#Blackness

Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

wagatwe

Something particularly grating about white women taking language we developed to understand oppression to dress up their personal disdain for certain white men. I'm tired of white people getting platforms

Kia Thomas

KiaThomasEdits

I can't stop thinking about this article and what it says about the copyediting profession as a whole, because the editor in this instance is likely not the only person

jenn m. jackson

JennMJacksonPhD

I'll never judge or disparage Black folx who feel compelled to physically fight to defend themselves. Society likes to say things like "why would you resort to violence?" when society

Paballo Chauke

ChatWithChauke

UCT is wild bra, you go to class with children of presidents, ministers, judges, celebrities and they all act “normal” and drink your black label with you when they can

Joanna Chiu

joannachiu

Are you from an immigrant family, and have you grown up thinking that through hard work and sacrifice, anything could be overcome - including racism? Until recently, I didn't think

𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑲𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒏

wildfonts

I think an important thing about understanding our upbringings influence on behavior is that it’s not at all “making excuses.” It is possible, and necessary, to understand trauma and socialization

NAPAWF*NYC

napawfnyc

We wrote something about the violence happening against Asians and the response we’ve seen from many public figures. Please read and share. Part 1 - Calling out the anti-Black rhetoric

Celisia Stanton

CelisiaStanton

I’ve noticed an incredibly intense fear from white people around this idea of “getting it wrong” in relation to their anti-racism work. Funny enough, these fears often stem from a

Philip Ewell

philewell

Happy Black History Month! I’d like to announce a Twitter project, “Erasing Colorasure in Music Theory.” In the history of American music theory, and American classical music, whiteness has consistently

Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.)

SonofBaldwin

My words below, often erroneously attributed to James Baldwin by media and artists, is being used quite a bit. But many people don't know the context in which I tweeted

claire schwartz

23cschwartz

A few thoughts on the Nobel lecture A beautiful thing about poems is how they can be unruly—how, as things in the world, they can attach themselves to all

mbuya nehanda’s risen bones ⚱️

sucolorfavorito

Black cis-het men completely deny and downplay their willful participation in the global white supremacist capitalist patriarchy because they have internalized the belief that being rendered powerless in white supremacist

AJ🌹B L M

meatprism_

Fuck it. Let’s talk about how we need to recontextualize the systems of mental healthcare and social work to truly address how inequality harms individuals while we’re at it. Covering

#BlackTransLivesMatter

noosukuhum

I've been on a couple of calls this week during which other NDNs talk about colonization like it started in the 1800s, and get uncomfortable when I say they're erasing

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

There are two general camps of thought in Black culture about solidarity with white people.Those who believe that it can be productiveThose who believe that it can never be productiveThe

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

“...liberalism asks survivors/victims to lay aside our pain/trauma for the sake of others; it demands that we take ownership for a violence we never afflicted onto ourselves and watch as

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