Ainsley LeSure

Political Theorist, Critical Race and Feminist Cultural Critic, Scholar

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Millionaires call on governments worldwide to ‘tax us now’ https://t.co/BSr10yXxvW

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Heartbroken 💔

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Charles Mills, my mentor, my dear friend, just passed away a few minutes ago. I would not be who I am without his generous, nurturing presence. RIP Charles. You are dearly loved. I will carry and communicate your insights in my writings, to my students for as long as I'm here

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@RaceEthnicity @MeghanWilson Thank you!!! Brown has been a gift to me as well!

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via @NYTimes https://t.co/r2U7MovA8f

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via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/ce2vVqvmlU

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via @NYTimes https://t.co/Oaaf5RFq4v

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Georgia's governor signed 'Jim Crow' voting bill under painting of a slave plantation https://t.co/egjtRxloUK

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Threats to US voting rights have grown – what's different about this moment? https://t.co/aGq6cqxi53

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Warnock urges Biden to prioritize fight against voter suppression https://t.co/MKL0hlLslS

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@bonnie_honig @rtraister @marthasjones_ @libankerDC @FordhamPress Exciting! Waiting for mine to arrive.

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@viamarginalpod @Samantharhill @Roger_Berkowitz @the_stardust @SapucaiaMonica @r_nagamine @danieltperes @PaulaZsb @conceptualgc @ludmylafranca Excellent!

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I’ll be talking about Arendt, the white mob and racism today!

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@RoyTsaoNYC My comment was directed at the first part of your claim where you exclude a voters’ choice, no matter who they chose, as a candidate for shame or blame. I don’t agree with that.

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@RoyTsaoNYC I’m here to shame Trump voters all day every day. I don’t see anything wrong with a little shame and blame. Always hated that phrase, as if the one doing the shame was wrong. No, the one who did the shameful thing is wrong!

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@shulman_george I agree myth need not be in violation of reality, but I would say mythology central to racism regularly violates and shapes reality for its ends.

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Racism is not about being seized by false beliefs, it’s about accessing an essential prerogative of racial domination, myth-making.

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@shulman_george We need an offline exchange to sort through this, George! I’m working through Moten now for the final chapters of the book. Much more interesting to me these days is reality, not myth, as a tool of resistance and world-making.

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@shulman_george Also racism is practice (Ture and Hamilton).

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@shulman_george I mean it more like the old pejorative sense (shored up w/a reading of Fanon in critical convo w/Merleau-Ponty). And yes, something that racial dominators have greater access to due to the accumulative, material shaping impact of their meaning-making practices over time.

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@MRogers097 Yes to ALL of this!!!