It is on the path laid down by students @columbia that we now follow...today and in 1968, for campus, for Harlem, for Palestine, for the world. In constant awe of these fearless young warriors, confirming that history is not an arrow but a boomerang 🪃. Let's fight and win!!

As a polyglot proficient in 10+ languages — including the difficult yet critical dialect of 'admin talk' — I thought it might be helpful for me to translate the email that our university president Minouche Shafik just sent to Columbia affiliates.

Here goes:

The Historic 1968 Struggle Against Columbia University - CounterPunch.org counterpunch.org/2018/04/17/the…

Our Rutgers-NB students have spoken.

80.42% voted for divestment from Israel.

77.81% voted to terminate our relationship from Tel Aviv University.

Both measures passed with overwhelming majorities on all three Rutgers University campuses.

Reminding us all that Civil disobedience is a powerful tool in the perpetual struggle against injustice & the fight for freedom. Standing especially with all the courageous students at colleges and universities across this country, who are sworn to interrupt business as usual.

🚨UC Riverside has become the third university in the nation to divest student funds from Israel. UCR is the most diverse campus in the University of California system with a proud history of Palestine activism. So thrilled for them tonight.

BREAKING: Protestors from greater CT have shut down Union Station in New Haven🚨🚨 Dozens have halted traffic in the area to call attention to local officials' complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. calling for for @reprosadelauro to  #DivestFromDeath #ShutItDown4Palestine l

FJP-Yale supports the civil disobedience action in New Haven!

If you are in New Haven on Thursday join me. I’m looking forward to sharing new work.

“And if we don’t fight
if we don’t resist
if we don’t organize and unify and
get the power to control our own lives
then we will wear
the exaggerated look of captivity
the stylized look of submission…”

“There it Is” Jayne Cortez

Very excited to host these scholars who are going to bring the 🔥 to the Latinxxx Sexual Economies symposium at Yale on April 5th. This is an in-person event. Space is limited and registration is suggested: bit.ly/latinxxxsexual…

TAKE IT FROM ME ON TUESDAYS: Great Books By And About Black Women.
In print since 1984 and still available. Contains rousing interviews with Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker, Lucille Clifton, Margaret Walker, Audre Lorde, Carolyn Rodgers and other luminaries.

Still in print sort of… contains the complete text of A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE, Pulitzer Prize winning ANNIE ALLEN, MAUD MARTHA, and THE BEAN EATERS.
A must have for serious students of Black women’s literature. Get it while it’s still available.

#CFP : #MLA2025 : What we Do Besides Critique
Abstracts due 3/20: mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webpr…

I’ll be in conversation with Maurice O. Wallace, Daphne A. Brooks, and Brian Kane on Tuesday, March 5 at 5pm on Zoom: bit.ly/BSAWMarch5

Taking Over, Living-InBlack Feminist Geometry and the Radical Politics of Repair read.dukeupress.edu/radical-histor…

Always a pleasure to think and write alongside Erica R. Edwards , especially when topic is Toni Cade Bambara’s cinematic work. Article online now ✨

In consultation with Palestinian authors & publishing professionals, Gayatri Sethi (Desi Book Aunty) & I curated a Palestinian Feminist Reading List as a feminist-focused complement to other existing lists. 🍉
palestinianfeministreading.org
#readpalestine #readforrefaat Palestinian Feminist Collective

'Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites blog posts for an online forum on the topic of Black Women’s contributions to the canon of African American literature.'
aaihs.org/cfp-contempora…

Erica R. Edwards on Black fem lit: 'not a collection of singular texts by great writers' but work sharing 'a collective project of marshaling the embodied practices of reading, writing, hearing, and performing literature in the interest of abolitionist anticolonial social change.'