THE FASCIST CULTURE WAR DISTRACTION

THE FASCIST CULTURE WAR DISTRACTION

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Midwives: The Craft of Birth - Crushing Colonialism
Midwives: The Craft of Birth - Crushing Colonialism
Midwifery in Indigenous communities in “Colombia” has historically been a practice sustained mainly by women, though not limited to them. “In the past, there wasn’t a specific figure responsible for attending births; rather, it was shared knowledge within the community.
During the first days of life, the umbilical cord is carefully watched over. Later, it is buried alongside a seed or beneath a tree, symbolizing a vital connection. The plant that grows becomes a reminder: “there lies that person’s umbilical cord,” reinforcing the roots between the individual and their territory.”
Our work does not end with birth. We continue caring for the life of the child and the mother.”
They aim to represent midwifery not only as a practice of attending birth, but also as a broader system of care, connected to territory and to the ways of life of communities
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Midwives: The Craft of Birth - Crushing Colonialism
Black Women's Reproductive Lives as Unruly Resistance to Capitalist Empi...
Black Women's Reproductive Lives as Unruly Resistance to Capitalist Empi...
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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Black Women's Reproductive Lives as Unruly Resistance to Capitalist Empi...
I’m glad that WNBA player Sophie Cunningham got booed and I hope it happ...
I’m glad that WNBA player Sophie Cunningham got booed and I hope it happ...
Sophie Cunningham was booed during last night’s WNBA game in Toronto. I think that’s a good thing. Cunningham is enjoying a right-wing media machine that’s embracing her. If this is the reward for engaging in hate, what’s the deterrent? Social consequences -- like booing: SUBSCRIBE ✨ SUBSTACK: https://rachelgilmore.substack.com/ PATREON:   / rachelgilmore   TWITCH:   / rachel_gilmore   YOUTUBE:    / @atrachelgilmore   SOURCES: https://x.com/ShowCaseShabazz/status/... https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/... https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/20...    • Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with Joh...   https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://espnpressroom.com/press-relea... https://www.cbc.ca/sports/nba-players... https://sirc.ca/articles/happy-birthd... https://www.americanprogress.org/arti... https://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateur-spo... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
The Gender & LGBTQ2S+ "Debate" (Spoiler: There is none.)The Gender & LGBTQ2S+ "Debate" (Spoiler: There is none.)
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I’m glad that WNBA player Sophie Cunningham got booed and I hope it happ...
Colin Hoffman (@thesoulciologist) • Instagram reel
Colin Hoffman (@thesoulciologist) • Instagram reel
40K likes, 587 comments - thesoulciologist on June 2, 2026: "Dr. Angela Davis speaking to recognizance of women in society. Trans women, black women, gay women. Gatekeeping of womanhood is a social violence visited upon all of us. Dr. Davis has been a prominent advocate for women, LGBT, black individuals, for decades. This was taken from a speech at University of California Riverside, in 2018. #feminism #women #trans #intersectionality".
The Gender & LGBTQ2S+ "Debate" (Spoiler: There is none.)The Gender & LGBTQ2S+ "Debate" (Spoiler: There is none.)
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Colin Hoffman (@thesoulciologist) • Instagram reel
Why do so many women view hyper-sexualized aesthetic as "empowerment"? Are we being ignorant on the fact that multi-billion dollar corporations tricked women into buying into their own sexualization under the guise of empowerment and "female liberation"?
Why do so many women view hyper-sexualized aesthetic as "empowerment"? Are we being ignorant on the fact that multi-billion dollar corporations tricked women into buying into their own sexualization under the guise of empowerment and "female liberation"?
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Why do so many women view hyper-sexualized aesthetic as "empowerment"? Are we being ignorant on the fact that multi-billion dollar corporations tricked women into buying into their own sexualization under the guise of empowerment and "female liberation"?
Lauren Wright: " I think for a lot of people, women's sports is really important." Cari Champion: "I don't think that any of these people think they want to protect women. You know why? Because they don't give two craps about the Epstein files."
Lauren Wright: " I think for a lot of people, women's sports is really important." Cari Champion: "I don't think that any of these people think they want to protect women. You know why? Because they don't give two craps about the Epstein files."
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Lauren Wright: " I think for a lot of people, women's sports is really important." Cari Champion: "I don't think that any of these people think they want to protect women. You know why? Because they don't give two craps about the Epstein files."
Andrew Wilson, known for "pro-family values," loses his whole mind when a female debater reveals his wife has three children with three different men and was previously married twice before him. Unphased, the debater stands her ground
Andrew Wilson, known for "pro-family values," loses his whole mind when a female debater reveals his wife has three children with three different men and was previously married twice before him. Unphased, the debater stands her ground
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Andrew Wilson, known for "pro-family values," loses his whole mind when a female debater reveals his wife has three children with three different men and was previously married twice before him. Unphased, the debater stands her ground