Somali - Cidda 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯
*supporting trans & queer Somalis in EA on monthly basis*
pfp = the cover of bell hooks' Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
here is a picture of the Somali anti-colonial poet we quote at the end Maymuuna Xasan Biyoow (RIP)
“gaal manoo islaam wadin nama soo galeen”
(the colonizer would not be in our midst if he wasn’t accompanied by one of us)
africasacountry.com/2026/05/on-t...
s/o to his mom for standing up for him.
i see a lot of ppl seeing the kid being 'scouted' as something to celebrate but i would wish for this kid to just be able to play in a regular ass kids league with other Black kids & enjoy himself, instead of being put on a professional track at 3 years old!
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"
The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
professional sports truly rob children of their childhood, but because we are all propagandized to idolize professional sport, we ignore the impact it has on the kids.
let kids be kids and enjoy sports as a fun activity whether they are great at it or not.
what's going on with the search? i can't find my own posts even though i know i am typing a word that was in the post.
is it down? @status.blacksky.community
"uniting the Diaspora thru fighting one man"
yes!
on behalf of the Somalis in the south i'll bring 'dalacbalaash, kili & canjeero' and maybe even some bariis Somaali & hilib ari, if we end up doing overtime.
lets gooooo
This angers me. A whole toddler that should be celebrated for being GREAT at something. Gets police called instead...
If that ain't being Black in America.
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"
The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"
The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
heatwave alert system does not apply in any of its overseas territories.
On October 13, MP Steevy Gustave asked the National Assembly whether a crisis must erupt in mainland France before the suffering of these territories becomes visible."
video & text from 👇🏿
www.instagram.com/reel/DegwzT5...
half of public secondary teachers lack the job security of permanent staff, compared with about one in 10 in mainland France, according to Education Ministry data.
Martinique, Guadeloupe and Réunion together lost nearly 200 secondary teaching posts this school year, the association said. France’s
Cayenne blocked their school on September 7.
For three weeks, only local media covered those protests, an association of overseas municipalities said. It is a familiar pattern across the Global South, where crises rarely make national headlines.
Conditions there are harsher. In Mayotte, more than
"Weeks before high school protests swept mainland France, students and teachers in two French colonies had already shut their schools.
In Mayotte, teachers and parents went on strike on August 31 at a high school built for 900 students that enrolled more than 2,200. In French Guiana, students in
And where’s all the talk and outrage for this woman? Kendall was raped and a university found her rapist guilty, but he’s still playing sports because we know how people are about sports. Tbh, it’s one reason I don’t like them. Being an athletic man often means you aren’t held accountable because
Exactly. I’ve seen a couple of people speak about it, but nothing beyond that. No major news outlets seem to be covering it. It’s disheartening. And I know it has to be tough for her.
"Weeks before high school protests swept mainland France, students and teachers in two French colonies had already shut their schools.
In Mayotte, teachers and parents went on strike on August 31 at a high school built for 900 students that enrolled more than 2,200. In French Guiana, students in
half of public secondary teachers lack the job security of permanent staff, compared with about one in 10 in mainland France, according to Education Ministry data.
Martinique, Guadeloupe and Réunion together lost nearly 200 secondary teaching posts this school year, the association said. France’s
heatwave alert system does not apply in any of its overseas territories.
On October 13, MP Steevy Gustave asked the National Assembly whether a crisis must erupt in mainland France before the suffering of these territories becomes visible."
video & text from 👇🏿
www.instagram.com/reel/DegwzT5...
"Weeks before high school protests swept mainland France, students and teachers in two French colonies had already shut their schools.
In Mayotte, teachers and parents went on strike on August 31 at a high school built for 900 students that enrolled more than 2,200. In French Guiana, students in
Cayenne blocked their school on September 7.
For three weeks, only local media covered those protests, an association of overseas municipalities said. It is a familiar pattern across the Global South, where crises rarely make national headlines.
Conditions there are harsher. In Mayotte, more than
And where’s all the talk and outrage for this woman? Kendall was raped and a university found her rapist guilty, but he’s still playing sports because we know how people are about sports. Tbh, it’s one reason I don’t like them. Being an athletic man often means you aren’t held accountable because
slave owners- I mean, team owners, are way more worried about how much money you’ll make them through sports. Colleges and universities do the same thing.
And where’s all the talk and outrage for this woman? Kendall was raped and a university found her rapist guilty, but he’s still playing sports because we know how people are about sports. Tbh, it’s one reason I don’t like them. Being an athletic man often means you aren’t held accountable because
If theres anything ive learned in my nearly 2 decades of political activism its that liberals only care about minorities as long as caring about us makes them look morally superior to conservatives.