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Somali - Cidda 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯 *supporting trans & queer Somalis in EA on monthly basis* pfp = the cover of bell hooks' Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
Last week @afrifeminists.bsky.social published the open letter we emailed to the Somalia National Pavilion & the 3 diasporic exhibiting artists, which we co-wrote with other Somali artists, poets, writers, academics and cultural workers. AF also published the 130+ www.instagram.com/p/DZw4b4QAloY/
The signatories include Nuruddin Farax, Ishmael Reed, Christina Sharpe, Joy James, Ruha Benjamin, Yasmin Dualeh, Dionne Brand, Rinaldo Walcott, Abdi Osman, priscillia kounkou hoveyda, Dash Harris, Robin DG Kelly, Jared Ball, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Ladan Osman, Maboula Soumahoro, Donika Kelly, Safia Aidid, Maaza Mengiste, Uman, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye, Amal Alhaag, Isa Johnson, Saffa Khalil, ndegwa nguru, Hari Ziyad and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Sagal Abdi
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imp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 14h
A must read.
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white @trashmnk.bsky.social · 14h
My mother was raised Catholic (my grandfather's daughter). She raised us non-denominational and exposed me to art, literature and seeded pretty much every good thing that I am/became.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026
here is a picture of the Somali anti-colonial poet we quote at the end Maymuuna Xasan Biyoow (RIP) “gaal manoo islaam wadin nama soo galeen” (the colonizer would not be in our midst if he wasn’t accompanied by one of us) africasacountry.com/2026/05/on-t...
We end by invoking the righteous words of Maymuuna Biyow:

“gaal manoo islaam wadin nama soo galeen”

(the colonizer would not be in our midst if he wasn’t accompanied by one of us)a picture of Maymuuna Xasan Biyoow wearing shaash, gold earrings and a dress. she is looking into the camera.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026
#Blacksky ....an interview we (Warbixinta Cidda) did a few weeks ago is finally out. inviting Black folks to pls read and share ur thoughts with me / us. s/o to Yasmin Dualeh who interviewed us. africasacountry.com/2026/05/on-t...
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    One of the reasons we were unsettled by the announcement was the fact that this exhibition is taking place in a country that indeed caused our people so much suffering and violence. We don’t believe in representation for representation’s sake. Moreover, in this case it would actually obfuscate both Italy’s violent history and the current iteration of it, which as you mentioned, the current far-right and neo-fascist government is a big part of. We all know the deadly “border protection” work that Frontex does with support of European governments, which has caused so many Afrikans, especially Black Afrikans, their lives. And the Italian government will surely flaunt this so-called global inclusion, while denying the violent past. Enabling them to benefit from the same history of colonial subjugation they refuse to be held accountable for.
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Africa Is a Country [Unofficial] @africasacountry.com.web.brid.gy · 07/05/2026
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On the Somalia Pavillion
As Somalia makes its first appearance at the Venice Biennale, some Somali artists are questioning who gets to represent the nation — and on whose terms.
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Feed: "Africa Is a Country" By: Yasmin Dualeh on Thursday, May 7, 2026
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On the Somalia Pavillion
As Somalia makes its first appearance at the Venice Biennale, some Somali artists are questioning who gets to represent the nation — and on whose terms.
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imp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 14h
and many descendants of said Germans still live in Namibia practising their ancestral apartheid shit.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
what is also often ignored is the genocide of the Herero and Nama ppl that germans committed in modern day Namibia just 30 or so years before WW 2, because they resisted german colonialism. germany used concentration camps there as well. germany still refuse to give back remains till this day.
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Sun Noor @sunnoor.bsky.social · 17h
Had the absolute pleasure of profiling @saulwilliams.bsky.social for the latest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social: hammerandhope.org/article/saul...
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On “Leap Life,” Saul Williams Communes With the Dead
With his new album, the multihyphenate artist amplifies memories of resistance and highlights the voices of those no longer with us.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14h
Fucking dope, I will be devouring this feature. @saulwilliams.bsky.social is my mutual on here & was on twitter, & we grew to consider ourselves comrades I believe in our opposition to US empire & the Palestinian genocide as Black writers. His art is to be respected highly among the best out there.
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RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app · 21h
Okay y'all, Operation Get Ra'il to A New Apartment by November 30th is in full effect, let's goooooooooo Goal this week is $500 🙏🏾🍀🤞🏾 gofund.me/0d73b92b2 cash.app/$sotreu2 venmo.com/sotreu paypal.me/rikiam #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 14h
RIP to Freddie Jackson & Luther Vandross 🖤🖤 youtu.be/yRRuJalpvAQ?...
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LUTHER VS FREDDIE SLOW JAM BEDROOM CLASSICS
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Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 23h
A new addition to my tbr😊 Part of my decolonizing was built around fat phobia and the intersections of attractiveness and race. "Fat shaming" is still a colonized mindset.
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Sbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do something support a Black woman today. Doesn’t have to be money (highly encouraged). Can be time, labor, and/or a kind message.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
A motherfucking order. Y'all think appreciating Black women is slogans & continue to treat us like shit as the mules of society constantly. You say you love what we do by our efforts. Well those efforts are hard & thankless. They shorten lifespans. Black women sacrifice for you, so support one.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
i promise u, u can critique the hell out of that awful podcast guy who is talking out the side of his neck, without being anti-fat. anti-fatness = antiblackness blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The French state pummeling young people for asking for a proper education and facilities. State despotism unleashed to send a message of who is actually in control. And most of all how and what they expect the ruled masses to accept. This violence is pedagogical for the future generations.
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Listen To and Vote Like Black Women @bullet1982.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As I have since 2016, I signed up to serve as a poll judge in Prnice George's County, MD. When I didn't hear a response, I called my Board of Elections. "We have so many people signed up, we didn't need you this year."
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Kosine: That's What I'm Talking About
ALT: Kosine: That's What I'm Talking About
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𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚🧑🏾‍🩰🇬🇾🇱🇨🇧🇧 @lydiasalara.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
So nobody was going to tell me it’s $70+ per person to attend Miami Carnival parade & fete (concert) on Sunday? Or I’m getting scammed? #MiamiCarnival www.caribtix.com/event/Miami%...
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𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚🧑🏾‍🩰🇬🇾🇱🇨🇧🇧 @lydiasalara.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Hi, hello. Is anybody on here going to Miami Carnival??
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
i promise u, u can critique the hell out of that awful podcast guy who is talking out the side of his neck, without being anti-fat. anti-fatness = antiblackness blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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Médias Libres @mediaslibres.skyfleet.blue · 18/07/2026
Rassemblement #FreeMehdi #FreeKoulchi
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Rassemblement #FreeMehdi #FreeKoulchi
Rassemblement de soutien à Mehdi et tou.tes les prisonnier.es marrocain.es, mardi 21 juillet 2026, à 20h au Vieux Port. Appel à un rassemblement en soutien à El Mahdi Lyoubi ! A Mehdi est un rappeur et cinéaste marrocain, et également un habitant de Marseille depuis des années. Parti faire des repérages au Maroc pour son prochain documentaire et voir sa famille en juin, il n'a pas pu quitter le pays. Arrêté depuis le 13 juillet à Casablanca, il est aujourd'hui incarceré à la prison d'Oukacha à Casablanca. Son arrestation intervient dans un contexte politique particulièrement tendu au Maroc, où la répression a largement frappé le mouvement GenZ, à l'automne 2025. La poursuite de son procès sera le lendemain du rassemblement, mercredi 22 juillet, à Casablanca. Ami•es et soutien, retrouvons nous mardi 21 juillet à 20h00 au Vieux Port pour montrer notre solidarité face à la répression des militant•es, artistes et journalistes marocain•es et exigez la libération de El Mahdi Lyoubi. #FreeMahdi #FreeKoulchi D'autres rassemblements ont lieu en France et ailleurs, suivez les différentes informations et manifestez votre soutien sur la page instagram https://www.instagram.com/free.el.mahdi/
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Need to get this out from another platform. Do y’all know the Free Koulchi movement in Morocco? It has an online hashtag #freekoulchi. Morocco’s monarchy has a bad rep, which they back up well, of brutal political suppression including locking up a lot as political prisoners for using basic rights.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Free Koulchi means Free Everybody, & this moment has been going on basically since the monarchy’s brutal suppression of Arab Spring revolt. My actual personal friend Omar Radi was their political prisoner for years for his journalism. They go after Moroccan rappers speaking truth.
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
in case y'all don't know, the founder and editor in chief of albunism is ⚪
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Explains SOOOOO much!
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Think about the albums we should have had. #BlackSky #GenX 🎶
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quoted post explains so much. And the consistent and recalcitrant lack of alt-text paints a picture. Albumism honors a long-time harrasser and abuser of Black women. As long as the bars are good, I guess.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Predator.
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Talib Kweli Battles Ex-Collaborator Res in Court, on Twitter Over Sexual Harassment Claim
Res claims he took her career “hostage” after she rejected his advances; Kweli “fully and categorically” denies her allegations
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I remember what Talib Kwali did to Res. Who knows how many careers he ruined. I'm still angry about the Res albums I don't have. alt-text: birthday wishes and photo of an arrogant predator
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Talib Kweli Faces Sexual Harassment Accusations From Former Protégé Res
Talib Kweli is facing accusations of sexual harassment from Res, who claims that the rapper held her career "hostage" after she rejected his advances.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
So I have this to share which is a call to anarchists to support Free Koulchi, with me being a Black anarchist in network & solidarity with anarchists worldwide especially Black one. @walaal.blacksky.app
THIS IS A CALL TO ALL
ANARCHISTS IN MOROCCO AND OVER THE WORLD TO JOIN THE FREE KOULCHI ACTIONS OF SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL DETAINEES IN MOROCCO
هادا نداء لكَاع الأناركيين.
ات في المغرب وفالعالم باش
يلتحقو بالأشكال التضامنية ديال
فرى كولشي مع المعتقلين.ات السياسيين.ات في المغرب.
#FREE KOULCHI
@azday.unite, doar_tilila, organizedanarchism and agraw.anarchist
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Yeah but it’s … bad the threshold for public concern is whether or not the person killed by state violence is white.
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Marissa PRIME 🦾 @marissamadeit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bet on black ♠️
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
and big s/o to DeWanna Bonner! ATL should be very thankful that she chose to join their team, cuz she really has been making the difference when it was really needed and continues to do!
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imp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 04/10/2026
ABOLISH THE STATE!
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 04/10/2026
It blew me away with how good it was when I finally sat down and played. Just multiple OH SHIT moments.
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imp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 04/10/2026
I'm playing this and I'm like HOLY PEAK! It's been sooo long since ive played a big budget game which has hooked me IMMEDIATELY. With the story, atmosphere, and gameplay! And like...IT RUNS WELL! (ive been soooo jaded with PC performance so was seriously blown away) 1hr in and I'm sat!
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imp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 04/10/2026
So im playing the first Control and omggg! This game is woah! Also it's really nice to play a game on my aging Linux gaming PC that actually holds a very stable framerate! #BlackSkyGaming
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!
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timlentini.bsky.social @timlentini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what happened in 2013 to a student whom I previously taught in elementary school. One of the most promising students I ever taught. It was so heartbreaking. I’m glad more people are watching the Cornell case, and I hope justice prevails.
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I Stand With Willa, I Stand With Survivors
In the spring of 2013, Willa Murphy was violently raped by a fellow Georgetown student. It was such a traumatic experience that it took over a year after her rape before she was able to tell anyone…
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SNoggie @snogg3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The day after he raped me, lots of other football players sought me out & said "oh I hear you two got back together again" which we hadn't. It was just his way of covering his ass.
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SNoggie @snogg3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It never really left me, and I've been able to live a successful life. Nonetheless I'm still hit with waves of panic when certain things happen in my environment. I still live in Colorado and I know that recently when I looked them up. He's also in Colorado though not immediately nearby. 2
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SNoggie @snogg3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm 72. When I was 21, I was raped by a Colorado football player. We had gone out a couple times the year before, so I didn't even bother reporting him because in a big football town like Boulder, no one would have taken my side. I was lucky to have a very supportive family & circle of friends. 1
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
🖕🏿 indiana fever "I'm a former member of the MEDIA who said that I would never step foot in their arena NOR when they play Atlanta. I STILL stand on that This comment from her is extremely dismissive of that racist fan base and to act like ain’t shit happening is white privilege." Dawn Montgomery
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I’m a former member of the MEDIA who said that I would never step foot in their arena NOR when they play Atlanta. 

I STILL stand on that. 

This comment from her is extremely dismissive of that racist fan base and to act like ain’t shit happening is white privilege.
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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶 @riptodeesse.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
My god half the 16 ppl on the app got a bday today
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People who have never had their freedom taken, or even questioned or debated, do not understand why others would rather die than lose it.
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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Because it wasn't about finances, it was about faces. They had to whiten the rooms again and realign the power balance.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 04/10/2026
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