Abena Kuti

🖤 Self-taught cat masseuse, Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

What we are witnessing in the UK is white supremacist cooptation of discourse. The fundamental purpose is to make people detached from anti-Black racism. Evoking the name of Stephen Lawrence is heinous. 4 of the people who murdered him have yet to be convicted, 33 years later.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

There have been videos circulating online for hours of Palestinians burning to death after another Israeli attack in Gaza.

Palestinians are so dehumanized that Israel can kill them in the most horrific ways without even generating headlines or outrage.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Black people are almost 9 times likely to be stopped and searched, 5 times more likely to have force used against them. Much more likely to be charged and to be refused bail - National Police Chiefs' Council.
Real discrimination. Real two tiers.

https://t.co/NaLiQ72r7s

[WstLdnsMayor_ @kieronFish]

This is not a Stephen Lawrence moment
One was killed by racists then the Police helped to cover it up
The other died because Police didn’t do their jobs properly… Which is ironic considering certain groups have been saying this for years

[The Vibes Ruiner™️ @BrainsNGrenades]

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate for Black children is the same as for white children. Its Black population has life expectancy equal to its white population. No other nation in the Americas can make that claim...

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

A few days ago, my family made a decision that no family should ever have to make.

We packed a small bag with our most important documents and agreed to carry it with us wherever we go.

Not because we are planning a trip, but because we have learned that in Gaza, life can change in five minutes.

Our home was already destroyed in the war. Now we live in a rented apartment, and yet even this temporary shelter no longer feels permanent.

The recent escalation in airstrikes and the growing number of homes being destroyed minutes after warnings are issued have brought back a feeling we know too well:
The feeling that nothing is certain. Not where you will sleep tonight, not whether you will return home, not whether the place you call home will still exist tomorrow.

I sometimes think about how absurd this transformation has been.
Once, we had a large house and a garden, today the most important things we own fit inside a single backpack.

Identification cards. Passports. Certificates. A few papers proving who we are.

Sometimes I look at that bag and wonder how an entire life became so light.
As if years of memories, celebrations, losses, and ordinary days had all been folded into documents that can be carried on a shoulder.

Yesterday , an airstrike hit very close to where we live. Two people were killed, and twelve others were injured.

What troubles me most is that we were there. We had been walking through the same streets, moving through the same area.

Had our timing been slightly different, had we stopped for a few extra minutes, had we taken another route, perhaps this post would never have been written.

That is how thin the line between life and death has become.
A few minutes. A coincidence. A different turn at the corner.
This is what life feels like now.

Not a life built on plans, but on probabilities. Not security, but luck. Not certainty, but survival.
So we carry our bags with us, not because they contain our possessions, but because they contain the last evidence of the lives we once had.

And perhaps the strangest part of all is that we have begun to treat this as normal.
A family carrying emergency bags wherever they go. An airstrike a few streets away. A narrow escape. And then another ordinary day.

But none of this is ordinary.
No family should have to carry its past on its shoulder because it is no longer certain of its future.

And no human being should ever have to live this way!!

#WoundedGaza

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

For decades, capitalist historians filled libraries with books about the Soviet Gulag. Yet today, the United States has the world’s largest prison population, where prisoners often work for pennies while corporations profit from their labor. And let’s not pretend the U.S. government has no history of political repression. From hunting communist sympathizers during the Red Scare to dismantling the Black Panther Party through infiltration, assassination, and incarceration.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

23-year-old Alaa Abda & many other young Palestinian women kidnapped by Israel for nearly a year and more are being daily tortured in its dungeons, with no care.

Israel today kidnapped another four women in their university.

Release the hostages! Now! Be their voices!

[maria ☭🔻 @resistancestan]

Mind you, Cuba accomplished this while under the most excruciating sanctions. Imagine everything they could do if the US sanctions were lifted.

Long live the Cuban revolution!!! Long live Fidel!! Long live Raul!! Love live Che!!!

[Tere Felipe @_TereFelipe_]

🇨🇺 No suelo hacer este tipo de publicaciones, pero siento que esta vez no puedo quedarme callada. Cuba, igual que Palestina, está sufriendo un genocidio impulsado por el bloqueo de Estados Unidos.

Quiero pedirles algo, de corazón, a quienes me siguen y también a los que no nos seguimos. Necesito su solidaridad. Cuba se está quedando sin combustible. Sin combustible, los hospitales se apagan, la vida cotidiana se detiene y todos los procesos esenciales para sobrevivir están en riesgo extremo. Los más vulnerables: los niños, los ancianos, las embarazadas son quienes más lo están sufriendo.

Cuba necesita combustible YA. Por justicia, por humanidad, por el derecho a vivir. Ayudemos a que esta realidad no quede en silencio.

[Lolwe UK @LolweBooksUK]

Help Us Rebuild Lolwe Books in Peckham. We need your support to bring back our Black-owned Pan-African bookshop in Peckham. Please donate and share widely. 🙏🏿🙌🏿 https://t.co/LXrDY8cKgD

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

Five missiles at the same time hit my area in northern Gaza

The genocide is still ongoing. Speak up for us!!!!

[B @jesuisfucked]

This community kitchen in #Sudan is a frontline force against genocide. Please support this campaign so they can continue providing lifesaving humanitarian aid 🙏
https://t.co/FDRdLCGhI7

[SudanFundraisers 🇸🇩 @sudanfundshare]

EID AL ADHA IS IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS, HELP THESE 4 FAMILIES SURVIVE!!!

https://t.co/rYnYGmNqjI

[SudanFundraisers 🇸🇩 @sudanfundshare]

EID AL ADHA IS IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS, SUPPORT THIS REFUGEE MUM AND HER KIDS WITH THEIR BASIC NEEDS!!!

https://t.co/nqu9BS3vl1

[foxy marxist ☭🔻 @FoxyMarxist]

juniper blessing was 19 years old

murry foust was 22 years old

[Shrill by Mouth @Iskesullas]

I enjoy a sunny day as much as the next person but this type of heat in May is an indication of climate breakdown and the media are framing it in terms of 99s & people 'basking' at the seaside

[The 92% @YonnieTaughtU]

Black people look for Black doctors because non-Black doctors don’t listen to us, do not believe we’re in pain, and think we’re drug seeking. White people look for white doctors because of bigotry. It is not the same thing.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

A father and his young daughter lie dying having been hit with a precision missile (US made) by Israel.

The ambulance crew arrives to try help.

Israel then hits them with a missile.

All on camera.

Proven.

War crimes.

Yet our leaders still arm them & support them.

Why?