Healthcare systems in the United States place the onus of healing on individuals and focus on self-optimization in service of inherently violent capitalism. TW: mentions of suicide, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and forced institutionalization Every suicide prevention day, week, or month, I once conveyed the same message, regurgitating advice that, at the height of my battle...
Author: Anuhya Bobba (Anuhya Bobba)
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From Europe to the United States: Empires in Decline, Fascism on the Rise
Western empires will fall, if not dramatically then in daily dissent by the people that they have devastated. From the United States to Europe, we are witnessing a transnational decline of empire. And with it, we see a return to fascism. The struggle against the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy is a global struggle. In “How...
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From Portland to New York, The United States Has Always Abducted People
Abductions and theft of people have been the sordid and foundational reality for BIPOC within the United States and across the globe. TW/CW: This article mentions and describes white supremacist abductions, cultural genocide, state violence, and chattel slavery. As pictures and videos of protests in Portland, Oregon circulated, the fascist inclinations of the United States...
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Jia Tolentino’s Defense of Her Parents Ignores The Truths Of The Teachers They Allegedly Harmed
Jia Tolentino’s blog post in defense of her parents failed to address the very real and many testimonies of teachers who were harmed by their actions. Last week, Jia Tolentino, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the acclaimed novel, Trick Mirror, wrote of her parents’ involvement in an agency to relocate Filipino...
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The White Feminist Version of #MeToo Is In Ruins For Many Reasons
After co-opting #MeToo, white feminists and liberals continued to frame sexual assault as individual instances rather than as a systemic issue. TW/CW: This article discusses sexual assault, victim-blaming, anti-Blackness, and anti-indigeneity. As the Tara Reade allegation came to the forefront in recent months, several proponents of “Believe Women” demonstrated that they do not, in truth,...
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Sexual Assault And White Supremacy Are Foundational To The U.S.
Rape legislation, historically, has acted as an extension of white supremacy, never as a real means to afford protection to women subjected to sexual coercion. TW/CW: this article discusses sexual assault and anti-Blackness On March 25, Tara Reade provided an excruciating account of her sexual assault at the hand of former Vice President Joseph R....
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The Necropolitics of the Coronavirus: Who May Live, Who Must Die
As necropolitics predicates life on “the death of the Other,” certain lives are more prone to vulnerability under government dictates. Postcolonial philosopher Achille Mbembe defines necropolitics as “the ultimate expression of sovereignty [which] resides, to a large degree, in the power and capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.” The United States,...
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The Rich Have Class Solidarity. So What About The Rest Of Us?
The co-optation of discourses related to oppressions by the rich has proven to be a salient tool in dismantling poor or working-class solidarity. The endorsements of Michael Bloomberg, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, and Andrew Yang for presidential candidate Joe Biden is an act of class solidarity. However, when Elizabeth...
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Post-Super Tuesday The Establishment Maintains Its Death Grip
White voters, whether establishment or progressive, have shown that the election is but another empty, performative gesture. Two days before Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg terminated his presidential campaign. One day before, Amy Klobuchar also called an end to her race for the Democratic nomination. Centrist or “establishment” Democrats, with the help of the Democratic National...
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As Delhi Burns, Modi Watches
The Delhi pogrom is not a “clash” between pro- and anti-CAA protesters. It is a pogrom aimed to ethnically cleanse the city of the minority Muslim population. CW: Pogrom, Ethnic Cleansing The latest pogrom of the Narendra Modi administration, which has left 38 dead and more than 100 injured, is underway in Delhi, India. This...