Caribeñe @CaribenxMarciaX@scholar.social

Academic work is work

If you have a research assistant working for you and they are not getting paid

With money

This month (actual money that can be used for rent),

You. Fucked. Up.

Even if they're students

Even if they get authorship

Even if it's "going to be great for their career"

There's no such thing as "unpaid academic work," it's just exploitation

Fanon sums up my feelings abt ​posts regarding ‘abolishing borders’

“To dislocate the colonial world does not mean that once the borders have been eliminated there will be a right of way between the two sectors. To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist’s sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory.”

BC after the border is gone, there is still settler colonialism. SO 🤷🏾​

And I think a lot of people from underprivileged groups are constantly getting their negative face ignored. They are presumed to be happy to explain their views, to educate ppl with privilege, etc.

Shit's fucked up.

As a person with tremendous privilege, I need to be fucking tuned in to the fact that others don't exist for my edification.

I remember getting an introduction to Politeness theory.
It utilizes a Goffmanian concept of Face, in identifying two basic needs with regards to social interactions:

1) "Positive face" : The need to be seen as a social person, a person who would like to help others.

2) "Negative face" : The need to be seen as an autonomous person, one who should not be taken for granted.

Forms of politeness are framed as giving nods to either of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politeness_theory

For those that do decolonial work...

What does de-colonization in your field look like?

Running into Americanists is the worst cause they are always like 'What's the point of your subfield?' And with Trump all study populism but have no knowledge of the theory or history of populism and it's totally fine

Dont let western new age spiritualist/healers that still have not deconstructed their hyper individualistic views of healing convince you that healing must occur completely alone or else something is wrong with you. Its just not true. Healing also occurs in relationships and community and its really important to not disregard that. We’re literally social creatures!!! Healthy relationships with secure attachment are important and incredibly meaningful healing from trauma

Mestizaje is different in its foundation and how it was enacted onto our communities. Blood quantum laws and mestizaje are different histories enacted in different contexts and should not be muddled down by the disconnected and mestizx alike trying to redefine it as the idea of how sad it is people think you’re white.

Blood quantum laws has been the cause of separation of entire families, loss of land, forceful assimilation by splitting communities apart based on the “Indian blood laws”. It is NOT about “looking white and how sad people don’t know I’m Native”. That’s not even the beginning of the actual problems of these laws.

Blood quantum is a very specific history and a specific set of laws that affected and continues to affect North American Indigenous peoples. It is not the same as being fair skinned and being viewed as white. It is also not to be confused or projected onto LatAm or Caribbean Indigenous histories.

as "white" "poc" or white passing poc or white latinx/e, we really do have the obligation to listen to our brown and black siblings on our own racism bc lord knows we will see whats directed at us but be blind to what we perpetuate