#Diasporic

Arun Venugopal

arunNYC

The Rihanna episode intersects with shifting South Asian diasporic politics. There is rising mobilization in the U.S. against the politics of Modi & Hindu nationalism and this will have longterm

Tọ́pẹ́

graceishuman

#Nowwatching Octavia [Butler] Tried to Tell Us: Parable for Today's Pandemic with @moyazb @TananariveDue @monicaacoleman @FJasmineG #Octaviatried #OctaviaTried @TananariveDue says she taught Parable of the Sower for her Afrofuturism cou

Pie

ShuFlyPie26

I don't wanna get involved in anymore discourseIt's really made MDZS not fun for me. It's been like a while and I'm still upset (or maybe just depressed+) for a

Zoé

ztsamudzi

This presentation is about to be SO lit. Check out the work of presenter Joan Donovan & Aaron Panofsky who researched how genetic tests that challenged white nationalists’ notion of

Dr Emily Munro

ellomunro

Black lives matter. I took a pause to read, absorb, learn, watch. Other voices are more important than mine right now. I want to offer my support, anger and creativity.

Eileen Chong 张奕霖

eileenchongpoet

When I spoke up about this to #VerityLa, the editor did not see the problem with the piece. It had been already been published & distributed in newsletter. I caught

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

"The first barrier that Haitians have in Chile is not the language, it is the skin color. From the color of skin, the tongue also becomes a barrier, but it

k'eguro

keguro_

Prof. Walcott returning us to psychoanalysis and Fanon and visuality.Lewis Gordon on Fanon. How a turn to theorizing global blackness was not engaging Caribbean thinkersAnd Prof. Walcott's turn to Kamau

Aliza Luft

alizaluft

I'm truly thrilled to share my paper, "How Do You Repair a Broken World? Conflict(ing) Archives after the Holocaust." This paper examines the methodological, political, & ethical dilemmas of working

Jeffrey Ansloos

jeffreyansloos

I've worked in three universities. In every single one there have been ethnic identity frauds and race shifting. Every year I have sat on admissions committees and hiring committees, I

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ximuoicay

“Reclaim” is a specific process when marginalized groups take something that was used to malign/oppress them & change the power dynamics. The first step to reclaiming is to know its

Jenny Bhatt

jennybhatt

Appreciate this essay by .@curvi_k on mangoes and diasporic South Asian literature. And, so we remember, this is part of an ongoing, larger literary discourse as follows. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/curvi_k/status/1358803554945937408 Mohsin Hami

National Geographic

NatGeo

Every Monday throughout #BlackHistoryMonth , we'll be passing the mic to someone from the @NatGeo family who will be highlighting an aspect of history or their work. Today we're hearing

iya eh-hee-may

ehimeora

The symbolism in #BlackIsKing is filled with spirit and this is a long thread to dissect it. As an Omo Awo (high priestess in training) of the Ifá +

Daniel Edelstein

Turtlestein

I've found Armenian Twitter's internal discussions on identity & "who is a real Armenian" interesting when comparing to the Jewish community. According to Jewish Law, you are Jewish if you're

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LadyMaimonides

THREAD: In honor of the last day of Mizrahi Heritage Month, a dedication Sephardi and Mizrahi contributions laying down much of the framework for modern day Zionism. Our leaders secular

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