Who are the abolitionists you follow? By using the word "follow" I'm guessing you're talking about highly visible or well-known abolitionists, but correct me if I'm wrong.
I mean...I wouldn't expect an abolitionist to agree with an analysis that says abolition doesn't cut it.
'Anyone who is [most humans on earth]' is too big a category for me to make a useful recommendation. Are you reading for a certain purpose? For example, to understand a specific issue, deepen some relationship, help decide on a course of action, or just feel good?
I'm not an abolitionist because "abolition" doesn't go far enough. It's no accident that abolitionists mostly talk about "abolishing" visibly repressive arms of the state but not so much the nation-state system in its entirety, or the European cultural base it rests on. Most of them shy away from even fighting to abolish the nation-state they live in because then they wouldn't be able to demand policy changes from it.
This is admittedly A Take, but it's genuine and I hope it will be engaged as such.
I noticed the language here refers to "minorities" in regards to race often. I think that should stop. It isn't demographics that are responsible for racial oppression, it's power dynamics and ostensibly anti-racist language should reflect that.
Some might try to point out that in some areas, non-white communities are literally minorities. I only think this is true from the viewpoint of majority-white, European colonialist countries, and that isn't a viewpoint which should be assumed or taken for granted, given they are the oppressors in this situation. Globally, no single race constitutes a majority. Locally, "minorities" quickly become "majorities" if you draw boundaries appropriately—for example, a given group may be 20% of the population of a given city, but in certain neighborhoods of that city they are 60-90% of the residents.
I'm pointing this out because in general decolonization is neglected in "people of color" spaces so that racially oppressed people strive to become equal participants in a racially oppressive system rather than destroying that system altogether. It would be nice if that did not happen here.
cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/299555
> Some excerpts I pulled are below. > > >with extremely few exceptions, especially outside of southern Africa, scholars of continental Africa do not engage the complex ways that race continues to be significant in this postcolonial moment. > > >The North–sub-Saharan Africa divide shapes continental and global politics (take, for example, the coverage of the “Arab Spring”). … in treating these two geographical areas as distinct—without the associated analysis of the basis of this distinction—we lose sight of the impact of global racial projects in maintaining such a separation > > >We need to take bold steps to dismantle the established theoretical, methodological, and epistemological structures that continue to impede race analysis on the African continent. >
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cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/293074
> Especially people who mess with metadata. Adding things, fixing things, etc.
Kuwasi Balagoon went the fuck off in his trial statements.
!politics so far largely features topics on the internal politics of the united states. I don't see any statements from the Beehaw team suggesting this is intentional or explicit (feel free to correct me if I missed this), so I think it would be good to have such posts mostly go in a separate subcommunity, something for which there's a precedent with !socialism.
I don't interpret this as a ban on anything about the u.s. being mentioned in the general space, just like I don't interpret the existence of !socialism as banning discussions around socialist politics in the general space. I just think it would be an improvement. Curious what others think.
HBDH is "a political-military alliance of ten Kurdish and Turkish revolutionary organisations".
I made a post to beehaw.org which got multiple comments and I didn't get notified for any of them. But I have gotten notifications for posts I've made to lemmy.ml. Anyone having similar issues?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1215308
> Hello, > > If I open: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support in 2 different tabs, I don't see the same posts at all, even with the same sorting option selected. > > ! > > ! > > Is it just because the servers are overloaded and there is some delay in the synchronization? > > Thanks for your help trying to understanding the fediverse inner working. >
@mwalimu@baraza.africa: For your consideration.
So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/561669
> >The product of a decade of research, this landmark collection … seeks to document and map the extraordinary and diverse landscape of African women’s oral and written literatures. Presenting voices rarely heard outside Africa, some recorded as early as the mid-nineteenth century, as well as rediscovered gems by such well-known authors as Bessie Head and Doris Lessing, this volume reveals a living cultural legacy that will revolutionize the understanding of African women’s literary and cultural production. > > >Each text is accompanied by a scholarly headnote that provides detailed historical background. An introduction by the editors sets the broader historical stage and explores the many issues involved in collecting and combining orature and literature from diverse cultures in one volume. Unprecedented in its scope and achievement, this volume will be an essential resource for anyone interested in women’s history, culture, and literature in Africa, and worldwide.
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cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/292797
Would like to know if people are trying it and how well it's working.
Some feedback to see if this is similar for others. First I tried searching 'skypictures' and only this post came up. Then I tried '!skypictures@lemmy.ml' and got nothing. Lastly I tried 'sky pictures' and it appeared, but with only one post instead of two.
I might be experiencing something similar. I saw different posts under "All" before and after logging in, even using the same sort ("New"). But in both cases I'm viewing from my home instance.
Update: For example, I subscribe to !socialism@beehaw.org and saw multiple posts from my home instance before logging in, but now only one is showing up.
I'm noticing the same thing for some (but not all) subscriptions to communities on other instances. I'll try retrying for some of them though, hadn't considered it.
Update: Not sure if I'm just lucky but clicking 'Subscribe Pending' then resubscribing appears to have fixed all of them.
There was another post about them abandoning all their Mastodon instances for a while (like over a month) until a bunch of people complained but I'm not sure how to find it. I think this article is from before that happened.
I can't open kbin.social over Tor. It gets stuck on the Cloudflare verification page.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/217045
I'm not a Beehaw user but I just wanted to let Africans (including the diaspora) know that baraza.africa is an option.