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You need to do the work to humanize people who have been dehumanized. You have decades of "Brown = Bad = Muslim = Terrorist" to deprogram. You need to be reading books by Palestinian authors, essays, letters, poetry. You need to be looking for visual media put out that describe their experiences. That is your responsibility. And don't stop there. Come out to actions. Support them. Write your representatives. Come meet them. #Palestine @palestine

US National Weather Service is incredibly resistant to learning how to make things accessible to the public funding them. Until just recently they weren't using the alt text field at all. Now they misuse it. This is the problem with the compliance approach - one should be doing it because one cares about people rather than mere legal compliance. #a11y #Accessibility #Ableism

India: Notify Guidelines To Make Cinema More Accessible For Visually, Hearing Impaired Persons Before July 15: Delhi High Court To Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) Justice Prathiba M Singh clarified that the guidelines shall make the provision of accessibility features mandatory in feature films. #Disability #Poverty #Cinema #HumanRights #Technology

How does one decolonize and reclaim the meanings of research and researcher, particularly in the context of Western research? Indigenous communities have long experienced oppression by Western researchers. Is it possible to build a collaborative research knowledge that is culturally appropriate, respectful, honoring, and careful of the Indigenous community? What are the challenges in Western research, researchers, and Western university methodology research training? How have ‘studies’ – crit...

Kaepernick: "The cops should maybe not kill Black people all the time." NFL & fans: "That dirty ni-, that dirty thug should shut his mouth and leave politics out of sports." Butker: "Broads should stay in the kitchen, and while I'm at it, let me tell you about 'diversity,' if you know what I mean, ha ha." NFL & fans: "Yes gigachad, speak your truth, we value all opinions here." #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #NFL #football https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4977336/harrison-b...

Aboriginal-led @JustReinvest in Bourke is seeing real change for community. Instead of harmful prisons & policing, it's about investing in housing, social supports, education, family violence prevention, culturally safe family & legal supports. https://t.co/ETdCWKmksr

Mother heartbroken as bid for inquest into murder of 10-month old baby fails. The police left my baby at the scene without asking about his safety. The police refused to look for my baby when I told them he had been abducted ⁦⁦⁦⁦@jessradio⁩ https://t.co/VijhcJjeMH

Our first BITESIZE series is on whiteness. And the first in the series explores academia This course is aimed at students of colour & those who support them including; lecturers, counsellors, parents & others interested in their welfare and achievements. https://t.co/sCjjGYYaqC https://t.co/ILIDWLKor5