#Colonialism

🌸 rosie

eurosievision

okay, we’re getting on the racism discourse. as a lot of you probably know, i teach uni-level sociology in one of my day jobs, so i would like to hope

Dr. Matt, Buddhism stirred not shaken

mattdmilligan

Reading "The Buddha's Footprint" by Johan Elverskog with students this semester.https://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Footprint-Environmental-History-Encounters/dp/0812251830/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+buddha%27s+footprint&

Joseph Hackett

JCS_Hackett

This is disingenuous. What the National Trust is doing is part of a full-scale politicised 'audit' of our history and national memory to, at the very least, asterisk anything that

Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Preorder SON OF THE STORM!)

IAmSuyiDavies

I always find the “Africa is better off from the results of colonization” arguments amusing. What do people think happened with African empires & their European counterparts prior to colonization?

Stephen Horn

SteveSince91

"So much of power is an illusion, so much of influence is a delusion" says Lord Tim Bell in @Poplak and @DianaNeille's excellent @film_influence which opened @EncountersDoc festival last night.

JD Roberts

JDRobertsMusic1

The interesting thing for me about country houses (happy to be corrected, this isn't my field) is the way people want to see them as both 'historic' and timeless /(thread)

Francesca Humi

FrancescaHumi

Thread:Most ppl know of the poem, "The White Man's Burden," the ultimate anthem for colonialism. But not everyone realises it was written by Kipling, author of the Jungle Book. And

Ramesh RB

Rameshchess

Can you guess the fee that was paid per day for being Coach of Indian Chess team for official events like Olympiad, World Team Championship, Asian team Championships? No one

Charlotte Minsky

extrasolarchar

Many months ago, I promised a friend a tweetstorm on my senior thesis, so here it is, long overdue -Settler Colonialism and the Making of the Lick Observatory, 1846-1919: a

Diana Harding

DianaHarding7

Khan is trying to rewrite historyHe must not be allowed to get away with this @BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet 1/6https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/09/sadiq-khan-unveils-london-statue-review-panel-branded-unelected/ "A Star Wa

Eyewitness Palestine

EyePalestine

We are not the first & hopefully will not be the last to say this. Using offensive terms like “banana republic” or referring to Iraq/Afghanistan to describe what happened in

💥 Elizabeth is 100% That Witch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ☭

InstantSunrise

A twitter thread in which I drag every single US president in order: George Washington: Dude was a shit-ass general who owned slaves and when the working class realized that

🥀 🥭 ☭ Artsy Marxist ☭ 🥭 🥀

Artsy_Marxist

You guys remember Extinction Rebellion? well i was on the inside when the org was coopted and destroyed, so here’s how it happened so you guys know how feds take

Cris van Eijk

crisveijk

Some 100% real Hansard quotes from my look at the history of space environmentalism in the 1950s-60s.1. M. Foot (16/05/1963): "Does [the PM] think that the United States Government have

Native American Budget & Policy Institute

NABPInstitute

NEW: A report released this week called Pathways to Education Sovereignty is the product of Indigenous educators, experts & students sharing their life experiences & struggle navigating through an education

Marxist Twink

Leninisttwink

Black migration to the USSR: A thread Disclaimer: The experiences of some Black people don’t always account for all Black people, we all have diverse experiences that are unique and

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