Candice Alaska

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[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

If we think of su*c*d*lity as a portal communicating to us what needs to change in society so that people want to live, it makes sense that the social response to su*c*de is to clamp down on it, treat it as irrational, and to disappear su*c*d*l people.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@Nakudan Trinidadians always want to exceptionalise violence when it reaches the point of extreme spectacle, so that everything that led up to it can't be held accountable for how it got there.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@Nakudan How can anyone possibly be shocked? Trinidad culture has LONG been fascist. Extremely patriarchal, anti-Black, ableist and eugenicist. An openly entrenched rape culture. The groundwork has been laid for Kamla for some time.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@VampyMinax @fawnn404 After solid arguments were made against your medicalisation of the guilt that Westerners carry for how their consumer habits are complicit in western imperialism as "moral OCD," which you described as debilitating, suddenly all we're discussing now is their buying "one drink"?

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@fawnn404 @VampyMinax luxury compared to (and directly because of) the vast majority of the world’s population"?

Source: https://t.co/NtNhtT77LY

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[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@fawnn404 @VampyMinax "the issue at the heart of moral OCD is that it posits a normal, rational level of concern about your role in the evils of the world - and its opposite, an abnormal, pathological level of concern. what is a normal level of concern when you are enjoying a life of relative 1/2

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

*Hyperindividualistic. My phone screen isn't working well.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@VampyMinax @fawnn404 Everyone liking this comment makes me sick. Y'all are all colonisers. This is just one way of many psychiatry has been complicit in western imperialism, by converting its participants into victims of an illness.

[shayma @roundthefurr]

why do some people prefer to support those who stand up with palestine rather than palestinians? im sorry but it’s very puzzling to me to see someone raise nearly $8k in less than a day for being an activist, whereas im failing trying to raise tuition fees for my siblings & cousin

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@nelciathewriter Trinidadian people, by and large, just don't seem to respect women's reproductive autonomy, believing instead that it's just our nature and responsibility to have kids. I've been told I'll change my mind once I find the right man. I've been called selfish so many times.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@nelciathewriter Trinidadian and I've just never wanted to because it's just not for me. But no one in the C'bean would take that as a valid reason and everyone just kept insisting I would eventually change my mind someday. It still pisses me off that no one ever accepted my choice.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

Always undermining critiques of ableism with "people in the Global South are ACTUALLY suffering while you all focus on this trivial nonsense". As if ableism (which includes anti-fatness) isn't the ideological foundation of all genocides.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

As a person from the Global South, I've noticed just how much ableists love to use the suffering of the Global South to bolster their ableism.

[mars but Awesome @cringedunhinged]

jaw dropped what the hell do you mean “genociding fat people” do you fucking hear yourself. there is ACTUAL genocide and mass death happening rn globally and you have the gall to sit on your ass and spew some half regurgitated reactionary thought piece just to hear yourself talk

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

I also write more about the intersections of disability justice and survivor justice on Patreon if anyone is interested, and, as a very disabled survivor from the Global South, all subscribers are very helpful.

https://t.co/5jbKMkTVrh

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

Not a book, but just sharing a quote from my essay on my framework of 'anti-survivor sanism'.

https://t.co/oOivBhZcGn

[Hana Katana ⚔️😷🏴🏳️‍🌈 🍉 THEY/THEM @KatanaSpeaks]

Rape is also disabling.

Dismantling rape culture means fighting against ableism & eugenics.

Dismantling rape culture means supporting and protecting disabled people.

Anyone wanna recommend their favorite books on disability justice?

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@re3msicle @esnextdoor Disgusting racist creep.

I understand now that your "debate" over the comparisons between slavery and indentureship were just a pretext for you to vent your anti-Blackness for a while.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@leemajor1990 @PM_Kamla She's literally been saying the same racist nonsense in her speeches and you don't believe it?

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@PM_Kamla As an Indo-Trinidadian person, you are NOT my leader. You are a pathetic, washed-up, racist old Indian woman who will be remembered as such.

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@re3msicle for the sensible arguments that they very laid out in response with much more grace and patience than you deserved. I don't know what else to say but you're a very bad person and you definitely don't speak for all of us Indo-Caribbean people. 2/2

[Candice Alaska @AlaskaCandice]

@re3msicle You just spent hours minimising the reality of one of the most horrific experiences in history and are here turning it into just a fun debate thing on the Internet, and calling the descendants of those whose ancestors had to suffer the indignity of slavery "too sensitive" 1/2