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27 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I’m looking for a BIPOC NEURODIVERGENT scholar of bell hooks.

I want to pay you to run an online book club where we read From Margin To Center.

The goal is to help the Autistic community confront its huge Whiteness problem.

If this is you, DM me with rates.

Please RT!
Here is the thread announcing this and discussing details. Originally goal was to be self-directed, but if you can help us do this better and create a safe environment for white folks who want to do better I want to pay you for that work.
Not getting any takers so let me break this down further: the work would be dividing the text into weekly reading assignments and then prompt participants to write a Twitter thread reflecting on the reading.

For this I can pay $300, can gather more from volunteers if necessary.
Also, “bell hooks scholar” is probably too high a hurdle for plenty of qualified people to feel comfortable with.

I just want someone from the BIPOC community who can speak in an informed way about this text, and provocatively and patiently on these issues.
I was afraid of this. $300 is the amount I can contribute rn, and I got a few DMs offering to chip in so we can likely get to 500 easily. Maybe more.

I’m not looking for lectures, just tweet prompts and patient feedback where appropriate.

What IS an appropriate price for that?
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OK for real, Neurodivergent Book Club, we are going to read From Margin to Center by bell hooks.

It's less than 200 pages, and it will inform our activism and advocacy in ways that we need.

Reply to this tweet if you are in and can get the book by Jan 1.
Paging #ActuallyAutistic friends, #ADHD and #Neurodiversesquad -- let's gather to read a short bell hooks book and grow together. Respond upthread to participate! :)
This group will move slowly to give people time to read and think. I am thinking a weekly chapter or X pages, I will have a reading schedule by the time we get started.

It's only 200 pages so shouldn't be a big lift.
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27 Dec
I want to talk a bit more about Stalin’s crimes, the artificial famine in Ukraine and the complex legacy of post-WW2 historical analysis.

Yesterday some folks got mad at me for saying Stalin was genocidal. I now understand why: because many people make a very different claim.
Many people, when I was growing up in a broader culture of Ukrainian Americans who came to the US after ww2, told me about surviving the famine.

Some would take this further: “Stalin killed more people than Hitler! We suffered more than the Jews but they get all the attention!”
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The double-speak, moving goalposts and inconsistent arguments are easier to wholesale ignore than engage with but what does that get us?

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I thought for a long time that those reflected on me, and was ashamed of them.

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In their case it was old czarist propaganda that was circulated through the churches, which were fighting against the communists.
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