Why Solidarity Is Vital to Freeing Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders
Every Aug. 30, the world marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Beneath the official statements and solemn commemorations
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2,332 likes, 81 comments - blackspectrumscholar on August 27, 2026: "Intersectionality, developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw, gives us a framework for understanding how different systems of power overlap. Examining our positionality invites us to map where we stand within those structures.
Use the black-and-white wheel to reflect on your own position across each dimension.
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Credit to Sylvia Duckworth (@sylviaduckworth), who developed the original Wheel of Power and Privilege in 2020 for the Canadian Council for Refugees.".
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11K likes, 571 comments - adivunsolicited on August 9, 2026: "Replying to @nickname99981 Human atrocities get no moral ranking. Growing up in New York, the Holocaust was taught every single year as the absolute baseline of human evil. But when you look closely at what’s taught versus what’s erased from the forced sterilization of Black Europeans, that the Roma, disabled and queer people were victims in the holocaust as well to 500 years of transatlantic slavery, colonial genocide, and ongoing displacement, you start to see how history is filtered through Eurocentric priority.
When one tragedy is elevated as the universal standard while others are sidelined, it’s selective empathy.
Atrocity is not a competition, but when selective memory is weaponized to justify ongoing violence today, revisiting what we were taught isn’t just necessary it’s mandatory. We need to dismantle the hierarchy of grief.
#blackhistory #colonization #holocaust #genocide #congo".
alokvmenon on August 9, 2026: "Book Report: Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (NYU Press 2017)
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