xavier 🇵🇸

PhD student studying policing and the carceral state | 1312

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

"[I]t is important not to misread the structural as also somehow inevitable."

- Ruth Wilson Gilmore

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

idk man if you're country is committing a genocide then you've lost the privilege of calling for civility

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Let’s analyze an example of propaganda in media courtesy of Jon Stewart.

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

[PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT]

i have officially published a paper - in Punishment & Society - that focuses on reentry, urban governance, the (re)production of inequality vis-à-vis policing.

the article is free to access:
https://t.co/6GYr9myibX.

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

Harris, an avowed prosecutor and cop lover, supports the border wall and is actively part of an administration that funds Palestinian genocide, even choosing a running mate who does the same (at least for the last point) but is somehow the bulwark against Project 2025? Okay.

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

resharing this banger for no particular reason

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

@FarfaYGO

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

Octavia E. Butler looking at the United States as it approaches 2025

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

especially because political 'leaders' can use this dichotomy to do the most abhorrent things possible abroad but hey, at least you're safe...for now! it's a perpetual carrot and stick game that only devolves deeper and deeper into selfishness and detachment.

[freelance iconoclast @commodifythis]

it is unfortunately a deeply white supremacist position to value domestic policy at the expense of foreign policy, and i’m really sorry to see so many of you feel that way

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

cautions against misogynoir cannot be a catchall for excusing genocide. be so serious.

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

~rainbow imperialism~

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Kamala Harris shares “ironclad US commitment to Israel’s security.”

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

@afropessimistic

[SCR1PTB0Y @jbshay543]

@LexiAlex the fact that people have the gall to say “yeah the genocide in Palestine is bad, but what about my rights?” is stomach churning, as if the only possible world is one in which they think it’s morally acceptable to approve of genocide to save themselves for even one day.

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

@Jairo_I_Funez case in point!

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

@ygorganization Astellar and Elzette being secrets is criminal 🫠

[xavier 🇵🇸 @XavierADurham]

@miriodere people sitting here like Obama was the 'golden years' or something when mans is a flat out a war criminal like the rest of them

[Chisomo Kalinga, PhD @ChisomoWrites]

Another good day to remind people that just because an academic is renowned for their work in social justice, antiracism, decolonisation, or equality, it does not mean they are invested in this work at a personal level. Some are very good at researching these topics. That is all.

[TOO BLACK @TOO_BLACK_]

Not saying the supreme court decision is inconsequential (its not), but all these presidents are war criminals. Let's not act like the "rule of law" was upheld up to this point. If anything, it's the so-called law that upholds the crimes.