I think we're all hoping that our democratic senators and representatives will step up their game and get ahead of the curve balls being thrown at them by #MAGA

Hey elected Democrats, there's a coup in progress.

Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!

Engineered ignorance; there is a reason that red states spend so little on education and healthcare—educated constituents will not vote for them. They want ignorance and illness.
Just look at the map; the higher the avg education level, the bluer the vote.
Identify the enemy. End the oligarchy.

Hell yes!

Arizona Judge Dismisses Right-Wing Challenge to State’s Voter Rolls Read more here.

NEW: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the chair of the Arizona Republican Party and others that alleged that Arizona is not properly maintaining its voter rolls. The judge found that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.

I teach the religious and spiritual practices of the slaves, unfree, and marginalized. Spiritual and political practices were always bound together. They prayed for freedom, on one hand, and used prayers, conjure, the ancestors, magic, and otherwise in their fight for abolition, on the other.

This. Say exactly what you mean, because even if you don’t, we hear exactly what you mean.

“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas”

Shirley Chisholm

Educational and family systems. The former starts at home.

Yolande Bouka #QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
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Yes!!👏🏾

TW & Reminder, Dear Ones:

You need a plan to celebrate the holidays AND protect children in your home. 90% of CSA victims know the abuser - and kids are vulnerable when you are drinking & adulting & distracted.
You can find resources for enforcing boundaries online.

www.d2l.org

Several. “I deserve it all!”

Source.

“Choosing Against Choices!”

I was glued to the tv that night! Loved that show!

Nah, Black Women Ain’t Marching With Ya’ll Stop Asking An Open Letter to White Women

This has been my most popular Substack essay yet! I’m grateful when people engage my writing and identify with it.

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I have only 40 members of my church because I refuse to condemn people or force their obedience. If I did, I would have 400+.

If you run into me at #AARSBL24, you might get a bookmark for SPIRIT HOUSE (www.crossroads-spirithouse.org) or a postcard with a 30% discount on my book, BLACK RELIGION IN THE MADHOUSE (nyupress.org/978147982978...). Maybe both.

Ooh! I must get a copy!

Lee: Why do predominantly conservative white men believe that the success of a black person or the opportunity or the access of black person is an existential threat to them?

I look forward to it! I need to watch it again.

Full Pete Hegseth (Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense) rape police report here. “Rape: victim unconscious of the nature of the act.”

Gaetz is out. Now Pete Hegseth also needs to be blocked as Defense Secretary. Here’s his police file.

Love this response. 💪🏾 Let’s go!

Good Morning!

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