decolonize

“America leads the world in shocks,
Unfortunately, America does not lead the world in deciphering the cause of shock.”

-Gil Scott-Heron

indeed!

“We sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons,
Dying over money and relying on religion.”

-Dead Prez #PoliceState (2000)

many thanks!

Y'all, Kevin is rad! He's also without housing, so maybe throw him what you can. Thanks!

Venmo and Cash app: UpsetTheSetup

@dec0l0nize.bsky.social

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#NeverForget

“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” -W.E.B. DuBois

most appreciated!!

Requesting Mutual Aid for a friend. @dec0l0nize.bsky.social is a Real One and he needs a hand. Spread the word and share what you can!

"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

-Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003)

appreciate you, friend!

"URGENT: COVID conscious parent, organizer, and educator in need of community funds to secure housing. This huge-hearted friend gives in full to the collective. Let's return the love with all we've got! Venmo/CashApp: $UpsetTheSetup " Below/surrounding the text pink and white cosmos grow up around a photo of a Black man with a beard smiling behind a Flo Mask with a decorative floral edge. He is wearing a blue sweatshirt with the hood layered over a hat and under an orange bike helmet.

Y'all know @dec0l0nize.bsky.social yet? You should. There aren't really words to describe how vital it is for folks to live according to their values in the committed and thorough way that he does. It's all for the collective. Please share and send what you can! ID below.

"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people they oppress...because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. you will take it."

-John Henrik Clarke

“Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.”― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

"The trauma of racism is, for the racist and the victim, the severe fragmentation of the self, and has always seemed to me a cause (not a symptom) of psychosis, strangely of no interest to psychiatry."

- Toni Morrison

“Without community, there is no liberation.”

-Audre Lorde

i’m down. i think i see a message from you via fb…

massive appreciation, amanda!!

If you've got 5 bucks, here's a fantastic place to put it! If you've got $500, hey, that's even better. Props to anyone keeping all of us safer by the simple act of wearing a good mask when there's no roof over that head. I see you. I hope others will as well.

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"We are citizens of the most powerful country on Earth — we are also citizens of a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth."

-Audre Lorde

screenshot of threads post: access.ecology 12m a Threads Y'all know @decolonize_ yet? You should. There aren't really words to describe how vital it is for folks to live according to their values in the committed and thorough way that he does. It's all for the collective. Our future depends on us all doing this and most aren't. It benefits us all in the obvious tangible ways but also, when you witness this intentionality and love pouring out of a human it strengthens you in the fight. Please share and send what you can! ID below.

massive appreciation for this, access.ecology (ig/threads)!

“URGENT: COVID conscious parent, organizer, and educator in need of community funds to secure housing. This huge-hearted friend gives in full to the collective. Let's return the love with all we've got! Venmo/CashApp: $UpsetTheSetup “ Below/surrounding the text pink and white cosmos grow up around a photo of a Black man with a beard smiling behind a Flo Mask with a decorative floral edge. He is wearing a blue sweatshirt with the hood layered over a hat and under an orange bike helmet.

a friend created this for me and any sharing of the funds and post would be helpful and appreciated!

"Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education"

-Julian Bond

covid denialism is more insidious and arguably more damaging than climate crisis denial given how widespread the ideology and practices are (i.e. anti-maskers and those who no longer wear masks are effectively the same). furthermore environmental diseases alone are concerning!

“The existence of a privileged class is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the state.”

-Sam Mbah, African Anarchism: The History of a Movement

“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”

― James Baldwin

it screams volumes about how entrenched anti-intellectualism (anti-science) is in this society when climate crisis deniers have been entirely eclipsed by covid and other airborne virus deniers/minimizers. the former is more fringe, whereas the latter is completely mainstream.

“Young men need to be socialized in such a way that rape is as unthinkable to them as cannibalism.”

-Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

decolonize (@dec0l0nize) Word! Unmitigated viruses disproportionately impacting Black folks didn’t start with COVID. “They seemed to regard the outbreak among freed people as a ‘natural outcome’ of emancipation, which only ...

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“This ‘white race’ designation is a contrived super-nationality designed to inflate the social importance of European ethnics and to enlist them as tools in the Capitalist system of exploitation.“

– Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin