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Axel Folio, PhD,🔻White Tears Distiller 🪁 Profile picture
Axel Folio, PhD,🔻White Tears Distiller 🪁
@ISASaxonists
Dr. MRO: Literary Historian | WoC: product of Black/brown love | gif lover | racist magnet | abolitionist | yarn dyer| not Eddie Murphy (she/hers)
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Jul 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🧵You know, I used to gaslight myself abt a NYT story abt me that tried desperately to "bothside" the Bright Ages controversy. Altho all the evidence was public, the journo tried to paint the zionist editor as a victim but the evidence was clear. NYT is deeply racist/zionist rag. For yrs I tried to brush this off but deep down I knew this was a zionist attack from the start &the media coverage attempted to angle the story as an Afro/Indo woman being mean in a review to 2 yt men (1 just happened to be Jewish). All, including editors & nyt journo were z's.
May 13 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Introducing a LIMITED EDITION "Coils of Kala."

A Republic of Yarnia special to celebrate our birthday month. This colorway is available until the end of the month.

Wanna know a little more abt this figure? I have a theory that connects her to Golden Child's 'dragon lady'!
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Feb 1 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Day 1: Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803)

Welcome to this year's month-long #BHM special sharing details abt some figures that inspire my yarn colorways. Louverture was born as an enslaved person in what was once the French colony of Saint Domingue, now known as Haiti.
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Image Even before the French Revolution, Louverture gained his freedom & became a salaried employee, later becoming quite wealthy. At the start of the revolution, he was almost 50 &began his military career. Never too late, amirite? Over time he gained political/military influence,
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Nov 9, 2024 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
🧵As a literary historian I sometimes wonder what's going to be said in the next few decades as opposed to how long it may take for the actual truth to be told, despite what's known. Many "big name" historians are cowardly yt men peddling half-truths & Zionist propaganda rn.
1/ One of the reasons why they left this space under the guise of moral superiority & "not supporting Elon" is bc they didn't want to see a genocide livestreamed. Places like FB heavily monitors Pal content, Israeli Intel runs Threads, & BlueSky is the safest space for neolibs
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Nov 8, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Just re-upping this again bc there has always been a war on women. WW crying *now* when women in the Global South or even Indigenous women in the West have been violated, silenced, murdered & barely a tear has been shed. We saw the same thing in '16 & obnoxious WW are still
1/ telling POC to make space for WW's feelings. No, fuck you, your solidarity is always conditional & those of us who have lived around you know how you operate. It's a derail & recentering of your needs which don't help liberate *all* women.

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Jun 8, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Had a meeting yesterday w/ a scholar who claimed not to agree w/ their govt position on Isnotreal but also had almost no concept of what is going on in 🇵🇸. Their opposition is politically motivated rather than being opposed to genocide.
1/ This person is in a leadership position & was torn on whether or not to oppose Zionism. Just imagine how many other folks in the academy who are purposefully ignorant of the genocide in 2024 or the Nakba or apartheid.
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Mar 17, 2024 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Tips on how to protect & support targeted folks (espec. scholars/students of color)

As someone who's been targeted by the alt-right, stalkers, tabloids, racist scholars, yt supremacist militia, I know a thing or two abt online harassment/safety. If you want to help others
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here are some tips that won't jeopardize their safety & mental health more. Undoubtedly there are more tips, & some situations are different but these are general/useful guides.

1. If someone you know is being targeted (by large platforms or tabloids), check in w/ them 1st

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Feb 2, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Day 2: Noiron.
You ever heard of a medieval Black wizard? No? Well let me introduce you to Noiron. Noiron was a Black wizard in a French medieval legend abt a knight named Renaud de Montauban. Renaud's story spread across northern Europe.
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Image Not all the legends include Noiron, but he was included in some. He was pretty badass. Look at this gorgeous armor.
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Jul 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Have you ever seen an Aztec image of a European knight? I'm researching new yarn colorways & came across this amazing Mesoamerican image depicting what may be the 1st known Afro-Portuguese conquistador Juan Garrido. Born in West Africa, sold into slavery & taken to Lisbon,
1/ Image he converted to Catholicism, & eventually joined the Spanish expedition/invasion across the Atlantic. He was part of the entourage searching for gold & invaded modern day Puerto Rica, Cuba, and even landed in Florida. He was with the forces that invaded present-day Mexico,
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Feb 1, 2023 • 27 tweets • 12 min read
🧵In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth here’s some of Canada’s Black history. Let's make it a jeopardy like quiz. Canada loves to pretend it’s superior to its southern cousin when it comes to progress but let’s see abt that. Let's have some fun & learn!
1/26 Do you know that slavery was ok in Canada? Mhmm. Canada become a federation in 1867.

Do you know when the first record of slavery in Canada was?
*jeopardy music plays*
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Jan 31, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Currently listening in here. I'm so excited and also gonna use that 'delete comment" function for yt nonsense. 😂 Ok, well I promise not to abuse it.
Oct 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My favorite (?) Brexit story is that of the yt left-wing Brexiteer/Lexiteer scholar who fervently argued w/ scholars from the European continent & abroad abt cutting ties w/ European markets. He argued that his support for Brexit was NOT abt racism & solely abt the economy. He now works at a German institution. 🤣
Oct 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I keep seeing GBBO tweets by ppl who should know better. So many ppl on the show itself are racist AF, but ppl continue to put entertainment ahead of thinking how engrained racism is. Ppl in the will point out institutional racism & then turn around & support these British messes And no it is not "just a show." One of the regulars has done Blackface, another is a South African ww w/ appalling views whose son is some conservative douche and so on.

It's always interesting that anything outside the American sphere isn't examined closely for racism.
Sep 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Oh we all know mermaids aren't real, right? Ok, did you know that medieval ppl were less racist than ppl today? Ppl have forgotten that mermaids/mermen were sometimes depicted as Black/brown folks in the Middle ages. Cue the crying!

BL: MS 62925. f 110r. #LittleMermaidLiveAction A Black merman with a blue lower half. The figure is part of And @erik_kaars amazing thread on Black mermaids:
Sep 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Solidarity among yt "allies" shouldn't be contingent on comfort level and/or whether BIPOC are nice to them or not. If they are speaking truth to power those are the voices to amplify -- even if that disrupts your own comfort. I'm really sick of ppl thinking BIPOC need to talk nicely, tone it down, be polite, when we speak to yt folks. If we call you in it's bc we see you as someone we hope we can trust & count on to show up. That's the difference between a call out and a call in.
Sep 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hi! A wonderful Sunday to all. Feel loved today except for retired prof David Ganz who was mad abt 1 of my public talks, created a fake acct to stalk &has sent obsessive emails for over a yr. The latest is him schooling me abt a dead Windsor. May his name always be assoc w/ creep Creepy David Ganz keeps ema... This all started bc he sent me a 'know your place' email after a talk I gave on a 7th-century abbot named Hadrian saying that yt scholars have, for yrs, downplayed that he was melaninated. I was then called a c*nt by this guy:
Sep 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
PLOT TWIST:

Nazis were in the Humanities all this time studying their "heritage" and learning about "western civ" Read abt the racist in this thread with links to a banned yt supremacist org in the UK:
Jul 28, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Mmmmmkay medieval Rick Astley is just Michael Myers Craiyon.com image The promp...
Jul 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
What should yt ppl do when BIPOC point out that they've done a racism:

"Hey, I fucked up. I'll sit w/ it & do better."
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What do yt ppl often do when BIPOC point out they've done a racism:

"mental health issues"
*get defensive*
*whataboutism*
*cry*
*block/unfollow* It always amazes me how antiracist efforts require so little, yet too much for some. It's a process. Even the bare minimum offends ppl who pretend they care about BIPOC.

We see you though, especially offended ww who get called out & immediately rush to RT Black women.
Jul 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Lmao I mean, I wasn't even besmirching boomers but go off, I guess.
Jul 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For all the 'when Boomers die out racism will not exist & things will be better" crowd. Black woman at an airport with a mask on. She is looking off Don't ignore which one is masked and what protection that provides the one who isn't.