John Shorter (he/him)

graduate student @History_UWIMona | #bioarchaeology #memory #genealogy #CBPR #urbanhistory #garrisons | @[email protected] | @johntshorter.bsky.social

[Sirr Ninga @SiRRNingaa]

There’s something deeply unsettling about watching the architects of a legal framework now distance themselves from it, while its afterlives continue to discipline, criminalize, and endanger queer people across much of the Global South.

[Cambria Press @CambriaPress]

"A timely contribution...certainly be of great interest to historians and other scholars studying slavery, abolition, postabolition, and African diaspora...a well-written, carefully edited book that delves into crucial matters and can attract a broad reading public interested in understanding both the historical processes that forged a complex visuality of race and gender in postslavery Brazil and the violent, unequal society that this visuality helped to create." —Hispanic American Historical Review https://t.co/c9k9e0Hfox

[Kehinde Andrews @kehinde_andrews]

"For a university that prides itself on being a leader on issues of equality, diversity and inclusion it is frankly appalling" how @MyBCU has treated it's Black staff and students in closing the course with no consultatio https://t.co/DXjsOgTrs6 via @timeshighered

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

Today MAY 10 is the National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery and their Abolition in France, and I recommend two of my books that deal with the French slave trade and slavery. #slaveryarchive

[siddhu @siddhusings]

grad school is just you being a tradwife for academia

[the meji. @mejitwo]

Academic writing is wild because you'll read four articles just to write one sentence.

[☥𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐱 @fw_lennox1]

sēx is cool but have you ever found an academic article that fits your research topic perfectly and supports all of your claims

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Haitians killing French enslavers to liberate themselves from slavery wasn’t genocide.

[Amber Takahashi (d/acc) @amberlytics]

The Holocaust lasted for 4 years, and survivors and their descendants are still being paid out today.

Japanese-American internment camps lasted for ~4 years, and survivors were paid $20k each in 1988.

Slavery lasted for 246 YEARS in the US… yet no reparations for the families of those affected.

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, GOJ @mfaftja]

The Government of Jamaica is among 123 countries who supported the adoption of a United Nations Resolution endorsing the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans
as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity, an effort led by the Republic of Ghana.

Swipe to read the full statement.

#mfaftja

[olive senior @olivesenior]

CineCarib: Beach Inna Bondage: The Fight for Jamaica’s Coastline https://t.co/eW21DyIpOC

[United Nations @UN]

A new exhibition at UNHQ in New York explores Canada’s role in the global trade of enslaved Africans.

By uncovering often-untold stories, it invites reflection on this history and its lasting impact, while honouring those who resisted. https://t.co/fsuAihtffC #RememberSlavery

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Wrote about this - notable that the term “eco-terrorist” really only came into popularity because groups like the ELF and ALF were actively hindering the efforts of corporations to profit from environmental plunder. Good example of how the term “terrorism” is a political weapon.

[Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa @S_OkudzetoAblak]

Thank you Jamaica.

Our unity and solidarity cannot be broken.

We shall triumph and secure reparatory justice.
🇬🇭 🇯🇲

[Institute of Jamaica @IoJ_jamaica]

What lies beneath the Caribbean Sea? 🌊

Join us for “Sunken Secrets of the Caribbean Sea: Protecting Underwater Cultural Heritage.”

📅 March 13, 2026
⏰ 10 AM – 12 PM
📍 Institute of Jamaica
See flyer for details and registration.

#SunkenSecrets #UnderwaterHeritage
#CaribbeanHeritage #ProtectOurHeritage
#JamaicaHeritage #InstituteOfJamaica

#NationalMuseumJamaica @CaribbeanUnesco @nepajamaica @UWImona @kgncreative @JnhtOfficial @MCGESJamaica

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

Ghana is set to file a resolution at the United Nations on March 25, 2026, to have the transatlantic slave trade declared as one of the greatest crimes against humanity. President John Mahama has led the African Union's call for reparations.

[Talking History JA @TalkHistoryJA]

Talking History will be back on air!! Join me tomorrow, 9-10.30 am on Nationwide 90 FM!!
#TalkingHistory #TalkingHistoryJA