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Jun 9, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
curious to see how anti-trafficking organizations who say #BlackLivesMatter are going to handle the demands by Black folks for abolition [that Black sex workers have been asking for through organizing around the decriminalization of sex work for years]. #DecrimNow
Black sex workers and survivors have been saying that increased policing harms us and our communities, and anti-trafficking organizations, including the ones who *say they care* about Black lives, ignored us. but there's no way around it—the people want #AbolitionNow! #DecrimNow
We've given the data + talking points over and over again and there's not really a way around it at this point. Either you're with Black folks' demands for #abolition + the decriminalization of the ways we survive, or you're not. Policing/jails inflict sexual and gender violence-
for too long, anti-trafficking organizations have demanded that we expand policing and state violence through surveillance, stop-and-frisk tactics on Black trans women, coercive jail and social service practices like the violent "diversion program" that killed #LayleenPolanco.
Even as other gender violence movement were learning from mistakes in the DV movement around mandatory arrest, coercive shelter practices (like kicking survivors out for continuing to engage with the person who caused harm), anti-trafficking movements refused to shift.
But the time is now. if you're not going to amplify the demands of Black folks calling for #AbolitionNotReform, then you'll have to acknowledge that you are expanding and maintaining the carceral system for grant funding and to enact violence on Black survivors. #DecrimNow

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Oct 10, 2022
Black and Indigenous folks from Latin America are very familiar with the anti-Black, anti-Indigenous language Nury Martinez used. We aren't surprised- we hear it from politicians, media, at the grocery store, in school, for some of us, in our own families. Listen to us.
I'm tired of repeating that "Black and Latino are not mutually exclusive", or that "Latino identity does not make you anti-racist", or that "the myth and material consequences of mestizaje is harmful to liberation of Black and Indigenous folks from/in Latin America."
I need y'all to just listen to Black Latine/x folks the first time. This happening during "hispanic heritage month" is not lost on me. When we talk about the violence and erasure that is the colonial project of Latinidad, Nury Martinez does an excellent job of demonstrating it.
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Can I offer a piece of insight for #Philanthropy in this moment? Repro justice organizations that you've paid no attention to for the last decade don't need you to swoop in with a sense of crisis today. Organizers knew/know what's at stake—no need to manufacture urgency. (1/5)
As a rapid response fund, we see this in moments of heightened crisis. What often happens is that funders without relationships to organizers end up doing more harm by funding larger, well-known organizations, bombarding organizers with requests for briefings + meetings (2/5)
and overall acting in ways that derail movement strategy. Please listen to organizers right now and what they actually need, and get *consent* to resource the work and organizing that is meaningful to them. also, if you have an endowment, give folks SUSTAINED funding. (3/5)
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our 10-month old baby tested positive for COVID today. words cannot describe the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the test results this morning. so that I don’t fall into a pit of despair, I’m going to keep a running thread about COVID in babies. (thread) 👉🏾
there is so little data and information about babies as young as ours, so it really feels like we are figuring it out as we go. have any other parents or caregivers had the experience of caring for a baby under 1 with COVID? I’d love to know what you have learned!
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I saw a very goofy IG reel of a light skinned Afro-Latina complaining that as a "half Black, half Puerto Rican woman", she wasn't "Black enough" for Black people but wasn't Latina enough because she doesn't speak Spanish. Me tiene harta. 🥴
First of all, for the millionth time, saying you are "half Black, half [insert Latin American nationality here]" is an act of anti-Black erasure. Black is a race, Puerto Rican is a nationality. There are literal, unambiguously, definitively Black people in Puerto Rico RIGHT NOW.
At this point, y'all are ridiculous and being willfully anti-Black. Do y'all say you are half Black and half Jamaican? half Black and half American? You only do that with "Latino" identify because your anti-Black asses refuse to acknowledge that Blackness exists in Latin America.
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Drive-up COVID test!
Testers were really nice!
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