#abolitionist — Public Fediverse posts

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe

#philosophy #author #abolitionist #quotes

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839

A fascinating account by British actress Fanny Kemble of her time on her husband Pierce Butler's Georgia plantation. Vehemently anti-slavery, Kemble recounts the horrors of this world + her feeble attempts to help - giving out bits of food + clothing, paying enslaved workers for work outside the fields + illegally helping one man to learn his letters. The book was not published until 1863, after her divorce from Pierce Butler, + the American Civil War had begun. Butler had threatened to keep Kemble from seeing her 2 daughters, whose custody she had lost in the divorce.

Years after the divorce Butler was forced to sell his slaves to pay off gambling debts. It was the largest such sale ever - known a The Weeping Time.

#fannykemble #abolitionist #journal #books #mybookshelf #booklist #journalofaresidenceonageorgianplantation #readinglist

The Greek Slave & The Virginian Slave

The Greek Slave was sculpted by American Hiram Powers in 1843. It depicts a Christian Greek woman captured by Turks. Controversial because of it's depiction of a naked woman, it became one of the most famous sculptures of it's time. It was featured at the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in London, where it stood on a rotating pedestal under a lavish red canopy. As part of the American pavilion it was the centerpiece of a display that included a tipi, Native Americans, portraits of presidents + objects associated with progress + national identity.

The Virginian Slave, drawn by John Tenniel was an illustration published in the British magazine Punch as a direct counter-image. It showed a shackled Black woman, forcing Americans to confront the realities of slavery in the American South. During his visit to the fair American Abolitionist, author + former slave William Wells Brown placed the image of the Black slave alongside the white statue to emphasize the suffering of enslaved women - An American reality.

#thegreekslave #thevirginianslave #williamwellsbrown #abolitionist #activism #protest #johntenniel #hirampowers #resistance #statue #sculpture #blackhistory

#Introduction
Aight, time to introduce myself, I guess.
𝗜 𝗮𝗺:
• Wanda
• #Muslim
• #Indonesian
• #disabled
• trauma-informed, not trauma-identified
• #abolitionist
• a hater
• the ancient horror your village elders warned you about

𝗜 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁:
• you
• #cats
• reading comprehension
• #mutualaid
• Islamic feminism
• #anarchism (obvious lol)
• internationalism
• Global South solidarity
• #SEAblings
• disability justice
• pluralism
• abortion
• all diversity in sexuality, gender, ideology, and belief

𝗜'𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲:
• a pædophile or pædophile apologist
• a fascist or fascist-adjacent (I can tell from your words, choose wisely)
• pro-authoritarian for whatever reason
• a capitalist
• an Islamophobe
• anti-Black
• anti-SWANA denier/apologist
• genocide denier/apologist
• anti-Arab
• antisemites cosplaying Judaism
• campists cosplaying as anti-imperialists
• liberal zionist
• projecting a Western lens where it doesn't belong (again, I can tell)
• a bigot
• misogynist
• a liberal
• ableist
• apolitical
• anti-communist or anti-leftism in general
• Muslim “moderate”
• Saudi propagandist/Wahhabi claiming to be “Salaf”
• Arab supremacist

The last three are Muslim-specific :) pls back off.
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I operate on the premise of “All Westerners are imperial agents until proven otherwise”—If you're a long-time mutual of mine on every account I ever had, congrats! I mean it 🥰😻

𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲:
• you probably
• #anime
• kpop
• writing smut (gotta hone my writing skills)
• reading non-fiction
• sleep
• food, I'm not picky as long as it's halal
• to believe I'm an expert after reading how to make perfumes
• my homemade perfumes
• Neapolitan ice cream
• being inside the house
• mapping revolution
• a lot of things

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗱𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴:
• I exist
• I do voluntary work
• I tell people what to do
• I build infrastructure for mutual aid
• I write. It’s decolonial. You’ll cope.

My unserious posts keep the wrong people out. My serious work is here—in order of increasing usefulness depending on how much you actually want to learn:
• “Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?” (short, on why the question is wrong)
https://wrzky.com/modernity

• “Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency” (long, on everything wrong with Western frameworks)
https://wrzky.com/orientalism

• “Rage Against the Machine: Toward Humane Systems of Mutual Aid” (what I actually build, with receipts)
https://wrzky.com/RATM

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸.

6230 (BE)
ON MY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD I NEVER RUN MY TRAIN OFF DE TRACK AND I NEVER LOST A PASSENGER.
SUR MON CHEMIN DE FER CLANDESTIN, JE N’AI JAMAIS FAIT DÉRAILLER MON TRAIN ET JE N’AI JAMAIS PERDU UN PASSAGER.
Harriet Tubman (≈ 1822 - 1913)
#HarrietTubman #march82026 #8mars2026 #undergroundrailroad #maroons #blackfeminism #freedom #abolitionist #20dollars #twentydollars #dollar #culturewar #guerreculturelle #pasteup #streetart

6230 (BE)
ON MY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD I NEVER RUN MY TRAIN OFF DE TRACK AND I NEVER LOST A PASSENGER.
Harriet Tubman (≈ 1822 - 1913)
#HarrietTubman #march82026 #undergroundrailroad #maroons #blackfeminism #freedom #abolitionist #20dollars #twentydollars #dollar #culturewar #pasteup #streetart

6238 (BE)
AIN'T I A WOMAN ?
NE SUIS-JE PAS UNE FEMME ?
Sojourner Truth (≈ 1797 - 1883)
#SojournerTruth #march82026 #8mars2026 #luttre #aintiawoman #feminisme #blackfeminism #freedom #abolitionist #pentecotist #20dollars #twentydollars #dollar #culturewar #guerreculturelle #pasteup #collage #streetart

6238 (BE)
AIN'T I A WOMAN ?
Sojourner Truth (≈ 1797 - 1883)
#SojournerTruth #march82026 #aintiawoman #feminism #blackfeminism #freedom #abolitionist #pentecotist #20dollars #twentydollars #dollar #culturewar #pasteup #streetart

Frederick Douglass: An American in Ireland by Sylvia Wohlfarth

The most celebrated Black man of his era, Frederick Douglass was also the most photographed American of any race in the 19th century.

https://www.ohfweekly.org/frederick-douglass-in-ireland-part-i/

#Abolitionist #AgitateAgitateAgitate #Belfast #BlackHistory #CivilRights #Cork #Dublin #DouglassWeek #FrederickDouglass #Ireland #OurHumanFamily #LoveOneAnother

“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering #Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science #History
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/matilda-effect.html
In 1993, Cornell University historian of science #MargaretRossiter dubbed the denial of recognition to women scientists “the #Matildaeffect,” for #suffragist and #abolitionist #MatildaJoslynGage, whose 1893 essay “Woman as an Inventor” protested the common assertion that “woman… possesses no inventive or mechanical genius"

"This toolkit provides a brief history and context of juries and jury nullification, how to engage in trial and grand jury service with an #abolitionist perspective, tips on how jury nullification works in practice, and some important considerations about repression for those who decide to nullify."

https://beyondcourts.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/Jury-Nullification-Toolkit-English_0.pdf

#JuryNullification #USPol

@thetnholler.bsky.social

"being forced to ruin people's lives"

What he tells himself to keep from taking responsibility for his choice

Repentance heals but requires acknowledging the shortcoming

#Police #Policing
#Abolition #Abolitionist

"Amazing Grace" is a #ChristianHymn written in 1772 and published in 1779 by English #Anglican clergyman, #abolitionist, and poet #JohnNewton. It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the #UnitedStates, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes. Newton wrote the words from personal experience; he grew up without any particular religious conviction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoFCf5QU78

I love John Brown and so should EVERYONE

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1409351/i-love-john-brown-and-so-should-everyone

I love John Brown and so should EVERYONE

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1409350/i-love-john-brown-and-so-should-everyone