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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

A key mechanism of colonial fascism for complicity: narratively transfer genocides to the past + performatively regret them (w/o any consequences like land back, but profiting), while ignoring their presence. That’s all I can think about when I see Germany suddenly protesting their far-right now.

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Those denying systemic violence will irrationally view resistance as violence. Reversal of victim and offender.

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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master"

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Those who are not Palestinians or Israelis, and those who do not study Palestine or Israel - I'm here to let you know that there is also the option of staying quiet. Perhaps even learning from others? Idk just a thought For real I cant understand the confidence yall have

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Let’s never forget that Frantz Fanon's dissertation was rejected, which was later published as Black Skin, White Masks.

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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 02/10/2023

Trans studies job! The Gender & Sexuality Studies (GSS) Program at Northwestern University seeks a full-time, tenure-line Assistant Professor with research and teaching interests strongly rooted in transgender studies, to begin September 1, 2024. gendersexuality.northwestern.edu/about/news/j...

gendersexuality.northwestern.edu

JOB POST: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TRANS STUDIES: Gender & Sexuality Studies Program - Northwestern Un...

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

What is happing with Twitter and BlueSky is a typical neoliberal mechanism: While one major alternative is openly fascist, the other one, which doesn’t have any features to protect marginalized people, is being promoted by the mainstream as better—just for not being fascist towards the mainstream.

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

sophicmanatee.bsky.social Now the search worked. Thanks for connecting.

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Musk charging the use of Twitter for all is the next step of his INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION of that very platform marginalized people all over the world have used to organize against and educate about coups and mechanisms of oppression. #MeToo, #BLM, #ArabicSpring #Sudan etc.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

everybody dunking on this guy, but anytime the fed raises interest rates to "cool down wage pressure" or whatever econ-speak euphemism they use, this is what they are saying as close to out loud as they can

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Decoloniality is destruction/reconstruction. It means refusing complicity (e.g., Boaventura supporters), while recognizing “that what [needs] to be repaired is irreparable. It can’t be repaired. The only thing we can do is tear this shit down completely and build something new.

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Decolonization is destruction and construction, not superficial, liberal inclusion.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Two aging dams failed in Libya—once Africa’s most prosperous nation—and whole neighborhoods in Derna were swept away. 12 years after the 2011 NATO mission to overthrow Gaddafi, Libya’s economy and infrastructure have been decimated by war and now the interplay of climate change and imperialism.

Libya floods wipe out quarter of city, 10,000 feared missing
At least 10,000 people were feared missing in
Libya on Tuesday in floods caused by a huge storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern city of Derna.

Flood damage in the Libyan city of Derna, with wrecked cars and debris washed up on rocks.

Flood damage in the Libyan city of Derna.

Flood damage in the Libyan city of Derna, with wrecked cars and debris scattered in the muddy streets.

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fcâncio @fcancio.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

A decisão da editora britânica Routledge de extirpar da coletânea sobre assédio sexual na academia o capítulo q acusa Boaventura d Sousa Santos é qualificada plas coordenadoras da obra de apoio ao "abuso sistemático de poder na academia". t.co/wjRJoy4ouo

t.co

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

It is beyond bonkers that routledge would agree to delete this chapter . Highest level of censorship 12ft.io/proxy?q=http...

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

I was at Mills College on 9/11. I knew in an instant what is was going to mean for the Arabic world. Everyone else was just living their lives. And indeed, neoliberal-neocolonial-fascist wars, genocides, and coups had been the state of normalcy for decades. Hence, I’ll remember 9/11/73 today.

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Best suicide prevention instead of having a suicide prevention day is not having a necropolitical system.

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

East #Libya is flooding — and the West, who bombed the prospering country into poverty in order to exploit the following destruction, is silent about it. Europe creates theses disasters through its carbon spewing and it makes these disasters worse through its destruction of infrastructure.

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 08/09/2023

Academics don't say "hello", they say "I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you", and I think it's honestly the sign of a culture that rewards over-commitment, and we should not glorify it

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/09/2023

U.S. Immigration system uses A.I. translation tools, which often work poorly and mistranslate people. Then they use those mistranslations as the basis for denying people asylum. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

In 2019, Carlos fled Brazil with his sister and two nephews after his son was murdered in front of him by a local gang. Upon arriving in the US, he was separated from his family and detained in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center.

Carlos, who is Afro-Indigenous, speaks Portuguese but does not read or write it. Staff at the Calexico, California, detention center spoke only English or Spanish. The staff used an artificial intelligence-powered voice-translation tool to interpret what Carlos was saying, but the system didn’t pick up or understand his regional accent or dialect. So Carlos spent six months in Ice detention unable to meaningfully communicate with anyone.

In that time, he had no clear idea of why he was being detained or where his family was. When he sought medical care for his high blood pressure and for Covid, the nurses had trouble understanding him, he said. Spanish-speaking fellow detainees helped to fill out his asylum application

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Kára ↟ @snailmailcareost.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

no gender, no problems

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

28 years ago today, France nuked the Moruroa atoll (again) against the protest of the Polynesian population. Between 1966 and 1996, France detonated 181 nukes above and below the atoll, which substantially damaged the atoll. The fallout from the tests affected 110,000 people (mainly on Tahiti).

A mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

This piece on neoliberalism and Macron’s colonial memory policy has kept me awake at night and I am still not sure about the finished product but happy that it is out there and the first 50 downloads are free www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies

First as candidate and then as President, Emmanuel Macron has elevated colonial memory policy as a key site for the performance and enactment of the dual values of rupture and reconciliation that u...

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Forcing everyone to use real names doesn’t lead to less violence, but to more violence. The point is: it leads to less resistance against systemic violence and the privileged and to more violence against the marginalized.

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

German institutions claim to lead the struggle for decolonization, but their ranks continue to be filled with white, European faces and class privilege. Their diversity is an allegorical facade. A path to collective justice must be built.

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Please remember Käte Rogalli, persecuted & murdered by Nazi Germany for being trans. Two days ago, in #Berlin, the first #Stolperstein was laid for a trans person without deadnaming them. A reminder, that historical science & remembrance culture are systemically violent.

Freshly laid Stolperstein, surrounded with flowers: for Käte Rogalli

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

What we learn from Amilcar Cabral is that decolonization requires destruction & construction. Destruction of political, economic, & cultural dependency. Construction of a radical political consciousness, collective or communal modes of production, & cultural-epistemic projects

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

borders are lies we tell on maps and defend with bombs

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Mroß @jmrosz.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Hi, I want to read people from all over the world who are -anti-colonial -pro land back -geopolitically educating -pro trans rights -against necropolitics -wear a mask Looking forward to connecting with radical philosophers & activists.

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