J.B. Flexer

#FirstGen | PhD Candidate | Nile Valley Archaeology | Bioarchaeologist 💀 | abolitionist | #ReturnDelisha - (she/they) | #BlackInBioAnth

[J.B. Flexer @JenMarsh_]

The rule is love. - Sylvia Wynter, Maskarade 💚

[D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ 🕸️🕷️ @noeleeisaround]

Thanks to our continuous efforts and your support, we were able to provide winter supplies — including blankets, warm clothing, hygiene items, sanitary pads, and clean undergarments for girls and children — to the displaced people from El Fasher in Tawila
https://t.co/yODIlonxtt

[D̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ 🕸️🕷️ @noeleeisaround]

To donate and help

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[Nisrin Elamin @minlayla77]

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.

https://t.co/WJqVU0pznc

[Sudanese Echo @SudaneseEcho]

“She Burned Her Thesis to Save Her Mother”: The Story of Nidal, a Sudanese Psychologist Who Survived the Genocide

In a story that captures both the depths of tragedy and the heights of courage, Sudanese psychologist Nidal Shams Eldin Abdullah recounted how she was forced to burn her university graduation thesis to keep her mother alive after fighters from the UAE-backed Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed) shot her in front of her eyes.

“They shot my mother in front of me,” Nidal said, her voice trembling. “Her intestines came out. I tried to put them back, but I couldn’t.” With nothing but her thesis papers left, she set them on fire to create warmth in a desperate attempt to save her mother’s life during the cold rainy season. “It was the only thing I had,” she said. “Everything else was wet.”

After the attack, Nidal carried her wounded mother for days, walking through mud and cold, surviving on nothing but willpower until they reached the Sudan-Chad border. Against all odds, her mother survived.

Once a practicing psychologist, Nidal now lives as a refugee, continuing to help others despite her own deep wounds. “How can a psychologist heal herself in the middle of a war?” she asked softly. Then she added, “All Sudanese are brave. Not just me. There are many braver than I am.”

Her name, Nidal, meaning resistance, fits her story perfectly. She is more than a survivor; she is a symbol of the quiet, unwavering strength of Sudanese civilians, especially women, who have endured the atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed).

The suffering caused by the Rapid Support Militia (Janjaweed) extends far beyond Nidal’s story. Across Darfur, Khartoum, and Al-Jazirah, civilians have faced horrors beyond imagination. Families were slaughtered inside their homes, women and girls were subjected to systematic sexual violence, and men were detained, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Entire neighborhoods were burned to the ground, hospitals looted, and humanitarian convoys attacked, turning cities like El Fasher and El Geneina into fields of ashes and grief. Every testimony tells the same story of deliberate cruelty, proving that what is happening in Sudan is not chaos, but a calculated campaign of terror aimed at breaking the nation’s spirit. Yet voices like Nidal’s remain, standing as living proof that even under the shadow of genocide, the Sudanese people continue to resist with courage, dignity, and unbroken faith.

#Sudan
#EchoesOfResilience
#RSFisTerroristOrganization
#UAESponsorsTerrorism
#UAEKillsSudanesePeople

[J.B. Flexer @JenMarsh_]

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[🌺Monnie🌺 @Beymonce]

Did DEI hire and 4 star general Lloyd Austin ever “accidentally” leak top secret military operations to a reporter on a signal app or is that kind of astounding incompetence reserved for the merit-based hiring of white men?

[s @yoongienthusias]

well the universe said free palestine.

[J.B. Flexer @JenMarsh_]

@BrysonBarpenter @OsheaJacksonJr How long we’ve known about Diddy’s Cosby, Epstein, etc behaviors before something has came of it or starting to… I’ll wait 🙄

[J.B. Flexer @JenMarsh_]

@lemossrennan So good to see El-Hassan 🫶🏾!

[The Black in Biological Anthropology Collective @BlackinBioAnth]

We on our writing ZOOM - Members, join us today for our weekly writing room - registration required & in the bio. Not a member yet? Hit the link in our bio to find out how to join!

[J.B. Flexer @JenMarsh_]

#Sudancoup #SudanUprising

[Amal Hamdan @amalhamdanelex]

Khartoum. Sudan’a military is now using planes.

[k. @themduncan]

straight black folks who couldn’t get through “moonlight” because they saw two queer black men kissing are finishing an entire netflix series where a white serial killer is going around murdering many queer black people.

how interesting.

[Dr. Maria Christina Vasquez @mcvasquez]

On Mondays I was racially discriminated for being a Latina marine biologist. I took my class to White Point Beach to explore the intertidal, discuss zonation, and practice transects/quadrats. We ran into another group starting surveys for project LiMPET. A women in the group

[Walter Rodney Foundation @RodneyProject]

Walter Rodney quote from “A Brief Tribute to Amilcar Cabral”, in the new collection of essays “Decolonial Marxism”:
#“In Amilcar Cabral, Africa had a giant who bridged the gap between theory and practice, and hence represented the embodiment of revolutionary praxis.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Bill Russell hooped in these–low top Chuck’s. Whenever folks talk about comparing eras. I really need the new generation players to understand how advances in sneaker technology plays a major role in on-court performance.

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

People racialized as Black been talking about structural racism for 50-leven years. Scholars racialized as White discovered it last year and the funding flood gates opened up.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

There are no gay diseases. And public health officials do everyone—but particularly LGBTQIA+ folks—a grave disservice when they pretend there are.

[Chisomo Kalinga, PhD @ChisomoWrites]

How do we begin to address the issue of overresearched/research fatigued communities in Malawi? Some communities are tired of researchers & it shows. A colleague who was in Livingstonia said that there are azungu daily knocking door to door asking questions...

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Worksheets at the medical examiner's office "indicated that Walker was observed laying on his back and was in handcuffs..."

90 shots fired. 60 shots ripped the body, legs, and head of 1 handcuffed Black man. Jayland Walker was lynched. The cops who lynched him are on paid leave.

[J.B. Flexer @JenMarsh_]

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[Rebecca-Eli Long @RebeccaEliLong]

With it being the start of disability pride month (as well as my birthday this weekend), it's as good a time as any to start fundraising for my autism service dog 🐕‍🦺
(service dog will not be a corgi, I just had a hard time choosing a pic)
https://t.co/rNN15KlLOR