Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social

traveling dancing skating multi-lingmodal educator-artist-atty | founder+former vol dir. @behearddc | committed to movement, love, liberation

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

Comm. Accountability

me+other Black/Indig disabled folk were (mis)featured in "Be A Revolution" by Ijeoma Oluo wo consent/notice. Oluo has also bullied+doxed me on top of this offensive inaccurate portrayal.

Tell @HarperOneBooks: pull this "book" now!

https://t.co/2tKS6F2ozw

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

It is absolutely zero coincidence that most of them are women.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Hillel Neuer, who denies zionist influence (control) in the US, brags about destroying Francesca Albanese's ability to conduct normal daily life transactions, and how they then went after her husband too.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A doctor abducted from a hospital, tortured and held without charge for over 500 days is called a HOSTAGE.

[tara al-alami @taraalami]

After months and months of working on this project, @PalFeminist is finally releasing a damning report titled “A Predatory State: Israeli Systemic Sexualized and Gendered Violence Against Palestinians.”

RSVP for the launch in NYC: https://t.co/jKtXf3Jnkw

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

“...If a customer bought an AI-generated book, not only would they almost certainly ask for their money back, but they would probably be angry at us for having sold it to them in the 1st place.”
https://t.co/4QwgNK4imS

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

Last week, I spent several days at the @SchomburgCenter, going through photographs of James Baldwin as part of my work as a consultant for a forthcoming exhibition curated by the phenomenal Karen Van Godtsenhoven.

One of the highlights was this snapshot of Baldwin and Toni Morrison in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Unlike the carefully staged portraits that helped construct Baldwin's public image, this photograph feels deeply personal. It wasn't made for publication. It looks like the kind of photograph that might have been processed at a local drugstore and tucked into a family album.

Here are two of the most important American writers of the twentieth century, not performing literary celebrity, but simply enjoying one another's company. There is something wonderfully ordinary about it.

As I think through Baldwin's self-fashioning, this photograph reminds me that public intellectuals are not made through ideas alone. Their lives are sustained by friendships, intellectual communities, chosen families, and private moments of joy. Sometimes a casual photo can reveal more than a professional headshot.

[Equitas @EquitasProject]

TL @behearddc we need to be talking about #ableism, #racism & class, confront systematic exectn of the vulnerable @talilalewis #smiexemption

[ABA DP Review @ABAdueprocess]

TL @talilalewis frm @behearddc on necessity to address the intersections of classism,racism,ableism,sanism in the legal system #smiexemption

[Kaepernick Publishing @KaepernickPub]

@talilalewis is an abolitionist community lawyer, educator, and organizer whose work reveals and addresses the connections among ableism, racism, classism, and all forms of systemic oppression and structural inequity.
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[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

"Racism within disability communities gives life & breath to ableism. I am not being dramatic or metaphorical. I literally mean that racism breeds ableism & ableism breeds racism." @talilalewis

[Lorrell D Kilpatrick @KilpatrickLD]

Check out these amazing resources in a course created by @talilalewis that address: #disability #disabilityjustice #racism #ableism #sexism #inequality. Awesome resource for #sociology courses of any level! @HTCSolidarity people out here trying to change the world!

[Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social @talilalewis]

@KilpatrickLD @HTCSolidarity i miss you so much, Lorell.

[Jess MF Hughes, Ph.D. @JessMFH]

“the harm that flows from nondisabled marginalized people not grasping how ableism harms them,&..the harm that flows from white &non-Black/Indigenous disabled people not understanding how racism &white supremacy harms them, is what we should be more concerned about” -@talilalewis

[Rebecca-Eli Long @RebeccaEliLong]

A6 I often cite @talilalewis's definition of ableism that shows how it connects to racism (& eugenics, capitalism, colonialism).
https://t.co/U48NMGLlYn
#ASANGala

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

.@talilalewis's definition of ableism: "A system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on socially constructed notions of normalcy, intelligence & excellence..." includes anti blackness, racism, etc.
#LongmoreLecture

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

“Nothing short of ending white supremacy will end ableism.

Racism within disability communities gives life & breath to ableism.”

- @talilalewis

#NCIL2019 #DisabilityTooWhite #CripTheVote #DisabilitySolidarity

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients? Rushed to plaster it everywhere, rushed to make AI edits, art, whatever. That was in December 2024.

How often is he mentioned today? He is alive, he is being tortured and slowly killed - he, alongside every Palestinian hostage, must be freed.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

Notice how universities are moving at break-neck speed to make sure their students have AI but have been resistant to paying graduate students, faculty and staff a living wage. It's not about the money—it's about what a neoliberal university system prioritizes.

[Thomas Dekeyser @ThomasDekeyser]

As the academic whose book is cited multiple times in this article, I want to make it clear: the data center revolt is great and we need more of it. (Getting a little sick of journalists purposefully misreading my arguments)

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.

He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.

He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.

This is happening in a British prison right now.

I've written to David Lammy to demand answers: