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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Jul 26

An appeal to folks on this platform…pls consider supporting grassroots mutual aid work regularly in Palestine, Congo and Sudan. I recommend @friendsofthecongo.org.web.brid.gy and
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social and @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
but there are so many others too! Bcm a monthly donor! (1/2)

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Jul 19

We have three urgent requests today:

1. Contribute to a trusted org or individual fundraiser. Don't keep scrolling..

We know that the many requests can get overwhelming - like your contribution won't make a dent. But we have strength in numbers.

Here is one: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

chuffed.org

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · Jun 12

Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Anti-ICE Protestors.

Let's escalate boycott and divestment campaigns against companies complicit in ICE's brutal oppression of immigrant rights in the US and in Israel's genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.

bdsmovement.net/news/palesti...

Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Anti-ICE Protestors

From Palestine to Mexico, All the Walls Have Got to Go! Palestinians Stand in Solidarity with Anti-ICE Protestors

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · Jun 9

Our giving circle transfers funds directly to 6 families + a mutual aid team and isn’t involved in how that money is used, because Palestinians know best what they need & how to get it. But here’s a glance at SOME of the ways the funds are used.

Give 👉🏾 tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

• buying drinking/non-drinking water from trucks that deliver from the last functioning desalination plants • firewood to cook with in the absence of fuel since March 2 • charging phones, laptops, assistive devices at charging points • tents - a tent gets worn out in about 3 months • whatever medicine, sanitary items, hygiene products people can find • disability needs (eg, adult diapers) • rent (people still have to pay it) • small furnishings for tents/apartments • clothes, shoes • school supplies like notebooks and pens • solar panels for electricity • fees to use internet cafes to connect to remote jobs, university studies; get the news; relax a bit • dignity items (gifts for children; curtains for tents or shelter which are usually bombed-out and therefore lack privacy, etc) • healthcare (seeing specialists can incur fees) • for one project, we fuelled a garbage truck to clear waste from a displacement camp for local public health & dignity

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Mar 21

I'll be thinking through some of the implications by looking at Bayley J . Marquez's new book "Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Spaces".

A book cover which has a bright green sky on the top half and the bottom half is a darker green field of plants. The title from the top reads "The violence of schooling across Black and Indigenous Space" in smaller letters with a white background. The main text in green and white reads "plantation pedagogy" and the authors name, Bayley J. Marquez, appears below.

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Mar 21

Excited to be presenting at this conference!

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · Mar 21

💥 Join us for next week's conference on 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy '!

👉 Full programme on our website: shorturl.at/88nVH; further info on the 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy' project website: aristotlebeyond.co.uk

📅 Weds 26 + Thurs 27 Mar

🔗 Ritson Room / hybrid on Teams: shorturl.at/wLUao

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Feb 28

'A new landmark book celebrating Māori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative work by Indigenous New Zealanders ever published, it is also the first wide-ranging art history written entirely by Māori scholars.'

‘Our people were so innovative’: Māori art celebrated in landmark book

Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of Māori art showcases creative work across a diverse range of mediums

www.theguardian.com

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Javal Coleman @javalac.bsky.social · Feb 27

Tomorrow is the WCC’s virtual conference! Should be good! The program looks great!

www.wccclassics.org/wcc-virtual-...

General 6 — THE WOMEN'S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)

www.wccclassics.org

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · Feb 26

Tomorrow Cambridge University will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)

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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · Feb 19

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Society for the Study of the Past

A new history of the world...

societyforthestudyofthepast.com

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Feb 11

Thanks so much for sharing these!! And for letting me think about Indigeneity and Classics with Res Diff 💫

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is today!!

Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Jan 29

The event will be live streamed and you can still register here: acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/s...

Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race Symposium | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race SymposiumArizona State University | February 7-8, 2025In person and livestreamedThe term 'indigeneity' must be considered as capaciously as possible in order to recognize its...

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨Join us on zoom on Feb. 18 for an urgent conversation in solidarity w 🇵🇸 on the theme "In the Ruins of History"
w Fadel Alutol @gmandreou.bsky.social Yasmeen Elkhoudary Marc-André Haldimann, Atalia Omer @aditilrao.bsky.social Ali Shahwan, S. Sayyid & @luxmea.bsky.social
rsvp: tinyurl.com/nhd8n34h

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thanks so much for speaking to us @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social and putting us in contact with all the great people at Wikipedia!

Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social · Jan 31

Funny time to start an event on a Friday, but #ClassicsBeyondTheCanon is kicking off in the Classics Faculty at Cambridge! We've got papers from Emily Hauser, Amara Thornton and me, then Wikipedia training, then reception! Wikipedia workshop tomorrow 10-5 #WCCWiki #BeyondNotability

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Jan 29

The event will be live streamed and you can still register here: acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race/s...

Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race Symposium | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race SymposiumArizona State University | February 7-8, 2025In person and livestreamedThe term 'indigeneity' must be considered as capaciously as possible in order to recognize its...

acmrs.asu.edu

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Jan 29

Extremely excited to being speaking at the upcoming raceb4 race symposium on Indigeneity next week at ASU!! Really grateful to be able to engage in this type of work with so many amazing scholars and thinkers.

Image is a schedule of a conference on a white background with black text. the page is divided in half with the left side showing the schedule for Friday February 7th. The schedule for Friday reads: 9:00 - 9:30 am
Registration and coffee
9:30 - 10:00 am
Opening remarks
Ruben Espinosa and Scott Manning Stevens
10:00 - 10:45 am
Tarren Andrews
Proto-Settler Colonialism and the Language of Empire: Reframing
Early Medieval England through Indigenous Methodologies
11:00 - 11:45 am
Jamie Paris
Unaccommodating Settler Ecologies: On Indigenous
Ecological Justice and Shakespeare’s King Lear
11:45 am - 1:30 pm
Lunch break
1:30 - 2:15 pm
Ashley Lance
Autochthony, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in Plato’s Laws
2:30 - 3:15 pm
Mónica Domínguez Torres
Visualizing Caribbean Indigenous Cultures
3:30 - 4:15 pm
Dominique E. Polanco
Indigeneity in the Archives of Abya Yala: New Ways of
Approaching and Honoring Mesoamerican Indigenous
Histories in Spanish Colonial Records
The Right hand side is the schedule for Saturday February 8th which reads:
9:00 - 10:00 am
Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10:45 am
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Thinking with Indigeneity: Foodways and Nostalgia in the
Italian Peninsula and the American Southeast After 1493
11:00 - 11:45 am
Di Hu
Dangerous Liaisons: Subverting Spanish colonial prohibitions
of inter-caste cooperation in the Age of Enlightenment
11:45 am - 1:30 pm
Lunch break
1:30 - 2:15 pm
Melanie J. Newton
“This Island’s Mine By Sycorax, My Mother”: The Tempest,
Gendered Diplomacy and the Cartography of Slavery, 1550-1662
2:30 - 3:15 pm
Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan
The Wound of Memory: Settlerhood, Indigeneity, and Civic
Memorialization in the Aftermath of the 1704 Deerfield Raid
3:30 - 4:15 pm
Heather M. Kopelson
Making Objects, Tending Relations
4:15 - 4:30 pm
Closing remarks
Ayanna Thompson
6:00 - 7:00 pm
An Evening with Tommy Orange

Image is a bio page with a white background and black text on the left side and a photo of me (I am in a robe and have flowers in the background). The text reads Ashley Lance is a final year PhD student at
the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of
Classics. Her PhD is on the concept of race
in Aristotle and its implications for his ethical,
political, and biological works. She also has
research interests in the philosophy of race,
social epistemology, and Indigenous philosophy. Ashley is of Wiyot and Yurok descent and an enrolled member of the Blue Lake
Rancheria.

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Jan 20

Gearing up for this upcoming Wikipedia Edit-a-thon I got to help co-organize with @solveighilmars.bsky.social and others! We're taking registration and suggested topics until Thursday!

www.tickettailor.com/events/crass...

Registering interest – Classics beyond the canon – a Wikipedia edit-a-thon – Faculty of Classics

This event aims to edit or create Wikipedia pages for people who are of significance within the classical world or the classica...

www.tickettailor.com

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Jan 14

there are lots of places to donate and participate in mutual aid. one to consider is Altadena's seed bank - a project which under normal circumstances aims at free seed exchange for equity and education in land stewardship - but now also aimed at reseeding Altadena with native plants

Skylight Booksellers Union & Skylight Books in partnership with Altadena Seed Library:
SEED DONATION DRIVE
Donation Requests:
Native to Southern California plant seeds
Drop off details:
Please drop off at the registers in either 1818 Main store or
1814 Arts Annex
If you do not have seeds, please consider donating to their gofund me. The link is in their bio @altadenaseedlibrary
Seed equity, education & distribution. love y'all, stay safe, let's help reseed Altadena.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Dec 2

any and all advice for writing a conclusion for a dissertation would be welcome rn

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Nov 28

something about thinking through past and on-going genocides

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Nov 28

Feels weird that on Thanksgiving I officially signed the contract for my contribution to the Cambridge Companion on Classics and Race. My chapter is called "Navigating Classics and Negotiating Indigeneity from Aristotle to the Present"

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Nov 15

ahh I'll have to listen!

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Nov 11

Post this on the other site but we're taking submissions until Friday 💫

Please reach out if you have any questions!!

resdifficiles.com/rez-diff-ind...

‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP

At the 2024 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) annual meeting in Chicago, we held a panel on ‘Indigenous Perspectives: Ancient and Modern,’ with support from the Mountaintop Coalition. The panel e…

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Ashley Lance @aerl.bsky.social · Nov 1

Please reach out if you're interested!!

Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Oct 29

A reminder to get in touch with Ashley and Tara if you'd like to submit your work on Indigeneity in Classics for the "Rez Diff" issue of #ResDiffJournal

Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · Aug 28

It is my great pleasure to announce the call for papers for a special issue of Res Difficiles, The Journal guest-edited by Ashley Lance and Tara Wells: 'Rez Diff.' We invite submissions on topics of Indigeneity in Classics. Due 15 Nov.
#ResDiffJournal

resdifficiles.com/rez-diff-ind...

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