Cornel West is 72 today.
Bo Diddley died 17 years ago today.
Morena Baccarin, who is partly African, is 46 today.
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blachistory #blackphilosophers #blacktheologians #blacktivists #blackpoliticians #blacksocialcritics #blackintellectuals #blackfirsts #blackguitarists #blacksingers #biracial #italy #lebanon #brazil #WOC #POC #multiracial #african #blackmastodon
The #FederalGrant awarded to the #PauliMurrayCenter in 2024 has been cancelled. Would someone explain to me how commemorating someone whose innovative legal arguments are the bedrock of all #CivilRights cases/laws in the 20th Century, & the first #AfricanAmerican #Black #multiracial #female #AFAB #priest of the #EpiscopalChurch who was added to our list of saints in 2018, is not anti-Christian or un-American? https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/04/24/pauli-murray-center-says-federal-grant-authorized-in-2024-has-been-withdrawn/
“It is the foreigner within that is interesting”: Imaginations of Scottish Multicultural Identity in Jackie Kay’s Memoir RED DUST ROAD
29 April, free online
Dr Angelica Michelis will focus on Jackie Kay’s memoir RED DUST ROAD and the ways in which it engages with questions of multiracial/multicultural narratives of Scottishness.
Link: https://t.co/dqFyZAFYf3
#Scottish #literature #memoir #JackieKay #identity #multiracial #multicultural #gender #sexuality #ethnicity
This morning's #workout #music is from two #multiracial #crossCultural collaborations. First up is The Zawose Queens
Followed by Mei Semones
#Afrobeat #Afropop #AfricanMusic #BossaNova #DreamPop #WomenInMusic
How about that!
“This level of #vote was not because they were worried about grocery $$.
They were worried about ⚪️privilege, ⚪️status, & sent the message that a #multiracial #democracy is fine as long as they’re at the top,” Melanie L. Campbell, NYT.
W/ this clarity, the responsibility for addressing our challenges, as it too often is, will be assigned to #black & other #POC to solve a problem we did not create & cannot fix – certainly not by ourselves.”
Late finding this, but it's great.
"In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own" - Danzy Senna
"We are and always have been a Rorschach test for how the world is processing its anxiety, rage, confusion and desire about this amorphous construction we call race."
#MixedRaceStudies #MixedRace #Multiracial
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/04/opinion/kamala-harris-biracial.html
#Multiracial #Americans’ growing influence: ‘Other has never been an easy box to check’
@jmb@okpeace.org @jmb@babka.social
Also, I often post about #LGBTQ issues
More about me:
I'm #Multiracial of mostly European and #Indigenous ancestry ( #Cherokee and #Tuscarora but am not an enrolled tribal cigtizen)
I'm an #Attorney but also work as an #Editor and a #Writer
For my own learning (and to maintain my in-school #StudentLoan deferrments), I'm a half-time student at #Tohono_Oodham_CommunityCollege
#KamalaHarris’ #status as a #biracial #woman is either a #strength or a #weakness, depending on whom you #ask.
More than 33 million #Americans are #multiracial and likely see themselves #reflected in #Harris’ layered #background. But #Racist #Republicans are also trying to use Harris’ race against her.
"Multiracial American voters say they have heard similar derogatory remarks about their identities their whole lives."
And multiracial voters are only going to growww. Young people make up the largest percent of multiracial Americans, and many are nearing voting age.
While far from a unified voter bloc, candidates will have to at least consider how their remarks will come across... or at least not sound so horribly ignorant.
"For multiracial Americans, Trump’s attack on Harris felt personal"
"The remarks evoked painful memories for the growing population of Americans who identify as more than one race"
"The Washington Post asked people who identify as multiracial to describe their experiences…
Many said they felt pressured growing up to 'choose a side' and embrace just one racial identity."
Gift link = https://wapo.st/4ftfw2l
#USPol #Racism #Multiracial #Trump #Harris #GiftLink #GiftArticle
Gaither and Sommers were on it!
"Trump’s false confidence in the essentialized either/or nature of identity leads him to believe that once he knows what you are, he’ll also know how you’ll think and act.
...
Acknowledging the existence of multiracial identities completely scrambles this perspective and upsets the stereotypes that Trump holds close to his heart."
Check your ethics & morality at the door at all GOP events
#VicePresident #KamalaHarris’ #candidacy is #shifting the #electoral #map.
#Harris, a #multiracial #woman creates excitement among #young, #Black, and #Hispanic #voters, recent #polling shows.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0731/kamala-harris-blue-wall-electoral-map
Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but there is something going on that most people are not picking up on.
This is something that really pisses me off, and has pissed me off my whole life.
Racists cannot accept that interracial marriages exist, and so they cannot accept that multiracial people exist. In order to resolve the cognitive dissonance, they will decide that a multiracial person is one or the other, never both.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kamala-harris-black-nabj-convention-chicago/
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I'm looking forward to presenting my work at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association Conference this June. This will be my first time attending in-person!
#CMRS #CMRS2024 #MixedRace #Multiracial #AcademicChatter #AcademicFedi
From the moment Ruby sets eyes on him, Remy Saint-Michel inspires irresistible lust and inexplicable sympathy.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/ARWxU
#Polyamory #ChicagoBlues #DeltaBlues #NewYorkCity #SingleMom #Multiracial #Threesome #LookedPrettyGood
Out Now! Wild About That Thing by Lisabet Sarai #ChicagoBlues #DeltaBlues #NewYorkCity #SingleMom #Multiracial #Threesome #Menage #Polyamory #Instalove: https://lttr.ai/ARU8z
#Polyamory #ChicagoBlues #DeltaBlues #NewYorkCity #SingleMom #Multiracial #Threesome #LookedPrettyGood
For a moment, all she wanted was to say yes to Zeke’s unspoken question, to trade the risky promise of a stranger for more familiar pleasures.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/ARUS0
#Polyamory #ChicagoBlues #DeltaBlues #NewYorkCity #SingleMom #Multiracial #Threesome #LookedPrettyGood
