Leilani Dawson

archivist. black, nikkei. xe/xem/xyrs/xyrself. lucky I live hawai'i; hope to transfer my citizenship from the US to here someday.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

In an interview for the @Guardian, acclaimed gender theorist Judith Butler called out the links between anti-trans activists and fascists. The Guardian, which has platformed these voices in the past, deleted that portion of the interview.

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

@anarchivist Not sure what step 2 is but I’m pretty sure step 3 is feast on the fruits—or, well, thighs—of your labor. In a way that sounds less cannibalistic than that.

[A bear @A_single_bear]

Any obstacle that blocks your path forward can be toppled...

usually by leaning all of your weight against it until it breaks and you accidentally roll into pool of water filled with humans and they start shouting so you run and have no time to apologize to the fence you broke.

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

Disappointed but not shocked by the framing of this article as a gender gap when its own graphs are showing more white women in the highest earners than Asian, Black, and Hispanic people (of all genders) combined. https://t.co/cVXlMjZyNF

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

@anarchivist @MerrileeIAm worlddog and worldfish and worldgerbil

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

Aahhh this is such an important read! (saying this as a nb person who definitely does not feel like I've any right to call myself trans) I'm going to have to sit with this & come back to it over & over for the next while

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

(I want to see that documentary.)
(6/6)

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

A great thing about finally getting on the spotify bandwagon is rediscovering music I haven't heard in decades. Listening to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised for the first time since college, I'm struck by three kinds of statements:
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[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

"There will be{}pictures of Whitney Young being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process/There will be{}slow motion{}still lifes of Roy Wilkins Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green liberation jumpsuit that he has been saving for just the proper occasion"

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

TIL that French has a word that means both ‘favorite/darling’ and ‘whooping cough’ (this is what I get for using decades old hs skills to read a Le Monde article frenchsplaining Gritty)

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

i am once again struck by the wish that coffee (the liquid) tasted the way fresh-ground coffee (the solid) smelled

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

@Sam_Winn I can't get over the fact that all of these are from the same year:

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

8 years later and I still resent slack because it built itself from the corpse of glitch

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

Like I know all libraries have to do more with less, but this goes way beyond the standard "kitchen sink" job description

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

In what universe does 1 person w/a 40 hr work week manage the ILS + the HVAC system + the library's website & social media platforms + the network servers + the telecom system + multiple other tasks? https://t.co/Z13MRBYNpe

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

WiFi has been down since noon and I’m too much of a Luddite to use my phone for anything beyond Twitter so I’m missing out on what’s probably a 🔥lecture

[Leilani Dawson @LeilaniLtd]

@Sam_Winn this is so pure; I love it!