Ide Amari Thompson

This is my Twitter for my writing people. So let’s connect my fellow word-wrights. 👏🏾🙌🏾

[Francisco Pérez @platanomics]

It has been surreal watching this debate over "viewpoint diversity" unfold while the heterodox economics dept I joined at Utah 4 years ago is being actively dismantled. American public universities aren't run by "woke" humanities professors but by state govts and major donors.

[Anielle Franco @aniellefranco]

Fabiana e Ieda passaram nove dias desaparecidas até serem encontradas mortas, enterradas em uma área de mata.

O Brasil continua sendo um país onde mulheres são assassinadas todos os dias. E quando essas mulheres são lésbicas, o silêncio e a invisibilidade também fazem parte da violência. Fabiana e Ieda não podem ser apenas mais um caso.

Este crime de lesbofobia precisa ser investigado com seriedade, porque combater crimes de ódio também é responsabilidade do Estado. Justiça não pode ser seletiva.

Queremos respostas, responsabilização e o direito de existir sem medo!

[ndn sailor pluto 🦋🪬 @mumjeanzz]

Makes me think of how in any severe ecological emergency they’d leave people to die in prisons too. This system reveres in avoidable death, direct murder of living beings, and mass suffering.

[self @avoidkoolaid]

Katie Peterson

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

The transformation of Wired into a genuinely invaluable source of journalism on contemporary techno-fascism is one of the great enduring achievements of "Woke 1.0"

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Folks, as you know I'm on the editorial board for Public Humanities (open access). I've helped things get published on Sudan, Palestine (by Palestinians, it's coming), anti-Blackness in academia & more. Here are some cfps

If you'd like to write something let me know. I got you.

[Luce Zim @lucezim]

Òrun Àiyé: a Criação do Mundo é uma animação sensacional. O filme baiano, dirigido por Jamile Coelho & Cintia Maria, mistura animação 2D e stop motion e aborda a criação do mundo e dos humanos de acordo com a cosmovisão iorubá.

[foxygen @foxypiano]

Prof. Saheed Aderinto

[Paige 🌹📕 - Oat/Almond @plushPetunias]

these are the conditions human beings could be kept in a few miles from your home and you'd never know

[Stephanie Williams @itsstephwill]

Every time Danielle A. Scruggs searched for Black women film directors, she came up with the same few names. So she spent the next 11 years building one of the largest digital archives of Black women and nonbinary directors. My interview: https://t.co/MDchK309wV

[A.J. Bauer @ajbauer]

I wish critics of "scholar activism" would read this closely and sit with Hall's argument and its implications for our present moment.

https://t.co/Mtc4JhCWXp

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

“the nights are unending”

Angst, Hélène Cixous; tr. Sophie Lewis

[HAD @havehadhavehad]

"Still, I sat there for an hour, as if regret could arrive late and find me waiting."

today from Jonna Kihlman!

https://t.co/FSl3qs9e6O

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Our revolutionary sister, Denise Oliver-Velez, has passed away. She was a Bronx-raised activist who served in the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party—her writing and work as an anthropology and women's studies professor left a lasting mark. May she rest in power.

[David AttenBruh @AlHendiify]

“Humans caused this” no. humans have lived alongside and even grew ecosystems for hundreds of thousands of years. What has caused this is European-driven and influenced settler-colonialism and mass industrialization. There’s no way around that.

[mad tsai @MadTsai]

parasites in our vegetables, data centers poisoning the water, flock cameras being built on every block, ICE agents killing people left and right… fuck donald trump and anyone who voted for him

[The King In Yellow @timeisaflat0]

I believe the Black Panther Party was correct. The police should face potentially deadly community defense in every single encounter they have with the citizenry. They should be surrounded by citizens with guns and body armor. Their free reign needs to come to an end.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

A writing student asked me if it's okay to use AI to "structure" his ideas—not to "write" but "just to "structure."

Very gently, but with all the passion in my heart, I said, "No."

And then I spoke with him about why:

Structuring a piece of writing *is* writing. Imagine if whatever made the Universe had said, "I just need something else to structure all this stuff."

The act of structuring, of finding forms—whether it takes hours of inspiration or years of study (and it takes both)—is the unique chance to find out who you are, why you create, and what creation is.

Don't take that away from yourself. If you do, soon there will be nothing in you—nothing unique, nothing ancient, nothing new—to structure at all.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

lindsey graham was a warmongering psychopath who devoted his life to ensuring the murder of as many brown children as possible. we deserve an opposition party that prioritizes that aspect of his legacy over the fact that they were travel buddies