Black queer neuroqueer | founder @behearddc on sabbatical | committed to movement, rest, joy, love, & freedom | pronouns: use my name in place of pronouns
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Jul 6 • 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.
@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.
May 8 • 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...
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."
Stay tuned for the second portion of this convo next week where we discuss ableism as the driving force behind all forms of incarceration.
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…
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.
#DisabilitySolidarity
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.
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.