My Memphis trauma revolves around the universe of Wiley Benton who was one of twelve children born to my maternal great grandparents. A young Wiley left home to run an errand in 1930's Memphis in a part of the city where houses fade into trees. Hours, days later, he never returned. Never. His was the empty plate at every family reunion in Memphis and during all the Christmas dinners of his siblings in Chicago and Los Angeles. https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/cop-brutality-memphis-and-nigerias
Audrey Shipp
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Globally Black/Left. Creative nonfiction writer. Editor. Blogging at https://audreyshipp.substack.com/
The killers of Tyre Nichols were members of the police unit called SCORPION (Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods). In Nigeria there had been years of complaints about the police unit called SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad). Nigerian citizens complained of being arrested, detained, and tortured by SARS officers.
"If Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X advocated the termination of colonialism and human degradation by any means necessary, then twitter appeared one means of doing so." https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/harriet-tubman-twitter-and-freedom #colonialism #frantzfanon #malcolmx #TwitterMigration
"After the murder of Nia Wilson, I'd chosen Tubman because as both a runaway and an abolitionist, she symbolized freedom. Freedom from the white supremacy ingrained in capitalism, freedom to be Black and a woman, freedom to make choices about how the Black community in the U.S. chose to live, freedom to find liberatory spaces." -- From: "Harriet Tubman, Twitter, and Freedom" https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/harriet-tubman-twitter-and-freedom
F*a*c*e*b*o*o*k refused my request to pay for an ad boost for this short essay based on the political views expressed. I've done several ad boosts with them prior. It's on my free Substack: https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/harriet-tubman-twitter-and-freedom #harriettubman #twittermigration #abolition #anarchism
"During my years of Twitter usage, I witnessed how the site had been instrumental in several political movements during the early part of the century -- the Arab Spring, the Indignados in Spain, Occupy Wall St, Black Lives Matter, and EndSars in Nigeria. I'd later seen counter-revolution stifle the Arab Spring when..." Read my latest on my free Substack https://audreyshipp.substack.com/p/harriet-tubman-twitter-and-freedom #harriettubman #twittermigration #abolition #Anarchism
San Francisco has shifted from 1960's center for counterculture to tech neoliberalism & proto-fascism. #sanfrancisco
