Wagatwe Wanjuki

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antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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FINALLY LEAVING THE US! BYE YALL! see you in Nairobi

they need to invent beaming à la Star trek

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Me: the transporter is a suicide machine, I will never use it. Also me: omg fuck this airport, fuck this plane, fuck this no leg room ... beam me the fuck up Scotty

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The first person who was killed for the cause of US independence was Black and Indigenous.

Crispus Attucks was Black and Indigenous. This country was literally founded on the blood of Black and Native people. We built this shit.

Crispus Attucks (U.S. National Park Service)www.nps.gov

they need to invent beaming à la Star trek

this plane is already an hour behind schedule and my layover is only 3 hours. I hate flying, man.

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The Northwestern lawsuit is an example of the White gaze in action: “White gaze is the operational norm of White space wherein Black people are scrutinized through the lens of Whiteness, resulting in their exclusion, subordination, and objectification.” www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Northwestern law school sued for discrimination against white men in faculty hiringwww.reuters.com A conservative group on Tuesday sued Northwestern University, claiming its law school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring and in the selection of articles that appear in its flagship law review.

omg I forgot my ear plugs and can't find my ear buds and there are two screaming kids behind me

doing my part to keep the tech bad at identifying Black people lol

really appreciate that it was easy to opt out of TSA facial recognition for ID verification

did not finish in an hour but I did finish lol

telling myself I have to finish packing in an hour lmao

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There is no training issue with police. They just blame training when they hurt or kill someone and so that's what is written up and people just believe it because it sounds plausible. But it presumes cops never intentionally harm people. Which is a deadly assumption.

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i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values

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EFF believes in preserving an internet that is free for everyone, and despite some harms, online digital spaces are often a lifeline for queer youth, particularly those living in repressive environments.

The Global Suppression of Online LGBTQ+ Speech Continueswww.eff.org A global increase in anti-LGBTQ+ intolerance is having a significant impact on digital rights. As we wrote last year, censorship of LGBTQ+ websites and online content is on the rise. For many LGBTQ+

guess they have to update the citizen test now

They are pretty moving (having participated myself as an immigrant ) And every one of them were tested on the question “is anyone above the rule of law in America”

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Latest: federal appeals court rules that foreign students who enrolled and paid tuition at a fake Michigan university run by ICE can sue the government for breach of contract reason.com/2024/07/03/i...

Indian students who enrolled in fake university run by ICE can sue the government, court rulesreason.com Foreign students paid millions of dollars to a fake university run by ICE. A federal appeals court says they can sue for breach of contract.

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So uh, it's just over two months until my next book comes out! You should maybe preorder it? linktr.ee/diannaeanderson

Dianna E. Anderson | Instagram, TikTok | Linktreelinktr.ee Writer, Author, Non-binary Queer. They/them.

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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

telling myself I have to finish packing in an hour lmao

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Somehow perfectly balanced at the point where she's of sound enough mind to be responsible for children and navigate consent about sex and kink with a power imbalance, but not quite sound enough to be a reliable witness to her own experiences

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good morning my community, A word of advice. You may be struggling with your feelings of shock with the Neil Gaiman allegations. Now is the time to process that conflict silently, in your own heart—not on the timeline where other survivors have to watch you struggle to believe. Okay.

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"too mentally ill to believe" is such a common criterion for someone being targeted for abuse and sexual assault that to my mind, it makes the allegations more credible, not less. If a man insinuates a woman is "crazy," it's a good bet he did something to her.

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I know where the “Say No To Doomerism!” is coming from, but I want folks to make sure they aren’t slipping into some toxic positivity remix. Shock and sadness are among the reasonable responses to the situations we face. And those feelings can exist with others, it’s not always either/or… 1/

wow how shocking they'd make prison rape jokes

This is, in fact, really fucked up

Steve Bannon prison video sparks fury: "Disgusting beyond words"www.newsweek.com The Lincoln Project's video mocks Bannon over the prospect of him being assaulted while serving his prison time.

the whole "false memory" phenomenon was popularized to discredit victims of child sexual abuse so I'm very wary of anyone who brings it up to call an abuse victim a liar

it's also wild because the argument is that she's fit enough to take care of his kid, but not to be believed about sexual assault??? like????

wow it's almost like sexual assault effects peoples' mental health and ability to advocate for themselves (me a normal person who doesn't hate women) Neil: All women are cr@zy, and these survivors+ my ex wife are who's wrong. Mental Illness is good if its a cis-male writers but for women ew.

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Dear @wagatwe.com, I apologize if it bothers you that I tagged you and I won't do it again, but I noticed you liked the above comment and I wanted you to know that I credit and thank you specifically for my education here. And I recommend anyone seeing this follow you. And here are some bunnies.

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BOOK NEWS!!! Bristol University Press are currently doing a 50% off sale (until 14th July 2024) So you can order a personal copy of my book at 50% off! Use code SUM50 at check out. The paperback comes to just £13.50. Hurry, while stocks last! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/decolonisati...

Decolonisation and Legal Knowledgebristoluniversitypress.co.uk Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge - Reflections on Power and Possibility; The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve...

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We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...

Covid rates were a third higher in deprived areas - ESRIwww.rte.ie A new report has found that Covid-19 infection rates were more than a third higher in the most deprived areas of Ireland, relative to more affluent areas.

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“…Proton is launching the ability to create, edit, and collaborate on end-to-end encrypted documents within its online file storage systems.”

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docswww.wired.com Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.