#Oppression

Hot take : le féminisme n est pas un mode de dvp personnel et ne doit jamais le devenir. C la meilleure façon de le dépolitiser. Je dis ça parce
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All right. I’ve fucking had it with accusations that designers only use “expensive” yarn in patterns. It’s not expensive, it’s just what it looks like when you pay the makers
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A motorist, cyclist, and a pedestrian walk into a bar. There are ten cookies on the bar. The motorist takes nine of them and whispers to the pedestrian, "Watch out!
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THREAD:White friends:I know it's hard to see the images of police violence and burning buildings. I know how tempting it is to just tune it out, ignore the news, or
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I’ve gotten a lot of texts from folks who love me and they may be surprised but I’m genuinely doing alright.I feel like I’ve unlocked more clarity about what radical
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Author of "In Defense of Looting" says the idea that "the small business owner must be respected" and "is part of the community" is really "a right-wing myth" that has
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The inconvenient fact about nonbinary identity is that, like any other gender identity, it is ultimately a social construction. Valid or not, what we think we “are” on some essential,
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Wow the social justice movement really *is* like a post modern religion or cult: https://youtu.be/_AvyqUOKhGA super interesting..(1/14) So.. * white privilege functions as the original sin. * scepticism of political correctness
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The really key part of this dialogue about "re-opening" that a lot of white folks are missing isn't that they have the liberty to make dumb choices. It's about the
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yo im a big fan of therapy and encourage it a lot and dont think it should be stigmatized but im finding this fetishizing of it as a cure all
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All of this. Not every asylum seeker is an angel, not every benefits recipient is honest, not every claim of oppression is unmotivated. Pretending they all are just leads to
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The presence of rapists in our communities is not an argument for prisons or policing.Prisons uphold rape culture.Instead of asking, "What about the rapists?" ask yourself: How do you respond
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Indian American fam: in the excitement over @KamalaHarris, let's *not*:-Erase or de-center her Black identity -Use model minority, exceptionalism or cultural tropes to convey that the whole community has now
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a very necessary thread that you should read ;im so angry rn omg LETS GET ONE FUCKING THING STRAIGHT OKAY? YOU ARE LATINO IF YOU WERE BORN IN HERE OR
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Neil Postman argued in 1985 that we worry about the wrong things. We expect Orwell's 1984 when the real danger is Huxley's Brave New World. Here are some thoughts from
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A point that's not made often enough in response to white or straight people going "where's our holiday" is that Juneteenth and Pride commemorate endings and turning points in struggles
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