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Anthropology PhD, #Indigenous Rights, #Coca, #Democracy #Peru #Quechua #Runasimi LasFormasdelRecuerdo, #AFeministAnthro, #BLM, settler, she/her 🏳️‍🌈✡️
Jan 15, 2018 4 tweets 9 min read
All I could find of @DJRarela's memes of #MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail series, 1 #MLKday #MartinLutherKingDay #WhiteChurchQuiet #BLM All I could find of @DJRarela's memes of #MLK Letter from Birmingham Jail series, 2 #MLKday #MartinLutherKingDay #WhiteChurchQuiet #BLM
Dec 18, 2017 13 tweets 4 min read
Neoliberalism describes a set of ideas about the way society should be organized. The popularization of neoliberalism is neither ancient, nor natural; yet it is often talked about as if it is both. It's not; in fact it isn't really even "dominant" [thread]voxpopulisphere.com/2016/03/19/eli… Elizabeth Martinez & Arnoldo Garcia boil neoliberalism down to: 1. The market governs society 2. Public welfare & social service cuts 3. Deregulation 4. Privitization. 5. Emphasis on "individual responsibility" instead of "public good" or "community" voxpopulisphere.com/2016/03/19/eli…
Nov 3, 2017 12 tweets 2 min read
Professor of indigenous studies here, on why calling @SenWarren or anyone else "Pocahontas" is a straight up racial slur [Thread]... Claims that the Pocahontas taunt is OK because the Senator doesn’t have a certificate of indigenous ancestry miss the point entirely.