Vanessa E. Thompson
@vethompson
Abolition, Anticolonialism, Black Studies
This work goes back now more than a decade. In 2011/2012, when some were screaming “critical whiteness” in full swing, we were trying to figure out the possibilities of anti-racist solidarities and political urban blackness. It was before the murder of Trayvon Martin, /1
Rest in Power, Christy Schwundeck. Murdered by the German state on May 19, 2011, but never forgotten! The murder of Christy and the struggle for justice politicized many (long before 2013) in the struggle against state violence and its connection to criminalization of migration & poverty.
political gatherings in cape town, south africa, towards an abolitionist international were fierce and so inspiring! from neville alexander workshop to cissie ghoul house organizing, Amandla ✊🏽
Wir gedenken Kupa I. M. Mutombo, der am 6.10.22 von den cops in Berlin getötet wurde. Erinnern heißt kämpfen! Und am Samstag diskutieren wir mit Angela Wilhelm, der Schwester von Nzoy, Justine Seewald-Krieger, der Mutter von Sammy Baker, u.a. über Aufklärung von unten: cilip.de/2025/09/18/t...