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raniawrites.bsky.social
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she/her | artist | Black radical thought | social justice barbie | abolition & TJ | mama | writing dangerously | sudani in the wampum treaty belt
Anyone within the colonial borders of so-called Canada should know 16 year old Shidane Abukar Arone. Tortured, sexually assaulted & murdered by Canadian soldiers on his own homeland while he cried out "Canada!"
While 80 more of them ignored his cries.

THAT is the legacy of anti Somali racism.
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In Ontario, the criminalization of Somali communities is used to justify increase police budgets & impunity for killer cops. Child apprehension & family policing, racism within the education & healthcare systems which acutely targets this community - in the name of public safety & counter terrorism.
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The dehumanization of Somali people is part of the fabric of the imperial projects of both the US & Canada. Both of whom have an active & ongoing role in the destruction of Somalia & the displacement of it's people. Both of them actively criminalize, scapegoat & target Somali communities.
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
One of the littles in the Christmas Mutual Aid Drive asked me for an "autistic guitar". I've been kicking my feet giggling since.
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Being able bodied is always a temporary privilege. Whether by age, illness, accident, climate catastrophe, or class exploitation- we will all become disabled.

Disability justice is a struggle for liberation that frees and cares for all of us.
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Sex work is work & like all labor under a capitalist system of stolen labor it's fraught with exploitation.

All exploitative work is a matter of the body. It's not more dignified/moral to be used & disposed of doing underpaid factory, cleaning, or agricultural work - making billionaires richer.
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Islam is a religion of justice. You either find that terrifying or deeply comforting and either way you're right.
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A carceral relationship with the body is a reflection of white supremacist dominator culture.

We have to reject the return to the nothing-tastes-as-good-as-skinny-feels era of disordered eating, fascist wellness trends & assigning individual blame for systemic conditions.
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You can have more than a truce with your body. You cannot hate or punish your body into being "better" (read: skinnier, prettier, stronger, younger, abled.)

A compliance based relationship with your body is a carceral one.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
URGENT REQUEST-

Support for Nehiyaw artist & community organizer in urgent need of funds and/or temporary accommodation in Toronto.

She has nowhere to go as of this afternoon. Please share funds with her directly at heartdefensebaby@gmail.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The "Canadians" leaving hateful, xenophobic, and racist "SUPPORT CANADIANS FIRST" comments under every feel-good story about mutual aid going to folks suffering abroad or to support a minoritized community within Canada are exactly the people to do fuck all for their own community in a crisis.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I'm reviewing the book in an episode podcast this Sunday. A must read for any socialist, Palestine solidarity organizer, and trade unionists!
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Friends don't let friends become cops.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Our ability to critique the system & to identify all that is failing around us only the tip of the iceberg.

Developing the skills to bypass the system, build community infrastructure & navigate messy dynamics/contentious relationships is the bulk of the work.
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am not young, but I am too young to have buried so many of my comrades, contemporaries & kin. I have been to more funerals for people in my generation than the number of years I've been alive.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A lot of people in Canada are fighting tooth & nail to hold on to the colonial fantasy of "Canada the peace keeper." Starting with the fallacy of a kinder settled colonialism, a gentler slavery & to a polite contemporary imperialism.

No condition of unfreedom is "nicer" or more "peaceful."
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I called for a Canadian arms embargo and trade restrictions on the UAE until it stops funding the RSF and for Canadian weapons manufacturers to be held accountable for their complicity in the Senate today, I also called for Canada to adopt bill c-233 (1/4)
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
One day, we will have to face the intergenerational wound left by the mass sexual violence used as a weapon of war against Sudanese people, especially women. We have to confront the cultures of shame that prevent us from holding survivors & facing that trauma. The scale of it is going to floor us.
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
All the Ivy Leagues currently targeting Black people & those speaking up for Palestine are protecting the likes of serial abusers like summers & silencing those harmed & abused by them.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Alice was generous through and through. Especially in preparing us for her death & leaving us with so many beautiful gifts.
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you argue with someone in my mentions, I Will block you both.
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Almost daily, one of the countless inconceivable horrors of Sudan's war overwhelms again.

The scavengers & birds of prey who did not migrate in search of food as they do every year because the martyrs fed them to abundance.

The blood-soaked earth in El-Fasher, which can be seen from outer space.
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM