Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ The excellence in this statement 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ YOOOOOOOOOOO 🤭😭😭🤭🤭🤭 YOU LOVE TO SEE IT

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Our third-six pupil, Ife Thompson (Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭) is speaking at Public Law Project's anti-discrimination conference #PublicLawDisco2024 in their breakout room on #ProtestRights , police behaviours and criminalisation.

IFA!

Mequissa Magloire Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ Ifeolúwapò. Powerful!! I love Yoruba names! 🥹

This generation of BADDIES are killing it!! ~Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ 💪🏿🫶🏿👏🏿✊🏿

Always so proud of you Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ 👑

At the UN forum, I also met the Queen Mother of Harlem ( Delois Blakely). She is an 82-year-old Organiser who reminded us she has been doing this for 40 years and that when it comes to reparations they need to cut the checkkkk. Much love and respect to our Elders always ❤️

It’s incredible to see Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ out here advocating on behalf of all of us who have seen the erasure of our languages and condemnation of creole and Afro-diasporic words (I’d add “woke” in there). Phenomenal work, Ife!

Today is the last day of the UN Permanent Forum for People of African Descent. You can watch last session live here at 2pm: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k12/k…

When I discuss AAVE as a language I point out that there is a country of 9.2 million people called Belarus where the people speak Belarusian. Belarusian is mutually intelligible with both Russia and Ukrainian. Ukrainian is also mutually intelligible with Russian…

Sierra Leone is literally the blueprint for advocating to legitimize languages like these 🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ They be trynna say that about Gullah Geechee too. The main difference between a language and a dialect is a political. Mix bag of language, identity, and racial power dynamics

Also more of us need to be at the next UN Permanent Forum for people of African Descent. It is open to us all so you just need to register. This is the link to the Forum’s website sign up to mailing list too : ohchr.org/en/permanent-f…

Duchess of Brixton🇯🇲🇳🇬 ☭ So amazing to see, love! God can clearly trust you with this territory! More, IJN!!!

Even in white man's paperwork (mainstream linguistic consensus) the line between dialect vs lect vs language is blurred and nobody agrees, but both of these are mostly talked about as languages. That's not even controversial.

a language is a dialect with an army and navy - Max Weinreich

Also I only showed a snippet of all the vast amazing speeches at the UN Forum. You can watch all the sessions that took place this week here : webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1m/k…

All my Twitter family you have all been so cute and supportive of my lewks, my UN speech and my celebration of the African Diaspora at the UN forum. You all are the best thank you for love, encouragement and support. 😭🥰❤️✊🏾