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Today, the statue of J. Marion Sims, the so-called “father of modern gynecology” who experiented on Black enslaved women w/o anesthesia, was taken off its pedestal to be relocated to Greenwood cemetery where he is buried. #TakeDownSims
Even though this strategy of appeasement from the city of NY will not silence us, we acknowledge the community victory and congratulate the community of East Harlem & @EH_Preservation for spearheading this 7 year fight #NotOurHero #TakeDownSims
White supremacy isn’t only confederate flags and statues. This country’s foundation - stolen from Indigenous people, built by Black people, used exploitative & violent methods to build a constitution that fails to listen to the people impacted by the harm enacted. #TakeDownSims
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“People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody”
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Ok, imma explain this one time for all the TRAs in the back:
Comparing black women to males is racist even in the name of “progressivism”, stop using us as props in your braindead arguments already.
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Recently, my twitter friend @XianJaneway showed me some tweets I made about egalitarians from a few years ago. I was deeply grieved by how dismissive I was to her in my tweets, & how uncharitable I was in the way I generalized egalitarians as a whole.
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