AuDHD Ideas Factory 🔊 Sociologist-Historian-Creative📝 Keynote / Black History Consultant Main Quests: UK Black rural + pop culture
Black Midlands, Home Counties
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Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
I’ll never understand Caribbean people in Britain who love up the monarchy, or elitist titles and social accolades bestowed to them by this nation or its commonwealth representatives. I’m. It sure who they’re flexing to. But in 2026 it’s time we unlearned colonial conditioning.
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re-reading parable of the sower and many black female fiction writers seem like oracles but black women sit at a place of marginalisation where everything that signifies collapse tends to be experienced by us first.
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
the chronicles of narnia don't get enough credit for being so different from each other. No two of them are written in the same genre.
LWW: "conventional" hero's journey fantasy
Prince Caspian: uncategorizable, no idea what he was going for here tbh
Voyage of the Dawn Treader: CS Lewis' The Odyssey
The Silver Chair: CS Lewis' Pilgrim's Progress
Horse and His Boy: CS Lewis' Arabian Nights
Magician's Nephew: multiverse scifi!
The Last Battle: apocalypse fantasy
very impressive, imo, to do this while returning you to a world and storytelling style that feels familiar from book to book
Enjoying the Magician's Nephew discourse. Bold of people to think we’re actually going to get seven Narnia films. Those days in Hollywood are over lol 😂😂😂😂
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
Another thing that matters in 'NARNIA' for the integrity of C.S. Lewis' story is whether or not Uncle Andrew (Daniel Craig) is softened, and his "experiments" sanitized. His lab is like a wondrous place of magic in the film, but in the book...blown up guinea pigs. He puts the rings on the kids because, as a scientist, he doesn't care who lives and who dies for his useless experiments. He is the "because I can" scientist—and they are the enemy for Lewis/Tolkien,
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It’s this weird thing people do where they think it’s possible to be too “grown” to remember your own childhood. It’s fine and normal to forget but it’s also fine and normal to remember. I remember Year 1 onwards quite clearly 😭
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
With all due respect to Audre Lorde, I feel like a better way to say “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” is “we will never burn down the master’s house if we insist on staying inside of it”
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
High profile Black public figures need to find a way to decentre their fixation with and need for white validation.
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I agree with this. I love the way they are not about free labour and performative grind. Very different mindset.
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
I am horrified by the way that the UWI upper admin is allowing Zionism on campuses. What is Hilary Beckles doing? Today I taught his essay on Kalinago resistance to my Caribbean lit class. I recently cited his words on the death of Prof Jason Arday. And they are allowing this??
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
💯. Common for white historians of African American and Black History to see the practice of scholarship as neutral; as if the discipline’s practices & historiography are neutral, the archives neutral (and not neo/colonial), and our ancestors’ stories as entertainment for books…
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
White historiography centers whiteness routinely and the fact that these social media posts are more concerned with the far right than with living descendants on enslaved people is so revealing.
Ick. As someone whose family name's in this "data", I find the refusal to name systems distressing. I don't think "improved data" is applause worthy if there's a refusal to call these folks white supremacists. This was genocide. My family history isn't data. Piss take 🙃🙃🙃🙃
1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org/). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
That Olusoga doc is neoliberal drivel. The way white people and whiteness dictates who is allowed to speak and write in British imperial history spaces is dirty work while white supremacy is ignored... academic race-play in truth 🫣🫣😭😭
Dr Tré 🇬🇩🇯🇲 retweeted
The very title of 'slave traders' enacts a kind of sensationalism and ascribes this position to a small number of people when in fact for centuries the entire British economy was fuelled by the enslavement of Africans.