Folks, we👏have👏to👏talk👏about👏decolonizing👏nonproliferation👏 THREAD
Inspired by the trailblazing research of @TitaniaMcGrath, I hereby present my totally serious suggestions for making nonproliferation a diverse and safe space for everyone. Get into listening mode everyone! 💅
The term 'heavy isotopes' is a clear instance of fat-shaming which in itself is a vile expression of white msyoginistic patriarchy. We need to acknowledge the harm this language has caused and from now on use the body-positive term 'thicc isotopes' instead. 💃♀️🍟🍟🍟🍔🍔🍔
Cinematographic histories of the US nuclear weapons program suffer from shocking lack of diversity and blatant heteronormativity. From now on, it should be mandatory that both Curtis LeMay and Edward Teller are portrayed by butch lesbians. 👩❤️👩🏳️🌈✊ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️💥💥💥💥💥
'Physics Package' is yet another example of harmful toxic masculinity poisoning our discipline. Instead, this part of a nuclear weapon shall be known as either the 'compression clit' or the 'fission beaver.' ♀️✊🦫
Calling the most advanced types of chemical munitions binary denigrates the non-binary community and makes them feel unsafe. 'Sarin-fluid' or 'VX-curious' are more inclusive terms. 😍😍😍
Describing rare, artificial and dangerous elements like plutonium as 'transuranic' helps sustain dehumanizing trans-eradicating discourses. Do better! Just call them 'neutron-transitioning' and everyone will feel welcome! 🏳️⚧️👠👏👏👏
Whites lecturing people of color on their lived experience in the security field is a structurally racist form of gaslighting.😡We therefore demand majority-white Western countries cease all criticism of the North Korean, Pakistani and Iranian nuclear programs. 🇰🇵🇵🇰🇮🇷✊
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' is clearly racist cultural appropriation. In future movies about the Manhattan project, Oppenheimer should either use a white phrase like „holy shit dude“ or be played by a multi-armed Hindu deity for authenticity. 👐👐👐
'Minuteman' is a sexist glorification of America's roots as a white supremacist settler state and promotes a capitalist and ableist prioritzation of speed. 👎'Take-your-time-person' is a much less harmful name for the tools of nuclear holocaust. 😊
The shape of most reactor containment domes perfectly encapsulates the exploitation of female bodies by white patriarchial capitalism. Therefore, all NPPs shall be built in the gender-neutral Yongbyong box style from now on. #yassssssss 🇰🇵💅♀️✊✊✊✊ 
Contrary to what students in Accra, Tehran or Cairo might tell you due to internalized colonialism, physics is not objective but influenced by systemic racism, homophobia and mysoginy. We therefore urgently need to explore feminist, queer and non-white forms of uranium enrichment
Please tell me whether you agree or whether you are a mysoginistic and transphobic white supremacist who hates diversity. 😊 @Jessica_Varnum @ArmsControlWonk
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