Hi all, I'm Dr. MRO! I'm a literary historian who writes abt/researches race in the early Middle Ages. I also write public pieces on history/racism/justice/satire. I'm the product of Afro/Indo Caribbean love. I just started a yarn-dyeing biz featuring medieval Black folks. https://bit.ly/40KEK4Y
01:02 PM - Feb 10, 2023
Some yarn eye-candy for you! My very first customer snuck into my Etsy shop before I announced its opening (I still haven't announced it) but she ordered this gorgeous colorway. #RepublicOfYarnia
Pretty eh? Feel free to stop by & see what's available https://www.etsy.com/shop/...
Pretty eh? Feel free to stop by & see what's available https://www.etsy.com/shop/...
02:24 AM - Mar 16, 2023
Thought I'd share here too bc it may inspire more folks to get involved. I managed to do another love-wrap for a scholar/friend who I admire and wanted to wrap up in love. This is what #antiracistcrafting means to me. Anyway look at this love-wrap!
11:07 AM - Mar 03, 2023
Summer of 1917, a white mob, in East St. Louis, Illinois, attacked the homes of black citizens, setting fire to them and in some cases burning families alive in their own homes. Estimated 500 plus Black Americans were killed (not 100 as paper stated) , 6000 moved to Missouri.
06:47 PM - Mar 02, 2023
Lol rw ppl on Twitter reported my tweet in response to someone who said that they'd even hate Jesus for being too "woke." Apparently we can't say that he would be crucified.
10:22 AM - Mar 02, 2023
Sending solidarity and support to Dr.
@AmyTanMD right now who has been viciously attacked and misrepresented in a newspaper. Misrepresenting facts & twisting the truth to put targets on the backs of medical experts advocating for safety for all during the pandemic is irresponsible & dangerous.
@AmyTanMD right now who has been viciously attacked and misrepresented in a newspaper. Misrepresenting facts & twisting the truth to put targets on the backs of medical experts advocating for safety for all during the pandemic is irresponsible & dangerous.
02:12 PM - Mar 01, 2023
While today is the last day of #BlackHistoryMonth always remember it doesn't stop after February unless we allow it.
Black History is 🇺🇸 history.
24/7/365
C.R.T. - Curriculum Revealing Truth
#Spoutible #BlackHistoryMatters #BlackSpoutible #staywoke #WokeIsGood
Black History is 🇺🇸 history.
24/7/365
C.R.T. - Curriculum Revealing Truth
#Spoutible #BlackHistoryMatters #BlackSpoutible #staywoke #WokeIsGood
02:08 PM - Feb 28, 2023
Where all my leftist brethren, sisters, siblings at? Let me know if you are here (somehow) and I'll follow you. Got some of you already but shout if I've missed you.
11:11 AM - Feb 27, 2023
This is gorgeous. I featured Yasuke, the Black Samurai (c. 1579) last year in my #BlackHistoryMonth thread.
During the Sengoku period, a Black African man arrived in Japan & served/trained under a powerful lord named Oda Nobunaga. He may have been from what is now Mozambique, Sudan, or Ethiopia.
During the Sengoku period, a Black African man arrived in Japan & served/trained under a powerful lord named Oda Nobunaga. He may have been from what is now Mozambique, Sudan, or Ethiopia.
03:53 PM - Feb 26, 2023
07:13 AM - Feb 24, 2023
White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022 #Anonymous
https://www.reuters.com/wo...
https://www.reuters.com/wo...
White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022 | Reuters
Mass shootings in the United States accounted for most extremism-related fatalities last year in the country with over 80% of those murders committed by white supremacists, data released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed on Thursday.
02:12 PM - Feb 26, 2023
Echoing this. Accomplices who stand against anti-Semitism pls be vigilant today. Neo-Nazis should not be welcome anywhere.
Standing with the Jewish community today. May you stay safe and strong. Solidarity.
Standing with the Jewish community today. May you stay safe and strong. Solidarity.
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Ty$ Ross @cooltxchickShabbat Shalom dear friends. I stand in solidarity with the Jewish community today, and every day. As reports of neo-Nazis planned ‘Day of Hate,’ garners nationwide attention, stay safe, stay strong, and know that you are not alone. ✡️10:36 AM - Feb 25, 2023
11:58 AM - Feb 25, 2023
Everyone wherever you are this weekend & any other time.....keep your head on a swivel. For yourself & those around you. White Supremacists will strike and kill anyone for their agenda. Especially minorities. We have to stay vigilant.
Together. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
#Spoutible #DayOfHate #BlackSpouti
Together. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾
#Spoutible #DayOfHate #BlackSpouti
11:26 AM - Feb 25, 2023
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This is what they don’t want you to know. Understand the motives behind the #Malarkey . Understand DeSatan’s #CRTShenanigans with this #CRTFAQ from Harvard’s Skip Gates.
09:25 AM - Feb 25, 2023
Nina Simone would have been 90 this week.
Her music moves me. Shakes me. Sees me.
I’d love to hear your favorite Nina songs.
In the mid-1960s Vernon Jordan, the head of the Urban League asked Nina why she wasn’t ‘more active in civil rights’.
“Motherfucker, I am civil rights”-Nina Simone
Her music moves me. Shakes me. Sees me.
I’d love to hear your favorite Nina songs.
In the mid-1960s Vernon Jordan, the head of the Urban League asked Nina why she wasn’t ‘more active in civil rights’.
“Motherfucker, I am civil rights”-Nina Simone
01:45 PM - Feb 24, 2023
Caribbean Matters: Haiti does not need more outsider invasions, but they seem inevitable
https://www.dailykos.com/s...
https://www.dailykos.com/s...
11:24 AM - Feb 23, 2023
Very cool that links don't count towards word count. Now my wordy ass has more room!
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Mary OContrary @MaryInCognito
12:44 AM - Feb 24, 2023
I'm not giving up on this space yet. I'm just disappointed with how things devolved. Whatever critiques however valid have been drowned out by anti-Black attacks. It's incredibly disgusting that there are vicious rumors abt Bouzy that are reminiscent of Carolyn Bryant's tactics.
04:11 PM - Feb 23, 2023
This spout was removed because the account associated with it was suspended.
05:19 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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We are failing each other in society. Or is it that society, as it's constructed and exists (and the institutions within) is failing us all? 💔
#CovidIsNotOver
(tweet from MD in Toronto)
https://twitter.com/flinda...
#CovidIsNotOver
(tweet from MD in Toronto)
https://twitter.com/flinda...
07:04 PM - Feb 20, 2023
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Incredible news
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PEACE @PEACE5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV not remission but cured. #science06:52 PM - Feb 20, 2023
https://abcnews.go.com/Hea...
07:33 PM - Feb 20, 2023
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More than 100 years ago since it was stolen, the Nuxalk Nation on B.C.'s central coast is celebrating the repatriation of a totem pole.
More than 100 years ago since it was stolen, the Nuxalk Nation on B.C.'s central coast is celebrating the repatriation of a totem pole.
07:04 PM - Feb 20, 2023
For those who don’t know, I’m one of the first two women to go on the record with my real name about sexual harassment from Alex Kozinski, the former Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit.
It’s not just the romance—I think a lot about the ways we *need* to talk to have hard but necessary discussions.
It’s not just the romance—I think a lot about the ways we *need* to talk to have hard but necessary discussions.
01:43 PM - Feb 19, 2023
Still finding you all but some of you are changing your names and profile pics (like I did!) and I'm like:
07:31 PM - Feb 19, 2023
So for the last week I've been trying to figure out why my notifications aren't going down, thinking it was a Spoutible issue.
It was a me issue. I didn't realize y'all been tagging me in shit.
It was a me issue. I didn't realize y'all been tagging me in shit.
11:26 AM - Feb 19, 2023
I love to see these rediscoveries that disrupt whiteness.
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LilTaiz @LilTaizFor Black History month. Thomas Commeraw: the Black 19th-century potter who historians assumed was white.02:26 PM - Feb 15, 2023
@AxelFolioPhD
11:22 AM - Feb 19, 2023
Something pretty for your TLs. The inauguration skein of yarn for the monthly yarn subscription is a gorgeous navy/turquoise/teal medley. Getting all the treats together today. The colors are based on this fab image of an Ethiopian in medieval Europe. #RepublicOfYarnia
Visit www.patreon.com/DrMRO
Visit www.patreon.com/DrMRO
05:32 PM - Feb 18, 2023
Hey all, my latest proofs are in for an upcoming article on the significance of 1066 in a global context as it functions as an anchor point in terms of colonization narratives for the British. This paper is part of a compilation on "History & politics" coming soon.
Teaser of the paper on the righ
Teaser of the paper on the righ
06:12 PM - Feb 17, 2023
"In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art."
02:39 AM - Feb 13, 2023
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