Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
@keeanga.bsky.social
historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
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Solidarity Against Sadism
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.
Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.
Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET
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October 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Solidarity Against Sadism
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.
Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.
Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET
RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy
Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Also in this issue:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Also in this issue:
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...
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‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy
Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.
“An incalculable mix of confidence and consciousness combine in unpredictable ways to give millions of people the belief that they can stop a government on a rampage.” @keeanga.bsky.social
Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era
Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.
hammerandhope.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.
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doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025
Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans reut.rs/3H6mYnH
Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans
In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?
reut.rs
July 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025
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very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It
“I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about hope,” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social tells us. “Hope is great.” Read the interview from Issue Fifteen today.
www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...
www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...
“Politics Is Conflictual”
“Massive changes often unfold on large time scales,” philosopher Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò told The Drift in 2022.
www.thedriftmag.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It
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Please join me this Thursday at noon EST for our second session of The Civic Forum. We'll have a discussion with
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:
The Civic Forum - S1E3 - Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Rory Truex
Register now for The Civic Forum - S1E3 - Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Rory Truex on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on July 17, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT.
www.crowdcast.io
July 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Please join me this Thursday at noon EST for our second session of The Civic Forum. We'll have a discussion with
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:
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It's a good thing there is nothing else happening in the world while we spend 3 days talking about the racisms of the NYT
July 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It's a good thing there is nothing else happening in the world while we spend 3 days talking about the racisms of the NYT
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COMPLICIT:
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
UN Expert Exposes Dozens of Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide, Apartheid in Palestine
Amazon, BlackRock, and Keller Williams LLC are some of the companies named in the report.
truthout.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
COMPLICIT:
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese.
She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.
Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.
Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.
She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.
Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.
Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.
July 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese.
She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.
Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.
Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.
She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.
Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.
Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.
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Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
June 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies
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a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout
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Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.
Our Fall 2025 catalog is here!
Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!
Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!
Haymarket Books Fall 2025 Catalog!
Check out Haymarket’s Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog, featuring books by authors including: Brian Jones, Rebecca Solnit, Vicky Osterweil, Hamid Dabashi, Alfred W. McCoy, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Keeanga-Yama...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.
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The thing is, even for what most (white) people take as their model of effective protest, contemporaneous polling showed that most white people still felt it was harmful to the cause. In other words, the finger-waggers will never approve of a protest, even if it remains nonviolent.
While a majority supported the Civil Rights Act of 1965, a year later 85% of white respondents said civil rights demonstrations hurt the cause of advancing rights for Black Americans.
This suggests that the popular perception of how the movement achieved change is deeply flawed.
This suggests that the popular perception of how the movement achieved change is deeply flawed.
June 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The thing is, even for what most (white) people take as their model of effective protest, contemporaneous polling showed that most white people still felt it was harmful to the cause. In other words, the finger-waggers will never approve of a protest, even if it remains nonviolent.
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In The Straight State, Margot Canaday reveals how the government enforced sex & gender conformity & relegated gays to second-class citizenship.
For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.
press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...
For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.
press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...
June 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In The Straight State, Margot Canaday reveals how the government enforced sex & gender conformity & relegated gays to second-class citizenship.
For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.
press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...
For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.
press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...
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"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win
A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.
inthesetimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
No more urgent conversation for this moment: @keeanga.bsky.social and @asha-rrs.bsky.social offer a critical reflection on summer 2020 rebellion: “The pressing question is how we went from twenty-six million people on the streets to a fascist in the White House?” www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn
Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020’s summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: “The pressing question is how w...
www.thedigradio.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM