Notices by Andrea is wearing a kufi (thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io)

finding out ppl apparently hate bubbly black girls makes so many things from my younger years make so much more sense

also: stop it-- get some help

I unmuted just to see something and...Trying to differentiate the n slur with "American vs English cultural history" is actually hilarious because who the fuck invented the word in the first place?

I swear you Europeans got some jolly good gotdamn nerve.

You can't even offer the basic grace of acknowledging the use of the word was harmful until you are shamed into it.

This is why I muted your ass, because there is literally no point in talking to you except to drain myself.

Happy US Black History Month! In my humble opinion the best way to celebrate us is to pay us. It's time for a #ReparationsThread babee ☺️

Black folks (across the diaspora!!) reply with your cash app, venmo, ko-fi, fedi fund ask, GoFundMe, etc if you like.

Others boost and donate!

eta: quite a few responses in the thread today! pls take a minute to look through and donate within your means.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BLM #BlackLivesMatter

****Pls boost****

Hey!!

Is anyone on here a Black birth worker or know one?

For my research, I am seeking to interview as many Black midwives (and other Blk birth workers, but midwifery is the central focus) as possible and get connected to birthing centers employing Black birth workers, esp. in the US South.

If you are/someone you know is interested, pls DM me! Thanks for reading!

*pls boost!!*

#BlackStudies #ReproductiveJustice #BlackWomen #BlackBirthingPeople #Midwifery #Doulas #BirthWork #MedicalAnthro

Also: the #SayHerName hashtag is for BLACK WOMEN. If you have a problem with that, I really don't care.

Black women's labor has been essential to just about every socio-political movement in this country's history, yet y'all constantly erase us. For you to feel entitled to co-opt yet another product of our labor designed to alleviate the deliberate erasure of us in order to center those with more privilege is nasty work and just another symptom of white supremacist delusion.

Support AshleyCae Lee through stage 4 leukemia. She is from Flint, MI and has endured medical racism:

"I unfortunately will be a #SayHerName statistic due to medical neglect and medical violence. Whether it’s purposely dismissing my pain or physically harming me to the point of tears, then laughing after. The insurance refusing to cover life-saving medication because my life is not worth anything to them. It is honestly terrifying."

https://gofund.me/9a066feae

*pls boost*

my fellow americans, voluntary and otherwise, I am once again asking us to be for fucking real.

as residents of metropole, we live in the belly of a beast: it is not only our uniquely situated opportunity, but also our obligation to dismantle the oppressive violence systems upheld by our country

join a collective/coalition
contribute to needs asks and mutual aid
be brave enough to challenge the system out loud when it counts
(as a start)

"Disabled Creators To Buy From This Holiday Season 2025 Organized by Alexis Neumann who runs @Disabled.Artists If you find this list helpful, please share about it, tell the creators you buy from, and/or consider making a small donation to Disabled.Artists..."

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8TLnqoh5hwGehrI6wKeSBlngph8fI11TWjWfy70CqI/edit?tab=t.0

#art #DisabledArtists

the burden of fedi's whiteness should fall upon white shoulders.

but y'all make it everyone else's problem by avoiding the types of conversations that many of us have had to have since childhood--

then you have the nerve to act all high horse when other mainstream platforms show their oppressive hands as if you have not contributed to an equally inhospitable space, going so far as to ss the very ppl you chased off of this platform when they complain about others and going "i told you so"

/x

In search of a positive racial trauma response that is not labor-centered.

I don't know atp how many times I've read some variation of this: white/non-black person tells black person they're worthless bc they're black; black person then creates a new academic field and/or important creations/inventions and/or becomes an amazing educator and cites the trauma as one of their central motivations.

I'm tired. I don't want to work harder every time I face racial trauma. Doesn't make much sense

a misanthropic white man? groundbreaking

just some more thoughts on this. I have encountered many men, especially white ones, who have claimed some variation of "humanity sucks irreparably." Which is so very interesting, because our society writ large is constantly centering white men and capitulating to their needs, wants, and fragility.

yet you mfers are not satisfied and humanity sucks, in your eyes

not to say that i've never encountered women and/or poc with similar misanthropic views but ime the number is much lower. 1/2

@juergen_hubert @inkorrupt @endorama rather bold of someone who doesn't even know how many black servers there already are in this piece to be prescriptive over what Black people ought to do to avoid racism on this site. Precisely the type of thinking which is why there are so few people here on the first place. Spend more time listening and less time saying corny inappropriate shit like "refugees welcome :)" and coming off like the typical arrogant white men who make this place insufferable

Jimmy Kimmel Only Got His Job Back Because He is a White Man

-Shayna Conde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8dmAYgscyQ

"What happens to the most marginalized of us will eventually happen to all of us."

Fascism is just colonialism at home. Who's been living that reality this whole time--before Trump was ever even thought of? Hm?

I think some of you are in love with hierarchy. That's why you're so willing to let others suffer so you can be comfortable again.

(1/?) I think it's important to note that among the Smithsonian Institutions that the authoritarians have a problem with, it is specifically the #NationalMuseumofAfricanAmericanHistoryandCulture (NMAAHC).

Mostly just that one. Most of the other SI museums hold up narratives of white supremacy just fine. You don't see them decrying the #NationalMuseumofNaturalHistory as "woke."

If you want to support the Smithsonian during this time, it is imperative that you be specific.

(2/?) Having had personal experience working at the #NMNH and its museum support center, I can tell you that it is very much anti-Black and I have a whole documented saga wherein I am attempting to demand accountability from the white men in NMNH's anthropology department whose actions directly harmed me.

I will also say that when I visited the #NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian, I witnessed white people speaking over and even interrupting Indigenous people during our tour.

I am grateful for ppl like Merlin and others who did threads in my absence. For these last days of August I would like to put forward a #BlackAugust reparations thread geared toward supporting Black folks who use this platform. You may know in the current authoritarian presidential administration in the US, Black people and especially Black women have borne the brunt of job loss and job insecurity. It is, as our elders have said, a condition of being "the last hired and the first fired." (2/3)

It's been a long year, y'all. Earlier I wanted to and announced I would start another Juneteenth reparations thread, but, well, I was all but burnt out. I can't say that I'm back at 100% now, and I will likely never return to posting on this account with the frequency or amount of commentary that I have done in the past BUT acknowledging that there's a good number of followers on here, I still want to leverage that to help solidify mutual aid opportunities on this platform. (1/3)