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Kate is a dragon 🐉
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Disabled, AuDHD. Queer. Anti-fascist. Trans rights are human rights, eugenics is alive and evil, and white supremacy is a curse.
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Physical media should be available for everything and it should come with a free digital version.
What’s the most boomer complaint you have?
June 12, 2024 at 4:29 AM
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📣📚🎉 It’s official!! I signed a contract to edit my third & final anthology in a trilogy, DISABILITY VULNERABILITY!

I can’t wait to do a deep dive on how precarious disabled life is in an ableist world. Many thanks to my agent Julia Kardon of HG Literary and editor Anna Kaufman
June 12, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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“White genocide” is the only genocide in history where no one actually dies.
white people falling in love with non-white people and having babies with them isn't 'ethnic cleansing,' hope this helps
November 26, 2023 at 12:40 AM
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white people falling in love with non-white people and having babies with them isn't 'ethnic cleansing,' hope this helps
November 26, 2023 at 12:29 AM
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if you are in NYC and you are able to, please go and support them, because the organizers just announced that there are not enough cops to arrest them all.

they are planning to stay put until Biden calls for a permanent ceasefire!
November 26, 2023 at 9:28 PM
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Seaman with two esteemed shipmates, ca. 1910. collections.sea.museum/objects/1333...
November 26, 2023 at 8:31 PM
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This still happens in the US too, both permanent sterilization or non consensual long-term birth control(not trying to derail or take away from the discussion at all, just naming that we are not exempt from this)
November 26, 2023 at 9:44 PM
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Hold my hand, you son of a bitch
November 25, 2023 at 9:52 PM
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The idea that folks are like "well that wheelchair user must be Wrong, because they moved their legs" instead of like "Hmm what non-manipulative reasons could someone who can move their legs be using a wheelchair?"

Just fucking pisses me off.
November 26, 2023 at 10:02 PM
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Eugenic sterilizations are not a thing of the past, relegated to history, to “back then.” Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/w...
Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe
Governments have declared the practice a human rights violation. But they have made exceptions that are divisive among parents, doctors and social workers.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2023 at 6:52 PM
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Having had a hysto less than a week ago, it is HORRIFYING to me that people put people who are unable to understand what is happening through this surgery and recovery.

Also: forced sterilization by the state is still good law in the US. It's still legal.
November 26, 2023 at 6:57 PM
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This link should work. Sorry, I’m a Bluesky novice 🙂. limerick1914.medium.com/as-intention...
“As intentional as the forgetting that follows…”
Conor McGregor, Selective History and Atlantic Amnesia
limerick1914.medium.com
November 24, 2023 at 11:02 AM
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I wrote this about Conor McGregor seven years ago.

Yesterday McGregor encouraged and endorsed an anti-immigrant far-right riot in Dublin City. limerick1914.medium.com/as-intention...
November 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM
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The Hibernian Society served as a meeting point for business elites and slave owners in the Irish community in South Carolina to make connections as they sought to enrich themselves via the racial slave system they adopted. One of its early presidents owned approx 400 slaves.
November 25, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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Musk’s schoolyard utterings about the history of abolitionism are likewise ill-informed and predictably rooted in reactionary denialist politics. To argue that Denmark and Britain led the anti-slavery charge erases the ultimate sacrifices that countless thousands of slaves made when they revolted.
November 25, 2023 at 11:21 AM
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"It was a moral and legal break from any African or European tradition of labour. It constituted, furthermore, the most dehumanising, violent, socially regressive form of human exploitation known to human kind.”
November 25, 2023 at 11:18 AM
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Hilary Beckles: "The early modern world witnessed various forms of slavery and servitude as systems of labour, but neither in Europe nor in Africa did this subservience involve the branding of persons as chattel."
November 25, 2023 at 11:17 AM
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By flattening out the specific to the general, the how and why of the matter vanish, and its consequences and ongoing legacies become opaque or are denied.

European colonialism in the Americas included the development of a form of racial slavery that really has no direct parallel in world history.
November 25, 2023 at 11:16 AM
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The Governor of Barbados James Leith pronounced the following after suppressing a slave revolt and mass executing rebel slaves in the field (1816):

“Slavery is not the institution of an particular Colour, Age, or Country; it has ever existed...”
November 25, 2023 at 11:14 AM
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If you’ve witnessed the growth of online extremism in Ireland over the past few years, then the constant minimisation of the threat of the far-right (by the authorities and some of the commentariat) has been akin to watching a disaster happen in slow motion.
November 26, 2023 at 5:38 PM
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Classing groups as intellectually subnormal and claiming they are the Problem is not an answer to fascism.
November 26, 2023 at 6:03 PM