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I was especially floored by their comparison of how blood quantum and the one-drop rule functioned historically.
Blood quantum was used to reduce the number of Native people and exclude them from land and resources. The one-drop rule was used to grow the number of enslaved people categorized as Black in order to have more bodies to work that same land.
So both were invented racial categories that essentially worked together to further colonialism and capitalism on this continent.
Sharing a new-to-me podcast called All My Relations! I read a lot of posts on Native Twitter this month about blood quantum and went looking for more information.
Matika Wilbur, Adrienne Keene and guests taught me a lot in this episode about enrollment, ways of belonging, and made me think about how they bear on #ICWA
https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/episode/49fcb76f/beyond-blood-quantum
Happy Friday--something to watch!
Abolish Mandatory Reporting and Family Policing hosted by
Barnard Center for Research on Women. A conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Jasmine Wali, and Shannon Perez-Darby
#abolition #familypreservation #fostercare #adoption #picabolition #policing
Use CWs pls.
But if I choose not CW a post about racism or misogyny, don't police me about it either
I said that in 2019
And it seems to me that new users to #blacktwitter or #Blackmastodon think that they have to do that. You don't
If you're concerning about fellow Blk folks mental health and wanna CW I get that. Do it. But don't hide for white fragility. Forget that
I have to say, in one week on Mastodon, my posts about the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject have had more actual interaction with people than I usually get in half a year on The Other Place. Inspires me to post more pointers to older material so those who want to find #LesbianHistory and #SapphicHistoricalFiction can find them.
I promise I'll keep to no more than one older blog and one older podcast per day. I think I"ll also start doing individual boosts of the #NewReleases items in the podcast.
Hey look! Books!
This is from #Haymarket books, and is a book bundle of key, recent releases at the intersection of abolition and feminism.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/475-abolition-feminisms-book-bundle
At a political moment when the urgency of radical, anti-carceral and anti-capitalist politics is clearer than ever, we've put together a book bundle of key, recent releases at the intersection of abolition and feminism. The Abolition Feminisms Book Bundle includes: Shira Hassan’s landmark account of liberatory harm reduction politics; Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie’s pathbreaking rebuttal to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate—and even incompatable—political projects; Ray Acheson’s urgent and accessible analysis of the overlapping structures of state violence that define our terrain of struggle; and Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober’s field-spanning two volume anthology bringing together many of abolition feminism’s key thinkers. Get all five books for (less than) $55 until November 21st. For further reading, check out Abolition Now! Haymarket Books Against Policing & Mass Incarceration.
Anton Newcombe
PVs- DR. Artist Marcia X
Heather Rose Jones
Michael
Randi Mayem Singer