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  If only the democratic party supported Black women as hard as we support them. Consistently turning out >90% of our vote for them. For years. Dems should think about what it might mean to honor those dedicated efforts. Daishikis and kufis need not be involved...

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  Okay time for my weekly AI/LLM sniping: So I learned that an allegedly important "AI Skill" is "context management" ie, managing the context of LLMs via prompts to prevent "context decay" or whatever--and I am begging *anyone* to explain how someone with basic level critical thinking couldn't just pick that up intuitively. Like anyone with a degree in the humanities is likely to figure it out with little trouble imo. Reply ppl welcome--I'm trying to see s...

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  I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this *farts*

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  Burnout = a logical end of labor alienation?

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  it's really weird how a saxophone solo from a scene where a black boy gets shot in the back has become popularized and reproduced as a sound representing the most minor of inconveniences. it's almost like black life is devalued or something

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  "I'm going to go sit down and relax." *doesn't*

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  Anyway I'm thinking we should start the Juneteenth reparations thread early and just go through the entire summer. Black ppl get your links and mutual aid asks together. Let's try to make it extra big this year. Let's make pro-Black mutual aid a living, breathing infrastructure on fedi. I know there are a growing number of us sharing links and threads and things, can we link up?

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  everybody knows about Mississippi, goddam

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  #Senatobia #BlackLivesMatter #KohenWiley #Mississipi

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  Hiiii, if you've ever supported or purchased something from my Ko-fi shop, I am offering a free hi-res download! (That includes if you support or buy something *today*, wink, nudge) https://ko-fi.com/i/IZ8Z3RPAKE #BlackArtist

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  Really good essay about the labor whiteness loves to demand of black women, re: Jasmine Crockett. "They want the Black woman who will nurture the movement without making demands of it. They want the Black woman who will keep the coalition warm, organized, morally legible, and electorally viable without asking why her own leadership abilities were treated like a insignificant or lesser until somebody else needed her credibility." https://uppitynegress.substack.com/p/political...

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  I have really good friends in my life 😭

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  quick question: what the fuck

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  boy i wish jonathan chait would just put the computer down

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  some other deps they have abolished: american studies, women, gender & sexuality studies, mexican american and latino studies this is a result/an iteration of manufactured austerity. a mainstay in authoritative regimes they argued removing deps with some of the school's most notable and prolific scholars as professors was for financial reasons partly--UT Austin is the most highly funded public university in the country we need more people paying attention to this. like, yesterday

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  not to brag but bees often hover around me in the absence of flowers

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  *Reparations Thread* It's the 250th anniversary of the United States' Independence. Without the kidnapping, genocide, and forced labor of my ancestors this country would not exist. Without the continued exploitation of the African American people in the forms of mass incarceration, systemic disenfranchisement, and police brutality this country would not have the wealth it has. Not only have Black people contributed immeasurably to the wealth of this country but also to its culture....

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  When high profile Black women and gnc birthing people like Beyoncé Knowles, Ericka Hart, Serena Williams, and Tatyana Ali are facing traumatic birthing experiences, obstetric violence, and medical racism you really have to wonder how many untold horrors working class Black women have undergone in the 21st century. Reproductive injustice is not a siloed class issue; it requires intersectional analysis and a deep understanding of power. (1/3) #ReproductiveJustice #MedicalAnthro #MedicalRacism

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  if i put a black feminist epistemology syllabus up on my ko-fi would somebody buy it?

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  Potentially of interest?? (Opportunity) Baltimore Museum of Art x VJMF Paid Legacy Public Programs Internship https://valeriejmaynardfoundation.org/baltimore-museum-of-art-x-vjmf-paid-legacy-public-programs-internship/

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  I think the unemployment numbers for US Black women are even higher now, maybe close to 600k We make up 25% of the poor, disproportionately high numbers compared to other race-gender demographics. Also important to take into account things like immigration status, disability, transness...all of these identities attract economic penalties and we're fucked if ya can't acknowledge that

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  I wrote the blog y'all: "What You're Getting Wrong about Identity Politics: Notes from a Re-Read of Combahee "When leftists reject identity politics without having done the reading...I do not see the humility necessary to practice good political solidarity...I see someone who is not really interested in doing the hard work of building a coalition, but one who is enamored with political catharsis and hierarchy draped in revolutionary aesthetics. https://ko-fi.c...

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  Dear White #anthropologists: y'all gotta start citing more Black people and especially Black women in your work. We (black women anthropologists) are disproportionately undercited (Smith 2021). Also, a lot of y'all are kinda bad about half-reading us (I have had several white male anthropologists *egregiously* misquote bell hooks and Audre Lorde to me, hoping for a pat on the back, I suppose). Read, and cite, BW deeply and faithfully. -a black grad student who is already tired...

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  Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good - Your "Ah-ha" Moment is Nauseating https://substack.com/inbox/post/184958514?r=6xdhop&triedRedirect=true #ReneeGood I think a lot of (maybe most?) whites #OnHere should read this.

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  Also: the #SayHerName hashtag is for BLACK WOMEN. If you have a problem with that, I really don't care. Black women's labor has been essential to just about every socio-political movement in this country's history, yet y'all constantly erase us. For you to feel entitled to co-opt yet another product of our labor designed to alleviate the deliberate erasure of us in order to center those with more privilege is nasty work and just another symptom of white supremacist delusion.