Acabo de descubrir que el Oití, que es uno de mis árboles favoritos, se llama Licania Tormentosa y ahora me gusta mucho más por dramático. 🍃💚🌳

How is penality reinforced in the name of protecting women against violence? How has justice been framed in terms of carcerality & what other worldviews have been discarded? What’s at stake?

Join our session on 16/05 with Silvana Tapia Tapia+Adriana M. Pérez Rodríguez!

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Las Madres del Catatumbo hacemos un llamado exhaustivo al Gobierno Nacional, a la UNP y toda la institucionalidad para que se reevalúe el caso de nuestra compañera y lideresa afro YOMAIRA SIERRA, se mantenga su esquema de protección para que se garantice su integridad y seguridad

Universities should offer free tuition to Sudanese students but in the meantime, someone needs to set up a scholarship fund for Sudanese students accepted to universities but unable to pay tuition and living expenses. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Gato colgado. 🐱📚
JSFA

⚠️🇨🇴Recibimos con profunda preocupación la decisión de la Corte Constitucional de tumbar la ley con la que se efectuó la creación del Ministerio de Igualdad y Equidad en Colombia. Esta decisión se da en uno de los países con mayores índices de desigualdad en el mundo. 🧵

“I think it’s appalling that people are not opposed to children dying but they are opposed to me speaking”. Kagiso Lesego Molope was speaking at Politics and the Pen / La politique et l’écrit about Gaza and was requested to leave.

Shame on you, Politics and the Pen / La politique et l’écrit!!

Israel has rejected a cease-fire agreement that would have freed their hostages and ended the war. This should be central news in every mainstream media source, but many US outlets are keeping people in the dark. jacobin.com/2024/05/israel…

something i can't stop thinking about is how vehemently young people do not want to enter the world as it exists, and their willingness to challenge and contest it.

Just to be clear, Israel has trapped 1.4 million people, half of whom are kids, in a box and is bombing the shit out of them.

If you are not screaming about this, who tf are you? This is genocide in real time on yr fucking phone.

¿Por qué una carta al Ministro de Defensa sobre un asunto que es, de raíz, de autonomía y democracia universitaria?

Ah, no, claro, esos asuntos nunca les han importado.

Now the JDL are singing O Canada, an accurate symbol connecting the nationalism, militarism and colonialism at the root of this.

¿Escasez de agua?
Sábana de Bogotá Impermeabilizada y desecada bajo industrias extractivas de flores. Millones de litros de agua diarios exportados en flores (una rosa requiere 62litros).
Deben restaurarse inmensas zonas de suelos fértiles y humedales de recarga de acuíferos.

“The page, like the street or the hospital or the town registrar or even the kitchen table, is a space where gatekeepers often attempt to funnel us into one of two positions: either respectable or silent.”

- Zeyn Joukhadar, On Queerness.

the French colonial military would engage in ritualised public unveiling in Algeria, I should imagine the IDF are well experienced in the practice also - its a politics of spectacle, a public denigration and a choreographed display of white power.

This is exactly the conundrum I am facing right now just as I am about to start my Visa interview process.

There is nothing stopping me from donating money and food to the encampment, as well as checking in on friends in encampments via text. These are small, tangible things.