Baby number two. A hard birth. The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Cover image by ⁦Carrie Mae Weems: All the Boys (Profile 1), 2016⁩

Absolutely outrageous and hysterical repression

aljazeera.com/features/2024/… "Israeli authorities typically require Palestinian residents to pay for the bulldozing of their homes as well as the salaries of police officers who are deployed to evict residents and secure the premises"

The metaphor of the “underground”—as a site of radical, transgressive political action & visioning—has roots in 19th-century America, Lara Langer Cohen argues in her new book “Going Underground” (Duke University Press). Read Madeline Zehnder’s review, new at PB: buff.ly/3wU2l8T

Great thread on ancient Palestine and its peoples

This was the point.

cuttingclass.noblogs.org/toolkit/zine-f…

Lessons on Taking the School Report from within the Cal Poly Humboldt Occupation

In 20 min, if you’re into 19th c undergrounds, 1850s songs about the Underground Railroad, and an anti-slavery pirate ship called the Moby Dick

If faculty still think their interests align w/ the institution, admin has a surprise for you

“The 92-year-old Palestinian woman, who suffered from Alzheimer's, was found as a pile of charred bones on her granddaughter's burned bed, according to her daughter.” We focus on the children, but the murder of the elders is also inconceivably monstrous

one really jawdropping part of the campus-wide email just sent by UChicago's president

Andy Hines (@hinesaj) writes on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite U.S. universities. Despite institutions' public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point. proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/dis…

Link to sign in letter!

"We are constituents of a so-called elite institution of higher education that cannot recognize facts": why negotiations between the People's College for the Liberation of Palestine and Swarthmore admin failed swarthmorevoices.com/content-1/2024…

The law firm that is saying it won't hire people who participated in pro-Palestine protests, Sullivan & Cromwell, represented the United Fruit Company during the coup in Guatemala and represented I.G. Farben during WWII, which supplied the gas Hitler used in gas chambers

lsraeli occupation forces burn schools in Northern Gaza Strip so that they cannot be used as shelters by displaced Palestinians.

"We regard these proceedings...as posing a threat to the ability of [Swarthmore's] students and faculty to exercise their academic freedom and freedom of speech and assembly" mesana.org/advocacy/commi…