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In this wide-ranging conversation, Takiyah (T.D.) Harper-Shipman joins us to discuss her new book Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics (Stanford University Press, 2026). The discussion traces how modern states—from North Carolina to Senegal—have historically sutured Black women's fertility to the shifting demands of capitalist accumulation, deploying reproductive health policies not as benevolent care but as instruments of crisis management and labor control. Harper-Shipman unpacks the colonial origins of "womanhood" itself as a racialized labor category constructed during European enclosures, one that has always excluded Black women from its aspirational promises of citizenship, consumption, and reproductive autonomy. Drawing on Federici, Mies, Spillers, and Angela Davis, she argues that Black women enter the modern political economy as producers of workers—never citizens—and that contemporary feminist movements risk replicating white womanhood's assumptions when they abandon class analysis or ignore the chains of production behind their demands. The conversation also examines the recent closure of USAID, an institution Takiyah describes as fundamentally about the preservation of white life and the extension of U.S. empire. Rather than mourn its end, she urges us to seize this rupture and continue dismantling the colonial infrastructure of reproductive governance it represented. The conversation closes with a powerful critique of the epistemic violence embedded in global family planning campaigns—how metrics like "unmet need" were designed to serve supplier interests, not Black women's desires, and how Black women's embodied knowledge about contraceptive side effects is systematically dismissed as myth while dangerous technologies banned in the Global North are actively promoted across Africa. Throughout, we explore the Americanization of Black political identity from World War II through 9/11 to Obama's presidency, tracing how Black people have been conscripted into U.S. imperial projects through strategic moments of violence and national belonging. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation; additional questions will be addressed in an August follow-up. T.D. Harper-Shipman is an Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Davidson College in North Carolina. She teaches courses and publishes on political economy and its intersection with race and gender in Africa. She has published in p Antipode, Oxford Academic, Third World Quarterly, and International Studies Review, among other places. She is an academic editor at Third World Quarterly and forum editor with the Miami Institute of Social Sciences. Her first book, Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa was published with Routledge Press in 2019. She has also published in public-facing forums including Africa is a Country and the Global African Worker. Reckoning with Empire: Defiant Scholarship with Takiyah Harper-Shipman: https://globalsouth.org/2026/06/recko... La femme fait la maison: The Accumulation of Surplus Value through Family Planning in Burkina Faso: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... To support our work and gain access to our discord and study groups please contribute to our patreon:   / millennialsarekillingcapitalism

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2,779 likes, 323 comments - specter_affairs on August 7, 2026: ""They feel like [Taiwan] is almost on the level of Israel." The Specter met Taiwanese journalist Angelica Oung in Taipei, amid the severe political crisis shaking the island. The Western narrative pushes the idea that everyone in Taiwan opposes unity with the mainland. Oung made clear to us that this is far from reality. "American influence in Taiwan means that the elite are not aligned with Taiwan's interests," Oung told The Specter. The ruling DPP is now facing one of its worst crises yet. Mass protests are rocking the island, the largest in years, demanding the party step down. The Specter was on the ground as 200,000 people took to the streets. A severe food safety scandal was the trigger, but deeper questions, above all cross-strait relations, sit at the heart of people's anger. This snippet is only the beginning. More from our meeting with Angelica Oung is coming. Follow us so you don't miss it.".

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The line in the sand has officially been drawn. The economic war between Washington and Canada has begun. In a dramatic midnight showdown, Donald Trump and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer attempted an eleventh-hour squeeze play designed to crush Canadian sovereignty, seize control of critical mineral supply chains, and dictate who Canada can trade with. They assumed Canada would bend the knee. They were wrong. Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before the world, called out the extortion racket, and walked away from the bargaining table. From the parallels to Trump’s resource plays in Brazil to the urgent threat of MAGA-backed internal political sabotage across the provinces, we break down the geopolitical mechanics behind this historic confrontation—and why national unity and honor are Canada’s greatest defense. Stand your ground. Canada is not for sale. -------------------------------------------------- #Canada #MarkCarney #Trump #TradeWar #CUSMA #cdnpoli #CanadianSovereignty #USCanada #JamiesonGreer #CriticalMinerals #Geopolitics #DefendTheNorth #StandOnGuard #BreakingNews #MeidasTouch #news

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9,380 likes, 550 comments - a.kayumahmed on August 11, 2026: "This is the first of a series of interviews for my new book, Theorizing Fallism, in which I argue that white liberals pose a greater obstacle to Black liberation than white supremacists. Drawing on Steve Biko, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., I suggest that the moment Black liberation requires white liberals to surrender power, the language of liberation gives way to the instinct of preservation. #Fallism #Decolonization #BlackLiberation #freepalestine🇵🇸".

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