A statement from BAFTA - Bafta

But we are so far from there:
"We would like to thank Michael and Delroy for their incredible dignity and professionalism." so gross man.
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I definitely think my perspective on the matter is abolitionist in that a less punitive society would encourage repair from harm. It'd center those most greatly affected. It would not ask those most greatly affected to ignore their experience.

I understand not shaming people with disabilities for their disabilities. But they’re absolutely could’ve been a level of care extended to Michael B, Jordan, and Delroy Lindo. Specifically a public level of care and there wasn’t.

The BBC have no benefit of the doubt because they were capable of censoring "Free Palestine" from an acceptance speech but couldn't mute an audience member. Anywho I hope MBJ and Delroy Lindo are taking care of themselves and that John Davidson has the opportunity to apologize to them personally.

The BBC only now recently apologized for not censoring the n-word, but the show was pre-recorded. The incident now international news. To air the n-word was intentional. It caused pain and outrage on an international scale.

The BAFTA also failed to issue a public apology directly to MBJ or Lindo for their experience of racial violence. Asking for 'audience understanding' is to brush past violence and it treats disabled people as incapable of repairing harm caused—which is ableist.

The BAFTA, who rightfully invited Davidson to the ceremony, did not appropriately educate audience members on coprolalia. It would've been helpful, before or after the incident, for someone to have stated that these outbursts are not intentional or indicative of Davidson's values.

People's desire to attack marginalized individuals over the BAFTA incident rather than criticize the BAFTA or the BBC is where most people are getting wrong. There are ways to make an award ceremony safe for Black and/or disabled people in attendance and those watching.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Xenophobia has no place in Black History Month. All Black people who are now in America no matter how recently their ancestors immigrated are subject to America's antiblackness, part of America's Black culture, & benefit from the legacy laid by Black people ever since we came to these shores.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

If a system produces unjust outcomes time and time again, then we can’t *just* focus on individual cases of injustice. Because there will always be more, and never enough attention to go around for all of them. The entire system has to be reworked and/or abolished.

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

I read Quill Kukla’s book Sex Beyond Yes recently and it’s been making me imagine a new culture where people celebrate agency and self determination as it relates to intimate interactions. I do think we can get there.

One of the things we can do today in response to these files is to consider how we combat rape culture in our own communities.

I’m not invested in the guilt of ppl in the files. For me, fraternizing with a known abuser w/o concern for their capacity to harm again is a kind of complicity that isn’t isolated to the richest. I’ve seen that overt complicity in among many people in my personal life. I do not like those people.

Sick and tired of seeing people make jokes and viral content about Epstein at the expense of victims. When your only reaction to sexual abuse is to laugh you contribute directly to a rape culture that trivializes and minimizes these crimes

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.

I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

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The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.

"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives."

Jesse Olsavsky for @hammerandhope.bsky.social's latest, just released issue

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One-pager zine inspired by a friend thanking me for telling her about some good things I heard about people doing.

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The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.