Black audiences are the only audiences who know how to behave in a theatre. I am tired of polite applause and hushed whispers from these old white audiences. tell me what you think in real time about EVERYTHING.
hello friends, request for help coming:
I have a friend, Kelly, she’s been without housing for a minute and sleeps/hangs out around the AU metro stop in Tenleytown. Very cool lady, we sit and chat when I’m around that part of town, and recently she told me she finally (2 yrs) —
Ain’t no party like an HBCU party, cus an HBCU party just don’t stop! Join this talented group of HBCU students & alumni as they share their love for theatre. Feat. Broadway hits and songs by Beyoncé, John Legend, & more. You won't want to miss this! https://t.co/NbbgySSscx
The Israeli military is in PR damage control mode as the genocode case before the ICJ approaches. This is like cramming for an exam at the last minute after spending the last 3 months laying on a beach, except instead of laying on a beach, they were committing genocide.
The latent, but not particularly hidden, message is that disabled folks' value is treated as conditional. Their importance is limited to their ability to vote and support political power. It's a one-sided, exploitative, dehumanizing, & manipulative relationship.
tell me you know nothing about civil disobedience as a political tactic without telling me you know nothing about civil disobedience as a political tactic
I've become convinced this is a psyop. No one could be stupid enough to think that making you miss a flight is a way to convert you to a political cause
This week, I saw someone get angry because they confused Christmas lights for the Palestinian flag, because a school cafeteria didn’t call couscous Israeli, and someone called a drawing of a child throwing a rock “murderous violence.” All while Palestinians are being slaughtered.
Chilling display in Guernica.
In 1937, the Nazis bombed this village on behalf of Franco’s Spanish Nationalists, who saw it as a center for the resistance against fascism.
86 years later, descendants of that horror express solidarity with Palestinians
You know who can talk to you about Black Jewish solidarity in ways that non-Black Jewish and non-jewish Black people cannot? BLACK JEWS. Black Jews are RIGHT HERE. We have been here. I, personally, am sick of people erasing our existence entirely or using us as gotchas/pawns.