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jamaican tyrant

[Jovanté A. @KingstonJancro]

An unapologetically queer novel that writes unapologetically in Jamaican creole. The “novel of the decade, if not the century thus far.” Shortlisted for The Booker.

How will Jamaica contend with The Disappearers when it embraces what the nation has yet to: our gays & our creole?

[Ruby @RVBYRVBY]

My ultimate sexual fantasy? Hmm…probably a clean home…a gym nearby…walkable city…a themed dinner party with my friends every month…a stable job

[n e s s a 🪷 @tayrussellsbtch]

realizing i’m actually getting smarter from the education i’m receiving and gaining knowledge

[IB Konteh @ibkontehja]

How do you look a family still sleeping under tarpaulin in St. Elizabeth, Westmoreland, Hanover or St. James in the eye and explain that only 1.8% of donated relief funds was spent, while millions go into a brand-new agency?

[khlo @khlo_alexandria]

we simply cannot go on like this

[KillaK @kantsak]

Honestly, if salary packages can, may and are being calculated comparable to international standards and salaries, then all salaries should be calculated in that way. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[my book is better than my tweets @MichellCClark]

there is something deeply unsettling about a society that keeps telling people to be more resilient while making the conditions of ordinary life progressively harder to withstand.

[🔱 The Petty King 🔱 🇯🇲 @Chappyofspadez]

Jamaica has one of the lowest wage structures in the region with 70% of workers earning below the income tax threshold. Yet our political class ranks among the highest-paid in the world. If you ask what tangible results they delivered to justify those salaries it's hard to find

[your favorite★ @THEZAYVO]

them AI flyers be looking a fucking mess please go back to hiring actual graphic designers.

[aster ✦ @mutibunnie]

this is really basic you guys all religions are misogynistic and patriarchal

[Red Rackham @gunnerbeeks]

Gov must be relieved people on Twitter are arguing with each other about water instead of demanding solutions from them.

[UN Women @UN_Women]

🚨 Rape culture doesn’t begin and end with an act of sexual violence.

It lives in the:

🔴 attitudes that excuse it
🔴 stereotypes that blame survivors
🔴 silence that protects perpetrators

There is #NoExcuse for abuse — or for the culture that lets rape culture persist.

[M-Jay🪅🍉 @Jamesoflife]

On the rape culture pyramid, objectification is literally at the trivialization stage. Reducing women’s worth to their sexual organs is how sexual violence is born so yes, they absolutely did it

[girlfaggot @d0ntblameprachi]

women are socialised to believe that the gravest sin they can commit is to inconvenience others and it is maddening to realise just how inconsiderate men are allowed to be

[onyekachi @honeycaki3]

electric toothbrushes were originally made for people with disabilities but now everyone uses them. the same with velcro, & even curb cuts, which were designed for wheelchair users, but now useful to cyclists & pram-pushing mothers. rights for a subgroup can end up benefiting all

[. @naledimashishi]

I’ve met more survivors than I can count and I’m the only one I know whose perpetrator went to jail. I think it’s because I knew “what to do”. I knew to get a rape kit asap without showering, brushing my teeth, or eating or drinking anything. I knew to put my dress in a paper bag

[nessa @nessacami_]

concrete jungle where 1k usd rent is made of 😍😍

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

The root cause of rape has always been power. It's not lust nor desire. It's power. The men who rape women do it because it gives them power over her, and that makes them feel good. That's why rape is a war crime, is tied to supremacist ideals, and is a big part of the patriarchy

[De$ 💫 @des10knee_]

Never understood why some schools think the hair block the knowledge from entering the pickney dem brain