Vik D Birate
@vikdbirate.bsky.social
Black, fat, queer Deconstruction, Decolonization, Reindigenization, and Pan African No borders, No nations, no gender https://linktr.ee/vikdbirate
Banan is just days away from her graduation and $1,400 from her goal! Please, contribute anything to help this Sudanese refugee student make it to the finish line! #KeepEyesOnSudan #mutualaid www.gofundme.com/f/help-sudan...
Donate to help Banan finish med school amidst war, organized by Wifag Mohammed
Hi, Dear everyone, I hope this letter finds you well and safe. My n… Wifag Mohammed needs your support for help Banan finish med school amidst war
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Trees provide a living for the women, who plant and care for them, and shield the island capital from erosion, flooding.
How Gambian women are restoring the mangroves protecting Banjul
Trees provide a living for the women, who plant and care for them, and shield the island capital from erosion, flooding.
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Don't get me wrong, if a term needs to stop being used then yea, mention it, but don't sit up here & act like I'm using shorthand language 4 no reason. It's bcuz I ran out of character allotment. Also, it's been said 1k times but socializing primarily online has made y'all 2 comfortable being asses
Vik D Birate@vikdbirate.bsky.social · 3h agoThis app literally gives me a limited amount of characters to make my point so not only is your response needlessly condescending, but it's false. You could present this info w/o the douchebaggery
This app literally gives me a limited amount of characters to make my point so not only is your response needlessly condescending, but it's false. You could present this info w/o the douchebaggery
More often than not, the criticism is shaming the victimized character for "doing 2 much" in taking their revenge. I even recall 1 person praising PYW, saying that the protag's form of revenge was more "feminine"... Here's a great video critiquing that movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jcO...
So...y'all really gave Emerald Fennell an Oscar for this?
YouTube video by Little Shop of Ali
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Vik D Birate@vikdbirate.bsky.social · 4h agoThis is why I've always been skeptical about certain criticism towards victim centric revenge stories and the undue praise of Promising Young Woman... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPFd...
This is why I've always been skeptical about certain criticism towards victim centric revenge stories and the undue praise of Promising Young Woman... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPFd...
A Video About Hard Candy
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Celebrities have abortions like anybody else, and it's good to see the brave ones speak out despite the harassment they may face for doing that. Here are 66 stories! They want to create awareness for people, to show that the experience is common, that they are not alone and to help erase stigma.
59 Celebrities Who Have Shared Their Abortion Stories to Help Women Feel Less Alone
Read about the celebrities, including Sally Field, Britney Spears, Kerry Washington and Chrissy Teigen, who have talked about their abortion stories to help women feel less alone.
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(according to the right-leaning Center for Strategic and International Studies. Fascism, not anti-fascism, is the threat, both domestically and internationally." 2/2
We should be for Palestine and against Isreal, we should be against the colonial project in the name of a US proxy state meant to enforce the petro-dollar model of Imperialism and destabilize the region. We should NEVER use it an excuse to smuggle in any (actual) anti-semitism!
Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈⬛ 🏴@161bklyn.myatproto.social · 7h agoYes, it is rising, and many who want to help Palestinians conflate non-Zionist and Zionist Jews. These are not the same, and anti-Semitism is racist. People shouldn't engage in that; true anti-fascists only hate the state, not Jews. Herzog and the rest of those shitbag Zionists are trash, however.
But they still can't solve murder, SA, or missing person cases... But that's what they use to manufacture consent for surveillance...
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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6h agoPolice in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he eventually was arrested
This is an increasing issue w/ "leftists" insisting their antisemitism is praxis while adamantly ignoring that the majority of Jewish Zios are either descendants of Jewish ppl that sided w/ the Nazis or converts who had to leave another colonizer state & that the majority of zios are Christian...
Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈⬛ 🏴@161bklyn.myatproto.social · 5h agoYou see this person? Don't think this person is an ally. Especially when I have Palestinians liking my post and agreeing with me. I unfortunately blocked this guy before I could get more.
📍𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐒: An instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore was arrested while returning from a meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, where he received a “teacher of the year” award. Dr. Berhanu Kibret has valid work authorization, the school said. #AbuseofPowerWatch
University of Maryland ‘teacher of the year’ detained by ICE in Texas
DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport
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Decades of liberal obsession with "allies" in our oppressor class has always been a Faustian bargain for the most marginalized queer people, such as trans women and impoverished queer people of color. We gain nothing from their self-serving ego stroking. And we have nothing to lose but our chains.
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️@mady.cat · 2d agothe most performative news article in response to the most performative nothingburger of a tweet thread by someone who can't even be bothered to find a different puzzle game in support of trans people lol allyship is more than just not blacklisting trans people from your TV show!
Making Black people feel menaced and unsafe is as critical to the dogma of full-spectrum white safety as being accommodating of all white demands, desires and delusions.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterdayFor the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
Our thoughts are with those in Madison who have been taking action in memory of Corey Ruiz, doing their best to ensure that police cannot murder people with impunity. Resistance to ICE and resistance to police must converge. It is the same struggle. crimethinc.com/antipolice2025
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · yesterdayCommunity members are re-liberating space tonight from killer cops in Madison, Wisconsin. Here’s a still image from a live feed filmed about an hour ago, community members can be heard chanting, “Say his name, Corey Ruiz.”
Fuck wearing an ankle monitor, fuck deportation, too! youtube.com/shorts/j9em8...
Protests form as some Ohio Haitians face ICE deadline today to surrender or wear ankle monitor
YouTube video by MS NOW
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By 60-Point Margin, Missouri Voters Reject GOP Push to Make Ballot Measures Harder to Pass | Common Dreams
Missouri voters deliver a resounding rejection of GOP-backed measures, protecting their rights and standing up against special interests. Will this wave of defiance continue in November's election?
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The problem that they always claim they are gonna solve is ‘the need for human labor’ but human labor is not the problem. Human labor is beautiful. It’s what we do regardless of societal structure. The problem is human need. Which, ending human labor but continuing capitalism would only exacerbate.
If someone says that they want to end the necessitation of human labor but they also want to remain in a top down structure in which private entities can maintain ownership of productivity they are essentially saying that they are content with watching billions starve to death.
What's up @statuscoupnews.bsky.social, can't get into Ohio to report on Haitians being humiliated and deported?
"“For those of us that love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it’s a pretty big win,” Rollins said during an event in Minnesota…" Sure, stop feeding the poor and fund more war.
Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid 'A Pretty Big Win' | Common Dreams
"The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, 'a pretty big win,'" said one policy expert.
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