Dra. Zuly E. Inirio

🇩🇴 Award-Winning Soprano | TEDx Speaker | Scholar | Cimarrona
🪘Founder of Afro-Latinx Song & Opera Project

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

There is no Latinidad without Blackness

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

I cannot take someone's scholarship seriously if they describe slavery in Latin America as an "acculturation process" #afrolatinartsong

[s. 🐥 @sabrinaahmed]

internalized racism, social climbing, perceived proximity to whiteness, misogyny/machismo, severe religious indoctrination

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

@kyara_kay @twinkywilliams @theericklouis Same

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

Please read this entire thread

[Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 @JeanJacquesDes7]

1. The Dominican Republic’s Presidential elections are on May 19th, 2024, & you are not a serious candidate if you are not anti-Haitian & Haiti is all you talk about. One can’t fully understand the politics of race in 🇩🇴 w/o knowing the story of José Francisco Peña Gomez.

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[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

With the Bad Bunny merch y todo.
😂😂😂

[Price. @megsevileye]

It is stuff like this they do which further proves all of @bad_dominicana's tweets right

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

@BlackCatrachoBK Listeeennnn….

[jaji @jajeezy_]

They look like Dominican cousins

[I'm not one of your lil friends @godiskeisha]

She made them swallow their condescending giggles and left them stuck on stupid.

[Andrew Viñales @fogoav]

The healthcare “crises” is a euphemism for colonial conditions that lead to the systemic neglect for adequate care for millions of people.

[Meech @MediumSizeMeech]

This BTS video of Zendaya being photographed by Annie Leibovitz just goes to show it’s not bad lighting, it’s a choice she makes editing in post to make black women look terrible

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

Yasssss!!!

[Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College @BMCAfricana]

The Africana Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College is thrilled to announce the establishment of the annual Miriam Jiménez Román Memorial Lecture in her memory in homage to the trailblazing legacy of Black Latinx scholarship and actvism. Stay tuned for our inaugural lecture!

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

@DiasporaDash Every time I encounter African folks, they assume I’m Somalian.

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

@globalhomeaux @arianawehr @ryandouglas0410 It actually proves the opposite

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Feels like society has moved beyond the need for April Fools

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

Last night’s use of #SayHerName by Marjorie Taylor Greene during the SOTU Address reflects a deeply offensive trend in right-wing politics – the intentionally misleading appropriation of justice-seeking demands from those who have historically been rendered voiceless.

[Patti LuPone de Replay @linluv5]

GUESS WHAT TIME IT ISSSS 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[Dra. Zuly E. Inirio @zulylein]

Thank you for making wearable art that is so affirming! ❤️

[Rhiannon Giddens @RhiannonGiddens]

You didn’t know you needed a #banjoauntie. Now you know.

[Afro-Dominicans 🇩🇴 @afrodominicans]

Esteban “Stephen” Hotesse | Dominican Tuskegee Airman 🇩🇴

🧵 *A THREAD* 🧵