Reminder that Queen Elizabeth is not a remnant of colonial times. She was an active participant in colonialism. She actively tried to stop independence movements & she tried to keep newly independent colonies from leaving the commonwealth. The evil she did was enough

Irish, Indian, Kenyan, Nigerian, South African, and Caribbean Twitter right now.

Nations, everyone in England is distracted. It’s the perfect time to get your stuff back from the British Museum.

Back in '95, I took Intro to IR as a freshman. The syllabus had no people of color nor anyone on the left. I complained to my professor who told me there were none to include. He was wrong. 27 years later, I attempted to correct this by writing about DuBois in Foreign Affairs.

This pattern of majority Black cities serving as the object of hate that unifies the state conservative coalition and is the target of punitive policy at the state legislature and county level holds across the US too.

Crystal clear layout of the implicatns of 377a’s repeal here:
There are a litany of bread-and-butter concerns tied to marriage status…Section 377A used to be a symbol that legitimised this different treatment; now the constitutional amendment will perpetuate the practice.

Joint media statement from Pink Dot and other leading LGBTQ+ groups in SG: The true impact of repeal will be determined by how the people of Singapore respond to it, and treat each other, in the days and months to come.

before today, discrimination against gay singaporeans existed because we inherited the law from the british.

today, we took the bold step of making that discrimination our own, enshrining it in our constitution.

we repealed 377a, but we did not actually move forward.

SO BASICALLY SG GAHMEN SAY GAY SEX NOW CAN BUDDEN AFTER TONIGHT MUST PROTECT STRAIGHT PPLE AND CHURCHIES FEELINGS SO AFTER THIS THEY WILL MAKE GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER ISSUES HARDER. SO IN THE END PROGRESS BUT ONLY A BIT, LAGI WORSE. MACAM FAUSTIAN BARGAIN—

when you have definitely read Marx

For what it’s worth, the late Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt, Minister of Defense/Black Panther Party, once told me, “Marlon Brando was the best friend the BPP ever had.” He joined their struggles, paid their legal fees, visited them in prison. He did it all quietly, without fanfare.

Feels like it should be a bigger story that a Hyundai plant in Alabama got busted this week for hiring dozens of kids as young as 12 years old to manufacture parts in a metal shop with numerous health and safety citations including for maimed limbs.