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Reem’s family lost everything in Gaza. They need food and shelter. Your help saves lives. Support our family to find safety and rebuild our lives

@dancingkelsey.bsky.social
Hi, every day’s a struggle — hunger, thirst, fear. Please help us hold on. 🫂 We sold everything for food. Now we have nothing — just this plea.
We may never meet, but your kindness changed our lives. 🩵
https://kutt.it/HelpReem4kkb

“Well you have to pay em to contribute to wealth inequality because white people only listen to whites and the POC don’t have experiences or competencies we want”

“Teehee”

Mind you most of those positions are summarizing the work of POC

Very much this

With an addendum of

The America we had led to this one and unless we acknowledge it. This one comes back in less than ten years even if we do win all the elections

I cry blood when I see my daughter, Misk, without a carton of milk.😭

I cry blood for her dry lips and her hungry tears.

I cry blood because her scream is louder than my strength...

and my pain is deeper than the world's silence.😔

gofund.me/36163bc9

palmitagem is a Black brazilian concept about Black ppl who date crackers and some ppl exapnd the concept to Black ppl who priorize whites and whiteness in general.

there is no equivalent word in other languages so i started using it in all the languages i speak, get into it!

palmiteiro/a/e

of course it is not about romantic love only, but i mention it specifically, because the propaganda is strongest when it comes to that. that's why you have ppl who are very critical in many ways, but refuse to look critically at who they desire. palmiteiro 'radical' academics are a good example

for #Blacksky

da’shaun is spittin'!

been talking about this topic with Black friends, fellow Black organizers and community members. an important part of dismantling internalized white supremacy is unlearning the propaganda around the importance of romantic love, which is pushed on us SO MUCH!

Today’s quick update [Aug 4]:

- Sudan Doctors Network: 5 civilians injured following SAF shelling on RSF positions in Abu Ga’ood, North Kordofan.

- UNICEF: over 640,000 children at risk of cholera in North Darfur; in Tawila, 1,180 cases reported, 20 deaths.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

🚨😭An appeal for 1,300 shekels (about $350) to purchase potable water for the camp, amid daily water shortages. Any support makes a huge difference. #Gaza #Camps🙏😭
gofund.me/40413acc

🚨Help us!
Taj was born during the war.
I was shot in the head when I was five months pregnant. She is now eight months pregnant.
She needs proper nutrition; she has no food or milk.
A carton of milk costs $150
😭 Please donation link and share my story 🥺🙏

gofund.me/5a204a85

I regularly had the hell beat out of me by my alcoholic dad & I'm a Fulbright scholar whose novel was a finalist for the John P. Leonard Prize for best first book from the National Book Critics Circle, I also have a masters in philosophy & am a member of Phi Beta Kappa & am extremely fucked up.

US families shoulder nearly $350B in annual costs tied to incarceration, report finds • Stateline U.S. families lose nearly $350 billion each year due to the incarceration of a loved one in jail or prison, according to a recent report from the criminal justice advocacy group FWD.us. The estimate…

"U.S. families lose nearly $350 billion each year due to the incarceration of a loved one in jail or prison."

"The estimate includes both direct expenses and long-term losses in household income."
#USA #Incarceration

i love Black ppl

the most ridiculous and traumatic shit happens and we got jokes

and community

Inshallah

Today, Kinda looked at me with teary eyes and said, “Daddy, I’m hungry.”
I had nothing to give her… I just held her as my heart broke.
What father can bear to see his little girl suffer like this?
Please help me feed Kinda. Don’t leave us alone. 💔
gofund.me/edd687b8

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement A moral reckoning.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually…

Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.

Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.

(Published Aug. 2024)

gofund.me/4d8d741d

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i'd recommend checking out this podcast they co-host and of course their book as well if u haven't read it yet. it is short and clear cut

bsky.app/profile/axme...

YouTube video by Olay & Friends Debating the Boycotts | OLAY & FRIENDS

s/o to Leslie, Da'Shaun & Portia

go check out this conversation in regards to the boycott conversations.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC-Y...

BMI is based on anti-Black race science....would highly recommend Da'Shaun L. Harrison
's incredible work....here are passages from their book 'Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness'

they have also spoken about this on many podcasts, if u prefer that medium

Anti-fatness as anti-blackness: Violence at home, violence abroad Anti-fatness is anti-blackness. In this way, fatness, as with blackness, is always and already criminalized, penalized, objectified, and marginalized

preparedness are all built.

Da'Shaun L. Harrison

Anti-fatness as anti-blackness: Violence at home, violence abroad:

Anti-fatness is anti-blackness. In this way, fatness, as with blackness, is always and already criminalized, penalized, objectified, and marginalized

‎Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back: Un/touchable on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back, Ep Un/touchable - 18 Jun 2023

Go listen to 'Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back' by Jordan, Mikey, Da'Shaun, Caleb & @blackqueeriroh.bsky.social

listened to this ep today & it was really great! i'm looking forward to going back to older eps.

i found out through Da'Shaun who's book 'Belly of the Beast' is extremely important read!

quei was extremely off-putting. i went to her IG and she was laughing about it and saying we didn’t get her humor, but she wasn’t taking well to our calling in saying she was mean to da’shaun, so her points were lost & so were some of da’shaun’s points. BUT i’m more interested in hearing da’shaun!

offline and talked more and that Laverne now has their book 🖤

i have heard this from other folks as well, which made me hesitant to watch the full video......but i am planning to watch it with other Black trans and queer folks, while skipping the bs, cuz i am told there was a lot of that between the good points made.

da'shaun said they talked with Laverne

i really hate that they didn’t get to spend as much time talking about this cuz they was spittin!