Teaching Palestine is like any other history of oppression, colonialism, & struggle, in that students engage material some find offensive. However, teaching Palestine also often means your university opposes your work in both subtle and obvious ways.

What an honour to have been invited to deliver a speech at the Deakin Students for Palestine Encampment end-of-trimester rally. I'm including a link to what I shared tonight. ✊🏾🍉 docs.google.com/document/d/15l…

I am always in awe of Dr. Sophie Rudolph whose unwavering solidarity with Palestine and against all forms of colonialism are a beacon of light. Our collective power will liberate us! Palestine will be free in our lifetime!

—Christina Sharpe

i hear a lot of "i need to take care of myself" which i get, but if the only way to feel normal is to ignore everything going on around us except for our immediate circumstances then truly what is the point of being here, alive, in community with the world at large?

Because I am losing my mind, I try to say these things to myself: - this depravity is designed to break international solidarity, telling us there is nothing we can do so give up; - the Palestinian people have not been defeated; - every Empire falls; Do everything you can.

‘Don’t ask why students are protesting. Ask what died in you that you are not’ cuts deep…(Keway & Maher, 2024) Are student encampments sites of pedagogy and learning? blog.aare.edu.au/are-student-en… via @AustAssocResEd

Gaza’s students turn classrooms into shelters amid war, struggle to cont... youtu.be/6u6LmfEA03g?si… via YouTube

One thing I’ve learned from doing teach ins over the last years and now in the encampments for Palestine is that we must keep physically moving beyond the university to ensure revolutionary learning has meaning. Join the Online Encampment 🙏🏽to @esdsantos for organizing 👇🏽

"Palestine is becoming a shorthand, a strategy, a horizon for all this current order has betrayed." Palestine Is Everywhere, and It Is Making Us More Free More letters from the apocalypse by @SarahAziza1 George Abraham (they/he) 🍉 جورج إبراهيم The Nation thenation.com/article/archiv…

Students at the University of Queensland (UQ) voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with weapons manufacturers and to divest from Israel at a 1500-strong meeting on May 29. greenleft.org.au/content/huge-u… #BDS #StopArmingIsrael #GazaGenocide

University leaders could learn from the students’ ethical clarity. The students are providing the moral leadership expected from sites of knowledge and learning. And many staff are fearlessly joining them, despite the si ... johnmenadue.com/university-lea…

“This is the making of solidarity: a shared commitment to understanding the systemic forces of domination and oppression and the collective action to address these injustices.” Sophie Rudolph on the pedagogy of discomfort and safety as a collective project overland.org.au/2024/06/workin…

Israel has destroyed or damaged 80% of schools in Gaza. This is scholasticide | Chandni Desai theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

As of April 2024, Israeli military operations have killed at least 5,479 students, 261 teachers and 95 university professors in Gaza, alongside archivists and librarians... Approx. 90,000 Palestinian university students have had their studies suspended. via Chandni Desai Guardian US:

Since the beginning of June, Gazan scholars have been teaching online to students in tents. They are committed to reverse the scholasticide & rebuild the sector (for the 4th time). This is all of our responsibilities. Do what you can gazauniversities.org/priorities

really trying to reframe my mind from 'I need individual prestige and institutional validation' to 'let's do as much as we can for each other as possible' in the present moment (and system) that involves contradictions and concessions, but we can *imagine* it and begin that work