Professor. Field: applied linguistics. Antiracist, feminist, 🏳️🌈⚢🏳️🌈 Research: Language learning+teaching, Blackness in multilingualism. Views are mine.
After someone showed me a fake Uju Anya Facebook using my name+image for human trafficking (selling “virgin girls”), I gave up and made an account.
Please, this is my real Facebook. Follow it and report all other Uju Anyas there. Help me run those fake bastards off the platform.
My child got sent to Zoom detention for not paying attention in Zoom 4th grade. Email said here’s the link to access the room to serve detention.
I swear I’m trying so hard to take this life seriously.
The image this woman chose to illustrate her oppression is Anastácia, an enslaved African in 1700s Brazil. Her mistress ordered that iron spike torture device put to deform her face and squeeze her neck out of rage and jealousy that her husband wouldn't stop raping Anastácia. 1/3
If I’m at your door at 3am, because my child sent me panic texts to pick her up, and you tell me come back in the morning, I will snatch your legs from under you and crack your skull on the edge of your front stoop before you say another word.
My 16yo said a girl at school stopped him in the hallway to ask if he’s single. He wants to know what that means.
Y’all, am I raising one of those goofy oblivious dudes who don’t know when people like them?
If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star.
No, Piers 🙄
You want to interview me, because your career died in excruciating pain, and you need the ratings. But I won’t let you chase clout off me. Like I said, I no dey put food for my enemy mouth.
I definitely want to interview you. I'd like you to try repeating to my face that you hoped the Queen died in 'excruciating pain.' But I suspect like most vile 'woke' trolls, you won't have the guts. Do you?
Y’all. Colombia just elected its first Black vice president, Francia Márquez. She ran with Gustavo Petro, the country’s new and first left wing president.
Y'all. I'm annoyed. My son asked at his school if there's a waiver for senior fees that cover his yearbook and graduation gown. Dude at the office said to him: "Didn't you just come back from summer in Italy?"
Now, why is a grown man pocketwatching my child?
So, what came before the white man sang the national anthem that she wished wasn’t there? Black people, Black music, Black culture. I’ve been telling y’all when white conservatives say “woke,” they mean nigger.
A 9yo Black child clearly into science identified a problem harming her neighborhood, researched, found a safe solution, and was testing it. Her white neighbor (who knew her!) called police on her saying a “small Black woman wearing a hoodie” was doing things and scaring him.
A NJ resident called police on a 9-year-old Black girl using a homemade spotted lanternfly repellant to try and stop the invasive species from harming trees in her neighborhood.
The girl's mother and sister described the ‘traumatic’ experience at a local council meeting.
A laptop arrived at my house addressed to my 16yo son. I didn’t buy it. I know neither his dad nor my girlfriend did. I sat the boy down. Took the computer, his phone, said I’ll seize his desktop too and ground him indefinitely until he said where he got $1000.
Video game skins.
How many women on here had sex with a man when you didn’t want to, because he
insisted
begged
pleaded
forced
threatened
bargained
promised
cried
said “just the tip,” etc.
And you let him continue what he was doing just to get it over with?
I’m trying to see something.
I was challenged to do a polyglot check-in. So I made my very first TikTok😬😬to join the game. These are the 6 languages I know in order of when I learned them. Igbo, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian.
In case the news media did not tell you. Today, nearly half a million people marched in DC to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to protest against Israel's genocide of Palestinians and the US government funding and protecting war criminals.
400,000 people in DC today. The largest Palestine protest in the history of the United States.
This Despite the cold weather, the flight and metro cancellations, the supposed fatigue after 100 days of protest. The movement for Palestine will not go away until Palestine is free.
I noticed in this “crisis of lonely men” nobody is suggesting dudes change their attitudes, values, behavior, and lower their standards, or else they’ll die alone with only their cats and diplomas to keep them warm.
Not helping HBO advertise that documentary by quoting their tweet. Just wanna inform y’all Renee Bach is a serial killer who murdered 100s of children in Uganda pretending to be a medical professional. And she got away with it, because she’s a white woman who killed Africans.
You’ve never scored a World Cup goal, nor do you have a body that looks this fantastic without a shirt. For that, we all must endure your lust-filled pain and envy that vomited this smelly tweet. Thunder fire you and your bad belle.
Removing your jersey and exposing your body just because you scored a goal doesn’t make sense at all as a woman.
Asisat Oshoala really need to fix up🤦♂️
The fact that nearly 70% of divorces in this country are initiated by women should tell you all you need to know about the joy and fulfillment you will supposedly find as some dude’s live-in maid.
This level of core, quad, knee, ankle, and just full body strength is astonishing. Plus, she did it all without spilling a drop. May this woman live very long.
This cis woman—like me and others with PCOS hirsutism—spends time, $$$ removing full mustache+beard we naturally grow. Facial hair removal is a gender affirming process we do just like trans women to make our physical appearance match our gender identity.
I tell my children—especially my son—to avoid any car or house that displays this thing. Just like the confederate flag, it’s a white supremacist symbol anyone waving knows exactly what it means and the terror they wanna provoke with it.
I woke up yesterday morning, looked out my window and saw the neighbors had hung this flag on their children’s playground.
Pull up a seat, and join me, friends, for The Chronicles of Being Black in a Rich, White suburb
A thread 💀
They will tell you Stacey Abrams lost, because Black men didn’t vote for her. It’s not true. She lost, because white people didn’t vote for her. Do not fall for the narrative that blames Black people for white racism and misogynoir.
@AnAmazingFeat
Seize first then ask questions was a very sober, rational approach. If he was dealing drugs or being groomed and exploited by an adult predator giving him money, I needed immediate control of his communication devices before he had a chance to delete, cover, lie, etc.
If you can see the picture on the left is staged marketing for products and a regressive, unrealistic lifestyle, please recognize that’s also what’s happening on the right.
For those who look up info about Anastácia, you’ll see her called “Escrava Anastácia.” “Escrava”
isn’t her name. It literally means “Slave” in Portuguese. Slave is not an identity. Enslavement is a crime. Her name is Anastácia. Her name is not the crime committed against her.
So you’re saying you rise before dawn to cook for an able-bodied adult, so that he doesn’t beg coworkers for food and fuck somebody for day-old rice and chicken.
I've always been too lazy to wake up and get his lunch ready. But the day he told me a colleague brought two spoons so he'll eat with her, was the day I set my alarm for 4:50am.
Hi all, I'm back.
I'd like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to my loving partner Dr. Sirry Alang
@ProfAlang
and everyone who rallied for me here and elsewhere. Thanks for tweeting, talking, writing/signing support letters, etc. You showed me something very important: I have people.
Respostas a alguns dos comentários que os brasileiros fizeram naquele meu vídeo do desafio poliglota.
1. Português “perfeito”
2. Como se aprende novas línguas
3. Falar 6 idiomas???
4. Declarações de amor
Too many queer youth say they don’t see elders to give them hope. Please, for
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
, I’m calling lesbians age 40 and over. Reply or quote with a pic/vid to show our youth they have generations past, present, and well into the future🧡🩷🤍❤️💜
Black men pulling stuff from a Black woman’s social media they claim show she didn’t “deserve” protection when a Black man smashed her face with a brick for not giving him her number.
Same thing white supremacists do after cops murder Black people to claim they deserved to die.
Many staff still left there are immigrants who can’t just quit, because Twitter sponsors their visa. A factory owner who controls his workers’ papers and demands they work all day AND sleep at the plant is usually called a sweatshop boss and human trafficker.
NEW: The BBC has obtained pictures of inside Twitter - rooms that have been converted into bedrooms - for staff to sleep in.
The city of San Francisco is investigating as it's a commercial building.
+234 Twitter, good morning. I give you special thanks for riding hardest for me. My Nigerian people, especially in and from Alaigbo, saw how much I love you and showed me love back. Together we shared our pain and taught the world our history. Thank you❤️
P.S. I am still a gay.
Heterosexual is a sexual orientation. If a child knows a “mommy and daddy,” “husband and wife,” or “boyfriend and girlfriend,” they know something about sexual orientation. The topic of sexual orientation is in your kid’s face everywhere every day, not just when we discuss gays.
These men who attack me for being gay, saying it’s not part of African culture, lemme tell you 3 things:
1. Your wives lying in bed next to you in Africa enter my DMs EVERY DAY saying they’re gay and trapped in marriage with you, because family and society gave them no choice.
While this man was sneering at me about making the world a better place, maids at his TWENTY-FIVE BATHROOM mansion, who had to work unseen by the family, were crawling out windows to reach staff toilets and getting UTIs from lack of bathroom access.
Jeff Bezos' housekeepers got UTIs from lack of bathroom access.
“For about 18 months, in order to use a bathroom...housekeepers were forced to climb out the laundry room window to the outside,” Mercedes Wedaa's lawsuit claims. story by
@kylietcheung
:
Passport bros go abroad with fantasies of bagging light skinned, straight haired women for cheap, only to realize anti-Blackness is an international sport when women with the same racist preferences they have humiliate them.
Esther Crawford slept on her office floor to deliver for her company but was still tossed out like dirty bath water. Don’t know who needs to hear this, but live for yourself and not any institution. Your job won’t ever love you.
In 5th grade, my son asked me “Mama, is there something wrong with me?” My heart broke, but I kept calm to say no and ask why. White woman teacher in his favorite class (math) wouldn’t stop calling his name. Always on him. He’d be doing same as others but she’d call him out. 1/11
This is actually depressing, because the man is asking this question, because, for most women who sleep with men, sex ends when dude orgasms, regardless of if the woman did or not. And that's sad as hell.
You rarely see images of Anastácia outside her story of a resilient head held high above depraved criminals who enslaved and tortured her. Mouth silenced, but her face still screaming testimony against their evil. But when you do, it's always interesting what they do with it. 3/3
Another who sits next to him in class always laughing at his jokes, saying he got a big head. I asked if she’s Black, he said yes😭
And he’s confused says she can’t be flirting cuz she got a boyfriend.
Y’all I think I’ve neglected a very critical part of this child’s education.
FYI, woman with Anastácia's picture saying "only slaves & dogs wear muzzles" is protesting public health rules mandating masks during a pandemic.
A mulher com imagem da Anastácia e placa "só escravo e cachorro usa mordaça" está protestando contra o uso obrigatório de máscara.
When people say sexuality is a private, taboo, or inappropriate topic. They mean homosexuality. We openly talk about sexuality everywhere. Heterosexuality. Guy saying “my girl” is talking about sexuality. Family pic in your office with mom, dad, & kids is talking about sexuality.
My 11yo daughter asked me a question, and I explained. I think she was also trying to get me to commiserate and complain about her dad with her, and I chose instead to help her understand him better. What’s your experience? How would you explain excessive frugality to a child?
Panic as a parent to see my child with crazy money, not know where he got it. I imagined drugs, scamming, predators, etc.
Turns out he’s in the FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR gaming skins market. Showed me records of skins he bought with his allowance a year ago, sold at triple value🤯🤯
Son and I thank y’all encouraging his entrepreneurial spirit. I even gave him small change to keep learning about business and investments. For those insulting me and my parenting, well, opinions are like assholes—everybody has one 🤷🏾♀️
Here’s Babyboy enjoying his new computer🥰💻
My favorite part of how Black people welcomed Colombia’s vice president-elect Francia Márquez are tweets saying she look like everybody auntie. Nigerians calling her Nkechi and Iyabo, Kenyans calling her Khakasa, and US folks calling her Kimberly😂😂 We all the same blood🤎🤎🤎🤎
These population panic stories always ignore one key issue: how patriarchy is incompatible with modernity. Why do educated, employed women in Japan, Italy, etc. refuse to have babies in societies where men do not equally share the labor-intensive care of children and homes? Hmm🤔
Stop hitting your children. Using pain and violence to control people’s behavior causes profound harm. It teaches children to be violent and accept violence from others as a sign of love or something that can coexist with love. These lessons follow them into other relationships.
I'll repeat again: Patriarchy is **A LABOR SCAM** where men (fathers, husbands, clerics, etc) exploit and steal women's work. Here's a woman who provided 25 years of domestic and entrepreneurial labor to a man who left her homeless and penniless when she became unfuckable to him.
Lady is warning the young brides with no plan. She got married at 19. She was the brains behind a few businesses but nothing was ever in her name.
When they divorced he got to keep everything and she was left with no money and been struggling since.
Everybody, please read this thread🙏🏾 The new anti-LGBTQ+ law in Ghana doesn’t just criminalize Ghanaians. It says ANYONE ANYWHERE who supports or even just witnesses a legal same-sex marriage in your own country is automatically a criminal in Ghana and can be jailed if you visit.
What she said.
I have spent a decade plus studying anti-gay laws in Africa and I can tell you the Ghana version is even CRAZIER than all the others.
I mean, over-the-top, paranoia induced, way out of line, extremely batshit crazy.
Let me do a list of the top hits.
They always present these Civil Rights Era pictures in black and white giving the impression the events were from a long, distant past. As you can see, many from that time are still very much alive today.
So proud of my 11yo daughter Amara😍😍🥰🥰🥰She won 3rd place in a Pittsburgh city-wide essay contest with almost a thousand middle school (grades 6-8) participants. The only 6th grade girl finalist! Her prize was a tablet and $100. Please help me congratulate Babygirl 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎉🎉
Please read this thread. AI photo generators are producing nudes from pics even when only headshots are imputed. They produce sexualized images of children. They can be used for deepfake porn. And Terms of Service allows the app to distribute/sell your image without consent.
Hello, my enemies!
Don’t know if you heard, but I earned tenure 🥰EARLY🥰 and I’m now a permanent faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in recognition of my indelible contribution to the field of applied linguistics.
May my success continue to agonize you.
Many of us who did ultrasound at 6-9 weeks pregnancy heard a “heartbeat.” It wasn’t a heartbeat. An embryo doesn’t have a heart. We heard the ultrasound machine converting electrical pulsing or throbbing from a tube in the embryo into a magnified sound people call a “heartbeat.”
Child. Molestation. Insurance.
Just take that in. They rape children so much in religious institutions that a whole insurance industry exists to save them from being bankrupted by all the lawsuits.
Considering the fact that churches are now required to have Child Molestation Insurance, maybe you should ask how you can protect our children from male pastors, male church leaders, male youth pastors, and deacons
Tyler Perry’s 30-year obsession with telling Black women what type of man they should want makes a lot more sense when you realize he’s selling his own fantasies and desires of his ideal dude, and Black women’s actual needs don’t factor in.
Herschel Walker can perform daily abortions on his kitchen table and beat ten wives and fifteen baby mamas in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot. He will not lose a single Republican vote as long as he keeps serving his purpose putting a Black face on white supremacy.
They said her deathbed was not an appropriate time to discuss why so many people around the world were not mourning Queen Elizabeth II. Hopefully, now is a good time to start learning and having these discussions.
Africans do awful things we call “culture” and “tradition.” Your loved one dies, and instead of bringing you cooked food, money, labor, people bring their greedy ass to sit down expecting you—in grief and devastation—to cook and serve them food and alcohol. And refuse to leave!
The boy is trying to save his mama some money on fees for college apps, scholarships, SAT/ACT/AP etc. $60 here, $75 there, it's still money. Instead of the administrator just saying there's income restrictions for fee waivers, why start talking about my child's summer abroad?
My child is struggling to keep it together during this pandemic like all of us. I chose remote learning to keep her safe, and I understand doing 4th grade on Zoom is difficult. It's also hard for teacher who manages both kids in class and online. But Zoom detention is ridiculous.
I’m still trying to understand how a professor justified calling police on a student because the student didn’t apologize for yelling back when she yelled at her. POLICE. As in, she called law enforcement to bring guns to to the class and drag a student out. For not saying sorry.
Most gay people were born to heterosexual parents in heterosexual relationships. We live in heteronormative societies surrounded, dominated by heterosexuality.
If sexual orientation can be influenced by mere contact or proximity, why y’all straight people raising all these gays?
So tired of saying “my girlfriend” and people rewording it as “your friend.” She ain’t a pal, and you damn well know it. If I call her my “scissoring siren” now, the pearl clutching will begin.
Black women have legitimate reasons to side eye white folks “discovering” Mielle hair oil. When brands BW single-handedly kept afloat start chasing white money, they raise prices, change formulas, and erase BW from their image. Remember this disrespectful shit from Shea Moisture?
You know why "civility" and tone police respectability politics is nonsense? This thief hoarding fruits of collective company labor instead of sharing with other co-workers just said the most vulgar, obscene, disrespectful shit to those co-workers softly, without cursing once.
Does that man know how the trip to Italy was funded? And even if my child flew first class to Rome and drove his Maserati from the airport to The Ritz Carlton wearing ten Rolex watches on each wrist, why should a simple question get such a shit-eating response?
/end of rant
Don’t know who might need this, but a very resourceful Brazilian demonstrates how to turn your ordinary fan into an air conditioner. You don’t even have to understand Portuguese! The steps are super clear.
Examine carefully the words used by an adult white man to describe a 9yo Black child to police. A child he knew, because she’s his neighbor and one of the few Black people living there.
Black - out of place
WOMAN - adult
hoodie - thug, criminal
scares me - a threat, dangerous
Republicans said they’ll ban IVF. Here it is. They also said they’ll ban contraception and divorce, so that’s next. Religious fundamentalists are using the law to force their religion on everybody and take away people’s rights. Dictatorships don’t happen overnight or in one move.
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen, unimplanted embryos qualify as human children under state law.
IVF has long been in the crosshairs of the anti-abortion movement, and this unprecedented decision immediately imperils all IVF access throughout Alabama.
Student uprisings have been right on nearly all justice issues in recent history. They were right about civil rights, women’s rights, Vietnam, South Africa, drug war, guns. Now, they’re right to denounce Israel’s genocide against Palestinians and US complicity in the slaughter.
At my family event, my 78yo aunt took Sirry aside.
Big Auntie: You came here with Obianuju. What are you to her?
Sirry: 😅umm…
Big A: You two are like husband and wife?
Sirry: Yes.
Big A: (puts hand on Sirry’s shoulder) My dear, welcome. You are very welcome.
Sirry: 😁😁😁
A lesson from this account of how staff at Warere Beach Hotel in Nungwi, Zanzibar raped and robbed a young woman is not “women shouldn’t travel alone.” Women have a right to occupy public space. The lesson is society must assure women’s right to be free and safe in public space.
It’s high time I told my horrible experience in Zanzibar as a young solo female traveler.
This incident happened a year ago in April of 2021 but I haven’t been able to talk about it cause I’ve been in therapy for a year to heal from the psychological trauma as this experience
@Lauraonthettc
The devil doesn't need an advocate. You just wanna support asshole behavior without looking like an asshole. I didn't send my son for a waiver, he went himself trying to save money like a responsible child. Dude should've just said he doesn't qualify instead of acting like you.
Slavery was a crime. Those who are still today profiting from that crime now wanna pass laws to make people say their kidnapper, rapist, torturer, murderer great-grandpappy ran a job internship program. FOH.
Kevin Samuels told men their worth was in their wallet. He died in a 1BR sublet with less than $1K to his name, no partner, friend, or offspring wiling to claim him, only his poor mother begging and borrowing to bury his loathsome carcass.
This is the story behind our pain. Many people who survived the (1967-1970) holocaust against Igbo people—paid for by the British government—are still alive today. This is living memory.
Dr.
@UjuAnya
speaks about the genocide of the Biafran people under the direction of the British Empire. Millions of Biafrans were killed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. For the full interview go to