“When figured racially, subject of psychoanalysis is mediated juridically & scientifically/ doesn’t stand alone as figure of authority, nor enter naked in symbolic positions of authority neither— Freud ego, Lacan subject— survives confrontation with the wounded captive body in scene of subjugation”

"When decolonial philosophy and praxis are taken seriously, merely studying or raising questions about gender and sexuality is not inherently revolutionary or radical If feminism is merely the recuperation of a positively defined “womanhood” or “manhood,” it becomes a colonial feminism"

shoulder press practice, 105 lbs 🏋🏽‍♂️

“Personhood was never intended or shaped to be something we would use for freedom, for thriving of all human beings & other beings/ was a way of individualizing actions & responsible-izing people who were powerless so they could be dealt with by powerful men who wanted to exploit or dispossess them”

"This does not need a remedy, this does not need a balm, this needs an ending," Dionne Brand

i feel much more than what i planned

“ungendering = primary narrative of violence/ consequent elaborations of gender as forms of violence that gift gender as additional violence/ “doubled” nature of gendered violence is in the giving of gender itself gift of gender as the gift of death redoubled as a violent entryway into being Human”

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

"biocentric science produces ‘impoverished knowledge’ because it ignores the sociocultural genesis of the human through narrative/ it actively represses our awareness of sociogenesis by limiting the truth of human nature to the biological and insisting on its transcultural universality"

Wheeeeeeee! 💫

but, also important, sometimes slicing “by race” is just as invalid and hides massive “internal” heterogeneity racism doesnt produce real psychologically-bounded races, it produces the illusion of them through race-talk

Haitian director Raoul Peck uses Orwell's 1984 to make a biographical film that serves as a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism today. His new film “2+2 = 5” explores how fragile democracies can be in the face of “alternative facts,” mass surveillance, and media monopolies. #FilmSky 🇭🇹🎬

you can be remade, you can live again and you know what is great? nothing stays the same

I was moved by something John Forté told students when he spoke at a school a few years ago: "The creative process, whether you’re writing a poem or a song or a piece of music, allows you to check in on your humanity... again and again and again. So, keep writing songs. Don’t ever stop.”

"right then a forest sprang up between them"

squat clean practice, 125lbs 🏋🏽‍♂️

Makes sense “Darwin continues tradition of normal science in West by safely placing post-Enlightenment Europe in the "sanctified universe of obligation" (Wynter 1994), while writing the "savage races" as always already losers in the struggle for existence/ a Darwinian prophecy of Black extinction”

Finally!!! Racecraft’s migrantcraft 🔥

“within Black studies, I think about how monumental of a task that is to rewrite knowledge & to upend the ruling or the interpretive episteme, & what that actually requires It requires a significant amount of unlearning/ to unlearn everything we think we know about the world & the way it functions”

“analytics of raciality sustains this racial order by codifying techniques of domination through demographic classification, geographic partitioning, & historiographic sequencing. these dimensions naturalize the subjugation of non-white populations & justify their perpetual administration & control”

Steady Talking

struggling through Sylvia Wynter was practice for struggling *even more* with Denise Ferreira da Silva. been years of re-re-reading her work & i think its finally paying off 🤯 im so inspired, seeing the limits of my thinking. want to work with/from her arguments if i can find time to write again 🥰

A 2003 article by Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton about how police critics and racial justice folks often treat police violence as exceptional instead of quotidian. The authors note that violence is part of the job. Full article here. afropessazania1.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

"Thinking about people and power not primarily through social categories but through the concept of time shifts focus to the temporal flows of everyday living, to the physical & sensory intensities of life's speed, rhythm, pacing."

This kind of “inequality” researcher permeates Psychology, of course they’re connected and defend those networks

what about undoing yourself.

“People are losing their fear, becoming more capable of fighting back—and learning, in the process, that our passivity and isolation are essential to the administration’s control The feds wanted fear. Instead, they got solidarity. They got a crowd that refused to retreat”

Hernandez's project on Mapping Deportations is also amazing. It's one of the few that tracks over a long time where immigrants are deported to. (I think there's a lot written about where immigrants come from, but not where they go). mappingdeportations.com

“By deciding that they were white/ those who believed that they could control & define Black people divested themselves of the power to control & define themselves” -James Baldwin, On being white..& other lies https://www.fredjoiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/On-Being-White-and-Other-Lies.pdf

@haymarketbooks.org is offering 3 free ebooks for anti-fascists wanting to learn how to resist fascism. "Unbuild Walls" by @silkys13.bsky.social "Border and Rule" by @harshawalia.bsky.social and "The Case for Open Borders" by @jwashing.bsky.social www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-fr...

This is a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but I've been percolating on it for over a year, so here goes. I don't think we are using "imperial boomerang" correctly. Controversial take, perhaps but here is why.

“sorting of bodies into M&F persists because of sex’s incoherence endless work [is] required to produce a world in which most people have a binary gender identity that neatly fits their binarily sexed body it is not cis people who fit the categories; it’s the categories that flex to make them fit”

stakes are extremely high, literally life or death. We do NOT need ICE or CBP to have more training or oversight We do need all border, policing and military angencies to be defunded; end to fed & state partnerships (like sec 287g agreements); end to all detentions & deporations. Abolish borders.

“When we say this is violence, we're ignoring that this is a counter violence. The violence thats fully naturalized, experienced by the colonized/oppressed, on a daily basis is invisible to most people, definitely to liberals. So when we see an act of violence, we obfuscate the original violence”

“Practice illegalism daily to see past the smoke and mirrors that make it look like the way things are is the way they must be” 🤎

“Fascism worked well w capitalism until economic imperatives became a prob/ Nazis modeled themselves after capitalism, but they changed/ created a line of production to produce death, not surplus-value or profit/ profit for Nazis, eventually, was death, if they could earn money along the way, great”

"Fascism, in its many forms did not hesitate to kill its own citizens as well as its colonial subjects in its search for ideological and political closure. Millions of civilians perished on a global scale during the apogee of fascist ideologies in Europe and beyond."

The “criminal immigrant" narrative manufactured by the US media-propaganda apparatus psychologically embeds immigrants into racial hierarchies within the social imagination PDF: joeledmartinez.com/wp-content/u...

“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow.”

“And that there is no reformist program for ridding ourselves of that. I mean, it’s like if we’re gonna get out of that we’re gonna be in a whole new world order.”

😭

"If knowledge will advance a critique of the political effects of humanity in the global present, it will take more than bringing scientific knowledge to speak truth to power, as Wynter hopes; & it will take more than individual self-fashioning & disrobing disciplinary power, as Foucault suggests"

"Even in this earliest novel, Ngũgĩ hits on the idea that would define his career: that adopting colonial ways of thinking and acting cannot save anyone from the inherently violent nature of colonialism itself, and can lead only to ruin"

“In being uninscribed, one gives oneself over to movement. It is a refusal to name oneself because one knows that the name will ultimately be inadequate, it coming from the language available, a language from without and dictatorial of how we can exist”

Before Rosa Parks . . . Her story is an anecdote I often share during book events for #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) as a way to chart the long history of the phrase. #RIP

“our analytic categories—race, class, gender, sexuality—tell a partial story, wherein humanness continues to be understood in hierarchical terms/ *Being* human as praxis, envisions the human as verb, as alterable, as relational, & dislodges the naturalization of dysselection”

“modern policing formed through the policing of blackness/ Policing is a function of racism, not the other way around, reminding us that racism is first & foremost an act of violence & that which we call “race” is the aftereffect of this violence” - Tryon P. Woods Blackhood against the Police Power

Initially driven by his deep disappointment in some Black intellectuals’ compliance with reactionary forces, this essay opens onto profound issues of institutionalization, professionalization, and the deadening and repressive mental, social, and intellectual habits being “accepted” create.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

For a great introduction to Nasser Abourahme's must-read new book, dukeupress.edu/the-time-ben..., @dukepress.bsky.social , read this conversation in Journal of Palestine Studies www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658.... @dukepress.bsky.social