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doctor riri

2 years

On the phone to my dad and he told me about how my grandad - a man of few words - had told him when he was 14 and in a low place ‘the world is yours and everything in it’.

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

This telling off was thrilling, almost erotic

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@rianna_walcott

1 year

I was big and brave today and donated a big bag of stem cells to a mystery genetic match with leukaemia. Lot of needles over the last couple weeks, not enough lollipops. Wishing my recipient a long and happy healthy life 🤞🏾🤞🏾- happy new birthday 🎂

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

. @piersmorgan no

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@rianna_walcott

3 months

am not allowed x

@[email protected]

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3 months

Are you a black girl thinking about another advanced degree? Did you get a snack first?

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

Google me like your team did love

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@piersmorgan

6 years

I’ll be absolutely devastated, once I find out who you are & why on earth anyone thought I would ever want to interview you.

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Disgusting to see people in the comments talking about Barbados as a place people have a right to visit, as a treat for a life well lived, instead of a place with people that are also living through a pandemic. A place with only two hospitals and an elderly population of its own.

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3 years

It's sad Captain Tom has covid-19 but he and his family flew to Barbados for Christmas when everyone was told to stay at home. If it was an influencer everyone would be up in arms.

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

He has a backpack

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

The injustice of it actually makes me sick

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

I am NOT a person I am three mental health conditions stacked up in a trench coat

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Campaign to find zaddy! that’s a handsome man with nice jewellery

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

VOTING LIKE RICH WHITE MEN WILL NOT MAKE YOU A RICH WHITE MAN

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

Lady on this train just pulled down her mask to cough! I hate it here!!

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

White men in meetings just repeat each other’s comments in slower and deeper tones until the lunch break SEND TWEET.

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

@_nicolesommer

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@MarleyWiggan @piersmorgan *expertise. What’s there to learn when you pit an expert against a guy on the street? Do you take medical advice from your postman or your doctor?

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

I’d like to make it clear for the white people thanking my zaddy for being ‘non-violent’ and ‘articulate’ that my shrine is not the space for respectability politics, and if this sexy black man had decided to rock this racists jaw I still would off pant. Maybe even faster. Kthnx

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Today is the day, PLEASE remember:

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

VOTING LIKE RICH WHITE MEN WILL NOT MAKE YOU A RICH WHITE MAN

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Sorry THE @chelseaperetti of Brooklyn 99 fame, wife to Jordan Peele just liked my tweet so bye everyone if you need me email Karen my PA

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Me investigating the video for clues: ‘Dark blue poles on that train - could this be the Piccadilly line passing through Arnos Grove or Oakwood?’

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@luke_kristopher @MarleyWiggan @piersmorgan Which is why I run and attend non-academic public community discourse spaces, work with service user led health services, and make all of my work accessible to people outside of academia :) declining piers doesn’t mean I don’t teach and welcome debate in more productive spaces.

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

The way I am cashing in on this British accent in the US is unconscionable! Yesss be nice to me help me give me free things ello guv’na!!!!

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

I’d like to make it clear for the white people thanking my zaddy for being ‘non-violent’ and ‘articulate’ that my shrine is not the space for respectability politics, and if this sexy black man had decided to rock this racists jaw I still would off pant. Maybe even faster. Kthnx

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

I hope they’ll be emailing us all the PowerPoint slides

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@luke_kristopher @MarleyWiggan @piersmorgan I’d just rather take on another expert, as opposed to someone who thinks debating is about who can shout louder

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

Hello, I’m Dr Rianna Walcott, pleasure to meet you!

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@rianna_walcott

3 months

Seeing people criticising the candles is so heartbreaking! What happened to JOY lighting a little candle every now and then makes life worth LIVING

Loverboy Nate 🇯🇲

@naterob

3 months

This came to £62 my head is hot right now 😩 😫 😑

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

@Cripipper @ClarNiUigin Not explaining the lasting impacts of colonialism and slavery on the tourist economy of Barbados to you for free, or giving you a lesson in ethics. Go seek education elsewhere

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

That's (almost) a wrap folks!!! #PhdChat

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

Happy publication day to us all! So overjoyed to still be standing and holding this book, through it all the love kept labouring.

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

My emails are so intimidating right now. So many people are asking for so much from me - please, I’m here year round, not just for feverish responses right now. This moment of urgency is not a replacement for consistent, long-term work and attention.

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@rianna_walcott

1 year

- after receiving my stem cells he gains my DNA in his blood. A blood test on him would read as female (gleeful ‘gender is a lie!’ moment). So one day I’ll ask if he wants to be each others alibi in case one of us wants to rob a bank #cossielivs

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Imagine shaking because a girl has the same hair colour as you #loveIsland

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@luke_kristopher @MarleyWiggan @piersmorgan Check out @projectmyopia and my other work - I have made a career out of decolonising academia and dismantling the ivory tower. I am morally against GMB, and won’t be using their platform to further my message. It’s about my own standards

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@BritManDan1 @piersmorgan You’ll have to pay uni fees if you want to sit in on one of my classes, I don’t do free twitter lectures

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Remember when Jade tweeted the word ‘pigmentocracy’ and certain man were having fits about her inaccessibility, come to see it being used very casually by the same detractors a year on. 1 - the streets remember 2 - Ms Bentil influences from beyond the Twitter grave, all hail

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Leave them alone! Keep the plague to your own fucking island

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@delsuth You’d find out real quick if you asked google instead of me

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

I’m one of THIRTY. Out of nearly TWENTY THOUSAND funded PhDs? Absolutely rank

Leading Routes

@LeadingRoutes

5 years

We also undertook Freedom of Information request (via UKRI) The report further highlights over a three year period just 1.2% of the 19,868 studentships awarded by all research councils went to Black or Black Mixed students and only 30 of those were of Black Caribbean

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Completely delighted with my new scarf

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

I’m a mother 🥹

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

I know today is a bad day™️ but I am still taking time to celebrate that I am prospering! 🥳 Funding applications? Successful. Covid? Recovered. November? Booked and busy baby. October you tried but I am a bad bitch and you cannot kill me!!!

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

Can not believe my body clock is correcting itself during quarantine, on a weekend, when I have literally nothing to wake up for. I haven’t seen 8am naturally in months, why was now the time???

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

I must beg for my money? I’ll kill you all!!!

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@rianna_walcott

3 months

@kima_jones It really was, took the sting out of finally committing to the workforce 🥲

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@rianna_walcott

1 year

Sign up for @BeTheMatch , especially if you’re of afro/Caribbean heritage - there aren’t enough of us on the register, and it’s a bit of discomfort to (maybe, hopefully) save a life!!

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@rianna_walcott

1 year

Things I learned: - bones can ache it’s a weird full body shockwave - I have a low pain threshold, but pretty high tolerance - donation day for the recipient is considered a new birthday (confess I cried a bit at that one)

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Don’t care what this says about me, the satisfaction of a man you have moved on from crawling back is one of the most satisfying emotions I have ever experienced. A thrill that is more erotic than the relationship ever was!

ﾟ༺ dayna ✧*:･ﾟ

@SHRUG_EMOTICON2

3 years

texts i received recently. from a man i was sleeping with last year, who ghosted me

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Research update! I’m conducting a study on Black women’s identity formation and expression online, and how social media spaces are negotiated by Black British women for radical purposes. This will include a series of interviews of Black women/nb people from FB and Twitter

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

Today was so perfect that I don’t want to take my makeup off and put my pyjamas on because then that means it’s over

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@rianna_walcott

3 months

@fasculineking Only three, they being dramatic

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Stop talking to me about reliance on tourism, the British has no right to be visiting anybody right now, we should be focusing on our lack of ventilators and stop bothering the Bajans. People from countries that aren’t hearing death rattles every day can think about travel not us

Ava Rose ☘️

@tumblemouseuk

3 years

@GreenSw13 @ky0m1b35t @rianna_walcott 2020 - that may be true when there isn’t a global pandemic but when tourists bring a deadly infection to an island, then the only thing that can be depended on is over burdening the local health care system & death. The dead don’t make money from tourists

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

Just cleared my emails only for everyone to respond to them, leaving me with the same number of emails that I began with. A moment of silence please

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@luke_kristopher @MarleyWiggan @piersmorgan @projectmyopia No, you misunderstand - I do operate outside of academia. I give workshops and talks and appear on panels in community, grassroots activist spaces all the time. I just don’t like piers morgan

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

I have a new job! I’m a musician again- the new music manager for Söderberg Soho. If you are looking for a gig in central London please drop a link to band pages in replies. Looking for jazz and jazz-adjacent mainly, platforming emergent and established artists, please RT! 🌻

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

At last, the article I have been threatening to write the whole pandemic! Thank you to all my interviewees, and beyond proud to co-create this article with my talented sister, @WalcottMaia - view on desktop to see illustrations in full glory. 👩🏾‍💻❤️👩🏾‍🎨

WhatsApp aunties and the spread of fake news

The advantages of WhatApp chat groups – especially as a cost-free way of keeping in touch with family around the world – make them fertile ground for the spread of bogus medical advice. Writer Rianna...

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

@TendyTempah @kza_xo I have watched it... a few times now

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

Christmas has the WhatsApp aunties wildin

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

I was part of the Being Human collection at @ExploreWellcome and they had this big ass poster of me! It’s gone now, which I know because my dear dad goes out of his way to drive past it most nights on his way home from work (he lives in Hertford so this is a real undertaking)

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

One of the worst things that depression™️ took from me was my joy in reading. Being the gifted little snot I was in school, I used to read in the playground, I read at parties, I read (to my mums despair) while walking down the road to school.

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

I need more money but I do not want to do any more work

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

A birthday babes!

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

On my way to a scary and important meeting, and dad has given his thoughts on how I should proceed

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

If you’re in academia and you want me to speak or write at your whatever about whatever, and you like me because I’m radical and whatever, imagine how radical it would be to break with tradition and OFFER TO PAY ME

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@BritishGasHelp @HydeM1976 Wow you really can’t hide from British Gas bills

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Introducing Levi Walcott!

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

This hurt me very deeply, and I also was not allowed to publish a response. Dr Tovey-Walsh highlights here how hard it is as minority scholar, particularly a Black woman one, to stand up to a big bad professor and I am certainly feeling that.

Dr Bethan Tovey-Walsh

@LinguaCelta

4 years

I've left the Humanist digital humanities mailling list, and I think you should know why: (spoiler alert: I tried to call out racist tropes in a post; my response was blocked; the racist-tropes post remains unchallenged.)

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

PECKHAM: if you see this cat PLEASE contact me or @paulaakpan we are worried sick and genuinely drowning in tears

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

ALERT ALERT ASIAN LADY AT THIS EVENT IM IN HAS REFERRED TO HERSELF AS A BLACK WOMAN THREE TIMES

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Since Jade told me I dress like a cbbc presenter I have not known a moment of peace

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

How I LOVE telling white people to get out of the seat reserved for me on the train, really incomparable feeling, 10/10

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

Getting migraines from the increased number of people asking me for free labour that I still find HARD to turn down and distracts me from the work I am PAID TO DO like my fucking PHD because I am SCARED that I won’t get a job after unless I CLEAN UP these FUCKING INSTITUTIONS

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

I have just MADE A DEADLINE for the first time in AGES. Rianna 1, Depression 1,000,000, but let’s focus on my victory please!!!

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

In Flat Iron and I know they tired of all the black people coming in here and ordering well done steaks

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

I’m so sorry but at this point it would be foolish not to: Pls check out this book I edited about BAME mental health in the UK @MadnessColourOf , this project I run about decolonising academia @projectmyopia and also give this singer a yung follow

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Don’t you EVER let us catch you doing this shit again

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@michaelgove

5 years

I set trends dem man copy

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

@divanificent 2nd year PhD in digital humanities here, looking at how Black British women use social media networks (through critical discourse analysis and Black feminist epistemologies). Working title: ‘A Tweet at the Table’

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

So I email you and you’re just gonna respond promptly? Forcing me to email back again? Forcing me to operate within the white man’s workday? Unchain yourselves from email chains brothers and sisters

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Pleased to announce I finally broke the one minute threshold in my seminar, where I sat in unbroken silence waiting for one of my 16 students to respond to a question, rather than nervously launching into a monologue.

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

So when we are talking Black women professors in the UK and we’ve arrived at 35 as a number now. Are we talking blackity black, or are we simply talking born near black people?

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

I am itching to write a paper on this entire thread.

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@weetabix

3 years

Why should bread have all the fun, when there's Weetabix? Serving up @HeinzUK Beanz on bix for breakfast with a twist. #ItHasToBeHeinz #HaveYouHadYourWeetabix

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

I’m one of the 25 names on this list. I asked to have my name included for transparency, and am tweeting this in the cause of that transparency. Honestly, I was very proud and pleased to be included

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Listen up yeah. SCHOLAR in RESIDENCE. Address me accordingly!!!!!

UCL Writing Lab

@UCLWritingLab

3 years

Announcement: we are honoured that in 21/22, @rianna_walcott will be Writing Lab's first Scholar-in-Residence! During her tenure, Rianna will deliver a series of events & interventions around disseminating research, digital scholarship, academic writing, scholar-activism, & more!

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

When I can afford therapy it’s over for you hoes

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Got my first email addressed to ‘professor Walcott’ from an undergraduate in one of my seminars. Speak it into existence my child.

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Woke up at 5.30am exactly for some reason and took these pics, then went back to sleep. didn’t remember doing this until I was just looking through my camera roll for cat pics. Anyway

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@rianna_walcott

1 year

Omg right, identity politics YUCK! Specificity, black feminist thought, who needs it! Typical selfish black women - notorious for not showing solidarity - making all this fuss over a silly old hashtag! *All* lives matter! IDIOT. If they put your brain in a fish it would bark.

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@AyoCaesar

1 year

There is a certain trend in identity politics that seems more concerned with protecting intellectual property rights than, say, marginalised communities articulating shared interests and organising together in the pursuit of justice. And honestly, it belongs in the bin.

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@rianna_walcott

2 years

I have my viva tomorrow and I am filled with terror pls give me nice happy success stories Specifically about how you felt like you had forgotten everything you did/wrote and then recovered really well in the moment please and thank you!!! #phdchat #AcademicChatter

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

How it started: How it’s going

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@rianna_walcott

9 months

Dad flew to Montréal today to meet me, excitedly told the customs agent he was ‘going to meet his daughter, who is a doctor and speaking at a conference!’ She did not believe him. He called me so I could barter his way into Canada. She asked if I was really a doctor three times.

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@JZPhilosophy

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Black folks you ever have an interaction with a person that can’t believe you got something that a lot of white folks get? Dude: So you’re a grad student? Me: Professor. Dude: Adjunct Me: Tenure track Dude: Really?! That’s really hard. Me: Yep 😂🥴

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

Rebranding as a hair influencer, if you see me posting wash and go content please mind your business!

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

MERITOCRACY IS A SCAM

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Just took a look at my bank balance and almost fainted, so here’s the first of many tweets offering my services as a 🌻 journalist 🌻 private tutor 🌻 workshop facilitator and speaker (universities and schools are my specialty, particularly re mental health and decoloniality)

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@rianna_walcott

4 years

*cough* KEYNOTE SPEAKER

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

YOU SEE THIS!! THAT IS MY SISTER @WalcottMaia . BIG BRAIN BITCH. all hail! Maïa Yasmin Hazel Walcott, first of her name, MA (HONS), first class 🤌🏾

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@rianna_walcott

5 years

Do NOT email me for talks or writing and make me have to hunt for the fee! Then do NOT ask me to do it for free to uplift ‘children and creatives of colour’! I AM A CHILD AND A CREATIVE OF COLOUR AND MY RENT *JUST* INCREASED. My landlord said ‘fuck them kids’ and so must I!

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

GOD I feel so GROWN

The Colour Of Madness

@MadnessColourOf

3 years

Delighted to announce that @Samara_Linton and I ( @rianna_walcott ) have now signed with @UnitedAgents ! Please direct enquiries to Sophie Scard, at SScard @unitedagents .co.uk

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@rianna_walcott

9 months

Delighted to announce that from August 2024 I will be (re)joining @umdcommdept as a tenure track Assistant Professor! I’m so excited to keep working with these good folks, and to continue supporting my beloved @BCaT_DISCO lab 🪩🐢♥️

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@rianna_walcott

3 years

Just got a phone call from a bootycall from five years ago. 'Hey I don't know if you remember me...' Unbearable smugness

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

I really love how this guy has inadvertently proven a point about how worthless some people’s opinions are. ‘In my opinion her book, that I haven’t read, is probably useless shit’. Thanks for your opinion stranger! You should write more reviews about books you haven’t read 🌻

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@BritManDan1

6 years

@jimbo888 @rianna_walcott @piersmorgan In your opinion. As in my opinion, her book is nothing to shout about. It's probably useless shit anyway. At least in what I do I have a wide range of things to learn. Make myself more useful to others. And the way things are going IT is going to continue to be big money.

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@rianna_walcott

6 years

@racheljmchung literally an inevitable part of my trajectory

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