Is being ‘woke’ a badge of honor?
Historically, the word was used as a warning to be aware of racial injustices.
https://theconversation.com/back-in-the-day-being-woke-meant-being-smart-215635
#racialinjustice #equality #USPolitics #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow era still haunt the South.
An example: In Ellisville, Mississippi, 2 water fountains remain standing in front of the Jones County Courthouse.
Even though the fountains don’t work, and the signs reading “white” and “colored have been covered, the subtle but discriminatory whisper of segregation remains.
In #History: #NinaSimone on how #racialinjustice #fuelled her #songs.
In these exclusive #BBC #archive #clips, Nina Simone describes how #racism robbed her of her #dream of being a #classical #pianist, and how in the 1960s she used her remarkable #voice to #demand #equality for #black #Americans.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #History #BlackHistoryMonth #RoleModels #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon
"What police shrug off as mistaken identity never takes into account how it feels for someone to be treated as a criminal, to face police guns drawn and pointed, or the vulnerability of having one’s hands cuffed behind their back."
If this happened regularly to middle-class white people, radical police reform would have as much support as tax cuts.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/15/opinion/police-encounters-black-people-trauma/
#NYC settles historic class action suit over racial injustice protests
#NewYorkCity will pay more than $13 million to more than 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten during #protests against #RacialInjustice in the summer of 2020.
The agreement comes after a civil rights lawsuit accused leaders of the city's #police department of violating protesters' #FirstAmendment rights with "coordinated" brutality and unlawful arrests.
also, if you're a #contentCreator, please feel free to leave a reply on this thread with a brief summary about yourself and links to some of your content! my name is Cleo and I've been making videos online since the first year of YouTube's existence. my two main channels are #CeriGotGame, a very old one that is centered around #videoGames #cosplay and other nerdy stuff, and #toplessTopics "the channel that seeks to destigmatize female #toplessness through repeat exposure". Basically I do my videos nonsexually topless to try to normalize seeing "female looking nipples" (aka flagged by algorithms to ban as "sexually explicit nudity") outside of explicitly sexual situations, then use their attention to talk about issues important to me, like #feminism #lgbtq #houseless #racialInjustice #genderEquality #censorship #sexualEducation (discussed, not demonstrated!) and more.
I'm also always looking for interesting people to interview, so please let me know if you might like to let me record your thoughts on a topic!
most of my gaming stuff is here:
https://m.youtube.com/c/cerigotgame
https://m.twitch.tv/cerigotgame/videos
while my #toplesstopics stuff is all over the place, as unfortunately I keep having to reupload it to different platforms. currently the uncensored (containing nonsexual female nipples) versions of my videos are on peertube:
https://videos.trom.tf/c/toplesstopics/videos
and the censored versions (when I bother making them) are on YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/user/toplesstopics
I also announce on my various social media accounts (including mastodon) when I post anything new: https://www.toplesstopics.org/contact
if you're not sure where to start, I list some of what I consider my "best" videos here:
https://www.toplesstopics.org/featured/
and I have all my interviews, which are probably the most interesting things I've done so far, here:
https://www.toplesstopics.org/interviews/
(I also sometimes export just the audio of my videos as "podcast episodes" if you want something to listen to during your commute--so look up "Topless Topics" on the podcast platform of your choice if you like)
Eager and hopeful to connect with other #contentCreators, about the subjects I cover or anything else, really!
We sent an open letter to the Mayor of Greater Manchester (UK) and GM Police with 14 other civil society groups, calling for the end to the discriminatory police practice of weaponising data and content. This leads to racialised prosecutions, as seen in the case of the #Manchester10.
#policing #surveillance #racialinjustice #precrime
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/end-racialised-surveillance/
