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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 3d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Three out of four business owners think we need more cops!

Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 4d

Melançon: Time to make public safety a priority in our métro and streets

With less than a month before voters head to the polls, every municipal party should be putting this crisis at the top of its agenda.

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 7d

Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah.

irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc...

@blackknoll.bsky.social

Ausencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri

track by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri

irisarri.bandcamp.com

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 7d

Appreciate you sharing and sending warmth, for what it’s worth. ❤️

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 7d

Every morning things seem a little more horrific, but sometimes you also get to wake up to an absolutely gorgeous surprise collab from two of your favourite artists working right now. Hallelujah.

irisarri.bandcamp.com/track/ausenc...

@blackknoll.bsky.social

Ausencia (Hiatus rework), by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri

track by Mabe Fratti, Rafael Anton Irisarri

irisarri.bandcamp.com

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 12d

Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
@philipsherburne.bsky.social

Duvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland

8 track album

balmat.bandcamp.com

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 12d

Very grateful for 'Duvet' from Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland, released a few weeks ago by Balmat, just in time for the leaves to turn. Exceedingly gentle, ornately detailed, at once intensely calming and emotionally engaging. Incredible stuff.
balmat.bandcamp.com/album/duvet
@philipsherburne.bsky.social

Duvet, by Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland

8 track album

balmat.bandcamp.com

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 20d

Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings

acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c...

@acloserlisten.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing

In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 20d

Wrote a bit for A Closer Listen about 'Light Flowing,' Clare O'Connell's gorgeous collection of (mostly) solo cello pieces released earlier this year by NMC Recordings

acloserlisten.com/2025/09/20/c...

@acloserlisten.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social

Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing

In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tensio…

acloserlisten.com

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 22d

Love to see it (so let’s see more!)
nomusicforgenocide.net

No Music For Genocide

cargo.site

nomusicforgenocide.net

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 22d

Toronto comrades: “Our work…makes up the raw material that arts institutions require to function. It is the collective withdrawal of our work, not only its content, that underlies our leverage in forcing institutions to reckon with our demands.”

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Lessons from the cultural front

No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide

briarpatchmagazine.com

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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon.bsky.social · 24d

Two police chiefs in Canada are on the boards of a pro-Israel advocacy charity. The president of the Canadian Association of Police is also listed, alongside business and political leaders. Experts and advocates are very concerned. My latest @readthemaple.bsky.social.

Police Involvement With Pro-Israel Charity Raises Concerns

“We have seen increasing police aggression and baseless arrests and prosecutions against those protesting Israel’s genocide.”

www.readthemaple.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24d

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24d

Liberals are unwilling to admit that there is a form of politics that exists in the world that centers around causing harm for pleasure, destroying things, and looting the rubble, and they're unwilling to admit that this politics has a stranglehold on the right

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 27d

“To stand with Palestine, then, is not merely an act of solidarity with a remote and unconnected struggle somewhere far away; it is a stance against the broader structures of domination that sustain exploitation and oppression at home and abroad.”

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 27d

Loved this excellent primer on the political economic context of the Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine from @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s succinct but also far-reaching in scope, and could be an amazing resource for groups looking to get on the same page in terms of big-picture analysis.

Photo of the cover of the book ‘Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine’ by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox and Rafeef Ziadah

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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · Aug 27

Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

www.versobooks.com

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · 28d

I’ve hated Jacobin since before it was cool

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · Sep 7

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · Sep 6

Made a mixtape that's mostly chill ambient/drone, and wrote a bit about how neoliberalism isn't so incompatible with fascism
www.mixcloud.com/grahamericla...

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · Jul 18

you'd either have to have no soul or no brain to characterize the Giller Prize's *hypothetical* demise as a "casualty" in the context of an ongoing genocide

archive.is/6OtzL

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · Jun 12

"It is absurd to suggest that the state – any state – needs a pretext to maim or kill, to arrest or deport."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Anahid Nersessian | ICE’s War on Home

The protests that broke out last weekend in Los Angeles are at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · Jun 11

Made a new mixtape for June – mostly drone, mostly with a cello way out front – and wrote a bit about how neoliberalism is (not) over:
anything-everything.ghost.io/old-boss-new...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Jun 10

I wrote about Los Angeles and violence.
newrepublic.com/article/1963...

For Bass, it seemed, the problem was not that the LAPD was violently policing those protesting ICE raids; the problem was Trump's calling in the national guard to do the same thing. By this logic, the ICE raids, conducted with the support of myriad federal agencies, are a terrifying abuse of power that police should not collaborate in—but it's fine for them to collaborate by keeping protestors and witnesses away. The upside-down thinking goes even further: It's wrong for the National Guard to put down protests against the will of the governor and city officials, but it's fine for state and local law enforcement to do it, so long as state and local officials want them to. The line of reasoning is maddening, seemingly designed to scramble and demobilize support for the people of Los Angeles. Accept the terms of the debate, and you end up in a bizarre argument about how much violence from which armed agents of the law is acceptable.

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gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thanks! I’m glad it resonated!

gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social · May 31

Wrote a bit about experimental cellist Theresa Wong’s stunning new LP, ‘Journey to the Cave of Guanyin,’ for A Closer Listen:

acloserlisten.com/2025/05/31/t...

@acloserlisten.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social

Theresa Wong ~ Journey to the Cave of Guanyin

Good questions are always more interesting than their answers. “What does the cello sound like?” seeks a factual, closed response, which most of us could easily produce in fairly short order. Throu…

acloserlisten.com

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