#Colonized

Derek Thompson

DKThomp

Something Arlie Hochschild told me that I can't shake this week is the ways modern politics has become hyper-fluent in the language of suffering. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/deep-story-trumpism/617498/Once you see

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

A thread on the life and work of Aimé Césaire:Aimé Césaire was an #anticolonialist poet and politician, who helped found the journal #Black Student in Paris in the 1930s, which

Lyon Ch!njong

francis_lyon_

Last Friday while commemorating the 50th anniversary of the murder of Ernest Ouandié, I realized a lot of us do not know our history. How about we have occasional Cameroon

Natalie Morales

nataliemorales

I, unfortunately, have friends and some family in Miami that voted for Trump. They aren't racist. They aren't bad people who want bad things for the world. They are 10000%

Zena Hitz

zenahitz

I was hoping to have a bit more time before riding into the Culture Wars, but you all have forced my hand!Culture War topic of TODAY: great books!!!! You've heard

Antifascist Alligator 🐊

Antifagator

Here's an idpol thread that isn't really about idpol. Because what's often referred to derisively as "idpol", better called representation politics or tokenism, is not any sort of modern development.

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Welcome to Friday! I'm glad you made it, especially because our topic today is European medicinal cannibalism. This is is basically my origin story as a person who researches cannibalism

Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ

sankrant

Women in Britain couldn't own property till the late 19th century, while British "civilized" us. In India they made property tradeable and by law only males could inherit it. (same

Elysabeth Grace aka Dr. Margo J Hendricks

Elysabethgrace

#BlackAcademicWoman #ShakespeareStudies #EarlyModernEnglishCulturalStudies I have my coffee.This is a long thread so grab whatever you want to drink and pull up a chair. I offer no apology for its length

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is a brief history of labor organizing in Burma (Myanmar.) This relates to the crucial forefront role that organized labor is taking in resistance to the

Natalie Morales

nataliemorales

For some reason, a lot of people ask me why any Latinx voters still vote for Trump, despite everything he's done and continues to do that clearly goes against our

angeline rodriguez

gelrdrgz

It’s a new year, and I have plenty of room in my heart and on my list for new voices!it’s also been a while since I paid tribute to queen

Consent Factory

consent_factory

At the end of every year, we normally retweet all our essays for that year, so we're going to go ahead and do that. We'll start with March, because 2020

Travis Seifman

toranosukev

In 1872, the Empire of Japan declared that King Shô Tai of the Kingdom of Ryûkyû was to be no longer the king of a kingdom, but a lord of

colors of the storm 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇮🇳💝🌌🌃🍷

storm_colors

white cis women stop saying you're "colonized" by the patriarchy when you/ your ancestors obviously have not been through a genocide of the scale of the jallianwala bagh massacre or

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

A lot of people have been RTing this map of state-sponsored homophobia (from here: https://ilga.org/ilga-world-releases-state-sponsored-homophobia-December-2020-update) Let me explain why I dislike this map--and maps like it--SO much. Basic

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