The Dead are not Dead
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Associate professor. Learning how to think with lifedeath. #blacklifematter out with Duke press.
“Everywhere one turns or cares to look, the signs of a collapsing world are evident.” —Cedric Robinson
September 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Everywhere one turns or cares to look, the signs of a collapsing world are evident.” —Cedric Robinson
Chickens come home to roost.
September 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Chickens come home to roost.
THIS! It seems to me that what counts as “political violence” is already shaped by a white supremacist thought pattern.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
THIS! It seems to me that what counts as “political violence” is already shaped by a white supremacist thought pattern.
My question is, always: what is the difference between political violence and (allegedly) other kinds of violence? Do we count the systematic elimination of people’s healthcare as political violence? What about the mass hate mail and harassment that is directed toward those of us on the left…
September 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My question is, always: what is the difference between political violence and (allegedly) other kinds of violence? Do we count the systematic elimination of people’s healthcare as political violence? What about the mass hate mail and harassment that is directed toward those of us on the left…
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight
June 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight
Karen Bass is another instantiation of what Saidiya Hartman once called “Crow Jane.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Karen Bass is another instantiation of what Saidiya Hartman once called “Crow Jane.”
This is what I mean.
I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today.
I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children.
Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us.
One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children.
Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us.
One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is what I mean.
The way local and national news outlets are covering the protests in LA is kinda disgusting. “Protests turned violent” is a really fucked up way of saying that police and the military are inciting violence.
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The way local and national news outlets are covering the protests in LA is kinda disgusting. “Protests turned violent” is a really fucked up way of saying that police and the military are inciting violence.
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"Less lethal" and "decarbonised oil" both giving off the same stink on my timeline
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"Less lethal" and "decarbonised oil" both giving off the same stink on my timeline
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So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...
What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.
www.wired.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...
So… I published an article on the relationship between political theology and Black studies focusing on the problem of evil. Check it out if you have the time!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGKZV...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGKZV...
On Black Accursedness: A Political Theodicy, or the Problem of Evil in Black
Published in Political Theology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So… I published an article on the relationship between political theology and Black studies focusing on the problem of evil. Check it out if you have the time!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGKZV...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGKZV...
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Jonathan Freedland trying to deceive ppl by making it a duel hatred. Before October 7 Palestinians were relegated as to how much water they could have, how many calories, they were routinely shot, arrested, beaten up and had their homes stolen. Before October 7 they were being persecuted…
Sick of this reductive framing as religious/biblical hate/conflict. It makes it irrational, equal(ly so) & understandable but untouchable by logic or law. It's a modern case of settler colonialism & genocide by a state abusing the memory of the Holocaust & using hi-tech weapons & PR.
May 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Jonathan Freedland trying to deceive ppl by making it a duel hatred. Before October 7 Palestinians were relegated as to how much water they could have, how many calories, they were routinely shot, arrested, beaten up and had their homes stolen. Before October 7 they were being persecuted…
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"These attitudes correlate with a sharp increase in ethno-nationalist ideology in the past 20 years."
The depravity here cannot be overstated.
A recent poll found:
- 82% of Israelis support forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza
- 56% support forced removal of Arab Israeli citizens
- 47% support IDF murdering *all* inhabitants of enemy cities they occupy
www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
A recent poll found:
- 82% of Israelis support forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza
- 56% support forced removal of Arab Israeli citizens
- 47% support IDF murdering *all* inhabitants of enemy cities they occupy
www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
May 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"These attitudes correlate with a sharp increase in ethno-nationalist ideology in the past 20 years."
I’m sure I’m typing into the void.
But what’s needed at the moment is strategic, tactical, and disciplined resistance.
We cannot put our heads in the sand and hope things will get better. They won’t. This president must be stopped. And we have to do it collectively.
But what’s needed at the moment is strategic, tactical, and disciplined resistance.
We cannot put our heads in the sand and hope things will get better. They won’t. This president must be stopped. And we have to do it collectively.
May 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’m sure I’m typing into the void.
But what’s needed at the moment is strategic, tactical, and disciplined resistance.
We cannot put our heads in the sand and hope things will get better. They won’t. This president must be stopped. And we have to do it collectively.
But what’s needed at the moment is strategic, tactical, and disciplined resistance.
We cannot put our heads in the sand and hope things will get better. They won’t. This president must be stopped. And we have to do it collectively.
When I was in the 8th grade, I made it to the national spelling bee. I got out on the word “penitentiary.”
It seems I’ve been an abolitionist since I was a pre teen lol
It seems I’ve been an abolitionist since I was a pre teen lol
December 1, 2024 at 4:46 PM
When I was in the 8th grade, I made it to the national spelling bee. I got out on the word “penitentiary.”
It seems I’ve been an abolitionist since I was a pre teen lol
It seems I’ve been an abolitionist since I was a pre teen lol
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, now more than ever, we need to honour & remember those that came before us who we’ve lost to anti-trans hatred & violence.
Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete.
Their losses will not be in vain!
Hate will not win!
Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete.
Their losses will not be in vain!
Hate will not win!
Here are the 28 transgender Americans lost to violence so far this year
The epidemic of fatal violence against trans people in the U.S. continues.
www.advocate.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:43 AM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, now more than ever, we need to honour & remember those that came before us who we’ve lost to anti-trans hatred & violence.
Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete.
Their losses will not be in vain!
Hate will not win!
Here’s a list of people just from the US this year alone, though likely incomplete.
Their losses will not be in vain!
Hate will not win!
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
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somehow ”trump is god emperor and if he wills it it will occur” is a belief that is shared across the political spectrum
November 19, 2024 at 4:43 AM
somehow ”trump is god emperor and if he wills it it will occur” is a belief that is shared across the political spectrum
One of the things I think about quite a bit is that professors *can’t* get sick. We do, but it’s striking to me how missing class—at least for me—feels like it will have repercussions.
November 19, 2024 at 4:14 PM
One of the things I think about quite a bit is that professors *can’t* get sick. We do, but it’s striking to me how missing class—at least for me—feels like it will have repercussions.