Notices by Andrea is resting (thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io), page 4

@Adam_Cadmon1 this person/those people care more about the spectacle of activism than the safety of the young people putting their bodies on the line.

As someone who has been to many protests, we generally distrust those who would encourage others to fight police as individuals especially w/o any consideration of whether certain ppl's ids make them more vulnerable to police brutality.

V easy to say stuff like that when you are a bad actor/not planning in the least to get out there yourself

@MisuseCase @Adam_Cadmon1 yes yes yes like people really do not seem to appreciate the strategy, planning, and communication that goes into these actions. Kinda seems like they just wanna see a photo of a cop getting hurt or something; no concern whatsoever really for the person who does that or their safety

Some of you on here invoke Black people or Black experiences, not for their own sake, but as supporting evidence, or as some sort of discursive gotcha, or as rhetorical devices to do the heavy lifting in your arguments.

It is dehumanizing and often ahistorical.

Black people are not your tools.

Texas state troopers have been called in (by UT's president? Not sure) for a pro-Palestine student-led protest at UT Austin. There's at least one helicopter flying over campus

Absolutely maddening that
a university with a 40 BILLION dollar endowment (oil money, I think) bends at the knee to an oppressive state government leaving dozens abruptly unemployed and hundreds of students with less support, while using the obfuscating language of "reorganization."

Wild that colleges are cool with the KKK and confederate flags on campus but not with students expressing solidarity with people experiencing a genocide, and that conservatives are constantly bemoaning their right to free speech when they are in fact the ones curtailing it for others.

I'm going to an action this week (I consider this the bare minimum). If you're an American academic I hope you are too.

Like at this point if you are involved with an R1 school and you don't know of any political actions happening then you are too disconnected from the material realities of the minds you supposedly enrich.

Being unconcerned at this point is ivory tower-type behavior and that is not something to be proud of.

Ida B. Wells might tell me that I went in the wrong direction for school, that I should've gone up north.

Well as it turns out the north ain't looking too good either (and never really has, if we're being real)

I also want to be clear, as a disabled person, that physically attending protests and rallies is not the only way you can help and in fact we require people who do other things!

You can be a sign-maker, a phone-banker, a ride-organizer, a mutual-aid facilitor, a meal-bringer, or something else entirely. There are so many ways to show up.

96 bullets in 41 seconds.

Edit: even worse.

My cat rolls over in bed, showing me his belly. I give him pets while trying not to think about 96 bullets in 41 seconds.

96 bullets in 41 seconds reminds me that we were never meant to survive here.

All day today (and tomorrow, and the next day) I will try to go about, interacting with people, doing my job. I will be thinking about the 96 bullets in 41 seconds.

I cannot fathom the pain and horror to suffer 96 bullets in 41 seconds.

I hope that I may learn more things about Dexter Reed besides the 96 bullets in 41 seconds.

I hope that his mother will be able to grieve in peace. I pray for her healing. I can only imagine the anguish she is enduring as the ones who killed her son stand on his grave to justify and give reasons for 96 bullets in 41 seconds.

How much compounded grief will we endure until we decide enough is enough? I believe the day is sooner than we might think.

@tillshadeisgone very true. I am caught between wanting to protect the pacifiers because they are being threatened by the fascists and wanting to throw the pacifier away bc of its inherently conciliatory yet non-changemaking nature

But also I don't think unions are a good substitute for DEI as I've seen some claim here. That reminds me of obnoxious leftists who've never touched critical theory who say shit like "it's class, not race" 🤡

Our conversations about DEI need more nuance. In some spaces (like my former workplace) it was not taken up in good faith but put together quickly and thoughtlessly. It was raggedy and exploitative for marginalized workers (you know, the ones DEI is supposed to benefit?) who bore the brunt of emotional and intellectual labor while being hamstrung by administration and unable to do anything that was actually helpful. My experience working DEI was stressful and exhausting. However--

In places where DEI has been taken up in good faith, it's been helpful to make the space safer. This is more nuance what I've said about DEI in the past: I still think that it's used by a lot of companies just for them to say they have it and that in many respects it's just corporate assimilation culture wearing a dashiki (iykyk) BUT many black and brown people still have to navigate corporate spaces for their livelihood and it's materially beneficial IF it has been taken up in the right ways.

At the end of the day, I'm team "make black people's lives easier." DEI hasn't been that helpful for me in my experience, and I don't think it's a tool for liberation but simply a way to wield institutional power (yuck tbh) but there are black people who have benefitted from it. And if it's making the whites this apoplectic then somebody somewhere is doing DEI right (I guess).

Somebody called Candace Owens "evil Gabrielle Union" and another person replied "Gabrielle Confederacy, if you will" 💀💀💀