People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

—James Baldwin

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also…

brb calling an emergency meeting

Disorder is not violence. Camping is not violence. Trespassing is not violence. Genocide is violence. Knocking people to the ground and choking them is violence. Shooting people with rubber bullets is violence. Just feels like we need to remind each other of the meaning of words.

currently free in honor of AAPI Heritage Month, per the author on 🧵

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Access the syllabus for today's teach-in, '𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬,' with Dr. Haynes:
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This beautiful syllabus was designed with original art by our resident artist, Lem, (lem)!

Yum! Anyone else craving a #PsychologicalSafety pizza party? If only I could find somewhere to order one…😂🍕

Brilliant work by ✨Sonia Sparkles✨🖤 ✨

Discover materials in our collections on poets #PiriThomas plus watch conversations with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Kwame Dawes, and Chris Abani. #NationalPoetryMonth #NPM #SchomburgCenter
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4th Circuit: Gender Identity Is A Protected Characteristic, Blocks State Coverage Bans

“The decision will likely have nationwide impacts on court cases in other districts.”
erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-…

Burkina Faso has suspended several international news organisations, some for an indefinite period, said a statement from communications regulator CSC.
Among those named in the weekend order are French newspaper Le Monde & British daily The Guardian
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'Decolonising Palestine & Unsettling Environmental Justice', written w/ Bana Abu Zuluf & Rory Rowan Rundale

'Without solidarity with the oppressed at its core, environmental activism risks being co-opted by the very system it aims to dismantle.'

rundale.org/2024/04/25/dec…

Free ebooks for solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests.
lithub.com/verso-and-othe…

Vietnamese artist Diem Chau sculpts detailed figures on the top of crayons #womensart

Jonathan Bailey, Hayley Atwell, and Eddie Marsan have joined the cast of #Heartstopper Season 3 - streaming this October on Netflix.

There's another apocalypse on the way KC 😅

a perfect example of a romp romance. heisting a painting leads to an accidental kidnapping AND there's a delightful found family of orphans, and a lonely Duke just wants a family too.

this series starter is now in KU!

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Yuko Shimizu, New York based award winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt

If you’re looking for two books to read right now in relation to #ColumbiaUniversity protests and Palestine, I’d suggest Sunaina Maira on the BDS movement and academia and Rashid Khalidi (at Columbia) on Palestine over the past 100 years.

REMINDER: “So much of the work of oppression is policing the imagination.” ~ Saidiya Hartman