And ICYMI, several translator friends and I are trying to raise funds for young poet Nadine Murtaja & her family to evacuate from Gaza. We'd love to reach at least $23,000: the equivalent of 4 PEN translation awards since we started fundraising 🤞

gofundme.com/f/mrv2dj-compl…

🚨🚨🚨 Breaking: a group of Barnard College staff announce three day sick-out in solidarity with students disciplined by the Barnard administration, call on staff across campuses to join them 🚨🚨🚨 Full statement here: cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/vi…

Over 2000 eSIMs currently active 😭 #ConnectingGaza

A massive explosion just rocked my area of refuge in the central Gaza Strip. Explosions haven’t stopped since yesterday, not for one hour

Please email Toronto Public Library to demand they reverse their censorship of Palestinian poetry. I just sent them this email decrying the anti-Palestinian racism that their decision is reflecting. #Toronto #Censorship

.Toronto Public Library has apparently removed Refaat's poem under pressure from zionists. Refaat was a poet who wrote about his own death - before the IDF murdered him. He'd want this poem to be shared to keep his hopes, and his spirit alive. Please share.

B'nai Brith Canada BY REFAAT ALAREER
If I must die, 
you must live 
to tell my story 
to sell my things 
to buy a piece of cloth 
and some strings, 
(make it white with a long tail) 
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza 
while looking heaven in the eye 
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze— 
and bid

When people protested Meghan Murphy, the head librarian said the Toronto Public Library was committed to the democratic value of free speech, whether or not it offended people. And now they’re banning poems by Palestinian academics and writers. The Palestinian exception yet again

How can anyone be frightened or alarmed by students protesting this?

You know what would be terrifying?

A world where we're all seeing this and no one is protesting.

Back from Toronto! I had a lovely trip but I have missed the warmth in Vancouver. :)

You can find signed copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths at Queen Books in Toronto!

Also, if you have read the book already, I really appreciate reviews on book reviewing/buying sites.

i really need this tbh. please enable me lol.

for the position to charitable causes in Gaza as is the request of the students.

Both the silence and silencing of comfortable tenured and tenure-track faculty has been appalling, though not surprising. It is loud. But the student protestors are louder and being heard by..

be affiliated with an institution that arrests, intimidates, endangers, and censors its students. Until the students are reinstated, apologised to, and have their records expunged, I will #boycott giving lectures Columbia University or Barnard. I commit to donating the money I was awarded

I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence #ColumbiaUniversity which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..

[Portland, USA - George Floyd riots]

'May the things we burn light the way'