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thiswomanswerk

@thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io

phd student | adhd girlie | mentally thr(ill)ed | baby rootworker | alphabet mafiose | Blackity Black Black

I post about a lot of things some of the time: culture, art, plants, casual gaming, my cat, weird little jokey jokes, rants against misogynoir and fascism, complaints about Texas, and more.

Header: Sleepy black cat.
PFP: Picrew pic of a brown skinned femme with white sweater, earrings, and mask

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This is too many diss tracks to keep up with mane 😩 I can't even tell who beefing with who anymore, I need a chart

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Oh to have the confidence of a mediocre white man and write paragraph after paragraph about shit I know next to nothing about~

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It really blows me how, when confronted with their own ignorance, a white person will just plow on through with confidence even to the point of condescension. It's always so jarring

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I thought it was time to get ready to leave the house, but i was sorely mistaken because it is actually time to hold the cat in my lap and give him pets

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Good morning my patience is extra low today and it's time for a follower purge

thiswomanswerk,
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Not interested in being white folks' moral compass negro and it's clear some of y'all see me that way. Bye

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Some of you on here invoke Black people or Black experiences, not for their own sake, but as supporting evidence, or as some sort of discursive gotcha, or as rhetorical devices to do the heavy lifting in your arguments.

It is dehumanizing and often ahistorical.

Black people are not your tools.

thiswomanswerk, to KindActions
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Sudan requests

Pls share + circulate

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Texas state troopers are assaulting and arresting UT students, tying their hands with zipties. Protestors are chanting "Hands off our students."

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Texas state troopers have been called in (by UT's president? Not sure) for a pro-Palestine student-led protest at UT Austin. There's at least one helicopter flying over campus

Twitter user big b and the b stands for bedour says: state troopers now have hemmed in students on both sides. i just had to negotiate with a state trooper for ten minutes to let students pass through to get to their rooms Photo from protestors' perspective showing dozens of state troopers blocking any movement forward

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16 (and counting) have been arrested. Venmo for bail fund is psc_atx.

There's another action planned tomorrow, a rally for DEI which has been banned in Texas resulting in dozens suddenly unemployed, closings of the multicultural center, women's center, etc.

I won't be surprised if this situation escalates. Praying for protestors' safety.

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@hannu_ikonen This is Austin, an hour or so ago.

thiswomanswerk,
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@fkamiah17 @hannu_ikonen this is ongoing.

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I heard that there was a time when graduate students could afford to buy houses, what a laugh

thiswomanswerk, to random
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If we can organize to feed and support protesting college students' encampments we can also do that for unhoused people.

Some people already do this, but I hope what's happening with the encampment at Columbia U (people bringing food, water, support and community) serves as a demonstrative lesson and empowers more people across NYC and the country to do those sorts of things for their neighbors for whom living in a tent is not solely a form of protest but their only shelter.

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Wild that colleges are cool with the KKK and confederate flags on campus but not with students expressing solidarity with people experiencing a genocide, and that conservatives are constantly bemoaning their right to free speech when they are in fact the ones curtailing it for others.

I'm going to an action this week (I consider this the bare minimum). If you're an American academic I hope you are too.

thiswomanswerk,
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Absolutely maddening that
a university with a 40 BILLION dollar endowment (oil money, I think) bends at the knee to an oppressive state government leaving dozens abruptly unemployed and hundreds of students with less support, while using the obfuscating language of "reorganization."

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Like at this point if you are involved with an R1 school and you don't know of any political actions happening then you are too disconnected from the material realities of the minds you supposedly enrich.

Being unconcerned at this point is ivory tower-type behavior and that is not something to be proud of.

thiswomanswerk,
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Ida B. Wells might tell me that I went in the wrong direction for school, that I should've gone up north.

Well as it turns out the north ain't looking too good either (and never really has, if we're being real)

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I also want to be clear, as a disabled person, that physically attending protests and rallies is not the only way you can help and in fact we require people who do other things!

You can be a sign-maker, a phone-banker, a ride-organizer, a mutual-aid facilitor, a meal-bringer, or something else entirely. There are so many ways to show up.

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Obviously we know the guy who took out a full-page newspaper ad advocating for the execution of 5 black men would be worse than Biden.

White democrats on here, consider doing something more useful than attempting to lecture black and brown people online by telling them things they already know.

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Maybe, just maybe: do the work of understanding why so many people are unmoved on Biden despite the dangers of a Trump presidency instead of arrogantly telling others what their political opinions should be, expecting placid obedience and becoming enraged when you don't receive that.

Perhaps you will come to realize that the status-quo you would like to hold on to so dearly, has been untenable for many for a very long time.

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My partner said Austin smells like diesel and shame 💀

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Tennessee withheld billions of dollars from its one public HBCU, Tennessee State, and then tn house voted to oust its entire board and replace it with the governor's picks. Sounds about white

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@fulanigirl 100%, and many of them have already been struggling for a while because their state governments (if they are public) purposefully make choices that undercut their chances of success. This has been the case with TSU.

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Our conversations about DEI need more nuance. In some spaces (like my former workplace) it was not taken up in good faith but put together quickly and thoughtlessly. It was raggedy and exploitative for marginalized workers (you know, the ones DEI is supposed to benefit?) who bore the brunt of emotional and intellectual labor while being hamstrung by administration and unable to do anything that was actually helpful. My experience working DEI was stressful and exhausting. However--

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Somebody called Candace Owens "evil Gabrielle Union" and another person replied "Gabrielle Confederacy, if you will" 💀💀💀

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