women of color that have been predicting these outcomes of white supremacy for years & were told we were ridiculous. We are the miner's canary (Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres). 1/

"the experience of people of color in higher education is the experience of the canary in the mines....we have tended to pathologize the canary....rather than heeding the warning that those canaries are giving to us that it is actually the atmosphere in the mine that is toxic" 2/

https://www.aacu.org/publications-research/periodicals/miners-canary-enlisting-race-resisting-power-transforming 3/

Black, Indigenous, Latinx, & Trans women & other Queer, Non-binary femmes of color have been harassed by the right. They have sent rape & death threats. They have doxxed us. We have told you that the rhetoric these last years will escalate into violence & you ignored us 4/

Here's a sample of some of the ones I got. TW: rape & death threats 5/ https://twitter.com/DrSubini/status/1150835072691580928

We asked for help from our institutions, from police, fro, many & were told the threats were not serious-Just words. But we knew we were in danger. Black, Indigenous, Latinx, & Trans women & other queer, non-binary femmes of color are the canaries The air is toxic for us & you 6/