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17 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I hope Lil Nas X knows how many Black queer ppl are rooting for him. I hope he can feel how much he is loved. He could never make another piece of art & he would still be iconic & groundbreaking. He has offered us so much at 22. I just want him to be happy & protected forever.
He is an artist. He sings, writes music, acts & is a massively innovative marketer of his work. On top of that he has continued to make social justice issues central to his work, not simply in terms of visual representation, but by creatively getting folks to donate money.
He’s 22 yall. This is a DEBUT ALBUM. He is just getting started. He has barely scratched the surface. Think about Beyoncé at 22 and now at 40. Can you imagine the growth & the power possible for Lil Nas X in 18 more years?!
I look forward to what I hope is a long, diverse, & fulfilling career for this Black queer artist. May the ancestors protect him & his heart. He forever has an auntie in me & thousands of other Black queer women I’m sure.

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16 Sep
Story: One of my partners & I teach at the same time in the same building, one floor apart, using the same Bluetooth wireless headset mics that our department bought for faculty. Today my mic kept cutting out so I took it off and turned it off.
However, I did not turn off the speaker & the Bluetooth jack that goes w/ the mic. I continued my class discussion of @CripCampFilm when all of a sudden my partner’s voice came from the speaker talking about some disability history stuff connected to what my class was discussing.
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16 Sep
WISCONSIN: This is important yall. Please write your reps IMMEDIATELY to reject this. When we say that people should be able to opt kids out of basic education around gender & sexuality it harms all kids. How?
Queer & trans youth who are exposed to inclusive education & affirming models are more accepting of themselves. Queer & trans youth in hostile home environments who need this education the most are also most likely to be opted out by homophobic & transphobic parents. Also…
Queer & trans peers of straight & cis students whose parents opt out also suffer by having to be in learning environments where their peers’ ignorant & intolerance is being protected & encouraged.
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Like most laws, the increased criminalization of marijuana targets & punishes poor folks who can’t afford to drive to the border & pay high taxes at a dispensary to get weed. Most people believe at least medical should be legal but the WI GOP wants to waste time on this shit.
Wisconsin politics are somehow simultaneously evil, backward & nonsensical. These folks didn’t pass a fucking thing last year. Just kept suing the Governor over a mask mandate. Just trying to make money & let people die.
Trying to make anti-racism & anti-sexism education illegal. Trying to make state schools ask legislators permission to have COVID precaution requirements. Now trying to make smoking weed more of a crime when I can drive an hour to where it’s fully legal? No wonder people leave.
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UW folks, anyone else who got summer pay in August have a lower paycheck amount coming tomorrow? I just looked at my paystub and it’s like 25% less net pay than my last paycheck. Our department currently does not have an HR or financial person to ask.
And I got bounce back/away messages from the two L&S HR people I e-mailed. 😫
Also I got this email last month about them taking out extra money from my second August paycheck which says I should be getting more money this paycheck not less. 😫😫😫 Stop fucking me over in a pandemic!!! Image
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25 Aug
I’m happy to announce that my second book, Black Disability Politics, is now in production w/ @DukePress, slated for a Fall 2022 release. This book documents & theorizes about how Black cultural workers have engaged disability as a political concern historically & in the present.
I draw on the archives of the Black Panther Party & the National Black Women’s Health project as well as interviews w/ Black disabled leaders @VilissaThompson, @notthreefifths, @talilalewis, @Angry_Negro, @Tinu, @call_me_ill, @4WheelWorkOut, @hwatkins927, @BeingKaylaSmith & more.
This book is written with both academic & organizer/activist audience in mind, providing praxis interludes between the historical chapters to demonstrate how we can learn lessons from mistakes of the past to better incorporate disability into Black liberation work today.
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I used to be friends with someone with generational wealth who took me to their family’s Wisconsin summer home several times to swim in the most gorgeous pool I’ve ever been in. That person turned out to be a fully fucking terrible human, but sometimes I still lust for that pool.
To be fair, they were partially a terrible human bc of the generational wealth. When you’ve never needed to make money & lack an understanding of how much your privileged, international-vacation, show-horse-owning, multiple homed life differs from others, you do fucked up shit.
It’s not an excuse, especially not into your 30s, but I understand how wealthy privileged isolation hindered their empathy & ability to take responsibility for their behavior.
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