I hate when Caribbean people shuck and jive for foreigners anuh. the spirit of colonialism will never leave us. the revolution will never again happen in our waters.
those ‘first in my bloodline’ tweets ranging from the first to leave a toxic marriage, the first to graduate, the first to travel, the first to be openly lesbian, our mothers and their mothers endured so much so we could have options. i’m proud we’re not taking that for granted.
“All men benefit from the actions of violent men. It keeps women in check. It allows men to perform the barest minimum and still feel good about themselves. The existence of violent men grants ‘good’ men awards for basic decency”.
Queer people when a man like this approaches you the first thing you need to ask them is what tangible work they are doing themselves to dismantle patriarchy. How are they holding other MEN accountable? Do they challenge the misogyny in their family?
im gonna be real since ai was invented it has done not 1 positive thing to surprise me and every single negative thing i thought it would. gotta be the worst invention of the century so far
Intellectualizing for racialized people is what allows us to manage our psychological & emotional trauma and to continue relating in a world that seeks to disappear us.
Yt people do not need more theory, they need more practice, pain and the courage to destroy.
Your patois, your creolized Spanish, French, Portuguese and Dutch. Your broken English and cultural vernacular is revolutionary. It's evidence of our ancestors' refusal to conform.
Practice it. Preserve it. That's culture.
I'm starting to miss Charli being a flop, now every random Twitter pseudo-intellectual wants to start some sort of pointless discussion and overanalyze any small thing she says... 😒
We were robbed with the dissolution of the Federation.
Can you imagine a pan Caribbean political party convention where when asked “Trinidad & Tobago, where do you place your votes” and Machel bursts out with a solid HEH HAH! And performs?
We really were ROBBED.
apparently it's completely feasible to ask all women to arm themselves, learn martial arts, stay at home after dark and be vigilant 24/7 but it's suddenly "impractical" to re-educate men and hold misogynists accountable to prevent gendered crimes