We're back, ya'll! Join us for another episode in the terrordome:

What does freedom look like?

white "rappers" and all manner of wiggerish nonsense

the "comfort" of the west

Sinners and Black Queer Representation

Mass Submission and Resignation

Little Pete Hesgeths

The Racial Geography of Passive Aggression in the Pacific Northwest

Condemning Marty Supreme

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This Episode is dedicated to the People (those living and fighting another day from Venezuela to Iran to Minneapolis to N.E.W. Oakland to Nigeria to Chicago to Brooklyn to Harlem to Queens, the Bronx, Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Alannuh, to Gaza to Cuba to LA, the martyrs, the humans, the siblings, the children, mothers, fathers, lovers, artists, creatives, fisherman, etc. amerikkkan media rather call casualties); the lives of Keith Porter, Jean Wilson Brutus and Renee Nicole Goode

alt episode titles:

-The Genius of Marlon Riggs

-The Genius of Dee Rees

-The Genius of Patrik Ian-Polk

-Heated Rivalry: Crude Oil, Crude White Gays and Cis Puritanical Imperialisms in a world of "boy love" and racial hatred

-The Geopolitical Consequences of "boy love" and Not Reading or just reading fanfic

-Those pesky Blacks fucking up my colonized fantasies of world domination

-Heated Descendants of Puritans and Black Sexuality as a Threat to the State

-What would Meg Ryan do?

-Bolivarian Process and African Diasporic Connection

-"Men are so Back"

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...we are not allowed to hate back. Does whiteness make room for love? Does it have the capacity to do so?

I think Aileen Wuornos may have been onto something...

This episode is dedicated to the legacies of Jamil Al-Amin and Alice Wong. Rest in Power

**Editors Note before some of yall start: yes, I know that Valerie is a cover by a white British group before Amy did it and they was appropriating too so my point still stands

-UN Resolution 3379: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/un-resolution-denounces-zionism

(Spoiler: it was revoked)

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...And the beauty of not falling in line.

Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2!

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The Episode:

Conventionally Attractive: What else does the convention govern beside attraction?

Conventionally attractive is just a euphemism for white eurocentric beauty ideals that white people themselves both control and regularly fail (and when they fail it, they shift the goalpost ever in their favor)

-GOP-1s/GLP-1s: A global "rightward" conservative drift coinciding with a boon in the weight loss drug industry, a billion dollar social media attention economy focused mostly on how people look and a concurrent decline in advocacy for Congo, Sudan, Haiti and the ongoing genocidal violence against Black people in this country may be revealing an uglier truth about white supremacy than once thought before.

Who has capital and who doesn’t all wrapped up in who is beautiful or not, another such binary created by the State

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This episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All

Join us for a very special Black August episode with our Black Loves, the only two light skin friends we have left: the illustrious Deme Brown (she/her), Brooklyn community advocate, screenwriter and director (@Demegawd_) and Dr. Isaiah Blake (he/him), Phd, East New York BK all-day, geography student at UC Berkeley and writer (IG: @isaiah.iman.blake)

Questions to consider:

If desire is a matter of life and death, if how you look determines if you live or die and how you live and die, what are we going to do?

Since desire is currency the more you have, the more you the want the more valuable you are, what does that mean for our relationships, especially Black trans, non binary, agendr tgnc and queer people? How are people able to separate how they treat the people they are in relationship with and how they think about, view and in turn, treat others?

What does social media necessitate in terms of how we perform accountability and connection to one another?

-Interracial Dating and Partus Sequitur Ventrem

-Black Revolutionary Love

-Epstein Files and Noam Chomsky

-Sites of Return

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This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith

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The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol)

"Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks

No pride with genocide

Everything you are being told about Iran in the mainstream media is a lie derived from the same binaries that harm trans/tgnc and queer communities particularly us Blacks and whatever imminent fear you have of "WWIII" done already happened and/or is already happening in someone else's world and if you Black, already happened to people who look like you just 40 years ago.

Queer as in hella glitter and chocolate babies and watermelon woman and i am your venus documentary and diana ross and patrik ian polk and brandy full moon and june jordan nem and stud step baby daddies and allofthat and especially queer as in an unequivocal ten toes stance with the people of Iran and all oppressed peoples across the globe opposed to western hegemony and white supremacist colonial violence.

-Jojo Siwa, white queerness/white queer community only caring about the aesthetic

-love island bombshells and actual bombshells

-Skrmetti Ruling

IRAN (Israel is actually the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons but I aint seeing too many tiktoks or NYT articles bout them)

-Van Jones saying we should support trump??

--Whoopi Goldberg and cross-cultural solidarity (she ain't lying)

-90% of Israelis support bombing of Iran?

-MAJORITY civilians killed in Iran but media is not reporting, many more have fled Tehran (capital of Iran)

-Iran, gender binary, transphobia and anti-blackness link

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Recommended Reading:

Closing excerpt from The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

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-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride!

- They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the nigga they say "founded" it never made it to North America but fast forward centuries later and ya'll still believe it

- They said they descended from Aryans because the word had a ring to it, used to create the myth of a superior race but now they hate the actual Aryans (in and near Iran) and want to bomb them

-They named themselves Caucasian after mountains that they have no relationship to

-They wouldn't know an anglo saxon if it hit them in a head which would be virtually impossible for them to do because anglo saxons never existed...

-Misogyny, racism, transphobia and homophobia are a hedged of protection against their own insecurities (“I didn't get to be a fire engine when I was little but I’m a man tho!” head ass)

-They spend all night and day on reddit, thecoli, twitch and tiktok studying how to be anything and anyone other than themselves...but yet, we still believe what white cis men tell us a man is?

Okay.

Pride Episode! Happy Pride

-[ ] Ms Rachel

- [ ] Gentrification - changing NYC

- [ ] masculinity. Question for Black cis men: who are you!?

- [ ] Bernie Sanders on the Andrew Schulz podcast

What is masculinity if it’s not wielded?

Brooklyn gentrification on the heels of white settlers to South Africa being imported here

What does it all mean bro?

Goalpost of what it mean to be a man can be moved backwards and forward according to their agenda

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...under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether we live or die? Valuable and worthy enough to suffer, to fight and resist said suffering without validation from those causing it. The racial capitalism episode part 1.

Recommended Reading:

https://antipodeonline.org/geographies-of-racial-capitalism/

https://ia801806.us.archive.org/20/items/AgainstInnocenceRaceGenderAndThePoliticsOfSafety/against-innocence-READ.pdf

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Episode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power)

Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW

Free Em All

Justice for Momodou Taal Now

Alt Episode Titles:

There were no executive orders to ban sundown towns but there is one in West Virginia named Eleanor--wonder why?

What Happened to Black People Predates the Creation of Fascism and is Far Worse

Who Said the US was a Democracy?

When Will White People Segregate Themselves from Black Culture

Aint no skims at Walmart however...follow us

Recommended Resources:

PREA law: https://theappeal.org/trump-executive-order-trans-prisoners/

Carol B Anderson talking about Prince Edward County Virginia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYUET24K1c

Treaty of Paris 1783

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Substack: https://lovetoballsholedo.substack.com

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"Racism and racially structured discrimination have not been deviations from the norm; they have been the norm"---Charles W. Mills

"White supremacy forced white americans into rationalizations so fantastical that they approached the pathological."--James Baldwin

Alt episode titles:

Hegemony, Iniquity, Occlusion

Dehumanization, Erasure, Indoctrination

We've been here before, we've never left. The place where a z*on*st and a n*zi can exist inside the same washed up, recycled shock jock racist tech magnate bureaucrat, use thee quintessential anti-semitic gesture on national television and be defended by the head of a million dollar anti-semitism watchdog org that mostly just targets Black people. Yes, even here: a place where neo n*zis came up short in Lincoln Heights, Cincinnati the first all-Black, self-governing community north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and got ran out, they shit took, their flag burned. The pork escort service was no match for Black love.

Happy Black History, Present, Futures Monf and 365 days of the year in my anita baker voice. Sending you all our tender love no matter where you are, what you are going through, whether it's genuine fear from a place of privilege, comfort from having felt a false sense of safety in the promise of a democractic administration or a delayed reaction to living under a Herrenvolk democracy, join us for the first episode of the year in our attempt to ease the collective anxiety with a little, gentle, reality check and reminder of where you are and more importantly, who you are, from the Federal Act-Rite Administration (with love).

Everything's going to be okay.

Know Your Rights, Resources about ICE:

https://baltimorebeat.com/know-your-rights-in-english-spanish-and-french/

https://maketheroadny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/KYR_FLYER_ENGLISH-single.pdf

Shout out to the 'Nati, Stand Up--Dialing in from the Resistance:

https://www.theroot.com/welp-thanks-to-cincinnatis-black-community-neo-nazis-1851762684

Excerpt from Queering the Color Line by Siobhan B. Somerville

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