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Leon “Lee” Grayhare

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35| Sociologist & Black furry (he/his/him) |#FursofColor #BlackFurries ✊🏾🐇| Advocate of CRF (Critical Race Furryism)|pfp by @straysketches.bsky.social FA: LeonGrayhare

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · Nov 16

I guess for all the new followers I’ve been getting (especially from the Black Furries starter line), I should say hello and welcome!! I’m a professor of sociology who studies racial criminalization, Black racialized identity development, and I’m also a rabbit who arts!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 3h

Like for real, how do you make Prince's color and the name of one of his bands (the one most closest associated with said color) and think you can repackage it as some political olive branch?

Do you know how PETTY Prince was?

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Archy 🦴 @archy603.bsky.social · 2d

Party Hyena 🥃✨

comms for
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Tofte ➡️ MFF, NYFB @tofte.bsky.social · 3d

Oh shit, ANTIFA is suiting up!

Little John helping Robin Hood put on his stork disguise

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 29d

Her! The Queen!
#furryart #Leondraws #lolabunny

A picture of Lola Bunny in a crop top and jean shorts. To her left, “Lola” is written down the page.

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 2d

🌈 ramen noodles

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 1d

I just remembered writing an 11-pg single-space paper in a panic and didn’t even realize it was supposed to be double-spaced until I turned it in lmao

Unfortunately this pressure has also been how I’ve written a few journal article reviews.

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🎵 Animusic 🎵 @anisongs.bsky.social · Jul 12

OP2 - Death Note (2006)

What's up people? - Maximum the Hormone

#Anime #Animesky #Opening #AnimeOpening #DeathNote #TsugumiOba #TakeshiObata #Madhouse

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 1d

I remember comparing Jared Leto to a way-too-old guy who shows up to a high school party with a dusty bottle of Wild Irish Rose in a paper bag

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit but how am I not surprised… ugh

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Diane Keaton is that it should have been Woody Allen.

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Can’t believe I didn’t mention that one.

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くりまる/Kurimaru @kurimaru.bsky.social · 16d

ルナ様!🌒
#mlp #mlpfim #mlpart #mlpfanart

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 1d

In a soul food restaurant right now and this is playing as I type. We really do ride for “Holding Back The Years”

Vampire Hunter KB @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 2d

424.) Simply Red - Picture Book

Bring back soulful white Englishman, pls.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Landeg @landeg.bsky.social · 2d

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 1d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 2d

Also important to consider the Elaine massacre specifically and how it was a backlash to Black labor rights.

Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 2d

What an unfortunate coincidence that I’m talking about this and the Wilmington Coup of 1898 on Monday in my Violent Crime class…

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

eji.org

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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