Decolonial Feminist Collective

utilizing decolonial feminist approaches in popular + political education and international solidarity-building. est. 2020.

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

Patrice Douglass’ inimitable text _Engendering Blackness_, particularly chapter five, “Manning Black Gender”, offers a scathing and pensive critique of Curry’s analytical deficiencies, and takes to task, with unflinching conviction, the dilemmas of negated manhood and sexual violability.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

It’s the same old story. Palestinians warn that a politician isn’t actually anti-Zionist, get attacked for saying so, and then the politician proves us right. The cycle repeats because people would rather cling to the illusion of a “progressive champion” than confront how deeply Zionism is embedded in both parties. You can vote for him but don’t weaponize Palestinian suffering to convince yourself he’s an anti-Zionist while Palestinians are being slaughtered daily, and while his exact rhetoric is used to justify it.

[Naomi Simmons-Thorne @_naomisimmons]

M.Jacqui Alexander on postcolonial black nationalism: “There are three [following] gestures. The normalization of violent heterosexuality. The second is the organization of an internal homophobic discourse. The third nostalgia for a [state] free from Western decadent incursions”

[Bring Mumia Home @BringMumiaHome]

Please continue the calls!! Spread the word!!

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

TOMORROW September 3, 1-3pm EST, join us for a phone banking session for T HOXHA, CASEY GOONAN, XINACHTLI and MUMIA ABU JAMAL. Join at https://t.co/m0ViDz1Nst We will be making calls and emails to ensure our political prisoners' lives and well-being are protected.

[Ololade Faniyi @lolamargaret_]

Deep sigh 💔

@awo_dufie and @AryaKarijo offer us visions for liberated queer futures in Africa; essential reads that I had the pleasure of editing for @republicjournal.

https://t.co/sYDQzQI5sp

https://t.co/iFJ5eX6nAi

I had a few things to say too here: https://t.co/pTnTiGjvNX

[Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc]

A banger!

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

This Labor Day, read “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women” by Claudia Jones (1949)

https://t.co/AsGyUZVerj

[Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc]

Join us this Saturday 8/30 virtually or in-person for our final workshop this month “Spirit, Struggle, and the Word: Writing Through the Spiritual and Political for Black August”
Register: https://t.co/QjS2xaBJ77

[Beatrice Adler-Bolton @realLandsEnd]

Let’s take apart this Free Press hit piece on children in Gaza: “They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.” This thread will explain why its harms go way beyond just bad reporting—it’s ableist, eugenicist & pro-genocide propaganda 🧵

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Incarceration and eugenics go hand in hand. Allowing epidemics to sweep through inmate populations is purposeful. Forced illness, disablement, and death are part of carceral design.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

A mix of federal and local authorities antagonizing Black residents in Southeast DC. Watch in full:

[free them all @jalessahj]

Be sure to also tap in on the 23rd for my comrades’ fiction writing against cop cities and George Jackson and persuasive writing workshops taught by Ra’Niqua and @julianakilrose.

Register at the above link!

[free them all @jalessahj]

On August 30th, I’m teaching a hybrid workshop linking the spiritual + political for #BlackAugust w/ @endstateatl and @decolonialfc! We will consider what political prisoners can teach us about spiritual discipline and dedication?

Register: https://t.co/S9FUlovzho

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

The devastating storm that hit New Orleans in 2005 killed nearly 2,000 people and displaced thousands more. For those who survived Hurricane Katrina, the trauma they still carry reveals the long shadow of environmental racism on Black mental health.

https://t.co/XesyVQuu4A

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

To be clear they’re talking about ethnically cleansing black communities

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

I don’t aspire to talk about what’s political without the appropriate emotional presence of what we’re discussing

I know that’s what a lot of people think “scientific” approach is, think again

[free them all @jalessahj]

My latest examining how Lorde’s revolutionary vision of care was transformed into neoliberal 'self(ish) care' — and what we can learn from her friendship with Andaiye. https://t.co/Z6Lt1ajSOK

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

outside doing persuasive writing with @endstateatl & @decolonialfc for Black August

[Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc]

“To obtain a relevant, real education, we shall have to either topple the university or set up our own.”

— Toni Cade Bambara

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

For Black August John Morrison reflects on the revolutionary lives of North Carolina’s own Robert F. & Mabel Williams. Exiled in Cuba for resisting antiblack terror in the south, they launched Radio Free Dixie & dedicated their lives to global solidarity
https://t.co/9o6xGujBLR