ANGELA STERRITT

Finding Closure, Fifty Years after a Murder

https://thewalrus.ca/finding-closure-fifty-years-after-a-murder/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-thewalrus&utm_content=later-36395300&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

Horse debate raises questions of anti-Indigenous bias in research

https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2023-07-07/horse-debate-raises-questions-of-anti-indigenous-bias-in-research

So I’m off Twitter now for safety but like other decisions I’ve had to make over the last year (read chapter 10 of my book Unbroken for deats) its meant some of our voices are suffocated again. I tried threads but it’s weird… & kind of hoping this or Spill can be the hope …but not too hopeful lol

Bring in Musk. It went from being called into the office (I was also told I could not block racists for years) once a week to deal with colleagues complaints and maybe 10 hate mails a day to hundreds a day & it became a lot more blunt (“Indians are savages” or “go become an mmiwg”for example)

It also provided a space to uphold Indigenous voices. But that was also met with scrutiny. When I did a thread about amazing Indigenous people, someone made a complaint to the national ethics board. So while Twitter was an incredibly empowering space, for many, it was also violent before musk.

…them, I asked Twitter what white people (by the way Im mostly white by blood) what to call them, thousands replied that white was the right term (and those who attempted to disapline me for using the words apologized).

Twitter was also a way to have conversations and a critical analysis about racism and show those (mostly white) journalists and leaders that our (often very marginalized and very few) voices in the newsroom mattered. For example, when I was told by leaders not to use the word white to describe ….

So on top of the, in many ways extreme, white supremacist hate we’d receive on Twitter, we also experienced trolling by our own. But I stayed because Twitter was also a way for us to demonstrate that the public had a huge appetite for our stories and our non-white lens.

For years journalist (mostly men & 99.9% white)used HR as a weapon to overscrutinize me & other outspoken BIPOC journalists. It started to lesson when we started to talk to each other & speak out. Most if not all the complaints were in the realm of us not being objective by way of just being BIPOC.

AFN wants to get back to business
Sounds about right

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-chiefs-response-archibald-video-1.6900543

No but I’m smart

Oh shi Threads is taking off

Twitter exodus has begun

https://fudzilla.com/news/57192-twitter-exodus-has-begun

Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/05/twitter-elon-musk-verge-of-collapse

I made my hotel room culturally safe

Interested to see the content that garnered the most hate on Twitter? At the end I was getting up to 40 hate tweets a day. (Some death threats). This photo accumulated about 600 hate tweets.

Still slightly surprised #UNBROKEN is on the bestseller lists for a 4th week!

https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/international-30-bestselling-books-of-the-week-for-july-1

Bluesky jankiness is like a newborn elephant trying to walk for the first time. Twitter jankiness is like an adult elephant stumbling in its death throes after being shot 42 times.

Lmaooo. I need to prepare myself for my own self on here lol

Just realized this is the only social media platform that my parents, bosses and lover are not on yet. 😉

Also a great question. Where is the it is all going to shit gif button 😆

Does anyone have a prediction/intel when news outlets will remove the bird sharing button?

Loved ones still waiting for task force to investigate MMIWG cases

https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/2MAuCLP22TG0Yqki1nU5v?domain=google.com

Happy to announce none of the journalists i soft blocked on Twitter are here…yet 😆

Hi Bluesky! Our first post is announcing a new Investigative Series from PressProgress:

Merchants in the Temple: How an Anti-LGBTQ Religious Sect Wields Money & Power in Canada.

Part 1 is out now: pressprogress.ca

Must be a journalist 😆

Having 15,000 followers on Tw*tter but 20 (?) on here makes me feel like a cab driver who was a doctor in their home country that got politically destabilized by the CIA.

Me on Twitter vs me on non Twitter