Makes me think of how in any severe ecological emergency they’d leave people to die in prisons too. This system reveres in avoidable death, direct murder of living beings, and mass suffering.
The transformation of Wired into a genuinely invaluable source of journalism on contemporary techno-fascism is one of the great enduring achievements of "Woke 1.0"
Folks, as you know I'm on the editorial board for Public Humanities (open access). I've helped things get published on Sudan, Palestine (by Palestinians, it's coming), anti-Blackness in academia & more. Here are some cfps
If you'd like to write something let me know. I got you.
Òrun Àiyé: a Criação do Mundo é uma animação sensacional. O filme baiano, dirigido por Jamile Coelho & Cintia Maria, mistura animação 2D e stop motion e aborda a criação do mundo e dos humanos de acordo com a cosmovisão iorubá.
Every time Danielle A. Scruggs searched for Black women film directors, she came up with the same few names. So she spent the next 11 years building one of the largest digital archives of Black women and nonbinary directors. My interview: https://t.co/MDchK309wV
Our revolutionary sister, Denise Oliver-Velez, has passed away. She was a Bronx-raised activist who served in the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party—her writing and work as an anthropology and women's studies professor left a lasting mark. May she rest in power.
“Humans caused this” no. humans have lived alongside and even grew ecosystems for hundreds of thousands of years. What has caused this is European-driven and influenced settler-colonialism and mass industrialization. There’s no way around that.
parasites in our vegetables, data centers poisoning the water, flock cameras being built on every block, ICE agents killing people left and right… fuck donald trump and anyone who voted for him
“Nobody is coming to save you” but your day literally gets better after you consume art made by other people. You hang w friends & you’re no longer suicidal, even if just for a few minutes. They’re lying to you about the significance of community. People are saving you EVERYDAY!
I believe the Black Panther Party was correct. The police should face potentially deadly community defense in every single encounter they have with the citizenry. They should be surrounded by citizens with guns and body armor. Their free reign needs to come to an end.
A writing student asked me if it's okay to use AI to "structure" his ideas—not to "write" but "just to "structure."
Very gently, but with all the passion in my heart, I said, "No."
And then I spoke with him about why:
Structuring a piece of writing *is* writing. Imagine if whatever made the Universe had said, "I just need something else to structure all this stuff."
The act of structuring, of finding forms—whether it takes hours of inspiration or years of study (and it takes both)—is the unique chance to find out who you are, why you create, and what creation is.
Don't take that away from yourself. If you do, soon there will be nothing in you—nothing unique, nothing ancient, nothing new—to structure at all.
lindsey graham was a warmongering psychopath who devoted his life to ensuring the murder of as many brown children as possible. we deserve an opposition party that prioritizes that aspect of his legacy over the fact that they were travel buddies
She's not kidding, it's an incredible thorough and comprehensive database. I've never seen a format that extensively presents documents and data related to plantations, surnames, and recorded history in conjunction with the two.
They shot him, dragged his lifeless body onto the pavement, and handcuffed his corpse while his 3-year old daughter wearing Bluey pajamas watched in horror. If you say you voted for this you are an empty soulless vessel.