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@protestotoro.bsky.social
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Chicanx Okie | decolonial feminist philosopher 🍉 | cry bby | views my own 🫀👁️🫁🧠🦷🦋🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026
this is community 🪴
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
First Indigenous Peoples Day where I can say: If you are not fully aware of how the US government has terrorized Indigenous people and our children from its inception, read my book.
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Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story by Ashley Fairbanks | Moon Palace Books
Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel is titled “things that are spooky”. We see a book of hexes, a skull, candles, a pentagram in blood, and vampire teeth. Pointing off panel we see a speech bubble that says “I love it”.
The second panel is titled “things that are cute”. We see a strawberry cake, a boba drink, a bunny plushie, and a cute notebook and pen. Again, we see a speech bubble pointing off panel that says “I love it”.
The third panel is titled “things that are spooky AND cute”. We see a row of cute decorative ghosts.
The fourth panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, completely freaking out at this combination.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
I’m grateful for this recommendation, I’ve had this quote from Teju Cole pinned up in my office for years:
Photo of a piece of paper with the phrase “writing as writing, writing as rioting, writing as righting. On the best days, all three.” - Teju Cole
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Listen, she’s just a single mom who works two jobs
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lugones is raging from the realm of the ancestors. All these fascists bound to lose.
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Otro mundo es posible ✊🏽
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week
A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 29/08/2026
From @gaigedavila.bsky.social: Since early July, ICE has arrested people daily in traffic stops throughout the Laguna Madre area. On July 14, the agency announced that on just one day in June it had arrested 238 people in the Rio Grande Valley, an apparent record.
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'Living like Vampires': ICE Surge Fractures Daily Life in Deep South Texas
"It's gotten that bad: People don't want to register their children to school. They don't want to do groceries. They don't even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee."
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Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 29/08/2026
I'm watching Dolly in 9 to 5 and remembering that it's based on the true story of a women's labor movement in Boston and the title of their newsletter, "9to5: Newsletter for Boston Area Office Workers." www.mawomenshistory.org/exhibits/ros...
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From Roses to Raises: Women’s Fight for Just and Equal Pay in Massachusetts | Massachusetts Women's History Center
Women in the Commonwealth have often led the way in the fight for just compensation and equal pay in the United States. From the 1830s Lowell mill girls "turn outs" to 140 years later with the 9to5 mo...
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Revolutionary seed art, we love to see it! 🌱✊🏽
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
rest in power Dolly 😭💖
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The latest episode was very much a sequel to this one, in which, with the help of @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & UIC United Faculty we started theorizing edwork bargaining during a phase when the state is actively sabotaging its own educational infrastructure.
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Theory At The Bargaining Table (Vandal Live at UIC)
with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Put my hand on a bison rubbing stone today. It’s been sitting here since it was dropped by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age. The sides are smoothed from generations of bison rubbing on it. Good to think about that now and then
Large red granite boulder in the foreground. Grass extending to a distant horizon. The sky is bright blue with puffy white clouds.
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
You can listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript here:
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.”
The geographer who is a mentor and teacher to a new generation of social creativity that is shaping what we collectively will become.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
after the summer rain come the chanterelles 🌧️
a handful of foraged Chantrelles, frilly orange and gill-less, smelling lightly of apricot
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026
currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.' vimeo.com/163190768
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Julie Dash interviews Octavia Butler (1995)
A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first bla...
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Resistance Studies Series @resistanceschool.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Mycelial collaboration 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾🍄 #iguessibakesourdoughnow
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This whole thread is worth the read! 🧵
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📌 for pedagogical purposes
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 15/06/2026
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A world historical come back!! 🏀
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.
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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Essential reading from @pepepierce.bsky.social ! indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/the-universi...
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The University Will Never Love You
After twenty years in higher education, I know the university will protect itself over its people. Rather than explain the value of the university, we have to refuse the language of the market and def...
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/05/2026
this is incredible
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final grrrl 𓂀 @finalgrrr1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In case anyone needed to remember that “He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings (persons) with inherent rights. “Grounded in Te Ao Māori teachings and Polynesian values, the Declaration recognizes whales as both ancestors and sentient beings.”
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He Whakaputanga Moana | Whale rights and legal personhood declaration
He Whakaputanga Moana is the first Indigenous-led Declaration recognizing whales as sentient beings with inherent rights. Grounded in Te Ao Māori and Polynesian values, it establishes legal protection...
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Amy Marvin @amymarvin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Fulden Ibrahimhakkioglu and I are editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice! Completed essays are due January 4th. Details are here: philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Feminist Accountability and Transformative Justice - Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
We are irrevocably implicated in the systems of oppression we seek to dismantle, and the effects of those systems live with us and within us. Accountability—understood as taking responsibility f...
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
90% of ICE detentions have been illegal, according to 10,000 judges’ rulings www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
90% of ICE detentions have been illegal, according to 10,000 judges’ rulings

Source: POLITICO

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Inside you are two wolves. One says “I want everyone to read my story.” The other says “oh God everyone is reading my story” and also that wolf is vomiting.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/05/2026
oh how I love a spicy footnote
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
so...are grades still due?
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 03/05/2026
Solidarity with the University of Illinois Chicago graduate workers on strike. ✊🏽 They show up every day to teach, research, and support students, and now they’re standing together for fair pay and respect. seiu.co/4tLlW3s
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Graduate student workers at UIC go on strike: ‘We want to be paid a living wage’
Roughly 2,290 workers, represented by the University of Illinois Chicago Graduate Employees Organization, are striking after months of contract talks.
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ok get ready folks, this article is fabulous. It’s gonna become a staple on syllabi on contemporary Black feminist theory. And it’s open access 🙌
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Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn: Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Black Feminist Studies | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
Black Feminist Thought and the New Materialist Turn: Understanding the Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Black Feminist Studies
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The decolonial political philosopher in me now has the urge to write part II of my colonial contract paper. Taking notes 📝
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
As Opposition Grows, Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted an ICE Warehouse | Truthout truthout.org/articles/as-...
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As Opposition Grows, Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted an ICE Warehouse
Organizers also channeled mass outrage into long-haul organizing for immigration justice in Oklahoma and beyond.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 25/04/2026
*staring into the camera with the light behind my eyes entirely extinguished*
Through the African American Policy Forum, she launched the #WhyWeCantWait campaign, calling for the programme to be expanded to include girls and young women of colour. Prominent Black feminist leaders and advocates including Brittney Cooper, Barbara Arnwine, Lisalyn Jacobs and Fatima Goss Graves threw their support behind it. An open letter, signed by more than 1,000 women and girls, urged the administration to realign the initiative with the principles of inclusion and shared fate that had long underpinned struggles for racial justice. The groundswell widened further with a second petition backed by high-profile white feminists including Gloria Steinem, V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Jane Fonda.

Crenshaw was invited to the White House to discuss the initiative, but the encounter only underscored how little space there was for the argument she was making. She recalls being interrupted by Obama’s chief of staff, who, she says, incredibly, told her she perhaps didn’t understand the meaning of intersectionality. Afterwards, she found herself shut out of the administration.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 23/04/2026
Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls says there are 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands. The data center boom is a “modern-day iteration” of “settler colonialism,” impacts of which include noise pollution, cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion and more.
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Indigenous Activists Decry “Data Colonialism” of AI Boom in Their Communities
Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.
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emma @protestotoro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Taking the bet and upping the ante. Leaving this here for…reasons. escholarship.org/content/qt59...
A passage from page 3 of Maldonado Torres’s essay Thinking through the Decolonial Turn (link for full essay)
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