maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

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On this International Women's Day, a reminder that intimate-partner violence has tripled in Quebec over the past decade, and the CAQ refuses to allocate the funds needed for adequate shelter space. This is a systemic failure. An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #polqc

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The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Out now on Nebula: Why the New York Times Loves Stupid Questions

Digital privacy is one of the most important terrains to fight for freedom from state violence. We have to wake up & get serious about our smartphones.

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I’d like to think so.

Golestan Palace is truly an incredible sight to behold. US/Israel are attacking Iran’s history and culture, not to mention its people.

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

When it finally happens:

Well. You get what you deserve. NS premier Tim Houston got booed at the African Heritage Months Gala in Halifax.

Migrating my account to Blacksky's PDS was so easy, shoutout! 🙌🏾

Mental check-in...meme only:

Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

So... does anyone care about this? That Michael B. Jordan's parents flew to London to see their son and they left the BAFTAs in tears? That he was repulsed? Still don't think an apology was owed? Some of you people are wretched fools.

I’ve had Aquakultre’s 1783 on repeat since returning from Kjipuktuk. Named for the year Black Loyalists arrived in Nova Scotia, it weaves history into powerful soul and hip-hop. An absolute gift to Black Canadian history.

so even when an incident has nuance, it’s still gonna be highly triggering for those of us who are being called n—s and monkeys on main again.

This is why the term know-your-place aggression is so precise. It gets at how hostility is inspired by SUCCESS. Certain folk can always be reminded of their "proper" place of subordination, and such reminders are most important WHEN THEY ARE SUCCEEDING! (Make no mistake, the urge to minimize the …

These remind me of the floor plans on the slave ships. This is not hyperbole.

Reminder: non-Black people don’t get to dictate how Black folks respond to the n-word. Period.

A final reminder that I’m giving this talk in #Kjipuktuk tomorrow. It’s free, and I’d love to see you there. Let’s imagine a freer world together. #Halifax #DalhousieU Register at carewithoutpermission-hfx.eventbrite.ca

personally if I wanted to sneak Sharia law into the United States I would begin in Texas, famously the easiest state to mess with

Presidency Cabinet filled with white supremacists Senate House Nazi police hunting non-white people and race traitors Vice grip on mainstream media Opposition party catatonic And STILL The biggest bunch of crybabies on the planet Imagine being this fragile when you have EVERYTHING

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Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much. —Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…

The enormity of *gestures generally* is just crushing me

Can someone fill me in on why HRM council seems to hate bikes so much? #hfx

I don’t need white guilt. Open your purse.

Just doing my part 🫡

“Mutual aid has always been about more than money. But money, shared intentionally, can be a powerful expression of solidarity. This is us building toward that future.“ Read about what’s coming with Blacksky Cash in our latest blog! blackskyweb.xyz/money-for-mu...

We must end the safe third country agreement with the US

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

A caregiving social movement IS political.

But we must.

Breaking - Jim Pattison Developments say the sale of their warehouse for use as a proposed ICE facility will not be proceeding

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Media often appended it with “Hamas-run” as a way to subtly discredit its numbers. Many experts credibly argue those figures are in fact far lower than the real number today.

Academic researchers (including grad students): did you know that your campus administrators may have access to your full hard drive (including research data), placing you in violation of the TCPS and whatever data access & mgmt plan was approved by your REB?

"The community group has a plan to build 430 units of “deeply affordable” and mixed-income housing, retail spaces for Black-owned businesses and performance community areas"

I’m giving a free public lecture at #DalhousieU on ballroom, kiki, and how care is practised when systems are unstable or absent. We’ll talk speculative care, collective survival, and everyday acts of refusal and resistance. #Halifax, Feb 12th @ 6pm Register: carewithoutpermission-hfx.eventbrite.ca

I’m giving a free public lecture at #DalhousieU on ballroom, kiki, and how care is practised when systems are unstable or absent. We’ll talk speculative care, collective survival, and everyday acts of refusal and resistance. #Halifax, Feb 12th @ 6pm Register: carewithoutpermission-hfx.eventbrite.ca

"...we maintain this weird double standard: Soldiers in combat zones must refuse unlawful orders, but civilians facing unlawful force from domestic law enforcement must submit." publicseminar.org/2026/01/the-...

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you