So proud of our students!! ✊🏽

You don't want to miss the important webinar that will feature the launch of this new database: The MENA Trans Archives. Join me to learn more about the legal landscape of transgender rights, from case law to Fatwas, and laws and policies on healthcare.

Register now 👇👇

Yesterday, we lost #GaniMet , a trans activist from Turkey. Loosing is probably not the right word because we are still learning from her. I am reading one of her interviews on sex work, ibnelik, activism, and racial and class conflicts in Turkey.

pembehayat.org/haberler/gani-…

On this one year anniversary of the war in Sudan, please support the local volunteers who are organizing and coordinating mutual aid efforts on the ground through emergency response rooms. You can make a one-time donation or monthly on here. Thank you!:
sudansolidarity.com

Thanks again to NYU Kevorkian Center for inviting me to give a hybrid book talk this Thursday at 5 pm! If you click the link below, you can also register to attend online Duke University Press

Dear Rutgers faculty,
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter. Please tell the Rutgers Administration not to cut the Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences in New Brunswick!
You can write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-t…

🚨 #BREAKING : Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbed multiple times in Sydney’s west during mass!!! Here he was speaking about his trip to the Gaza strip!

This wonderful man has miraculously survived !!! #MarmariEmanuel

Professor Ruha Benjamin (Ruha Benjamin) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

3 things to understand about Iran's retaliatory strike on Israel 🧵

1) Paradoxically, the strike was extremely significant (demonstrating Iran's boldness & capacity for deterrence), but also deliberately designed to minimize casualties to try to avoid an all-out war.

During the pogroms yesterday in Ramallah.

Israeli soldiers working hand in hand with settlers & guarding them as they set fire to Palestinian homes and cars.

The incident is from Deir Dibwan. The Israeli military is the one who provides protection for such attacks

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US…

🧵All further Iranian response updates via telegram will be posted in this mega thread

As anti-trans bills escalate, 'cisgender celebrities are being celebrated online for making aesthetic choices that largely originate from trans communities.' What, asks james factora, does this contradiction....mean them.us/story/trans-st…

This new Curated Collection from the editors of the Cultural Anthropology journal shares their statement & collects past CulAnth articles under the topic 'War on Palestine,' incl. those that pre-date the journal's move to open access—now free for 3 months.
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/c…

On average, Israel has killed about 75 children EACH DAY since October.

Excellent statement from Jewish faculty at Columbia ahead of Pres. Shafik’s Congress hearing. Must read, and sign if you are CU affiliated:
columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

This! 👇🏽

So excited to be part of this wonderful conference!

Excited to be a part of this “Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism” conference at the end of the month

Two (among several) books withdrawn from PEN America awards due to ongoing protest of PEN's normalization & denial of genocide & failure to speak against the atrocities in Gaza.