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hit my reading challenge perfectly this year and im so lit about that

30/30

reminds me of an algerian bonjour tristesse

Right so we can’t outwoke American imperialism can we

I love to give a book five stars ❤️ love EVERYONE 😊

Evansville Indiana mentioned ⚠️⚠️ Howard p jones wrote the expose on the kkk running evansville tf

Didn’t know about US involvement in France Italy and greece w anticommunism #learnedsomething

Her description of eyes and love… ❤️

wow lebo audiobook can’t put it down

The Potawatomi reciprocity she talks about reminds me very much so of the generosity Im experiencing in Algeria

makes me want to email mrs ahmed, makes me want to become a botanist, makes me understand why i appreciate maya’s life so much, makes me want to go outside and create something

mama mama

audiobooking and thinking about when i was camping w the baes

black rome:
actions in the piazzas #love
colonization in eritrea ? we don’t talk abt that enough. snd italians don’t either !

the dogali obelisk for example

wish i remembered more xx

so i rushed through the end of this book bc i had to leave berlin. which means ill write what i remember but i don’t have the names anymore unfortunately

sorry black warsaw you didn’t get the most thorough read.

black oslo:
the kongolandsbyen ? crazy install
the murder of a young PAD boy in the neighborhood between gare and botanical garden

Black Luxembourg:
- 2021 LISER study on Luxembourgish identity and race
- three orgs: Lëtz Rise Up, Finkapé, and Richtung22
- street renaming + action against Nicolas Cito fountain
- luxembourg’s military presence in DRC -> viewed as a life cycle story for young Luxembourgers
- Jacques Leurs
- “colonial outsiders” (lux, norway, poland) still benefit from colonial structures
- Cape Verdean presence in Lux

black london:
- Brixton’s windrush square during BLM
- memorials in Hackney for the Windrush generation
- memorial to Cherry Groce in Brixton
- Henry Sylvester Williams and John Archer -> Pan Africanism in London
- Mary Seacole Monument and controversy w Florence Nightingale

black brussels:
- belgian “white amnesia” forgetting black radicalized resistance
- neighborhood of Matonge -> lumumba square and mural at porte de namur (where the African House for DRC students was located)
- Paul Panda Farnana, Congolese student in Belgium whose activism resulted in Belgian policy of isolation
- “repressive tolerance” and the lameness of lumumba square

black berlin:
- african quarter in wedding and renaming of “garden colonies” to moreso kleingartenverein & wedding renaissance
- renaming streets notably M street
- May Ayim Audre Lorde luv
- african asylum seekers at oranienplatz

new word: antipode

« quand je pense filmer mes parents et réaliser un documentaire sur eux, j’ai peur que mon père meure durant le tournage et je ne sais pas ce qui m’attriste le plus, sa mort ou l’impossibilité future de terminer ce film. Est-ce que filmer ses parents, ce n’est pas déjà les tuer un peu ? »

susan… what you doing here

being a settler or a colonizer is not something you are, it is something you do. it describes your relationship to this land and the people in it.

if you’re going to stop being a settler and start being kin, that’s where we start, with what you do.

fuckkk i need to stop taking stones from everywhere. they do be sentient.

it’s like ik the child welfare system is fucked up but then i learn more and more and realize that it is indeed fucked up

catholic workers association 1933. living at the poverty line to avoid taxes going to military expansion

love plays