Elizabeth

I heartily second this motion

To trace the production of racial regimes historically and situate them within their social context, then, 'threatens their authority and ... saps their vitality, undermining their founding myths? As I shall return to through the course of this book, racial regimes are ultimately 'unstable truth systems' that 'may "collapse" under the weight of their own artifices, practices and apparatuses?32 They therefore 'tend to wear thin over time, requiring considerable effort by interested cultural and social powers' to ensure their invention, dissemination and maintenance. 33 Since so much effort is required to keep alive what are obvious fictions, when stripped back, rarely whiteness and its are racial regimes completely reinvented. Rather, 'regime maintenance takes precedence over wholesale reconstruction 34 Robinson focuses on the racial regime which was central to the building white supremacy demonstrates that, despite appearances to the contrary, the world has not exited a racial regime where whiteness, reproduced through capitalism and ongoing forms of imperialism has been superseded. Racial regime...... of US American national identity around 'a new whiteness. The ways in which whiteness is partially detached from actual white bodies and integrated into a politics and a consequent individ- ual consciousness beyond the 'west' signals the adaptive nature of the racial regime. This whiteness, which always already implies supremacism, is recalibrated in various ways over time, eventually becoming attached to what Dylan Rodriguez calls 'multicultural-ist white supremacy?

Think of Vance publicly demanding his wife to convert to Christianity through how whiteness ‘always already implies supremacism'(Lentin), part of ‘multiculturalist white supremacy’ (Rodriguez).
Usha V is no victim though. She’s an enabler of the white supremacist project that has turned against her.

Remember that ceasefire everyone praised Trump for securing between Israel & Gaza?

Netanyahu just massacred 104 Palestinian civilians, including 46 children, on the mere accusation that Hamas handed over the 'wrong' corpse

HE MASSACRED 46 CHILDREN & I doubt you've heard one media outlet mention it

Access to the BBC'S written archives is a major part of what makes UK broadcasting history such a rich and exciting topic.

Sign this letter and push back against the WAC's dubious decision.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

-- James Baldwin

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Legend

A long, short-legged dog crouches between lines of text in an unknown manuscript. The image has been edited to remove an overlay from the bottom right and the edges have been blurred.

This little guy looks so much like a dachshund he needed to be shared on International Dachshund Day (the longest day of the year, get it?)

I love the term good trouble

Lovecraft works for me every time.

This is hideous. And close to inexplicable unless Trump is doing what Putin tells him to.

“No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much.” Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough.”
– Bell Hooks

#authors #booksky #writingcommunity

Elon and Trump mugging out of a tesla

A bear about to suck a guys dick

30 years ago I volunteered as a clinic escort in Buffalo, NY and most of the ‘regulars’ were grey-haired granny aged liberal women who put their bodies on the line in the dead of winter. I’m 51 now and still view them as my role model for activism. These women are fulfilling the tradition.

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

If you or people you know, are having difficulty understanding why Ukraine is "our problem," here's a visual. And also, defending innocent lives from hostile takeovers should be a sufficient reason alone.

Eric got it…

Even if you don't indulge in Valentine's Day, I have a little something for all my blue crayons on BlueSky!

#ValentinesDay 💖

Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.

❤️

Will there be a recording available afterwards if we cant make the time?

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David Lynch: “If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.” Photo: With John Waters in front of Bob's Big Boy where Lynch used to "sugar up" story ideas.
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David Lynch will be our strange guardian angel and the world will get well again

We’ve lost a giant 💔

Thankful for Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social -Disabled, elderly & poor face a different reality during natural disasters. Check out suggestions for positive actions to help disabled increase access, safety & choices during a crisis. We shouldn’t be leaving the disabled behind.

A black-and-white document reading "Labourer" and "Strumpet."

I was searching for a burial record and came across one for an 'illegitimate' child who was baptised in Cowbridge.

While the vicar has recorded the father's occupation as 'Labourer', the vicar recorded the mother's occupation as "Strumpet." 👀

#Wales #History

I've just seen someone complaining about a 1921 Census record written in Welsh for someone who lived in Wales.