BangladeshiFairy

Robert Glasper's biggest fan.

[Giokielicious @jokieliu]

Translation of the Chinese comment:

Revolution begins with yourself. An egg broken from the outside is food; broken from the inside, it's new life.

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

But the unification of Africa cannot be built on homophobia. He needs to let go of his homophobic stance!

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

Let’s talk about how smell became part of the legal foundation for segregation in the States.

Segregation enforced a strict separation of life for Black and white people, including separate public spaces like schools and railroad cars. It relied on the idea that race could be visually detected and confirmed.

In New Orleans, a group of civil rights activists challenged this law by having Homer Plessy, a man who could pass as white, but who was considered to be Black under Louisiana law, enter a whites-only railroad car.

He was arrested and charged and the case went to criminal court. This was the intended effect; the idea was to undermine the law by proving race often isn’t identifiable by sight.

The prosecuting attorney, however, stated that he didn’t need to be able to see Plessy to identify his race - he could *smell* it. Plessy was found guilty by the judge, John Ferguson. Plessy’s case was appealed, but the Supreme Court ruled against him also in 1897.

Plessy paid a fine rather than accepting jail time, but his case set a precedent, legitimising illusory notions about racial odours and reinforcing the legal foundations of segregation.

[ahmad r. washington, ph.d. @DrARWashington]

as i continue this exciting but daunting journey deeper into Afropessimism, I’m learning that so many detractors don’t take seriously how AP interrogates: 1. the conflation of blackness with abjection and incapacity & 2. why/how AP sees that coterminous relationship,

[Activist Ponk 🖤✊🏿 @educatedhashira]

“NO FATS, NO FEMS”: The Politics of Desirability in the Black Male LGBTQ+ Community

Presentation on Fatphobia, Femmephobia & Colorism (a thread)

[Down with US Empire... Yankee Go Home @jaybeware]

remember this, when Biden tries to take credit for a "ceasefire" or "brokering peace" early next year. He gave Israel carte blanche to commit genocide as long as they don't f*ck up his re-election bid by dragging it out too long.

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

Let me get this straight. Democratic Party & Joe Biden are skipping Dem primaries & Dem debates because denying democracy is how you save democracy? And leading a genocide is how you stop fascism? All for a guy with 37% approval? The DNC is as incompetent as it is corrupt.

[griffin @zack_addie]

I think person of the year should be the gaza journalists who are risking their lives to show the world their reality and not the woman with all this influence who has been deathly silent on the entire situation

[Brian Baez @MentallyDivine]

REP. JASMINE CROCKETT IS CORRECT!

[BangladeshiFairy @alwayshacked]

@DannyDeraney