The number of people who think this is a serious post is not encouraging.

Today I texted a friend: “I am angry & tired that I’m afraid to cross the street because I’m scared of being run over. Every single time.”

Putting aside advocating for Gaza, being visibly Muslim right now is very scary. I am tired of being scared. I just want to exist.

it makes me mad when people equate the actions of oppressors to insanity. Mad people are oppressed too! this is a carceral discursive operation applied to liberation politics. locate a causal principle in the psyche for bad behavior. oppressors are just simply bad, not Mad.

when we were illegally held at central booking for over 24 hrs the pigs played a 15 minute video on loop about rape and sexual abuse in prison. over and over and over again for hours on end.

“We see getting old as a blessing.”

That’s where I’m at. It is a privilege to experience senescence for as long as I have. Most people in my family didn’t have the opportunity to become or stay elders for that long. It’s an honor to be called terms of endearment for elders.

Tenured professors, moments like this are very reason tenure exists. Use it.

people are protesting the most horrific shit they've seen and your talking about 'woke' and 'decorum' and 'peaceful'

- a good helmet bc pigs aim for the head + concussions suck
- ear plugs bc flash bangs + permanent hearing loss suck
- non-vented eye protection that’s ANSI Z87.1 rated bc teargas + impact munitions suck
- n95 respirator bc COVID sucks + an organic vapor filter bc teargas sucks

Yeah at this point if you’re going to openly profess to the world that you’re voting for Biden I’m going to rightfully assume that a genocide is not a moral red line for you

My interview with @[email protected] is finally out and it really was one of the most informative conversations I’ve had. Imani is a gem. Give it a watch, you’ll learn a lot!

youtu.be/HBXy4us4J5Y?si…

We’re in the midst of a mass global uprising that the ruling class pretends is limited to “student protests at elite universities”

The intent is to compartmentalize campus protests from the broader rebellion against apartheid, colonialism & genocide that’s happening worldwide

I. Am. So. Sick. Of. Having. Seizures.

And I wanna cry so bad. I feel the tears forming. But I can’t let them fall because crying triggers seizures. I’m finally wanting to cry after decades of being punished for it and now I can’t let myself. It’s just so hard.

Israel killed 70 of the hostages it’s claiming to rescue.

The footage of cops pulling down student protestors’ masks and forcing their faces in front of news cameras is so sickening. The point is ritual humiliation and actively endangering their lives.

Shame on every administrator that unleashed these fascist forces on their campuses.

What a state determines to be “lawful” is not going to align with resistance, rebellions, or revolutions. It was legal to force my people onto reserves and unlawful to leave one without permission. Racial segregation was legal and denying racialized people services was lawful.

My colleague journalist Muhammed Hajjar was heading south from Gaza City this morning in preparation to travel to Egypt. He was afraid the Israeli army would detain him for his work. They didn’t. They detained his wife and forced him to leave. Now he knows nothing about her fate!

In 2016 all y’all was giggling “punch a Nazi” but now you get mad when people even cuss out a Zionist at a protest bc we’re not supposed to “engage”

I will ignore your calls, texts, and don’t any of you dare come to my home.

the masks. wow