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Twanna A. Hines Profile picture
@funkybrownchick
Sep 22, 2020 • 14 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
Keep this on your radar, folks. Especially watch the language used to describe what's happening. @businessInsider #ForcedSterilizations businessinsider.com/ice-doctor-per…
Usually, "unwanted" is a dated term to describe an untimed, or unexpected, pregnancy. #SRHR #SexualHealth
Usually, it covers a lot of agency on the part of the person who became pregnant. In other words, someone who is able to become pregnant had a consensual sexual encounter, and that encounter resulted in an unexpected — or "unwanted" — pregnancy.
"Unwanted hysterectomies", on the other hand, is a strange phrase to describe the forced sterilization of kidnapped persons. #SexualHealth #SRHR
Forced sterilizations, or genocide, completely — and without an ounce of hyperbole — seem like more accurate descriptions of what's happening. #Immigration #SRHR
More than half a decade ago, in 2014, @UNHumanRights, @UN_Women, @UNAIDS, @UNDP, @UNFPA, @UNICEF, and the @WHO all united to condemn the practice. Yet, here we are in the U.S. in 2020 — performing #ForcedSterilizations.
I agree with @SenKamalaHarris. These are #ForcedSterilizations.
To cover such stories more fully, media outlets should put more #BIPOC women in writers rooms & on editorial boards. businessinsider.com/ice-doctor-per…
BIPOC communities have fairly long histories of receiving #ForcedSterilizations as part of well-documented U.S. eugenics programs.
Earlier this summer, I performed a (physically distanced) one-woman show. During it, I specifically talked about the #TuskegeeExperiment (which didn't end until 1972). eventbrite.com/e/brs-live-pre…
The #TuskegeeExperiment ended because a brave whistleblower, Peter Buxtun, called Alabama out.
mentalfloss.com/article/627262…
Another brave whistleblower, Dawn Wooten, called out the Georgia #ForcedSterilizations.
(📸: art by Angélica Becerra)
When you witness injustices, call them out — whether you belong to the community or not. (Peter is a White man. Dawn Wooten is Black woman.)
We're all in this together. ❤️ #MartinNiemöller

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Jan 14, 2021
Good morning, loves! ❤️ Here are a few wisdom droplets for you: To state the obvious, every member of congress who aided & abetted last Wednesday's attack is a traitor to this country. #NatSec
If you've seen photos & listened to reports from congresspeople who were inside the Capitol during the attack, you know certain Republicans gave rioters pre-attack recognizance tours.
They also first-pumped to cheer attackers on as they trashed the Capitol, tweeted out the location of the fellow congress members' hiding spaces & one literally said (about the mob) "those are my people." Watch this entire video. #NatSec
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Jan 11, 2021
If you need a mental / #SelfCare break, tune in to something uplifting ... We're staaaaarting! First up, @USChamber Pres. Suzanne Clark is interviewing @NEAArtsChair @MACartsDC & Annette Bening. #StarringRole
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LOVE @NEAArtsChair @MACartsDC comment about how the arts unite us. It's true!! ♥️ #StarringRole
By definition, they require imagination and expanding one's mind. For example, when you see an actor, you're picturing them as the person they're depicting — not solely thinking: "Hey, that's ____!" #StarringRole
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Sep 20, 2020
Fascinating experiment! We need more diversity in tech. Here's what the experiment shows ... THREAD.
Not all photos are uploaded to Twitter using the correct specs to optimize display on Twitter. For example ...
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Sep 19, 2020
We have to stay up. Stay focused. Stay happy. Stay optimistic.
Thank you, @silverbranchus for hosting an outdoor, physically distanced #Oktoberfest event. Spirits need lifting right now, and you're providing that service. #RIPRBG ❤
Tonight I restore my soul. 🍻 Tomorrow, I get back to work.
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Sep 17, 2020
The New York Times did this, back in 2016. Though, with Trump supporters and Duck Dynasty (vis-a-vis shows like Modern Family & Empire). nytimes.com/interactive/20…
It's the premise of #BigData. To riff off Aristotle's "give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man", in modern times, it's: "Give me your data, and I will show you who I believe you are, and push you in the direction of who I want you to be."
As an example, if you're getting election-related calls, texts, Facebook ads, etc., you're getting them because you're on a list. Data decided which list(s) you should be on.
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Sep 11, 2020
How quickly some forget. Journal articles, research reports, oral histories, and crimes stats all document upticks in anti-Muslim sentiment and violence in the aftermath of 9/11.
We must tell our stories — because others attempt to tell them (incorrectly) about us. It's one of the many reasons why I love oral histories. Talk, and listen, to people who've actually lived the experience. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #September11
If you're interested in oral accounts of 9/11 — from folks who were there — you can read stuff like Chief Robert Gray (from Arlington County Fire Department) talk about leading a rescue team in search of people trapped at the Pentagon. 911memorial.org Image
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