Black mobility, as seen in the case of the Haitian migrant-slave, is not only a threat to the sovereign-national border, but to the border-as-limit to the meaning of emancipation and agency writ large. By Tea S. Troutman Borders—like the nation-states, colonies, and otherwise legible cartographies of sovereignty they demarcate,—are first and foremost anti-black. That’s it....
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Encountering Biphobia And Challenging White Supremacy In Western Psychology
Western psychology was developed under and exists within a white supremacist society that more often than not works hard to quell any and every revolutionary bone in your body. TW: biphobia, racism, and ableism in Western psychology, mention of death By J.R. Yussuf I was drawn to therapy with hopes that it would help me...
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Climate Change Disasters Leave Fat And Disabled People Even More Vulnerable To Harm
Hospitals don’t have evacuation plans in place to care for fat and disabled patients in the most disastrous moments. TW: mention of “ob*sity,” murder, and general anti-fat anti-Black violence Earth’s climate is changing. Drastically and rapidly. Glaciers are melting; ecosystems are shifting; temperatures are changing and sea levels are rising. But what is perhaps most...
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Jameela Jamil Is Unqualified To Be A Mental Health Advocate
Not only is Jameela Jamil ill-equipped to be a mental health advocate, she has shown that she doesn’t care to learn better. By Candice Alaska [TW: brief mention of gun violence and murder, sexual violence towards women, and police violence towards disabled BIPOC.] Ever one to be a part of the discourse, self-described “Feminist-in-Progress” and...
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Worker Exploitation, Capitalism, and The “Normal” We Can’t Return To
In a capitalist system, “normal” means worker mistreatment and exploitation, and this disproportionately impacts already marginalized groups. By Princess Avianne Charles “Normal” was considered many things but it certainly was not good enough. For many, what was considered normal was mentally and physically draining, it revoked them of their access to basic necessities and it...
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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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With Both COVID and Abortion Access, The Government Abandons Young People
The dignity, citizenship and humanity of young people have always been treated as unimportant or collateral in culture wars and both national and geopolitical conflicts. CW: r*pe, sexual assault By Kylie Cheung With the new school year around the corner, the Delta variant spreading rapidly among the unvaccinated, and no guidelines still on if and...
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Black Food: A Spell of Preserving and Protecting Our Culture Through Recipes
Food is a map. Meals are a bridge, a tool, that connects those most impacted by criminalization, underemployment, governmental surveillance and poverty. By Amber Butts I didn’t receive my grandmother’s salmon croquette recipe until the end of her life. We have the same hands, our middle fingers curving right and left at the last knuckle....
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Reproductive and Disability Justice Demand Abolition
It’s not just history — reproductive coercion by the government and criminal justice system is an ongoing reality. CW: mentions of miscarriage, reproductive violence/coercion, and sexual violence/r*pe By Kylie Cheung In a world dominated by celebrity, few cultural moments can be more eye-opening to the oppressions of marginalized people than a horror story of someone...
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Why Eco-fascism Can Never Co-opt Reproductive Justice
Despite how reproductive rights have historically been co-opted to advance eco-fascism, and continue to be weaponized to this day, reproductive justice is inherently at odds with eco-fascist ideologies. By Kylie Cheung At the end of April, more than 140 organizations submitted a letter calling on President Biden to lift the Helms Amendment, a policy that...