Kym Allison Backer

Perpetually exhausted, eternally traveling auto/food/destination reviewer/international rogue. Conde Nast Traveler, Departures, Ebony mag etc. IG: @kymallison

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

The diverse nationalities I morph into throughout an average World Cup day…currently Algerian 🇩🇿

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker with untreated mental health issues, died of hypothermia after being released by ICE. Security footage shows Michel sitting on a bus stop bench for days in cold temperatures.

Her death has been ruled a homicide. https://t.co/OL4jRweXcG

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

This is a gen X heart warmer

[Yolanda Shoshana @Shoshi]

Yasssss!

[AJ+ @ajplus]

An investigation into the NGO, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) found that its local and foreign staff sexually exploited Sudanese refugees in Chad.

#MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders #Chad #Sudan #Sudanese #Displacement

[ACT III is COMING🖤🖤🖤 @TWDJenn]

Every election cycle they show they are in fact NOT ok

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

@EdConwaySky @sree Now this makes me want to do a deep dive. Fascinating!

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

@Shoshi Could. You. Imagine.

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

@muheediva01 @rondaracha I am confident that thanks to my dad, there are still clusters of HDMI cables in random drawers

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

Jfc this is insane and terrible

[ABC News @ABC]

A 17-year-old boy was beaten into a coma near Madison Square Garden following Game 4 of the NBA Finals, New York City police said Friday while releasing a photo of a suspect sought in connection with the assault. https://t.co/ZxFpumnHO1

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

💯

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Haiti had the first successful slave revolt and the Whites have never forgiven them for it

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

This is such blatant bigotry and so sickening.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Omar Artan was set to make history for his country as the first referee from Somalia to officiate at a World Cup, but he was denied entry to the U.S. after arriving in Miami and cut from the tournament by FIFA. https://t.co/W5pA8RKUdy

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

Ok this is adorbs

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“Ireland didn’t qualify for the World Cup, but you know who did? The Ivory Coast.”

This Irish pub flipped its flag to support Ivory Coast at the World Cup.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Did any white teams get treated like this, or is this treatment reserved for Senegal? Bizarre

[AJE Sport @AJE_Sport]

Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, has been removed from the World Cup roster after being denied entry to the US despite holding a valid visa.

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

PAY HER

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

I was wrongfully fired by the @washingtonpost in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing.

And I challenged them. Finally we went to arbitration.

✊🏾

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

I’ve lived in NYC (on and off) since the mid-’90s, spent summers in Brooklyn since the ‘70s, went to my first summer camp in Vanderveer, used tokens/paper bus passes etc—I very much am a New Yorker but also would never say I’m “from” NY.

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

GILESSSSSSSSS NOOOOOO

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Anthony Head, best known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72

https://t.co/m8Wrtdmz7U

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

@PettyLupone I had no business emotionally belting this at 10 and yet

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

💯. I think not including that context is faulty

[Ronda Racha Penrice @rondaracha]

@KymABacker @LeftSentThis @NewBlackMan But it's still factual. ESPN should have said record held by Lew Alcindor now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. On one broadcast I am not sure the announcer even knew that Lew Alcindor is Kareem plus the person pronounced Alcindor wrong.

[Kym Allison Backer @KymABacker]

@rondaracha @LeftSentThis @NewBlackMan He’s not being called it “now.” This usage is specific to the moment in time it refers to and is pretty standard journalistic practice. It is admittedly a little disconcerting when it isn’t the name the person has been known by for this long.