Dane 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇻🇪🖖⚛️☮️☸️🕉️
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Jamey Sharp
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In 2006 Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, painted a portrait of the formerly enslaved revolutionary Toussaint Louverture.
#Louverture led the first successful slave revolution. He outlawed slavery, instituted a fair constitution, was elected ruler for life, but stepped down, in a deal with France, to stop them from invading. Again. He was captured by napoleon and died in French prison. Haiti is so poor because they’ve paid 21 billion dollars to France, well into the 20th century, as punishment for freeing themselves.
I tell you that story, because Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean designed the suits for the #Haitian athletes to reference the famous painting. The day of opening ceremonies, the #Olympic committee said they had to take Louverture off the uniforms, or they would not be allowed to compete or walk in ceremonies. Ms Jean pulled it off, painting for hours, but this just pissed me right the hell off.
Talk about erasure, right out in the open. Shameful.
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Something tells me the 🇫🇮 Finns held a quiet national meeting and decided…. purely out of generosity and likability….not to be the absolute best at everything.
So despite 11.5 months of snow, ice, and frozen limbs, they just casually let the #olympic Winter Games slide, only to pop back up in spring 2026 topping every godforsaken ranking on healthcare, education, GDP, mother in-law’s, and overall happiness…
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In 2006 Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, painted a portrait of the formerly enslaved revolutionary Toussaint Louverture.
#Louverture led the first successful slave revolution. He outlawed slavery, instituted a fair constitution, was elected ruler for life, but stepped down, in a deal with France, to stop them from invading. Again. He was captured by napoleon and died in French prison. Haiti is so poor because they’ve paid 21 billion dollars to France, well into the 20th century, as punishment for freeing themselves.
I tell you that story, because Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean designed the suits for the #Haitian athletes to reference the famous painting. The day of opening ceremonies, the #Olympic committee said they had to take Louverture off the uniforms, or they would not be allowed to compete or walk in ceremonies. Ms Jean pulled it off, painting for hours, but this just pissed me right the hell off.
Talk about erasure, right out in the open. Shameful.
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Sabrina Web :privacypride: 📎
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Behind the scenes at the #WinterOlympics #WinterOlympics2026 there is a, uh, um... another kind of #Olympics going on 😂
"Condoms sold out in the #Cortina #Olympic Village within three days of the Games"
Behind the scenes at the #WinterOlympics #WinterOlympics2026 there is a, uh, um... another kind of #Olympics going on 😂
"Condoms sold out in the #Cortina #Olympic Village within three days of the Games"
TY to all foreign & Italian colleagues who post a link to our #FattoQuotidiano scoop on #ICE at #WinterOlympicsParalympics in #Milan, as #YahooNews did
I dedicate this scoop to Pietro Zantonini,the worker who froze to death at the #Olympic construction site
I saw this trending on #X & apparently multiple news organizations (progressive & conservative) are reporting on this as an incoming policy.
👉🏾 Transgender women to be banned from all female #Olympic events https://www.thetimes.com/sport/olympics/article/olympic-ioc-transgender-athlete-ban-womens-sports-zhlpfll3b
Apparently the new director has hinted towards this for a while, & an official announcement will take place next year in 2026.
