Marian

@dingleteach.blacksky.app

Lifelong educator & seeker of liberation Lover of mathematics •she/her• Making a difference in big ways & small

Most of us are too disconnected from our bodies to react with the appropriate force to fascists and their baby bigot brothers. Socializing into empire required a forgetting of bodily autonomy and a depression of instinctual reflexes. Thankfully, this is a skill that you can relearn.

I often think about the fact that the early enslaved Africans were literally worked to death. They weren't "taken care of" so that they could work for a long time. They were worked to death, disposed of, and replaced. Nowhere is livable because they don't care if we die. We're tissues.

Eviction Lab@evictionlab.bsky.social · 6d ago

“It really is a challenge for you to afford any sort of rental property, and it becomes even more difficult when you start to add in children.”

Do white people ever think, "I wonder what it would be like if every book I read or TV or film only had Black people in them?" Just constantly inundated with images of Black people, in our vastness. Probably not, but, I dare say, it would change how they view everything. Representation matters.

“I knew I couldn’t be too Black.” Former NFL player and ESPN analyst Ryan Clark named something many Black professionals know deeply: the pressure to edit ourselves in hopes of becoming secure. But conditional belonging is never truly safe.