Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@qoto.org

4/4/After I retired from doing fieldwork, I started teaching cultural anthropology and women’s studies. A few years ago I retired again, and since 2008 have blogged at Daily Kos (and forcefully push back against racism and misogynoir on social media ).

3/ I got involved in media via WBAI Pacifica in NYC and co-founded the first Black/minority controlled public radio station in Washington DC – WPFW-FM, Pacifica. Later I became the Executive Director of the Black Filmmaker Foundation. During the AIDS crisis in NYC, with friends and neighbors dying all around me, I shifted focus & became involved in harm reduction actions, working as a medical anthropologist/ ethnographer doing research intervention with heroin addicts in NYC and Puerto Rico.

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I was raised to be political, so from an early age (3rd grade) I’ve been engaged in activism - from ban the bomb to civil and human rights. Over the course of a lifetime I’ve been a member of the NAACP, CORE, SNCC, The Young Lords Party, The Black Panther Party, and worked in solidarity with groups fighting for the rights of Black women, Native Americans, Asian-American and Chicanos

1/ I just read that I should introduce myself as a newcomer, migrant from Twitter here. Apologies for not having done so. Given my time on the planet – this will be fairly long.
I'm a 75 year old Black woman, born in Brooklyn NY in 1947. My parents were politically very left of center - my dad was a Tuskegee Airman, and later a stage actor, and professor, my mom a very educated woman whose grandparents were enslaved in Virginia.

This site makes me feel guilty about the fact I didn’t let mastodons on the Ark.

Musk does not seem to have much of a plan to improve Twitter’s business or product

But he has aggressively used his role as Twitter’s owner to push his political agenda

Musk, since buying Twitter:

1. Pushed a vile conspiracy theory about Nancy Pelosi’s husband

2. Encouraged his followers to vote Republican in the midterms

3. Reinstated Trump

Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with 80% of large venues in the country, allowing the company to set prices and gouge customers with fees.

Monopolization isn't just bad for the music industry, it's bad for the entire American economy.

Why are food prices continuing to increase?

The four largest food companies control 82 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of soybean processing, 63 percent of pork packing, and 53 percent of chicken processing.

Corporations are raising prices because they can.

Now that you see how Elon "leads," you understand why the Tesla Roadster 2 and Semi are around 5 years late.🤷🏿‍♂️

Five. Years.

Picture Peter Rawlinson and half the staff of Rivian walking out of Tesla, just like you see SREs, policy folk, and UX designers walking out of Twitter.

1. Trump's candidacy for president raises the prospect of a major party nominee that is effectively on the payroll of a foreign government.

Since leaving the White House, Trump and his family have received BILLIONS from Saudi officials

https://popular.info/p/trumps-paymaster

Remember when Hillary Clinton was running for president and was being investigated left and right and there wasn't a fucking special prosecutor just in case it looked political even though it was political?

You can take the spoiled, chaos-junkie oligarch out of the apartheid mining family, but you can’t, etc.

I know it's soooo bad what Elon did to Twitter, really.

But I've been running this server for over 3 years now to flee Twitter and somehow it feels things are falling into place...

I have met such amazing and wonderful people here on the Fediverse that I consider my true friends no matter where they live❤️

The only thing I want is for you to have the same and here you have a chance do that just that!

HI EVERYONE! I’m trying to find people I follow on Twitter. Can you reply to this only if I follow you on Twitter please??

Were they friends of your girlfriend who lives in Canada?

#WakandaForever #Namor #TenochHuerta

I’m looking to follow more #blacktwitter #blackmastodon #blackvoices peeps here. I’m wanting to fully migrate from the bird app and I’m looking forward to curating a good feed over here.

Y'all he done broke two-factor authentication. Someone get that site a Life Alert bracelet.