My friend, a Black woman w/ natural hair, is fighting back tears in her law classroom RIGHT NOW bc when she raised her hand the presenter pointed 2 her & said "the girl w/ the mop on her head." It's taking evrythng in me not 2 go beat the shit out of him & the laughing classmates

Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up. I've been watching my boys' online behavior & noticed that social media and vloggers are actively laying groundwork in white teens to turn them into alt-right/white supremacists. Here's how:

When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy. 1/

Instead of attempting empathy of strangers (impossible imho), we can practice anonymising ourselves. When we read statistics, stop from thinking of those numbers as ‘others’ and reminding ourselves we are statistic to someone else, unimmune and mortal. Humbling and necessary.

My cousins friend contracted COVID-19. A black woman. She’s 24 years old. Has been struggling to recover. When they called for an ambulance, they told her family that if she turns blue in the face they should call back. Black people do not turn blue in the face.

Defunding the police sounds radical until you realize realize we’ve been defunding education for years.

let's talk about the many ways men are complicit in sexual abuse: a) you remain friends with known rapists. people who have been exposed or you yourself have seen being predatory. b) your first instinct is to discredit whenever you see a sexual abuse story.

Master thread

As we celebrate Juneteenth today, I make space for jubilations, but also grieve for the freed people who didn’t know they’d been free for two whole months, & were kicked off the plantations w nothing to their name but freedom, & had to navigate a new world w/ no resources.

TW: Rape, police retaliation In June, Norman, OK cut the police dept. budget by $865,000. In retaliation, an NPD officer doxxed a female city council member, to "teach her a lesson". On Saturday, her duplex was broken in to & her neighbor—mistaken as her—was brutally raped.

I continue to hear this narrative that we should not support Senator Harris because she was a prosecutor and she was tough on crime. As someone who was raped at the age of 5 and whose sister was murdered at the age of 19; I tend to support prosecutors who put monsters away. 1/20

Lauryn Hill's daughter got on iG and spoke about her relationship with her mother, the absence of her father, growing up watching her mother cry over her father, the way her mama used to beat her with a belt -- basically everything.

Nina Simone Meshell Ndegeocello My Mom and aunts and grandmother.

Republican Congressmen on the news: WHY ARE ALL THESE CHICKENS COMING HOME?!

@rmayemsinger From 2017. "More than 180 disability activists were arrested yesterday protesting the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare

I'm gonna need the national media to stop doing 'people don't want to work' stories and do more 'company got PPP money, gave it to shareholders, to officers as bonuses and still cut workers' jobs' stories.

My grandpa just died at 102. How did he react to me telling him I'm transgender? 🧵

Most people don’t have a concept of how easy it is to be wrong with key aspects of your worldview. If you look over the course of history the most basic assumptions tend to be completely wrong when tested. Read a history of science and one paradigm always replaces another. That