your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 20, 2025

adding to the #antifa trend, this is a reminder that #PuertoRicans go hard when we bash the fash: it’s estimated 72,000 boricuas ―from La Isla and the states― joined the effort during #WWII.

sources:

The Puerto Rican Philly Experience · 1940-45:
72,000 Puerto Ricans Serve During WWII
https://omeka.hsp.org/s/puertoricanphillyexperience/page/puertoricansinww2

Puerto Ricans in World War II: The #Borinqueneers | Smithsonian
https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/puerto-ricans-in-world-war-ii-the-borinqueneers/bBdUXA2ZGpYgF05u

65th Infantry - Suggested Readings
https://history.army.mil/Research/Reference-Topics/Hispanic-Americans-in-the-US-Army/65th-Infantry-Suggested-Readings/

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#antifascism #PuertoRico

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 20, 2025

BTW could point out that English-speaking Afroboricuas fought side-by-side with African Americans in their regiments during World War 2. or i could default to lauding the Air Force’s all-Black Tuskeegee Air Men.

why do so when i can talk about an AIR WOMAN who became one of the most successful spies for France, UK & USA whilst still working as, for all intents and purposes of burlesque and cabaret, the most famous stripper in the world?

this post is about the #antifa AF, Josephine Baker

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Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 20, 2025

Baker left USA during the KKK 1920s revival and became a French citizen in 1937; but because of her fame, fluency and flying, her #antifa espionage work was shared between #France #UK #USA.

❝ Josephine Baker: From Poverty to Stardom to Espionage - CIA
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/josephine-baker-from-poverty-to-stardom-to-espionage/

❝ Siren of the Resistance: The Artistry and Espionage of Josephine Baker | The National WWII Museum https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/siren-resistance-artistry-and-espionage-josephine-baker

❝ Joséphine Baker (1906-1975) | Service historique de la Défense
https://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/liste-dossiers-individuels/josephine-baker-1906-1975

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Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

Josephine Baker was awarded the Resistance Medal by the French Committee of National Liberation, the Croix de Guerre by the French military, and was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

she was incredibly proud of her #antifa work for France; and though white America was horrible to her she was a fiercely Black & Proud African American woman.

she was one of only 2 women to give a speech during the 1963 March On Washington, right before Martin Luther King Jr:
https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/1963-josephine-baker-speech-march-washington/

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Sep 20, 2025 at 12:51pmWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 20, 2025

not one of your #antifascist faves could ever be like la Grande Dame Josephine Baker.

in November of 2021 Emmanuel Macron inducted Madame Baker into France’s mausoleum of heroes, the Pantheon

❝ Josephine Baker is inducted into the French Pantheon : NPR - https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1059776777/josephine-baker-france-pantheon

so, remember boys and girls:

you can start a stripper, turn into a superstar, and become a fascist bashing war hero all in one lifetime.

be #antifa like Josephine Baker.

bash the fash. /🧵

#BlackMastodon

Show threadGurre VildskäggSep 20, 2025
@blogdiva
And chevalier means knight, right?
So she became a knight.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Sep 20, 2025
@blogdiva how they have not made a movie of this amazing woman's life I don't know......oh wait, it's the Racism, isn't it?
Show threadI_give_u_wormsSep 20, 2025
@blogdiva   
Show threadDenisSep 28

@blogdiva Hello, do you know the extraordinary life of Eugene Bullard? First African American pilot (World War I), musician and cabaret director in the interwar period, counterintelligence informant and volunteer combatant in World War II, to end up in poverty and solitude in New York

(in french)
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Bullard

Eugene Bullard — Wikipédia

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 28
@nassigny no, i did now. je vous remercie beaucoup.
Show threadAronayaSep 20, 2025
@blogdiva Woa, hope I can find video or audio of her speech!
Show threadFietsbelSep 20, 2025
@blogdiva I know the feelings she describes in her speech, I know them from 1rst hand personal experience, though I am not black myself. I know what it feels like to be excluded merely because of what you are, a girl, a worker’s child, a better student than most other kids from educated “bourgeois” backgrounds, a woman, and ‘worse’ a female scientist, still ‘worse’, from a modest background - why did I not want to leave my data to men stealing them from me, and why not allow sexual advances? 1/
Show threadFietsbelSep 20, 2025
@blogdiva I know them as an immigrant, I know them as a peaceful activist for climate and environment, for the energy transition, against neoliberalism and #neofascism, for sustainable development and innovation, as a voter left from the middle, as an activist for rule of law and employees’ rights. I know what it means to be unfoundedly excluded, disrespected, offended, refused, harassed, denounced, denied opportunities, despite one’s efforts and one’s even documented performance. 2/ #nofascism
Show threadTrip KSep 20, 2025
@blogdiva Amazing! The most common mainstream photos of her are of the banana skirt days, but this one should be much more well-known than it is.