there might be no twitter spaces anymore, but #UkrainianSpaces won't be silenced. together with @Val_Voshchevska we made a promise to amplify as many ukrainians amid genocide as possible. that won't change.
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my sincere apologies to all my paid subscribers — i am as upset, believe me.
but don't despair
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most of ukrainian accounts i follow stopped being searchable on twitter. i need to type almost full handle for them to appear. the majority disappeared from my timeline. this kind of censorship has to be illegal at least by eu laws. right, @vestager?
devaluing, dehumanizing, dismissing as “trolls/bots” indigenous voices with lived experiences from lands you claim “expertise” about is not “hitting the nerve” - it is called “western colonial arrogance” and there should be no place in western academia for this kind of attitude
not familiar with the work of the person attacked (nor the attacker) but it is more of a principle for me, i hear the same westsplaining shit in other situations every day and i am done tolerating it.
just think about it: there’s an entire class of western intellectual elites that have build their careers and “expertise” on normalizing russian fascism and russian colonial propaganda