Climate specialists have characterized the climate crisis as unpreventable. The planet is heating beyond repair, and yet, communities are still forced to negotiate with elected officials, begging and pleading for their lives, for a dignified chance at survival. By Kyliel Thompson In 1989, the late, but always timely, James Baldwin invoked a modification of progress...
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‘The White Lotus’ Is An Exercise in White Privilege None of Us Asked For
‘The White Lotus’ says nothing at all, except for what we already know, which is that those who benefit from whiteness are very rarely willing to divest from it. By Arielle Gray [CN: this article contains spoilers for HBO’s “The White Lotus”] In the opening scene of HBO’s The White Lotus, viewers know that someone...
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Ending Anti-Asian Violence Requires Eliminating Anti-Blackness and Carcerality
Much of the conversation and advocacy surrounding anti-Asian racism has failed to connect it with anti-Blackness, and has itself been mired in carceral and anti-Black thinking. By Jordana Allen-Shim Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a massive spike in documented cases of anti-Asian violence. A February 9 report from Stop AAPI Hate, “the...
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Celebrating Haitian Independence is a Bittersweet Affair
Heartbreakingly, the spirit of Haitian independence has been replaced by a menage of new ways that white powers attempt to reassert their grip on my homeland. When I was younger, the new year always began with a trip to my grandmother’s. My mother’s family would gather in the living room and celebrate with each other,...
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Hindutva Gets Sugarcoated Through Pop Culture Sensations While Fascism Continues Its Rise
Ties between India and America grow ever stronger, buttressed by a shared Islamophobia and the unchecked growth of Hindutva ideologies in the U.S. By Madhuri Sastry In the second and final 2020 Presidential debate, Trump took flak for his friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and has been repeatedly lambasted for his associations...
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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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We Fight Together: 17 Black Anti-Imperialists to Radicalize You
White supremacy compels us to analyze how anti-imperialism is a necessity in our resistance against oppression. All of our struggles are intertwined. We are living in a particularly radical time right now. Seriously. I feel like everyone says that every couple of years, but this feels different. The energy in the air is different, so...
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Sanctions Kill: The Devastating Human Cost of Sanctions
The reality of economic sanctions is starvation and devastation for the masses of people on the ground in the targeted country. This article was originally published by Hood Communist. By Robin Davis, Onyesonwu Chatoyer, and Nancy Wright What Are Sanctions Economic sanctions are a tactic of war that target a particular nation for pressure by...
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When Is Humor an Appropriate Response to Societal Turmoil?
The following reasons are what makes the humor and many of these jokes about World War III—and by extension Iran—unearned and in extremely poor taste. On Election night in 2016, I drank myself to sleep. Not because I was depressed, but because what I predicted, what people (including my own family) had argued me down...
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Imperialism is the United States’ Profitable and Exploitative Legacy in Iran
We have historical precedent to suggest that the killing of General Qassem Soleimani is imperialist in nature and meant to maintain power in Iran. TW/CW: the are mentions of war and death in this article At the 1986 Black Women Writers in the Diaspora Conference, Audre Lorde asked, “What does it mean to be a...