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Sami Schalk
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Having a hard time focusing today. But currently listening to @BYP_100’s Black Joy Experience album (h/t @QueerWOCpod) & crying. I’ve been crying a lot lately. My body seems to be processing something my mind isn’t yet fully conscious of. So I’m paying attention to what moves me.
In the last few weeks:
-This album
-@thedanieb’s #BlackWoman video
-Speaking about being a black queer young woman student on @miamiuniversity’s campus a decade after
-Seeing my younger cousins’ excitement on their first college tour
-Holding my friends’ newborn
-A @AboutFreedomInc chant about black freedom at a @MMSDschools school board meeting
-An e-mail from a stranger thanking me for my @ConditionAccept article
-An invitation to meet @TaranaBurke & introduce her at her lecture
-Reading @SaraNAhmed’s Living a Feminist Life
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Since this fool wants to come for my comedy crush @nicolebyer let’s break down ALL the issues with this foolish ass thread.
1: I’ve watched every episode of @NailedIt & to claim that Nicole Byer is only nice to black contestants is frankly a lie. However, even if that were the case, consider that this is a highly edited reality TV show which means editors choose which parts of her behavior we see.
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So angry. @MMSDschools continues to fail black, brown & disabled youth. Despite multiple recent incidents of racial violence against kids as young as 11, they just approved “random” metal detector screenings. Guess who is most likely to be targeted? 🤔

channel3000.com/news/mmsd-pass…
Black kids. Brown kids. Disabled kids. Poor kids. Kids already being harassed by cops in schools will be furthered targeted based on appearance alone. We demand #NoCopsInSchools! We will fight to #ProtectOurKids in @CityofMadison.
There is a meeting tonight to build our local capacity to respond to these incidents & make long term plans to protect marginalized youth at the Boys & Girl’s Club of Madison (Taft St) at 6pm.
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I need someone with time & skills to do a detailed discourse analysis of the responses to @SelmaBlair’s #OscarAwards look on social media. It for now here’s my quick morning take, a thread particularly for nondisabled folks.
Among my #DisabilityRights, #disabilityjustice & #disabilitystudies comrades, there’s excitement about the power of representation. Blair’s look, like hashtags #DisabledAndCute & #DisabledPeopleAreHot, demonstrate disabled bodyminds & accoutrements like canes can be attractive
However, some of the general comments on images & stories of Blair, while seemingly “positive,” are DEEPLY #ableist in that they rely on notions of bravery, pity, overcoming & shock at the attractiveness of a disabled bodyminds. Let’s break down the problems with each response.
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