Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Also in this issue:

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.

@keeanga.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It

Please join me this Thursday at noon EST for our second session of The Civic Forum. We'll have a discussion with
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:

It's a good thing there is nothing else happening in the world while we spend 3 days talking about the racisms of the NYT

UN Expert Exposes Dozens of Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide, Apartheid in Palestine Amazon, BlackRock, and Keller Williams LLC are some of the companies named in the report.

COMPLICIT:
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.

Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.

Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

A meme. In the first frame there is a T-Rex from Jurassic Park pictured with the words "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ZOHRAN MAMDANI." In the second frame there is an image of Barney the Dinosaur shrugging along with text that reads "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING DONALD TRUMP."

True story.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

🤣

a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout

Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.

The thing is, even for what most (white) people take as their model of effective protest, contemporaneous polling showed that most white people still felt it was harmful to the cause. In other words, the finger-waggers will never approve of a protest, even if it remains nonviolent.

In The Straight State, Margot Canaday reveals how the government enforced sex & gender conformity & relegated gays to second-class citizenship.

For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.

press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.

"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."

inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

reading your book now!

1,800+ 'No Kings' Rallies Planned Across US as Trump Deploys Military to Crush Protests | Common Dreams Trump deploys National Guard to quell anti-ICE protests in LA. Protests planned to counter military parade on June 14.

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

Illegal aliens invaded America. The government of California aided and abetted that invasion. Violent mobs, incited by California leaders, attacked ICE officers to keep them from removing the invaders. California officials refused to send the police to rescue the ice officers, hoping the rioters would succeed in shutting down ICE raids. This is an organized insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.

🚨🚨ESCALATION: Stephen Miller has tweeted that there is an "organized insurrection" against the United States, at 2:26 PST.

This could mean Trump will formally invoke the Insurrection Act, which would legally allow him to deploy those Marines on LA streets (last done in 1992)

This is the spirit of Los Angeles.

This is California.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

LA Community Organizer Describes Hourslong Street Battles Against Border Patrol An activist who helped organize the protests said demonstrators successfully turned back immigration agents.

"Working people everywhere should see this as an attack on working-class people, and they should all unite in solidarity to repel these attacks against our community. And so, again, we’ve proven time and time again, when we organize ourselves, we can defend ourselves." -Ron Gochez, Unión del Barrio