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Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, CPT Profile picture
@thrasherxy
May 15, 2018 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Disinterested parties in the slaughter in Gaza should pay attention for its horror but also out of self interest: Israel used drones to gas people. Colonial powers (US, Apartheid SA, Israel) test weapons of war on colonial subjects before bringing them home to the metropole.
Drones are sold/used/propagated in Israel as weapons of war while they're being sold as toys & as deliverers of consumer goods in the U.S. But watch how (US backed) Israel is using them on Palestinians: drones will be used on rebellious PoC in the US soon enough.
Police departments will say they need to arm drones with tear gas for the next #BlackLivesMatter or #OccupyWallStreet uprising or to stop school shootings. Just as tanks used to control Iraqis & Afghanis made their way to Ferguson, tools of racial control & colonial domination
get tested on rebellious colonial populations aboard, THEN on PoC in the metropole, then on the general population in the metropole to reinforce class hierarchy & to control political, artistic and, YES, journalistic dissent.
Perhaps the best book on how this is playing out right now in the US Angela Davis' Freed is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (@haymarketbooks) haymarketbooks.org/books/780-free…
Note how a drone is being sold in the US right now (as a toy) and how it is being sold to the *world arms market* in Israel.
In A Theory of the Drone ( @thenewpress by Grégoire Chamayou) the drone is many things. But looking to Gaza & reflecting on how military practices of Iraq/Afghanistan were brought to Ferguson, it's good to think of it as a colonial weapon of mass control thenewpress.com/books/theory-o…
As the Nazis did on Jews, homosexuals & the disabled...

As enslavers did to Africans...

and as U.S. police departments have on Black urban neighborhoods,

US backed Israel is testing the limits of what it can get away with in controlling humans in Gaza.

Will the world care?
Last year, a bill in CT asked to arm police departments with gun drones.

Police already kill 1,000+ people a year in the U.S.

Do you want to see them be able to do to Americans what US-backed-Israel is doing to Palestinians?

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/w…

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Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, CPT Profile picture
Sep 4, 2018
1. Revisiting how I worked for months last year on a piece The New Yorker commissioned about seeing my Black queer therapist. They ultimately said it wasn't right for them and paid me a kill fee. I later published it for them.us...
them.us/story/why-i-se…
2. It is interesting to reflect on how my piece—in which I was asked to personally dig deep into my therapy & spent dozens of hours trying to address my editor's notes—wasn't ultimately right for The New Yorker.

But Steve Bannon WAS right for the New Yorker in Remnick's eyes.
3. Ultimately, I was happy publishing under fellow QTPOC editor @1demerith for @them. It reached a lot of people. People wrote to me and told me how it helped save their life & helped them find a therapist who was queer and/or trans.

THAT wasn't "right" for The New Yorker.
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Aug 30, 2018
It is increasingly obvious that a good chunk of our last year at NYU is going to be taken up by this case—it’s in the air at Washington Square & on everyone’s mind as campus comes back to life. @KathaPollitt’s @thenation column has a few gems...thenation.com/article/power-…
@KathaPollitt @thenation First, this: That academics thought they were above leaking—people who make our livings reading documents and who usually hail the likes of Chelsea Manning!—speaks to a feeling of exceptionalism not unlike Hollywood & Harvey Weinstein & the US govt protecting violent secrets
@KathaPollitt @thenation But @KathaPollitt *really* nails things here: sexual harassment is the terrain—perhaps the only terrain practically speaking—which imperfectly becomes a tool to redress cruel power imbalances between advisors and advisees.
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Jun 26, 2018
1. THREAD I wanna share with y'all what it's like as a Black scholar to try to point things out to white ppl. @prose4321 wrote a piece in the NYT today which incorrectly said the crisis of AIDS in America was over. @Blaqueer & tried to point some thing out.

It didn't go well.
2. Dr. @Blaqueer (a PhD who has also done important clinical work in the field) & I tried to point out how 1/2 Black gay men become HIV+. @Blaqueer pointed out methodological responses, quite kindly.

The response "fuck off."
3. Mind you. @Blaqueer is a Dr. & @prose4321 is a post doc...at the university where I am joining as a faculty member focusing on media coverage of LGBTQ issues and researching AIDS.

My intervention was not taken well, either.
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May 22, 2018
Jimmy Carter remains the one & only interesting post president from a social justice angle. Obama would have turned Habitat for Humanity into an app or a "public-private partnership with Home Depot, designed to foster innovation & inspire for the next generation of homeowners!"
He'd start a student worker program by placing Starbucks in charter school cafeterias, "staffed, and managed, by students, to inspire the next generation of baristas and foster innovation in management!"
To my knowledge, Obama hasn't ever tweeted about a dead Black child killed by police or in support of BLM activists since leaving office. But he HAS donated to a Chicago youth summer jobs program (GET TO WORK, BLACK KIDS!) & applauded the Black child helping the homeless.
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May 12, 2018
I'm really disappointed in how many of y'all are so uncritical of seeing Brooklyn Nine-Nine for what it is: an interracial police buddy comedy meant to make white & Black cops seem like your friendly neighborhood jokesters (& to culturally gentrify "Brooklyn" as sitcom fodder).
I've only seen it a couple of times, but damn: that was some GOOD propaganda. The messages I took out of it:

— White cops like Andy Samberg & Chelsea Peretti are funny & kind!
— Black cops like Andre Braugher & Terry Crews are funny!

Why can't we all get along just like them?
Remember DRAGNET? "The Los Angeles Police Department was deeply involved in every stage of Dragnet’s production, from start to finish." The cop on TV is a VERY powerful form of social control—and I can't imagine a better one than Brooklyn Nine-Nine. timeline.com/dragnet-lapd-p…
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Apr 18, 2018
Historians are important to keep one's head in the face of hagiography. I was already angry about Barbara Bush's racism getting a pass when Prof. @nomimurphy posted these wise insights into the harms she, the Bushes & their veneer of respectability waged on HIV/AIDS.
I find it weird Barbara Bush is being hailed for "literacy" when she did nothing to address racial inequality in literacy. (This news is parroted by a news media which often seems to have little sense of historic literacy.)
Prof. @nomimurphy also brings how the danger of national amnesia is particularly dangerous when it is wrapped up in the trope of the national mother of one Barbara Bush: it both erases suffering poor/non-white mothers while re-inscribing the very heteronormative norms which...
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