PhD Candidate in Black Studies | Writer | Filmmaker | Organizer | Book Me: @ccmntspeakers | email [email protected]
Chicago/Atlanta
Joined June 2009
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My new short film explores love and ancestral power shared across generations of Black women facing housing injustice in Chicago.
Check out the trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=gHorJxDs…
Admission alone is not accountability. What is she going to *do* to repair the mess she didn’t just take part in, but led.
This is one of the many reasons people don’t trust abolitionist alternatives to policing and prisons. So much is allowed to just slide.
Charlene been gone for a while, over on bsky now retweeted
Israel destroyed over 1,500 buildings in Gaza since start of ceasefire
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Charlene been gone for a while, over on bsky now retweeted
Chelsea Mikael Frazier on the podcast talking about ecology, Black feminism, and Black Studies research. Amazing convo, here or other streams:
go.umd.edu/ChelseaMikaelFraz…
I’m salty/sad because I definitely submitted an application. But honestly more upset that this won’t be available anymore for any of us.
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program - Inside Higher Ed - ... Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a fellowship established in 1984 to encourage more women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academic careers. - ift.tt/LDToqS2
Charlene been gone for a while, over on bsky now retweeted
Charlene, that's truly amazing! Brooklyn & Harlem are special places and you were destined to have that conversation with Spike Lee who btw supported @reelsisters during our very first years! Thank you for sharing — it was a blessing to screen Plenum! ❣️
Yesterday, I screened my latest film at @reelsisters. I decided to go for a walk in the neighborhood, ended up meeting Spike Lee and talked about how he’s influenced my work. I then had delicious pizza before popping into Gladys Books and wine. NYC, I will always love you.
#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, @innocence, and @the_mip in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus shorturl.at/elnIN
This isn’t a direct quote. Folks should read the article.
What Cabral said about ‘No investigation, no right to speak’ would serve so many of us well.
Angela Davis: Electing Harris will open space for more radical struggles peoplesworld.org/article/ang…
But, it looks like ‘48 just set off another round of explosions in Lebanon — killing and injuring more people. This is what we’re paying for and endorsing.
If I didn’t talk to a lot of different Black people I would be shocked about what Davis said about Black women and Harris. It is a mistake for organizers to overlook or be condescending about how many Black women are excited about Harris.
Most of my biggest mistakes in organizing alongside others happened when I didn’t bother to ask questions first before reaching conclusions and reacting.
It’s something I’ve been working to do differently in the last 6 years or so.
People have been killed off of conflict that could’ve been resolved if they spoke to one another. So, when people don’t even bother to read an article before they start dragging Davis (or anyone) I feel grabbed.
I don’t think “terrorism” the right way to describe what ‘48 just did in Lebanon to everyday people. That frame seems ill-fitting and misleading. That was an act (within a decades long campaign) to escalate genocide, colonialism, regional, and international war.