tea: armchair era

afropessimism. anarchist media. urban theory. managing editor: @scalawagmag 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 [email protected] 1/3 @itsinthemiddle 200HRYT🧘🏾‍♀️

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

always grateful for an opportunity to get candid and speak on the state of black movements, black thought and the political culture. get into my latest interview for ⁦@BARBookForum⁩ https://t.co/aPkZhCHZwZ

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

Revered by Georgia O'Keeffe, James Baldwin, and many more, queer Southern painter Beauford Delaney was almost lost to history. Black arts organizers are recovering his legacy for audiences from Knoxville to Paris.

https://t.co/gFPajG6OwK

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

Commemoration of Columbia’s legendary Candy Shop gay club speaks to a young generation of LGBTQIA+ South Carolinians, letting them know that today's struggles have long histories, their queer elders are standing with them, and they belong. https://t.co/3l7HQjfIIr

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

“‘I want to challenge the popular notion of rest as a choice. I want to recognize rest as both a tool and an outcome of resistance.’” https://t.co/s8DvyygMJ7

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

Cages, restraints, & guards are not the elements of a therapeutic environment.

Stop Criminalization of Our Patients is challenging a 1,800-bed “special purpose facility” intended to incarcerate people with mental health conditions.

https://t.co/1Bwhz8LWno

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

For PRIDE Month, incarcerated contributor Ashlee Inscoe offers critiques of both the prison and medical industrial complex’s queer and transphobic violence, in her experience in the North Carolina prison system as an intersex woman.

https://t.co/QuxhbVMh79

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

Black feminist. Legal pioneer. Gender non-conforming. Preacher. Lover of women. What Pauli Murray really did was fight to create the kind of world in which every part of them could live. https://t.co/MdnNrQn5Us

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

https://t.co/sw9VuTUGUu

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

“The prison's medical team and administration knew I needed this care, but were determined not to approve it and continued to deny everything. They still deny it today. I thought it was something that would never happen for me, especially while I was in prison.

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

For PRIDE Month, incarcerated contributor Ashlee Inscoe offers critiques of both the prison and medical industrial complex’s queer and transphobic violence, in her experience in the North Carolina prison system as an intersex woman.

https://t.co/QuxhbVMh79

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

I had needed the surgery for a very long time but the stench of prison politics made it next to impossible. Even though multiple doctors told prison officials I needed it, they still made senseless barriers to go through. I really kicked the hornet's nest!”— Ashlee Inscoe

[abolition enjoyer @NinosIndex]

SAY THE END OF EMPIRE

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

In his latest, @wayanbarre covers organizing efforts and daily life in Texas Colonias, communities comprised of hundreds of unincorporated subdivisions along the Texas–Mexico border often disconnected from crucial services.
https://t.co/pBWcW6V0Ja

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

clips in the thread are from the latest episode of @ItsInTheMiddle available now on YouTube
https://t.co/4OEGfH5x7V

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

here’s why i am a firm believer in the whole “affordability promises are a scam” thing. as an organizer + polic(e)y/planning professional in ATL for a decade, i can’t unsee the way affordability concessions are a resource laundering front for consultants & politicians 🧵

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

big scandal in Atlanta - amid an ongoing housing crisis, the city spent over $100,000 of money FROM the affordable housing trust fund on…consultants. overall, they paid $370k to marketing/comms consultants who didn’t disclose they were being paid by ATL https://t.co/sCfbtsTt8k

[tea: armchair era @colonizedlocal]

i just feel like “acting shocked” and outraged at another “discovery” that cities as capitalist institutions built for accumulation and capital flow, not people and planet is tired. we all know what is to be done and why reform over revolution is seductive. we gotta grow up.

[jatella @jatella]

marxism is the main culprit in the ruse of analogy, which makes afropessimism a point of genuine upheaval in the history of black racial thought.