#weresist

#cancelcanadaday #noprideingenocide #weresist (at Turtle Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CffkhhFM0do/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Our fight for equality is intersectional because it will be impossible for our oppressor to say “That’s all the freedom we giving out today. Check back at a later time.” . Our oppressions of white supremacist/cisnormative/heteronormative/imperialist/capitalist/patriarchy is intersectional, so the fight against it has to be as well. . #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #womensrights #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CX4zLnBuNR-/?utm_medium=tumblr

Just thought I’d remind y’all… . If you are in the prediction business, I hope your board is full of black folk. “We” always see it coming. “We” are never surprised. 😆 😂 🤣 . . #Blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #womensrights #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXtO0e7u2Y9/?utm_medium=tumblr

This has been on spirit lately. So I’ma sit this right here. . "Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.” - Roxane Gay . Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017). . Gay is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, co-editor of PANK, a nonprofit literary arts collective, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium. . #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #womensrights #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnsCHFpruH/?utm_medium=tumblr

#photodump - #indigenouspeoplesday #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/CU5q4YVFFHJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

A caption from Ta-Nehisi Coates video post about The Water Dancer "Naming Rites - I get asked a lot about the vocab choices in #thewaterdancer--why the tasked, the quality, the low etc. My sense is that those of us seeking freedom, invariably must look for for new words to describe their reality. At least that's what my pops thought when he gave me this half-ghetto half-African name. To claim freedom you have to name it. And though my Dad came out the Panthers and the 60s, I think his notion is well within the tradition and is as old as Frederick Bailey, Malcolm Little and Araminta Ross. And just as the need for new names is true of my struggle, I suspect it's true of all struggles. Sometimes we forget that, when really those of us who've been everything from Negro to Nigga, from Colored to Contraband, should be the first to know. Game recognize game. At least it should.” . This reminds me of a line from “Coded Language” by @saulwilliams that has always stuck with me since it came out 19 years ago. . "Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.” . #poetry #blackonblackbk #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blaaaaacknificent #blackpower #blackpride #supportblackbusiness #supportblackart (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNJSSvlV9A/?utm_medium=tumblr

By the time Johnson became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, he was ready to plow all of his political capital to the passage of the civil rights legislation initiated by his predecessor. By most accounts, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 couldn’t have become law when it did had not LBJ personally wheedled, cajoled, and shamed his former colleagues in the House and Senate into voting for it. One of the secrets of his success was the ability to speak the racially insensitive language of his fellow Southerners. He understood them. He understood their reluctance and in some cases downright refusal to tear down the walls of racial segregation. He knew racism from the inside, and he knew well the role the rich and powerful played in promulgating it. . That’s the context of one of the most famous statements on race ever attributed to President Johnson, an off-the-cuff observation he made to a young staffer, Bill Moyers, after encountering a display of blatant racism during a political visit to the South. Moyers tells it in the first person: . We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” In the blunt vernacular that he loved to use, LBJ was describing what the television pundits of today would probably call the politics of resentment and divisiveness. It is still very much with us. by David Emery - Published 23 August 2016 . #blacklivesmatter #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRXLYE1FZBV/?utm_medium=tumblr

Elected Republicans aren't afraid of 45, they agree with him. Don’t get it twisted. . #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter #womensrights #wefight #weresist #wewillwin #outfittingtherevolution #deconstructtheconstruct #blackonblackbk #itslifeordeathforus #intersectionality #civilrights #humanrights #equality #equalityforall no #racism, #sexism, #classism, #ableism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia #alliesandchampions #notagame #resistance (at Bedford-Stuyvesant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRH5ZxFl8Vr/?utm_medium=tumblr