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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. @mariliacout
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1 / WHITE WOMEN: THERE'S A LOT IN YOUR HANDS - I'd like to use @LeslieCockburn campaign in VA, strongly powered by her daughter, @oliviawilde, to address you: you can decide the fate of World democracy. Keep reading.

nbcnews.com/politics/elect…
2 / For a number of reasons, many of you voted for Trump in 2016. Still, you were already increasingly perceptive of who was on your side: more white women than white men voted @TheDemocrats . Not enough, though:
qz.com/833003/electio…
3 / That is why I am talking to YOU now: white woman. Research shows that you are waking up. That more white women are understanding they need better policies for them and their families. We need you to keep waking up, more and more.
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
4 / There are several issues that women who are not white+American+Christian have to manage and that you may not understand. But don't close your eyes now. You are on the right track. Keep going. We got your back.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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1 / BRAZIL ELECTS THE FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE - the atmosphere is of terror and threats, democratic activists murdered and promises, from #Bolsonaro, to RETURN TO THE DAYS OF THE DICTATORSHIP. Below: results with 92% of the votes.
2 / Yesterday I read the public letter from a man my age whose father was tortured and murdered in the "dungeons of the dictatorship", as we called the DOI-CODI.
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3 / He described the expression on the family dentist's face as they were called to collect the bones. I kept thinking about him the whole day. I wrote to him and offered help, any help. I can't imagine what he is going through now.
bbc.com/news/world-lat…
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@AP @peterprengaman 1 / THREAD. Let me try to help. I'm a social scientist, so I'll stick to the "least common denominator" in definitions. Bolsonaro espouses far-right totalitarian ideologies and his program has signs of an important shift to authoritarian ruling.
bit.ly/2R9EM1u
@AP @peterprengaman 2 / THREAD . The previous @wakelet collection contains material before the 1st round of the presidential elections. Whether his government, once elected, will implement his violent and hyper-authoritarian campaign points, such as suppression of civil rights, is still a question.
@AP @peterprengaman @wakelet 3 / THREAD. Many commentators and political scientists are betting on an inevitable shift to authoritarian ruling, uncontrolled violence and possibly (but not certainly), an erosion of democracy into totalitarian ruling.
bit.ly/2EWD6aL
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1 / THREAD – The #CentralAmericanCaravan
It is impossible to understand why people flee Central American countries (Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala being the most affected) without being familiar with its endemic violence. @wakelet.
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2 / THREAD – The #CentralAmericanCaravan
The @wakelet collection shows it is obvious that @theDemocrats had nothing to do with this mass refugee movement. Again, the @GOP is gaslighting Americans.
bit.ly/2CYw9nJ
3 / THREAD – The #CentralAmericanCaravan
Find, in the @Wakelet I made, the original 1951 Refugee Convention, of which the USA are a signatory country. That doesn’t mean it must accept all applicants, but it does establish it cannot arrest them.
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I’m interested to know what it means when white women are looking for a “safe” safe space have discussions about race.

A thread.
When it comes to a privileged community taking up a discussion about the ways they have oppressed the marginalized....where is their safety ever at risk?
There seems to be an odd romanticized victimization by white women. All of a sudden they need “safety” and “security” when being introspective about their own contribution to white supremacy and the role they play in the systematic racism that persists in this country.
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So.

Time for something a little different, and an idea I’ve been toying with—a look at how #transphobes try to frame their narrative within a claim that they are only “concerned” about trans people existing.

I think it’s safe to say that every trans person in the...

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community who isn’t a #transphobic arserag can now spot whenever the usual #hate groups and individuals deploy their dog-whistles to denigrate trans people, especially trans women, but it is all too easy to forget that for the average cis person with no experience of...

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this the comments and phrases that #transphobes come out with can come across as bizarre, or non-sequiturs, or even occasionally even reasonable. That person, because they have no experience of this, doesn’t see those comments as the attacks they are, and so can’t...

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The following thread contains articles on White Supremacy & #Women's role in its continued existence ~ Reads for each of us think about our role in extinguishing this most pernicious blight for good. #WeHaveThePower #MyFeminismWillBeIntersectionalOrItWillBeBullshit
"... but white women have historically enabled racism even if it came with the cost of misogyny -huffingtonpost.com/entry/it-wasnt…
"We know that 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump. We know that some white women are so blinded by their privilege, their racism, and a patriarchal system that insists their lives as wives and mothers are “precious” .." bitchmedia.org/article/mother…
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I was trying not to say anything because I rock with everyone involved (well, not that man with the suit vest, lol), but this has been one of the most uncomfortable things I have ever witnessed on this app. It’s worth thinking about what can/must be learned from it.
Firstly, @DjChubbESwagg didn’t deserve this. Period. But I’ll get back to that.
I adore Timothy, I admire her work and I’ve seen her make space for Black folk, de-center herself, etc. I worked w her on coverage when I was an editor and she was a great help to us. And not on the “she got my name on a list” way folks are suggesting abt “Blue Checks.”

HOWEVER
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From 2015–before #metoo #churchtoo #silenceisnotspiritual. #THIS is most white-male-centered narcissistic drivel I have ever read in my entire life. @JohnPiper claims scripture is his authority then offers no exegesis of any text. “Principles” instead. 1/ desiringgod.org/interviews/sho…
Teaching “principles” rather than teaching excellent exegesis is a narcissistic tactic of control. ANYONE can claim the scripture says ANYTHING when they leave the scripture out. Brings followers into close relationship w/ leader, but leaves them not knowing Jesus (The Word). 2/
What .@JohnPiper did here was unbelievably manipulative. Demonstrated #ZERO submissiveness to scripture. Has nerve to guilt/shame women into “submission to scripture” then offers #NONE. Only offers his own “principles,” which scripture would drop-kick. 3/
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Thread: things #white people are accused of doing wrong. Sometimes it's not even about doing, it's simply about white people being.

#TooManyWhitePeople

#NotDiverseEnough

#WhitePeopleTalking

#WhitePeopleNotTalking

#WhiteDomain #WhitesStole

And no doubt more along the way..
"Is your spin class too...white?" 🤔

#TooManyWhitePeople #WhatToDo?
The unbearable whiteness of cycling..." 😬

#TooManyWhites #WhatToDo?
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