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Emma Louise Backe

@emmalouisebacke

PhD candidate Medical Anthropology @GW_Anthro / former @Vassar witch / Managing editor @GeekAnthro / GBV activist

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The Cake Lady (@got_cake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Everyday words can hide histories we were never taught. “No can do” mocked Chinese workers in the 1800s. “Uppity” was used in the early 1900s to insult confident Black people. “Peanut gallery” in the 1870s meant the only seats Black audiences were allowed. “Grandfathered in” from

Jess Davies (@_jessicadavies) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is why I believe jurors on sexual assault cases should be specialist and trauma-informed. Picking randomers off the street when the normalisation of victim-blamed is so heavily ingrained into society is allowing perpetrators to get away with so many harms.

Chris D. Jackson (@chrisdjackson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump falls asleep again during a meeting on live television. If Joe Biden had done this, the media would’ve turned it into a week-long crisis. But with this clown, they shrug because he gives them the clicks that fatten their wallets. Total failures.

Trump falls asleep again during a meeting on live television. If Joe Biden had done this, the media would’ve turned it into a week-long crisis. But with this clown, they shrug because he gives them the clicks that fatten their wallets. Total failures.
Assal Rad (@assalrad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -George Orwell, 1984

News24 🇿🇦 (@news24) 's Twitter Profile Photo

South African Afrikaners will be the only people allowed into the US as refugees, according to the Trump administration. brnw.ch/21wY28J

Mohammed R. Mhawish (@mohammrafik) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It was deep, painful, and at times unbearable. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Read in New York Magazine nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Pop Crave (@popcrave) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The University of Alabama has shut down two student-run magazines—one focused on female undergraduates and one focused on Black undergraduates—following Donald Trump’s anti-DEI policies.

The University of Alabama has shut down two student-run magazines—one focused on female undergraduates and one focused on Black undergraduates—following Donald Trump’s anti-DEI policies.
haru (@worstamericngrl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

if i donate my body to science and they rape my corpse with a different corpse AND cut off my head im haunting the science museum in perpetuity

julián gómez-delgado (@juliangomezdel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽

New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. 

Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽
Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 BREAKING: It’s official, SCOTUS just upheld Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett is being BOOTED out of her own district. This isn’t redistricting. This is political eviction. Republicans couldn’t beat her at the ballot box, so they rewrote the

🚨 BREAKING: It’s official, SCOTUS just upheld Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett is being BOOTED out of her own district.

This isn’t redistricting.
This is political eviction.

Republicans couldn’t beat her at the ballot box, so they rewrote the
Suntosh Pillay (@suntoshpillay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yesterday, the Gauteng High Court ordered government and SAPS to act against xenophobia at public hospitals and clinics, including notices to be placed in front of clinics, stating that obstructing entry to healthcare facilities is unlawful. share.google/kOBkPLzyNxkxZK…

Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I re-watch this clip whenever I catch myself wondering if I've been too hard on the Democrats. It's easy to forget how evil they are when they're not in power.

⚜️Sovereign⚜️ (@sauvamemte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dying of Whiteness explains how white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading. tinyurl.com/338ku6k2

Dying of Whiteness explains how  white people’s racial resentment ruins social programs & safety nets to spite everyone else and how their racism ends up hurting them too. Here’s the book for anyone interested in reading.
tinyurl.com/338ku6k2
Mambaonline (@mambaonline) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A young queer life stolen in Khayelitsha. Sixteen-year-old Kwakhanya Mhlanganisi is brutally murdered in a suspected hate crime amidst the 16 Days of Activism Campaign. His family and community are calling for justice. mambaonline.com/2025/12/09/out…

Michael de Villiers (@mikedotcoza) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is the UP Medicine class of 2025. Despite the loud claims that white children are “discriminated” from studying in SA universities, more than half this class is white, while white South Africans make up only about 7% of the population.

This is the UP Medicine class of 2025. Despite the loud claims that white children are “discriminated” from studying in SA universities, more than half this class is white, while white South Africans make up only about 7% of the population.
Women For Change (@womenforchange5) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oversight Visit Confirms ZERO Rape Kits in Western Cape Provincial SAPS Depot An unannounced oversight inspection has exposed a severe and dangerous breakdown in South Africa’s forensic supply chain: there are currently no D1 (adult rape kits) or D7 (rape kits for children under

Oversight Visit Confirms ZERO Rape Kits in Western Cape Provincial SAPS Depot

An unannounced oversight inspection has exposed a severe and dangerous breakdown in South Africa’s forensic supply chain: there are currently no D1 (adult rape kits) or D7 (rape kits for children under