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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate

@sophiakaur.bsky.social

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🌻Clarifying decolonial values & praxis in building liberated futures 🌹Stewarding those on their Underworld journey 🌿Coaching, writing, analysing 🌙seeding eleutheromania ✨Initiator & Professional question-asker at: https://bio.site/plutonian

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · Dec 24

To locate myself and so others can locate me:

As of today, Tuesday 24 December 2024 when Jupiter Rx in Gemini squares Saturn in Pisces, I am 34 year old June Gemini born and raised on Matinecock land later moving to Alba in 2019 to be with my Caledonii partner after knowing them since 2004.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 2d

Outlandish claims about communities make me uneasy. It's amusing yet troubling. Scapegoating does more harm than good. To tackle societal issues, we must take a serious approach. #TruthBrigade

Join the Indivisible Truth Brigade!

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

What you’re saying is the federal government is ignoring the temporary restraining order that was issued yesterday?

Wonder who’s going to actually do anything about this considering there’s no real mechanism in place to stop this now that the federal government is ignoring the courts openly

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 2d

Autistic people don’t obey.

Trans people don’t obey.

Disabled people don’t obey.

This is why they come for us all the time.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 2d

Taking dark money out of politics benefits workers by increasing transparency & reducing the influence of wealthy donors.
Support prioritizing the common good instead of corporations' obscene profits & billionaires' greed.
Politicians should work for us.

Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 2d

Remember: slavery was/is a class issue.

Our experiences as labourers was not just total and utter wage theft—it was the theft of our bodies, our language, our minds, our knowledge, our maths, our physics, our culture, our land, our resources.

It was the theft of our humanity.

We are non-human.

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 3d

The problem isn't the opening hours, it's the glaring lack of disposable income. You'd think the number of pubs closing down would give the govt a sign, but nooo.

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 3d

Pub industry folk: What do you make of this?

I'm sure it's not unwelcome but will it make much difference?

My impression is that you're struggling to fill space until 10pm, let alone 1am.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3d

The right complain British culture is unrecognisable now but I’m sure I was laughing at the same Young Tories in 1988

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone wants to be a revolutionary until it’s time to be a revolutionary.

There’s also more than one way to be a revolutionary by the way (and no, it’s not the definition you think it is):

archive.org/details/revo...

Revolutionary suicide : Newton, Huey P : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xvii, 360 p. ; 22 cm

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 7d

The fact that we can’t tell the difference is how embedded of colonial logic has been through the generations and infecting our minds—our souls.

Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 7d

Conflict is not abuse.

Abuse is about power, and using that power to control and harm.

Flattening the two is colonial logic.

Power is currently centralised. It’s who has access to resources to deploy at any given moment. This is not the same as having community and sharing in mutual aid.

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 7d

White feminism believes solidarity does not have conflict (/or conflict is ignored and silenced).

Black Indigenous feminism believes it is healthy to have conflict and the only way is through with the ability to express our full range of emotions without disposing each other—thus being solidarity.

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Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 10d

From: iamfatimakhadijah
"This video is from
user5681774439659 on TikTok.
I saw it a few days ago and it's stuck with me. I sense this. I feel this. And I felt
remiss if I didn't share."

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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review

The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

www.bostonreview.net

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

"This is a very race-conscious administration. It just happens to be the case that its policies, its prescriptions, its advocacy, its project is in service of whiteness. ...Whiteness is a race, too. It's also an ideology," says @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/race-and-r...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d

NEW VIDEO: "AN ABUSE COVER-UP TO PROTECT TAX BREAKS MORE PRECIOUS THAN CHILDREN"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzI...

AN ABUSE COVER-UP TO PROTECT TAX BREAKS MORE PRECIOUS THAN CHILDREN

YouTube video by Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 8d

“It is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”

-Audre Lorde, A Litany for survival excerpt

Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 10d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10d

I know people on here are scandalized that someone might classify a public school teacher as "working class" because she might have a masters or even PhD in education but can we agree it's at least as weird to call the guy who owns the local Wendy's franchise "working class" because he has a GED?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

People who are currently looking for work can attest that it is a shit show out there.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10d

Should an FBI agent open an investigation that irks Trump, he or she would have to fear losing their job and more—possibly being harassed on social media by Trump and doxed by his MAGA army.

The end of the FBI—in one act

What the Comey indictment portends for an agency already in turmoil.

www.motherjones.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 10d

Because it's really helpful for people spending tens of thousands of pounds to live and work in the UK to have the Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship treat them being left in limbo as to their futures as, basically, a "bit of bantz" with journalists. Give specifics.

Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 10d

What does this mean

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 10d

Casual reminder that when economists refer to some variation of the 1%:

- Assuming we all have a shared definition of people, the current world population is 8,005,176,000

- The “top 1%” of people are 80,051,760 individuals

Ask yourselves: who makes up these individuals?

Who are the Top 1% - What does it take? - Economics Help

It’s been a good few decades for the top 1%, with big rises in income and wealth. But, what does it take to be in the top 1% by income, wealth, land-ownership and house values? If we look at the metri...

www.economicshelp.org

Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 11d

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny.

- bell hooks

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen

black text on white background

"As you prepare your breakfast, think of others
(do not forget the pigeon’s food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others
(do not forget those who seek peace).
As you pay your water bill, think of others
(those who are nursed by clouds).
As you return home, to your home, think of others
(do not forget the people of the camps).
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others
(those who have nowhere to sleep).
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
(those who have lost the right to speak).
As you think of others far away, think of yourself
(say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”)."

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Sophia Kaur | Polymath, Decolonial Consultant & PhD Candidate @sophiakaur.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, and none of this is new information/knowledge.

61 years later, other side of the pond, and much and much the same.

When will enough be enough?

disruptnow.org/defining-the...