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Siyanda Mohutsiwa

@SiyandaWrites

1 Jan

One of western modernity’s greatest cruelties is the fact that couples are expected to raise newborns alone. I’ll never understand it and it really is an impossible thing

In other cultures you give birth and a flight of female relatives descends upon you to take care of you (make you food and do chores) and help with the baby. You don’t just soldier on in a two bedroom apartment with only a partner who works full time. It is totally absurd

What I’m trying to say is this is not normal. Humans have been giving birth for millennia and nobody was excepted to do it alone. It’s not normal to expect someone/a couple to raise an infant alone.

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Siyanda Mohutsiwa

@SiyandaWrites

25 Apr 21

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In November, the @nytimes published an article about efforts in Asia to fight back COVID. They mentioned specifically 3 countries (Hong Kong, Korea and Japan) and outlined long histories of policy implementation by health officials in these nations trying to combat infections

In the article, an epidemiologist from Hong Kong university is interviewed, an infectious disease specialist at Korea university in seoul is quoted, and there is a direct statement from the president of the Japan medical association. (this is important)

The strategies of local officials and leaders are outlined and nuance is applied to the successes and failures that officials in #hongkong #southkorea and #japan face in fighting back this deadly disease.

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Siyanda Mohutsiwa

@SiyandaWrites

21 Jan 21

How. Please tell me how. I’m begging you please. How can you talk about the economic “success” of countries like England, US and France and Spain and so on without once — EVEN ONCE — mentioning slavery, colonization, theft and corruption. Please I just want to know how sway.

I’m not trying to be edgy. I genuinely want to know why people talk about Christianity, western culture, strong institutions or whatever as being behind their “success” without mentioning - I don’t know - decades of free money. Free labor. Free resources. Paid for with brutality

Then when you bring this up it’s like you’re some kind of radical activist or whatever when it is pointing out simple, honest-to-god economic theory.

If you don’t pay for something then you can accumulate as much as possible. That feels reasonable, right?

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Siyanda Mohutsiwa

@SiyandaWrites

19 Jan 21

Watching the Tiger Woods doc, I just felt intense pity for someone who seems to have willingly starved themselves of Black camaraderie and its many joys.

Its difficult to comment on an adult's life, one I know quite little about. But imagine spending your whole life without the counsel of your kinfolk. That's the true tragedy to me.

Watching the doc with my Af-Am and Af friends, we just kept shouting "all you needed was one Black friend. just one!" The friends he had in that doc were really something else

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Siyanda Mohutsiwa

@SiyandaWrites

8 Nov 20

https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1324875370542358529

Last month it was “the Africans have strong genes” now they’re saying this. What if I told you it’s much simpler?

You were outgoverned and outpolicied by the countries you presume yourself superior to. It’s not that deep fam.

https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1324875370542358529

How long will you punish yourselves with this stuff? Instead of learning something from others that could save your own country’s life?

No! it has to be something *cultural* and *genetic* because otherwise you would have thought of it first, right? What a tragedy

You can’t just sit down and study what Asian health ministries did; what African healthcare systems did - no! You’d rather your people died thinking they are better off than those “s*hole countries.” This is very very sad.

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Siyanda Mohutsiwa

@SiyandaWrites

28 Oct 20

I truly cannot fathom how an academic can go into an interview and claim that social media is responsible for college aged people’s depression and not mention even once the weight of staggering student loans. Like...am I crazy?

How do people go on public forums and talk about anything else but the economic life of generation z? I heard this social psychologist blame “safe spaces” for increased depression in college aged people. I almost fainted.

We’re talking about a generation of people who may never get out from under their student debt. By 2015 Americans owed a total of 1.41 trillion $ in loans for school. Then this guy’s gonna go on radio and say talking about microaggressions is making people soft. Wtf is happening

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