In Denver, CO, on June 11th?
THE PRO-HUMAN TOUR:
See FBT's @Rhetors_of_York, along with @RealDarylDavis, and @fairforall_org's @bartning, @HBlakeslee, Laureen Boll, and Brian Kors.
This is our world now:
I love when white people try to tell me that I shouldn’t listen to white people
NEW from @OlufemiOTaiwo:
"'Identity politics' polarizes discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom & amplifies antagonisms. But the phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as introduced by Black feminist Combahee River Collective."
Order:
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture
Devastating thread about the elite's ignorance of and contempt for non-elite fellow citizens.
After a two days of hot takes about Uvalde, where I've lived for 13 years, here's a thread for very online people who actually want to understand it and maybe change it and places like it. This will be based on my own experiences; my excuse is that I'm autistic. Thread:
JOIN @SheenaMasonPhD NOW FOR A LIVE Q&A!! @Racelessness
https://youtu.be/0XvqCwPcYTs
https://loom.ly/rckQ2SQ
"This one not about gender or systemic racism or climate change, but the debate over whether it is acceptable that innocent Jews are being murdered in Israel."
#JILV #JewishInstituteForLiberalValues #liberaldemocraticvalues #antisemitism #antizionism
Read the full piece here: http://ow.ly/bipV50JhxsC @HdxAcademy
https://loom.ly/G4mHKpA
This is the story Reuters didn’t want to tell."
#JILV #JewishInstituteForLiberalValues Woke #reuters #BlackLivesMatter #ZacKriegman
How do we move forward?
@SheenaMasonPhD
breaks down how we stop racializing ourselves. This is an emotional journey, let's make real change and spread kindness and love! Division is profitable! Let's heal!
#Census2022 #census #racism #media
https://youtu.be/hAyFuDo9wgk
In this week's @hold_mydrink + @Counter_Weight_ pod, @roifield and I take a nuanced view of the US (and a peek at the UK too) exploring ideas like individuality & community and where they intersect.
w/ @truth_inbetween
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-81-360-degrees-of-america-roifield-brown/id1537516628?i=1000563949445
CACAGNY invites members and friends to support campaign to lift the NYC charter cap. CACAGNY has been an outspoken supporter of high-performing charter schools for families who care about rigorous education but haven’t yet fled New York City public schools.
Join @SheenaMasonPhD LIVE now on Twitter! She’s discussing everything that’s happening now, @Racelessness, and more!
https://youtu.be/hAyFuDo9wgk
https://loom.ly/8HhIHhY
"But what I remember most of all was that young professor’s unbounded excitement about
his subject."
@Princeton
There's a lot of information out there. The question is, what to do with it? How to make sense of it? What values do we apply to it? What does any of it truly mean?
These are not easy questions.
And we don't have the answers here. But we like asking the questions.
Read the full article here: http://ow.ly/Wl7y50JhwQh @AreoMagazine
https://loom.ly/_6sk12A
@EinatWilf @tabletmag
"To remain in the good graces of the global left, I needed to hand over a pound of flesh: to renounce my Zionism."
Chaos is a necessary stage, says @RalphRickenbach, in forming community. But to get through it to the other side, you need something else.
https://www.thirdfactor.org/through-chaos-toward-community/
#Breathe
@bariweiss
"“Our political leadership considered us a necessary evil,” says Young..."June of 2020, they think that we're an unnecessary evil. Every cultural institution turned on us."
A Cop’s-Eye View of Seattle’s Undoing
'We were hated. We were literally hated overnight.'
loom.ly
We now live in a time when standup comics can legitimitly fear physical reprisal for their jokes.
#comedy #davechapelle #standupcomedy #freespeech #freethinkingartists #Newtown
Dave Chappelle's bisexual attacker speaks out for first time saying he was 'triggered' by jokes about LGBTQ https://trib.al/1a6lWVP
Authors who dared and broke grounds are now being cancelled for complimenting their peers. In Newtown, cancel culture doesn't exist.
#Cancelculture #freethinkingartists #freespeech #Newtown
Mercedes Lackey, a 71 yo who was writing gay-positive fiction in the 80s, is kicked from a conference where she was going to get a lifetime achievement award..
..for referring to 80 yo Samuel Delany as a "colored person" while she was complimenting him for breaking barriers. https://twitter.com/sfwa/status/1528461525865799680
When high school teach your children about using art simply for activism. If you are or know of a concerned parent know that with Newtown merit is one of our founding principle, and grants you easy access to heterodox material for yourself and your children. Thanks @pauldrossi https://twitter.com/pauldrossi/status/1528877772248010752