#Blackness

Megan Ming Francis

meganfrancis

Imagine...ruining democracy & creating a philanthropy focused on 'criminal justice reform' to image launder AND then silence Black ppl who are actually doing the work. YALL. A rare inside look

jenn m. jackson

JennMJacksonPhD

Just to be clear: no, Black people *cannot* be racist. Black people do not (materially and in the aggregate) benefit from anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and systemic racism. Black people also

something else arctic

LowArctic

honestly a lotta North American Native folks id’ing as Indigenous / using Indigeneity as a framework is like using a pressure washer instead of a watering can to water your

MildlyMelanatedMama

CKaczocha1

So when we gonna talk about the fact that the majority of Black families either didn’t respond to the survey or opted to return? Why are folks defaulting to the

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

on colorism, the instability of racial identity & discomfort with the word “Black” The refusal to name and identify colorism remains one of the great stumbling blocks to dismantling white

Brendane Tynes, M.A., MPhil

b_tynes

I think it's time for us to have a conversation about the harms enabled by How To Be Antiracist by Ibram Kendi. I will return to this with receipts soon.

𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑲𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒏

wildfonts

You cannot be for Black liberation and not be for the abolition of prisons and cannot be for prison abolition while promoting the idea that "violence" is a reflection of

Da’Shaun | they/them

DaShaunLH

hi all. sound off in the replies with names of fat people you learn about fat politics from on here who are not white. i’m trying to see sumn. love

DisabilityHistory

DisabilityHistr

Thread for #BlackHistoryMonth on #blackdisabilityhistory:1.In 1971, Louis D Mitchell wrote a piece in the @NAACP’s The Crisis mag titled ‘The Blackness of Blindness’, a fascinating piece on the genesis/

read ‘discourse on colonialism’ by aimé césaire!

queersocialism

the issue w/books about race that are written for “allies” is that so many of them still fundamentally misunderstand rac[e/ism], whiteness, and anti-blackness as individual feelings, ignorance, and morality—instead of

Smiley B

SweetShaniB

Y’all know I like to randomly share my thoughts. I’m glad more folks are discussing microaggressions. A few yrs ago when I taught a graduate level multicultural class, I explained

The Conscious Kid

consciouskidlib

Carter G. Woodson, the "Father of Black History Month", observed that in spite of Black Americans being central to the story of America, their accomplishments were largely neglected in the

Evelyn Fielding Lopez

True_Tacoma

Racism and Anti-Blackness in WA 28th Senate Race. This mailer has darkened the skin of the candidate it opposes, T'wina Nobles, and lightened the skin of the candidate it supports,

Sam Rocha

SamRochadotcom

A thread of appreciation for Gloria Purvis:This past year, I was blessed to be in dialogue with many people within the Academy and the US Catholic Church. I mean no

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Obama is brilliant &, from his past books, has a quite sophisticated grasp of racism, so we then must conclude arguing police racism is confined by slinging the n-word, water

LL McKinney says pre-order Nubia: Real One

ElleOnWords

Kirkus has a really weird relationship with books about Black American girls in contemporary fantasy settings, and...I think we need to talk about it. If I'm gonna be frank, Kirkus

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