Selam | ሠላም

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[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

And this just got published today...dusting off an old passion& making a slow come back to writing. Thank you, @GenderITorg for making a space😊
Tweeps, I hope you enjoy the read& find your versions of everyday resistance in your personal& political lives somewhere in my ramble😉

[GenderIT.org @GenderITorg]

A beautiful essay that explores how to navigate the complexities of sexuality and personhood for Ethiopians, and how the traditional form known as qene or wax-and-gold is the perfect metaphor for negotiating and living dual realities. By @Selam_Mussie

https://t.co/Ycs4hEW41Q

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

@EthioPhenomenal Congratulations, Siyuye! 🤗💛

[𝔻𝕣. 𝔸𝕙𝕞𝕖𝕕 𝕆𝕘𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕝 - DFAPH @laktarr001]

It is not ok! Even with visa #Africa is on its own. Same as for vaccines and health emergencies.

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

@Marthinolly 😂😂😂😂

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

@Marthinolly On stand by!

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

@Marthinolly If you want to add a twist to your ride 💁🏾‍♀️ #YouGotThis

[Ian Fraser @Ian_Fraser]

Italian cyclist Michael Guerra uses his knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to adopt a “plank” position and overtake his competitors.

[Ekksim ਇੱਕਸੀਮ 🇮🇳 @Suresh18695890]

@Africa_Archives

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

He died at the age of 18, after an unhappy childhood, For 150 years, Ethiopians have been asking when Prince Alemayehu will come home.

Today Windsor Castle does not only stand as a symbol of medieval splendour but also as a symbol of British thievery and savagery.

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

🔥

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

No, Piers 🙄
You want to interview me, because your career died in excruciating pain, and you need the ratings. But I won’t let you chase clout off me. Like I said, I no dey put food for my enemy mouth.

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

Watch out, Kenya. Learn from a country whose leader(s) are praying for everything for four years instead of doing their job 😫

[Mwalimu Reuben Kigame, PhD @ReubenKigame]

I am a committed Christian who believes in prayer and believe God has helped us this far and Will continue to trust Him for the future of Kenya, but I hope that issues such as lowering food prices will not be met with State house saying, “let’s pray about it.“

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

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[Panashe Chigumadzi @PanasheChig]

Cancel culture is Black women from the Global South targeted and singled out for abuse by a billionaire & right wing media for refusing to perform civility & respectability about the Queen's death while an entire Irish football stadium sings their delight that "Lizzy's in a box"

[Panashe Chigumadzi @PanasheChig]

Cancel culture is Black women from the Global South targeted and singled out for abuse by a billionaire & right wing media for refusing to perform civility & respectability about the Queen's death while an entire Irish football stadium sings their delight that "Lizzy's in a box"

[agent ndn @TheAgentNDN]

People are like "the queen isn't responsible for all those atrocities, she just supported them in a highly public, highly symbolic, ceremonial capacity that manufactured popular consent for all those atrocities - totally different."

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

Abeg 😭

[Gelde @EldeGuevara]

Someone point me to Irish Twitter abeg

[gathara @gathara]

If not today, when?
Today is always painful.
Today is always inconvenient.
Today is always uncomfortable.
Today is always disrespectful.
But so was yesterday.
And so will tomorrow be.
Unless we deal with today.
Because it is always today.

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

Oh and might I add we don’t even have the same kind of agenda/motive the white media & colonization sympathizers have when they frame stories of developing countries 💁🏾‍♀️ yet, you’re uncomfortable that your (not so) past sins & crimes are outed & we refuse to glorify your story 🙄

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

So we’re basically talking the way white ppl & media talk abt our dictators- telling the stories of their stealing, killings, genocides, slavery, war crimes, etc uncensored or sanitized. But you act like we’re crazy & disrespectful 😂 even worse is fellow blacks eating it up 😭

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

So we’re basically talking the way white ppl & media talk abt our dictators- telling the stories of their stealing, killings, genocides, slavery, war crimes, etc uncensored or sanitized. But you act like we’re crazy & disrespectful 😂 even worse is fellow blacks eating it up 😭

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

It’s the way everything is considered out of place when BIPOC call the shits of white ppl out 🤦🏾‍♀️ Every African dictator’s story could have been sanitized for PR purpose including Gaddafi’s just the way the British media is doing it for the Monarchy.

[Schrödinger’s Heart @ChiefWitxh]

People who recorded the murder of Gaddafi and celebrated it all week on the news are now clutching their pearls over Uju’s tweet? Spare us abeg. You people’s outrage is very much suited to support white supremacy and silence POC dissent.

[Selam | ሠላም @Selam_Mussie]

The way white ppl & some fellow Africans expect civility while outing the sins of the British monarchy & their empire project is something else. Telling the other side of the story, outing crimes of the dead, choosing not to glorify the institution is NOT celebrating death.