Social distancing is just part of the problem if we don’t account for anti-Blackness
Social distancing is a privilege that the well-to-do have already been practicing for centuries to keep their resources away from marginalized people.
Elite education left blood on my hands. Now it’s my responsibility to heal the damage
I know that my university won’t ever help me to be free, because its own existence is predicated on upholding white supremacy.
How I found empowerment among Black strippers in an industry that forces us to compete
All of the information that was useful to me came from the Black and non-white strippers I knew, women who the industry set up to be in competition with me.
Increased representation for marginalized people won’t fix anything if people in power remain overrepresented
When we consider the dangers of the underrepresentation of marginalized people, we can’t ignore the potential danger in the overrepresentation of people in power.
Why Black people need to explore intimacy within our friendships & non-sexual relationships
White supremacy and cis-heteropatriarchy encourage us to have selective distributions of intimacy, touch and care that are reserved specifically for our sexual partners and family members.
Caster Semenya and how the biomedical industry is designed to kill Black people
The idea that there are only two genders is an intentional capitalist and colonial project used to strengthen the political economies of hegemony and anti-Blackness.
It’s time to abolish elite universities
Harvard, Princeton & Yale have all perpetuated and continue to benefit from chattel slavery. This ideology affected state and public policy in insidious ways that have carried over to the present
Blackness doesn’t need whiteness to exist because whiteness didn’t create it. We did
We are agents and shapers of history, culture and discourse, not mere passive, thoughtless victims. We were sizing them up the same time they were sizing us up.
Prison “reform” is useless unless it pushes for freedom and dignity for *everyone*
Prison reform continues to be structured around arbitrary definitions of who does and doesn’t deserve humane treatment
It’s impossible to fight for justice and the world not call you crazy when the world is unjust
Regardless of who destroyed the Earth, I’m still expected to clock in on time, not steal from them people, not lie to authorities, not kill Daniel Hortzclaw.
