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~Mrls

~Mrls

@marlas.bsky.social

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what does ‘’blx ’’ feminist even mean? | idealist with some pessimist sauce | writing like I’m running out of time | PhD student learning how to diagnose books 📚👀 medium: @mars33 insta: @realist_idealist77 tiktok: ya’ll don’t need to know

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~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Mar 20

“How do we be within and serve the community when reciprocity is lacking? We are social creatures, but this troubles me (Are we all social creatures? This is the question I really want to ask)” #Blackademics #Blacksky #PhDSky #Writingsky

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Notes on Aloneness

Unloading a notebook

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 14

Slowly but surely

Prospero @prospero53.bsky.social · May 12

I’ve always said I’d return to the RC when a Black lesbian becomes Pope. Incremental progress.

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 14

We should start making demands yes #academicsky #academicchatter

Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · May 14

The next time the MTA raises the fare (because they will) I demand a quiet car on every train.

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 11

Omg the new pope is Black
#Blacksky #Blackademics #academicchatter

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · May 10

Yall: "Stop saying the Pope is Black."

Me: "No"

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 6

Dang, me and some of my closest friends all have Master degrees now. Oh time, how you are a construct. #Blackademics #academicchatter #booksky #writersky

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 6

I’m finally seeing Sinners tonight yay. I’ve avoided a lot of the discourse on it, and I hope it’s not annoying when I join. #Blacksky #booksky

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 6

The Met Gala was a high mid this year. #Academicsky #booksky #academicchatter

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 5

Had a lovely walk in the sprinkling rain with a professor while walking back to the department and it’s one of my fave things that have happened since starting my PhD.

I wish for more moments of humanisms here. #Blackademics #academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 4

In 2025.

I think a lot about the failures of feminism, but still very much believe in it. (end)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 4

When the onus is on all of us and within a dynamic that’s equitable.

This struggle is physical, mental and emotional, from mothering to sexual gratification. From toleration to the utter bottling of our own emotions (cont.)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 4

And though this has largely changed since I’ve spoken up about it, it has been revealing in how familial gender dynamics under patriarchy perpetuate (internalized) misogyny and this idea that women need to struggle to uphold the family unit (cont.)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 4

I would receive a lot of criticism or pushback on ….almost anything about myself lol, where as my bro he would get by criticism free most times (cont.)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 4

Thankfully the dudes in my fam aren’t (all) jerks and us fem folks aren’t submissive by any stretch, but it’s the subtle things about some of the dynamics that really has me gagged (cont.)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 4

This and the whole storytime (thx for sharing). As someone who grew up with that conditioning straight from the family, I can attest it is truly difficult to deprogram. (Cont.) #academicsky #academicchatter #writingsky

Naomi Jane Gray @shadesofgraylaw.bsky.social · May 3

In so many ways both large and small, from birth we are conditioned and forced to subjugate our own needs, wants, and feelings to the more highly prized needs and feelings of boys. It is excruciatingly difficult to deprogram ourselves from that and when we try we are vilified

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · May 1

#booksky #academicsky #academicchatter

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · May 1

We made a class war reading list for you.

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~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Avery @dreadful4x.bsky.social · Apr 30

On my soul if I was born in the 60s/70s this would be me.

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Writing about this. It’ll be clearer what I’m saying soon. (end)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 30

This is reflected in the fact that the systems that be are utterly failing us.

Something that I’m thinking about with this “turn around” is the aspect of “ruinousness.” We reflect the ruins of a society when it begins to fall (cont.)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 30

She gives historical context to what we’re seeing from gen z now.

The turn to conservatism, which I call “diet conservatism”, she claims is a form of gen zers wanting to “hack the matrix” and not hustle in the same ways millennials do/did (cont.)

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 30

I used to hate speaking in “generationals” when it first became a thing, bc it was giving divide and conquer.

It still is, but I think more of us talk with nuance about it now.

I like this vid from Becauseimmissy_ on YouTube (cont.) #academicsky #booksky #academicchatter

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Is Gen Z A Flop Generation?

YouTube video by Becauseimmissy_

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 29

Literally a when-I-have-time read it’s sickening 🥲 #Academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky #booksky

Daniel Rough @haggistamer.bsky.social · Apr 29

Yes! Is it too much to ask of us!? It's near the top of my 2025 'to read if you have any f**king time' hit list 😢

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 28

All I want to do is just read all three books of this Divine Comedy #Academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky #booksky

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 28

#Blacksky #Blackademics #academicsky

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Apr 28

This #newblogpost is a reflection on the nature and state of African history, a quiz and a reading list. My hope is that it is a reminder that the failure to study the history of humanity, is an act of self-destruction, and that African history is world history.
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African History Quiz I: Pre-colonial Years

Can we study ourselves out of perdition?

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Ferry Godmother @ferrygodmother.com · Apr 28

Believe it or not!
The roller skating community often refers to skates as “8-wheels of freedom.” 🛼💨

#skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Skate #Community #QuadSkating #RollerRink #RetroSkating

~Mrls @marlas.bsky.social · Apr 27

At least the rule of law would be upheld, and we’d make progress on winning the war for human rights.

It would make our fighting easier (end)