My tweets

[kyburg]

• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: Okay. Let’s talk. Before this all went down, Romancelandia was already in debt to Black women. Most non-Black women ign…
• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: We ignored the fact that Vivian Stephens, the woman who founded RWA was a Black woman. We ignored the fact that the orig…
• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: I cannot make a list of all the ways that Black women have not been given a fair shake, because I don’t have enough time…
• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: With this enormous debt on the books, the events of the last weeks look even more stark. WoC—mostly Black women—on the…
• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: Black women organized a recall petition not once, but twice, over the holidays, organizing to get 1000+ names to deliver…
• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: The time for making empty statements about “oh yes, we owe these women a debt” is over. It’s time to take action. I can…
• Fri, 08:57: RT @courtneymilan: One thing I will put on my “we as a community absolutely need to do this” list? Farrah is raising money to buy an organ…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: Every time I think about the fact that Farrah must have spent her last Christmas with her beloved sister dealing with th…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: With that out of the way, we get to the concrete items that I am going to pledge.
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: (Apologies on the next few tweets—I will need to clean up the language, just getting the principles out for now.)

• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: 1) Pay equity in speaking: From here on out, I will not speak anywhere without a statement from the organizers that all…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: * E.g. all keynotes are at the same level, or all givers of workshops, etc ** Travel reimbursements will vary based upo…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: 2) Inclusion in speaking: I will not speak at any event if Black women are not included at the same level where I have b…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: 2a) If you invite me to an event where there is a single slot, e.g. for a Guest of Honor, I will decline and suggest tha…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: 3) Transparency in pay equity: Black women deserve equal pay, and yet are often gaslit in publishing. For any traditio…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: 4) Equity in opportunity: Every time I set up a meeting with a vendor, I promise to suggest the names of multiple Black…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: We all know that there is substantial systemic racism at play in this system. We are not going to get past it unless we…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: I do not have a lot of institutional power, but I do have a *little*. I do not think we will get out of this situation u…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: If there is anything we should have learned from the last forty years of history, it’s that Black women don’t need a han…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: I want to be clear: Doing all this on? It doesn’t pay back that debt that is owed. Even if we had actual, perfect equit…

• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: But the first step in any of this is to stop accruing debt. Enough is enough. I am tired of seeing the women who benefit…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: We do not need an organization for the community to commit to radical inclusion. Think about what you can do to force ev…
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: (We do need organizations to commit to radical inclusion. I’m just trying to say that we don’t need to wait for them.)
• Fri, 08:58: RT @courtneymilan: (Just a note: I am trying to focus my suggestions on ways to get Black women *paid*. We do not need to provide more ways…
• Fri, 08:59: RT @courtneymilan: (Also, full disclosure: I have two events on the books in the very near future. I have already emailed both organizers.…
• Fri, 09:00: RT @Stonekettle: No! No way! How can they keep finding nothing of consequence? Why, it's, it's almost like she didn't do anything wrong.
• Fri, 09:00: RT @JasperJ77: @Stonekettle Just in time for Mike “Lock Her Up!” Flynn to be locked up. Karma has a sense of humor.
• Fri, 09:00: RT @Stonekettle: Folks, IT'S NOT THE GENERALS' JOB TO STOP THE PRESIDENT. It's absolutely NOT the military's job to save democracy from…
• Fri, 09:02: RT @HuffPost: “I’m not enlisting but YOU should,” Donald Trump Jr. appears to say in the parody posters. https://t.co/ZWp4AvgSLv
• Fri, 09:03: OBJECTION. https://t.co/aj11kdL6tr

• Fri, 09:04: RT @Stonekettle: 10AM in Washington D.C. He's watching Fox News blow smoke up his ass instead of actually working. After 3 weeks at Mar-a…
• Fri, 09:05: RT @rospars: Hi, terrible @ewarren adviser here. Seeing her dancing and concluding it looks inauthentic/must have been done under instructi…
• Fri, 09:05: RT @Stonekettle: It just doesn't get any more Evangelical Christian Conservative Republican than this. Burn the world. Pollute the seas.…
• Fri, 09:08: RT @maddow: “'We look forward to... proving that Donald Trump lied when he told the world that he did not rape our client and had not even…
• Fri, 09:08: RT @mgcanmore: So, it turns out the "imminent threat" was impeachment . . .
• Fri, 09:09: RT @DanRather: There’s something about the wilful ignorance around climate change that strikes me deeply. This is our Earth. We only get on…