Nana Ama Agyemang Asante
@nanaama.bsky.social
First of my name. Chief Witch. Journalist (sometimes). Aspiring researcher (religion & politics). 🇬🇭
Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC.
January 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC.
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Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...
Why won’t the media use the word misogyny?
Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.
www.usermag.co
December 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...
Google Photos just reminded me that six years ago today, I was in Rwanda (because I’m nosey). I wanted to see what the hype was all about. When I was leaving, one of my uncles said, “When you get back, write about it.” Maybe I will.
December 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Google Photos just reminded me that six years ago today, I was in Rwanda (because I’m nosey). I wanted to see what the hype was all about. When I was leaving, one of my uncles said, “When you get back, write about it.” Maybe I will.
“Crushed” is doing a lot here.
December 5, 2024 at 12:27 AM
“Crushed” is doing a lot here.
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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
Police accuse 37 people of crimes including conspiracy and trying to tear down one of world’s largest democracies
The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies are among dozens of people formally accused by federal police…
dlvr.it
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro charged with plotting coup d’état
Ah, the perks of being a bumbling president: a statue in a country you don’t even like, a top honor from your real homeland, and all the luxuries that come with tanking the economy you’re supposed to lead. Now that's living the high life.
November 14, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Ah, the perks of being a bumbling president: a statue in a country you don’t even like, a top honor from your real homeland, and all the luxuries that come with tanking the economy you’re supposed to lead. Now that's living the high life.
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Taylor Lorenz with a rather important article on how liberals have fallen for election fraud conspiracies that are every bit as unhinged as conservatives ones from 2020:
www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...
www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...
Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies
Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism
www.usermag.co
November 10, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Taylor Lorenz with a rather important article on how liberals have fallen for election fraud conspiracies that are every bit as unhinged as conservatives ones from 2020:
www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...
www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...
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There is a long history of giving bogus interpretations of events in the US. Think of how gun violence is interpreted as a mental health crisis. The civil rights mov't was interpreted as communist uprising, not uprising against racial segregation. Now we're being told the election was about jobs.
November 11, 2024 at 12:41 PM
There is a long history of giving bogus interpretations of events in the US. Think of how gun violence is interpreted as a mental health crisis. The civil rights mov't was interpreted as communist uprising, not uprising against racial segregation. Now we're being told the election was about jobs.
Me: Can’t bear global politics right now, so let me face politics at home.
Politicians at home:
Politicians at home:
Sitting on Minority seats in Parliament will spiritually bind us ahead of Election 2024 - Afenyo-Markin
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has stated firmly that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus in parliament remains the majority side in the house and as such under no circums...
www.graphic.com.gh
November 11, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Me: Can’t bear global politics right now, so let me face politics at home.
Politicians at home:
Politicians at home:
If there is plantain on the menu, I’m getting some.
November 9, 2024 at 10:30 PM
If there is plantain on the menu, I’m getting some.
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The very real violence of fascists should vastly outweigh the hypothetical concerns about limiting Nazi speech.
I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong.
www.jphilll.com/p/substack-b...
I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong.
www.jphilll.com/p/substack-b...
Substack Boys: I hope you're Proud
This isn't about theory, it's about very real violence
www.jphilll.com
December 23, 2023 at 3:06 PM
The very real violence of fascists should vastly outweigh the hypothetical concerns about limiting Nazi speech.
I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong.
www.jphilll.com/p/substack-b...
I wrote about it, and about why the founders of Substack are so very wrong.
www.jphilll.com/p/substack-b...
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This is unconscionable.
Modeling agencies are recruiting young people who have fled war-torn African countries and are living in extreme poverty.
They are flown to Europe to take part in fashion castings, but some return within days or weeks, often laden with debt
They are flown to Europe to take part in fashion castings, but some return within days or weeks, often laden with debt
How modelling agencies recruit refugees from one of the world’s biggest camps
Wearing a long, gold knitted dress, Achol Malual Jau, strode confidently along the runway at this year’s London Fashion Week. The South Sudanese model, 23, who had for months practised walking in he...
www.thetimes.co.uk
October 9, 2023 at 1:04 AM
This is unconscionable.
The road traveled…
September 19, 2023 at 1:39 PM
The road traveled…
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When I saw that Elon Musk’s brother, Grover Norquist, and the lawyer who successfully defend Nestle in a child slavery case before the Supreme Court were all at Burning Man I came to one conclusion:
You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.
You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.
You Can't Be a Cool Capitalist
Burning Man, wealth, and counter-culture under capitalism
open.substack.com
September 5, 2023 at 9:21 PM
When I saw that Elon Musk’s brother, Grover Norquist, and the lawyer who successfully defend Nestle in a child slavery case before the Supreme Court were all at Burning Man I came to one conclusion:
You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.
You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.
Honest reviews
August 5, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Honest reviews
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My goodness these people have totally wrecked the economy. How???
July 31, 2023 at 1:53 PM
My goodness these people have totally wrecked the economy. How???
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i said goodbye to Shuhada’ Sadaqat / Sinéad O’Connor, and wrote about her impact and her convictions.
In America’s rush to simplify and commodify her, by throwing it back in their faces, O’Connor could stay chaotic; deeply funny; unabashedly serious; mercurial; uncompromising to her values.
In America’s rush to simplify and commodify her, by throwing it back in their faces, O’Connor could stay chaotic; deeply funny; unabashedly serious; mercurial; uncompromising to her values.
Sinéad O’Connor Redefined Pop Stardom. It Came At a Cost
As she said herself in her memoirs: “Everyone wants a pop star, see? But I am a protest singer.”
www.teenvogue.com
July 27, 2023 at 6:31 PM
i said goodbye to Shuhada’ Sadaqat / Sinéad O’Connor, and wrote about her impact and her convictions.
In America’s rush to simplify and commodify her, by throwing it back in their faces, O’Connor could stay chaotic; deeply funny; unabashedly serious; mercurial; uncompromising to her values.
In America’s rush to simplify and commodify her, by throwing it back in their faces, O’Connor could stay chaotic; deeply funny; unabashedly serious; mercurial; uncompromising to her values.
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For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.
July 24, 2023 at 2:51 PM
For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.
“A new cohort of politicians, bred by the same venal class they're impatient to replace, is waiting for hammer-in-hand for their turn to drive the last nail through the coffin that is Ghana.”
July 19, 2023 at 12:45 PM
“A new cohort of politicians, bred by the same venal class they're impatient to replace, is waiting for hammer-in-hand for their turn to drive the last nail through the coffin that is Ghana.”
