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And this just got published today...dusting off an old passion& making a slow come back to writing. Thank you, @GenderITorg for making a space😊
Tweeps, I hope you enjoy the read& find your versions of everyday resistance in your personal& political lives somewhere in my ramble😉
A beautiful essay that explores how to navigate the complexities of sexuality and personhood for Ethiopians, and how the traditional form known as qene or wax-and-gold is the perfect metaphor for negotiating and living dual realities. By @Selam_Mussie
genderit.org/feminist-talk/r…
Selam | ሠላም retweeted
It is not ok! Even with visa #Africa is on its own. Same as for vaccines and health emergencies.
Selam | ሠላም retweeted
He died at the age of 18, after an unhappy childhood, For 150 years, Ethiopians have been asking when Prince Alemayehu will come home.
Today Windsor Castle does not only stand as a symbol of medieval splendour but also as a symbol of British thievery and savagery.
Watch out, Kenya. Learn from a country whose leader(s) are praying for everything for four years instead of doing their job 😫
I am a committed Christian who believes in prayer and believe God has helped us this far and Will continue to trust Him for the future of Kenya, but I hope that issues such as lowering food prices will not be met with State house saying, “let’s pray about it.“
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Selam | ሠላም retweeted
Cancel culture is Black women from the Global South targeted and singled out for abuse by a billionaire & right wing media for refusing to perform civility & respectability about the Queen's death while an entire Irish football stadium sings their delight that "Lizzy's in a box"
I said what I said, and I'd say it any day of the year.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Oh and might I add we don’t even have the same kind of agenda/motive the white media & colonization sympathizers have when they frame stories of developing countries 💁🏾♀️ yet, you’re uncomfortable that your (not so) past sins & crimes are outed & we refuse to glorify your story 🙄
It’s the way everything is considered out of place when BIPOC call the shits of white ppl out 🤦🏾♀️ Every African dictator’s story could have been sanitized for PR purpose including Gaddafi’s just the way the British media is doing it for the Monarchy.
The way white ppl & some fellow Africans expect civility while outing the sins of the British monarchy & their empire project is something else. Telling the other side of the story, outing crimes of the dead, choosing not to glorify the institution is NOT celebrating death.
Selam | ሠላም retweeted
No one mentions what the British were doing in Kenya when she became Queen. Not what they kept doing here for the first decade of her reign. The facts tend to complicate the fairy tale.
She was just 25 when she became Queen Elizabeth II on Feb. 6, 1952, on the death of her father, while she was on tour in Kenya with Prince Philip.
She was crowned monarch on June 2, 1953 reut.rs/3Bq0pEJ
Selam | ሠላም retweeted
From 8 years after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation until well into the 1970s, the British government engaged in Operation Legacy, destroying records of the British empire’s crimes. Now *is* the time to discuss this kind of detail because her death is used to push a sanitised history
If the African proverb "Until the lion learns how to write, the story will always glorify the hunter" was a news piece. #QueenElizabeth
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