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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

For lesbian visibility week, my recommended reading is “Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance” by Cheryl Clark Link to PDF: lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/queertheory/...

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Audre Lorde said: “we must train ourselves to question what our Blackness — our Africanness — can mean on the world stage. And how as members of that international community, we must assume responsibility for our actions, or lack of action, as americans.” Ibase Gamba Adisa. Happy birthday!

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We also discussed gender and democracy as colonial technologies through our reading of María Lugones’ “Coloniality of Gender” and “The Question of the Coloniality of Democracy” by Breny Mendoza.

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A reflection on the first session of our Groundings workshop series is up on our Substack! We discuss a wayward reading of Sylvia Wynter’s “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom” via zuri arman. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

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Democracy, Gender, and the Overrepresentation of Man

Reflection on Session 1 of Groundings: An Intro to Decolonial Feminism

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/11/2025

#OtD 29 Nov 1969 the Black Panther newspaper had this front page depicting a pig. The Panthers adopted the old English insult "pig" for police, which was further popularised by the art of Emory Douglas, and still widely used today. More on the Panthers: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 25/11/2025

COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but are starting to increase in parts of the U.S. More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC

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National COVID-19 trends, November 25 - The Sick Times

CDC data continue to come back online following the end of the government shutdown. Those data indicate that COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but ...

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“The mechanisms of anti-Black state violence, criminalization of Black motherhood, systematic denial of land + housing rights, + exploitation of Black women’s reproductive and domestic labor are not unique to Brazil—they are fundamental features of settler colonial capitalism across the Americas.”

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Marcha das Mulheres Negras

Solidarity With Black Women in Brazil Marching for Reparation and Good Living

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Black Agenda Report @blackagendareport.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

November 28 a March for Mumia Abu Jamal will begin in Philadelphia and end on December 9 at S.C.I. Mahanoy prison in Frackville. The march is called to support Mumia, all the elderly incarcerated who suffer from medical neglect, and all political prisoners. www.blackagendareport.com/march-mumia

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March for Mumia | Black Agenda Report

Beginning on November 28, a March for Mumia Abu Jamal and will begin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and end on December 9 at S.C.I. Mahanoy prison in Frackville, Pennsylvania, where Mumia is being hel...

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I went home to Southeast L.A. to cover the immigration raids there. And this week I've covered the raids in my adopted home of NC. Nothing--and I mean NOTHING--will give you hope like speaking to immigrant organizers and locals fighting back.

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you missed “Reimagining Spirituality as Resistance and Liberation” last month, you can catch the replay on ESOC’s YouTube. I’ll link it here: youtu.be/R9uIZhE8yYc?...

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Reimagining Spirituality as Resistance and Liberation, a conversation with 3 Osun Priests

YouTube video by EnvisioningSafety OnOurCampuses

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Prism @prismreports.org · 18/11/2025

“I wished for death every moment. [...] I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew & laughing.” Testimonies reveal rape & torture in Israeli prisons, @laubast.bsky.social reports. Israel’s carceral regime inflicts systemic sexual violence on Palestinians, advocates & experts say.

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Testimonies reveal rape and torture in Israeli prisons

Israel’s carceral regime inflicts systemic sexual violence on Palestinians, advocates and experts say

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

What does democracy demand of Black life? Join us on November 23rd and December 7th at 2pm ET, for our final collective study group of 2025, as we map these connections between Brazil and the U.S. Register: bit.ly/AntiBlackCity

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Audre Lorde’s ascension day reflections on internationalism, Black feminist truth-telling, and the decolonial (m)otherwork that shapes my daily life. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

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Audre Lorde Ascension Day Reflections

On Wholeness, (M)otherwork, and Internationalism

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I haven’t been over here in a minute 👀

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Last month, I facilitated a writing workshop on spirituality and struggle for Black August. I was thrilled to discuss Assata’s introduction to and engagement with African Traditional Religions while in Cuba. Assata taught us that struggle is spiritual. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

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Assata Shakur Taught Us That Struggle Is Spiritual

Yesterday, we lost our beloved revolutionary, Assata Shakur.

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Looking forward to facilitating “Spirit, Struggle, and the Word: Writing Through the Spiritual and Political for Black August” this Saturday 8/30. There’s still time for you to register to join virtually or in-person: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

On Aug. 30th, I’m teaching a hybrid workshop linking the spiritual + political for #BlackAugust w/ EndState ATL + @decolonialfc.bsky.social! We will consider what political prisoners can teach us about spiritual discipline and dedication? Register: bit.ly/WriteforBlac...

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My latest examining how Lorde’s revolutionary vision of care was transformed into neoliberal “self(ish) care” — and what we can learn from her friendship with Andaiye. open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

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Revolutionary Care as Political Warfare

Audre Lorde, Andaiye, and a Critique of Self(ish) Care

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Prism @prismreports.org · 11/08/2025

In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me.” In a new op-ed, Shaimaa Eid honors Anas, Mohammed, & their 240+ companions of truth, killed by the Israeli military since the most recent genocide in Gaza began.

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Farewell to Anas, Mohammed, and the companions of truth

In Gaza, the journalist has become a direct target. Carrying a camera here is like wearing a mark on your forehead that reads, “Kill me”

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If you missed my workshop “Confronting Reproductive Imperialism: Criminalization, Cop Cities, + the Transnational Fight for Reproductive Justice” earlier this year, it’s not too late to check it out! There have been so many great ones! $ goes to the sameer project, and you might learn something new!

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Happy birthday to the brilliant, June Jordan 💕

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“Even before the administration’s cuts to programs designed to help the nation address the disease, studies have shown that Black Americans with long COVID encounter significant disparities in health care when compared to their white counterparts.” capitalbnews.org/black-americ...

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The Fight to Be Believed: Long COVID’s Toll on Black Americans

Nearly a third of Black people who contracted COVID-19 have experienced long COVID symptoms, one study found, but are “not being taken as seriously,” said one patient.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers seek permission to file an amended complaint in his civil case in Maryland. Among other things, the amended complaint “includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT…”

Case 8:25-cv-00951-PX
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Filed 07/02/25 Page 2 of 5
3. The proposed Amended Complaint details the Government's defiance of court
orders after this Court granted preliminary injunctive relief. The Amended Complaint includes
allegations that the Government made decisions to defy judicial mandates. These allegations are
new to the Complaint, but have been cited in various filings in this Court as the case has developed.
They are directly relevant to Plaintiffs' constitutional claims and outstanding requests for
declaratory and prospective injunctive relief.
4. Plaintiffs also seek to incorporate evidence that emerged in a June 2025
whistleblower disclosure from former DOJ official Erez Reuveni, who was previously counsel for
the Government in this case. The new allegations include government officials internally
acknowledging that Abrego Garcia's removal was an "administrative error" while simultaneously
working to prevent his return and to make post-hoc justifications. These revelations provide
evidence of deliberate misconduct that was unavailable when the original Complaint was filed and
directly support Plaintiffs' claims.
5. The proposed Amended Complaint also Includes Abrego Garcia's first-hand
account of torture and mistreatment at CECOT, as well as developments regarding his return to the United States and the Government's stated plan to remove him again. These allegations identify
the severe harm actually suffered and the threat of repeated unlawful removal that supports
Plaintiffs' request for prospective injunctive relief. The inclusion of these facts, which could not
have been pleaded at the time of the original filing, is essential to present a complete picture of the
violations and ensure adequate relief.
6. Plaintiffs also propose to clarify that the relief sought includes restoring the status
quo ante, which requires (among other things) the Government to return Abrego Garcia to
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

120. Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated,
"Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then
forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in
the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head
was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons
along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.
121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel
from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.
During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no
windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other
officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight
others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos.
123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025

“Notably, surveillance cameras are most common in racially diverse neighborhoods experiencing an influx of white residents, suggesting that white householders are instituting this means of social control as they move into or gentrify non-white neighborhoods.”

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Surveillance camera prevalence and racial diversity in ten US cities - Nature Cities

Surveillance cameras are a widespread tool for monitoring in modern cities. This study shows how camera placement reflects racial dynamics in neighborhoods, revealing a new form of inequality in the m...

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Have y’all registered for this upcoming Fund Abortion Not War workshop hosted by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social?! The money raised will go to the Sameer Project providing on the ground support to Palestinians. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fun...

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Fund Abortion Not War — Workshops 4 Gaza

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40). Step 2: Register for “Fund Abortion Not War” here . In this workshop, three reproductive healthcare providers who have been...

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

New on my substack: “Spirituality is Not a Substitute for Study: African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory” open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

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Spirituality Is Not a Substitute for Study

African Spiritual Traditions and the Necessity of Revolutionary Theory

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Just added to YouTube from earlier this year, “Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement” for New Economy Coalition’s “Care for the People” series: youtu.be/7Q1d070m2Q0?...

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Care For The People: Who Cares? Racial Capitalism, Social Reproduction, and Collective Entanglement

YouTube video by New Economy Coalition

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It’s literally the only thing that does.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

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Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“A Pan-African Movement divorced from statecraft and patriarchal politics. Only then would Africa breathe life into the symbolic date of May 25-African Liberation Day.” — Sylvia Tamale African Liberation Day 🫡 2/2

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“The decolonization agenda and decolonial politics are closely bound up with the Pan-African one. Therefore, if Africa is ever going to realize its liberatory vision, it must consciously revitalize Pan-African nationalism outside state structures and mainstream institutions…” 1/

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities. What would you give up? Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?

A stacked bar chart (oriented horizontally) labeled: Living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome)

Each horizontal bar is a disease status: Pre-ME, Mild ME, Moderate ME, Severe ME, Very Severe ME.

The width of each bar represents how much energy is available in each status (100, 50, 25, 12.5, and 6.25 respectively).

Each bar is divided into sections for how one might allocate their energy: hygiene & nutrition (gray); caregiving, cleaning errands (red); work (orange); exercise (yellow); friends (green); hobbies (blue); fun (purple).

With worsening ME, the hygiene & nutrition takes up a larger proportion of total available energy and the amount of energy available for all other parts of life shrinks.

Mild ME has most things cut in half, with exercise cut smaller.

Moderate ME removes exercise altogether, and everything else shrinks.

Severe ME has only tiny slivers of red, orange, green, blue and purple.

Very Severe ME has only a tiny sliver of green.

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Ash Peterson @byashpeterson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I wrote about the erosion of reliable COVID data last year for @prismreports.org , and unfortunately the problem has only gotten worse under the new administration. prismreports.org/2024/08/06/c...

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COVID data quietly disappears while cases rise

Concerned citizens call for more funding after “major blow” to key COVID-19 tracking metric

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Jalessah Jackson @jalessahj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It’s my birthday and I started a substack. Check out my first post where I share a short reflection on 32 which was all about death and rebirth. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/decoloni...

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33: Returning to Source

Death, Rebirth, Remembrance

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Prism @prismreports.org · 31/03/2025

Are you a journalist/editor/media maker who wants to align your work with liberation movements? Applications for our next Reflective Journalism Project workshop are open now! 🌼 Apply by April 18 🌷 Sliding scale & scholarships available 🌹 More info here ⤵️ prismreports.org/reflective-j...

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Reflective Journalism Project: Hope in Desolate Times - Prism

Bring your newsroom or publication into alignment with movements for liberation Open application through 11:59pm ET, April 18, 2025 Are you a journalist,

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

NEW WORKSHOP!! April 24, "Representations, Erasures, and Impacts: Thinking with Disability and Archives" with Gracen Brilmyer. To benefit the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/thi...

workshops for Gaza, @workshops4gaza
Representations, Erasures, & Impacts: Thinking with Disability and Archives.
Gracen Brilmyer
April 24, 5:30-7pm EST
online

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

There are too many people in the US arguing that they want others abroad to be massacred and destroyed by an administration they feel is “responsible” enough to massacre and destroy.

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“…We live in a part of the world, for example, that equates criticism with assault, that equates social responsibility with naive idealism, that defines the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and wisdom as fanaticism.”

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“There are so few truth-speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of "Western civilization" has claimed the allegiance of so many. We have rarely been encouraged and equipped to appreciate the fact that the truth works, that it releases the Spirit, and that it is a joyous thing.”

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today we honor the life and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara-a revolutionary Black feminist, mother, filmmaker, and scholar-activist. We give thanks for her many contributions, courage, and foresight✨

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