Senior faculty should be doing everything in their power to support outspoken junior colleagues and protect them.

James Baldwin: "All the western nations are caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism: this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority."

UC Irvine, one of the most sterile backdrops for a college campus you will ever witness. And a woman with a soul

Remember the president of ⁦Columbia University⁩ canceled graduation after arresting 200 of her own students? Today those same students stood strong by holding a beautiful alternative graduation ceremony at St. John the Divine near campus. Major display of student power.👊⤵️

The academy at its very core is flawed, it functions because of the students that pay for it, but controls attempts to control the students. It condemns reality in the classroom and encourages professors not to practice morality. The ones that do are deemed unfit to teach

'The Prison As a Text', an essay written by Palestinian political prisoner Layan Kayed, was translated into English by رُبا for farhaana & I's 'Writing Against Abandonment' edited issue. The text is free to download till the end of June is.gd/Z0e12U

David Foster Wallace on writing for publication

Badr Dahlan, 29, a socially active and beloved young man, emerged from Israeli army prisons in this condition after being abducted from Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza! SPEECHLESS ‼️

Maggie Smith:

"Why can't you feel for us?" 13-year-old Rozan al-Rifi screams to the world, which watched Israel k!ll her family.

The Hind's Hall arrestees refusing to accept any deals offered to them that aren’t also offered to arrestees from CUNY and City College are simultaneously practicing racial, class and internationalist solidarity. Exactly right

If you think poetry is a luxury, ask people in a war zone:

FEDERAL AGENCIES CAN NO LONGER CREATE STANDARDS IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY BY WHICH PRIVATE COMPANIES MUST OPERATE. IF A COMPANY SAVES MONEY BY PUTTING SHRAPNEL IN YOUR DAIRY PRODUCTS NOBODY CAN STOP THEM.

Congratulations to our member Ayisha Siddiqa on her appointment to the International Energy Agency’s global commission on clean energy transitions. #ClimateAction #Youth2023 Read more: -> iea.org/programmes/des…

Kwame Ture: "You vote once in four years, and that’s your political responsibility? That’s the height of bourgeois propaganda, making the people politically irresponsible. Thinking their responsibility is limited to a one day vote. Politics is every day."

James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

Make art that seeks to tear down empire, confronts it with honesty and teeth. Don’t glamorize empire, don’t assist it, don’t make it your muse or you will be its mule.

As a poet, language matters. The choice to go with “lethal” is so nasty & evil & bothersome. Lethal has intention. Lethal has flair and no remorse. As someone politicized in the post 9/11 anti-war movement, I’m having flashbacks. Lethal is a license to disregard accountability.