University of Toronto Black Faculty Stand in Solidarity with the UofT Student-Led People’s Circle for Palestine ✊🏾🍉🔥 UofT Occupy for Palestine Palestinian Youth Movement UTFA

Follow Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis (here but especially on IG) 🔮✨@UpFromTheCracks Logic(s)

A daily glut of heartbreak and brutality for which no language will ever sufficiently account or atone. And still: fiercely defended islands of courage, liberatory coalitions, and direct actions of care. A reminder.

The sinister tactics the city uses to cleanse encampments fuel homelessness. DARVO tactics of Z¡noist PR machines fuel Z¡onism. Instead of issuing threats to discipline/fire/deport, do the reading for once University of Toronto: Disclose. Divest. Suspend ties. tr.ee/ohfuWIHoyN UofT Occupy for Palestine

Join us for Vera List Center for Art & Politics' @VeraListCenter final event in the 2yr Correction* Seminar Series, co-presented by Queen's University’s @aeartcentre, organized & moderated by Agnes associate curator Nasrin Himada + VLC curator Eriola Pira. Register: event.newschool.edu/onlineseminar1…

recalling one giant regarding another. deeply grateful to have experienced the gifts, grace, and presence of both, and sending love to all who share the same. Beth Freeman on Lauren Berlant, on the interpersonal, and on being here, for now, with friends of mind.💔

Thank you, Lorgia🙏🏾Thank you Esmat Elhalaby for calling us in. Our collective response came ~6mos after I moved from Rome to 🇨🇦/UofT. V. instructive galvanising Black scholars into reciprocal witness on new lands. Rome’s continued complicity in 2024’s blood prize is enraging.

Make sure your people see this and apply! Hype for whoever joins the team, anchoring us in the DMV with co-PI Prof Anika Simpson at Howard.

2. Teaching a class on the Mediterranean or immigration? Sebastian A Smythe #'s "The Black Mediterranean and the Politics of the Imagination" blends a critical analysis of racism and immigration in Europe with a welcoming introduction to critical race theory. merip.org/2018/10/the-bl…

“Energised and inspired to kick off another academic semester!”

Did you know face of 90s typing software Mavis Beacon was inspired by Renée L'Espérance, a Haitian woman who vanished at the height of its fame? FREE screening TO: SEEKING MAVIS BEACON Dec. 13 @ Hot Docs + talkback filmmaker Jazmin Jones & more!🎥🎤 Tix- hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films…

Man, don’t make me tap the sign:

Less of a reach for me on Bluesky, so pls RT & engage the actions. Here’s link to the post if you want to screenshot yr own slides: bsky.app/profile/essays…

Excited to launch Shared Horizons: Politics & Poetics of Transnational Abolition, a living digital archive envisioned by Vanessa E. Thompson & SA Smythe. Learn & contribute to transnational groups dedicated to ongoing liberation struggles beyond borders sharedhorizons.org🌹💪🏾📖

No Cop City, No Cop World should be read by fellow organizers to learn where we succeeded and where we failed. So that new movements grow stronger and wiser. #StopCopCity

✨The Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis is "sharpening our oyster knives," preparing our imaginations & relations. Info on new or ongoing programs in Black study & collective practice for AY2025–26 at linktr.ee/blackpoiesis & IG (Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis). Come thru, reach out, stay tuned✨