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Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social Profile picture
Talila A. Lewis, Esq. | talilalewis.bsky.social
@talilalewis
traveling dancing skating multi-lingmodal educator-artist-atty | founder+former vol dir. @behearddc | committed to movement, love, liberation
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Jul 6, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Black/Indigenous/Disabled communities+our Elders responded to @HarperCollins+@HarperOneBooks reiterating urgent concerns re Be A Revolution.

Signatories incl:

@SFdirewolf
@DrSamiSchalk
@behearddc
@HTCSolidarity
@dissolidarity
me & others

We again urge this book be pulled. Quotes from Black/Indigenous/Disabled Communities’ Collective Response to HarperOne & Ijeoma Oluo’s book Be A Revolution from profiled people, families, organizations, Elders. Sent to HarperCollins editors and attorneys, 30 June 2024. Image of book cover and side panel (creme background with orange pink and yellow rectangles and the title of the book) alongside a QR code with access information: bit.ly/pullbearevolution access info (e.g., audio+visual) @HarperCollins @HarperOneBooks @SFdirewolf @DrSamiSchalk @behearddc @HTCSolidarity @dissolidarity In community and with great sadness, we write this letter to publicly share serious and urgent concerns...

The book contains countless disclosures, falsehoods, and misrepresentations, many of which present real and current safety and other risks to people profiled and named. In community and with great sadness, we write this letter to publicly share serious and urgent concerns with the print and audio versions of the book, [Be A Revolution]. The author, Ijeoma Oluo, gathered and shared information without full transparency, fact/cross checking, informed consent, access, or even notice. The book contains countless disclosures, falsehoods, and misrepresentations, many of which present real and current safety and other risks to people profiled and named.
May 8, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Comm. Accountability

me+other Black/Indig disabled folk were (mis)featured in "Be A Revolution" by Ijeoma Oluo wo consent/notice. Oluo has also bullied+doxed me on top of this offensive inaccurate portrayal.

Tell @HarperOneBooks: pull this "book" now!

This is not about intent or animus. This is about accuracy, agency, consent, humanity, and accountability.

An afterthought and literary device to Oluo, *Black/Indigenous/Disability* is everythought and breath to us... Slide 1: cover of the book, Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too. Book cover has Orange Pink Yellow rectangles on a beige backdrop with black words: NYT best selling author of, so you want to talk about race, Ijeoma Oluo and the full title of this book. All slides have the side panel of the book on the left hand side of the slide The text reads: Initial Reactions from Disabled Black/Indigenous People Who Are Intimately+Heavily Profiled in HarperOne’s book, Be A Revolution (& excerpts from an interview with the aut...
Jan 4, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
In this interview w/ @ProfGeorgeYancy I explain how ableism in/forms+drives racism, capitalism & all other oppression.

"Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled & nondisabled people alike."

via @truthout

bit.ly/whatisableism Here are some pull quotes from this piece with @ProfGeorgeYancy & @truthout.

Hoping to have an audio version soon.

Stay tuned for the second portion of this convo next week where we discuss ableism as the driving force behind all forms of incarceration. creme background with rand...
Aug 27, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
the construction of “race” is wholly dependent on ableism.

we can’t fully comprehend racism without an anti-ableist lens; and we can’t dismantle racism without an anti-ableist praxis (this is especially & particularly true of anti-Black/indigenous racism). ableism plays a leading role in how we frame, understand, construct, and respond to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, criminal status, disability, and countless other identities.
Jul 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Not back on social media. Only sharing a piece I wrote on a day where many celebrate a freedom too many have never known.

Freeing Black Fates & Capturing Black Freedom: Reclaiming Our Humanity, Contextualizing Our Trauma & Honoring Our Resistance

Link: bit.ly/captureblackfr… Description: A graphite drawing of a boy in a hoodie, based Black square with a definition written in white and tan wor It contains heavy and painful content so please use discretion.

It touches on many issues and connections that I think are critical. It is a validation of Black humanity and a celebration of Black resistance.
Mar 14, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Disability is traditionally viewed through a privileged lens making it difficult to see disability in marginalized ppl/communities.

This working definition of ableism addresses gaps in the traditional framing of disability+ableism.

goo.gl/NyR3KN

#DisabilitySolidarity Image with text of working ... UPDATED WORKING DEFINITON OF #ABLEISM
-edited for length+clarity
-names colonialism as key to construction of ableism
-more explicitly acknwldgs reproductive in/justice+ productivity
-names @notthreefifths+Black/negatively racialized Disabled folk as centeral to my understanding. Image
Aug 16, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The "I can do anything except..." framing in Disability/Deaf communities is ableist. I know that very few want to admit or discuss this but it needs challenge, intense scrutiny & deep reflection and conversation. Not necessarily here but I hope folks are having these conversations cuz this is harmful.