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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 14d

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence

👇Here's the whole poem

For Assata
New Brunswick Prison, 1977

In this new picture your smile has been to war
you are almost obscured by other faces
on the pages
those shadows are sisters
who have not yet spoken
your face is in shadow
obscured by the half-dark
by the thick bars running across your eyes
like sentinels
all the baby fat has been burned away
like a luxury your body let go
reluctantly
the corners of your mouth turn down
I cannot look into your eyes
who are all those others
behind you
the shadows are growing lighter
and more confusing.

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
who war and weep
sometimes against our selves
in each other
rather than our enemies
falsehoods
Assata my sister warrior
Joan of Arc and Yaa Asantewa
embrace
at the back of your cell.

By Audre Lorde

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Dante SCAREline 🏴‍☠️ @dantescanline.autonomous.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18d

it's AI schadenfreude season

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21d

Man i fucking wish 1 in 5 were trans. And you 🫵 can help make this dream a reality

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Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to start rummaging around in Ronald Duncan's archives and travel to his writing hut in Welcombe this autumn 🍂 🍂

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 28d

@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #newwriting #archives

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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · Sep 10

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Sep 10

researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”

Grace Byron @emotrophywife.bsky.social · Sep 8

For @newyorker.com I wrote about the censorship of trans art. I spoke to many of my favorite artists from Puppies Puppies to Creighton Baxter, thought about strategic opacity, Amy Sherald, and whether or not we have had great trans artists.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The War on Trans Art

Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.

www.newyorker.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Sep 6

Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.

The Independent @the-independent.com · Sep 6

Arrests begin at Palestine Action protest as hundreds gather in Parliament Square

Up to 1,000 people are expected to defy terror laws by showing their support for the banned group

www.independent.co.uk

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · Sep 2

Know of any WGs in Berlin with openings? If so please send them my way!

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Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social · Aug 22

I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!

Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · Aug 22

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Research Fellowships

newn.cam.ac.uk

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

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Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you so much!

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Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social · Aug 20

hi, I'd love a copy of the Museums: Power & Politics syllabus please! Super cool you're making these available

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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · Aug 20

TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 16

"One display is ‘guest-curated’ by the museum’s royal patron Kate Middleton... She has even ✍️ a gallery text. ‘Objects can tell a story... A collection of objects can create a narrative'... If you haven’t lost the will to live by this point[,] then you cld find out about the 14 objcts she chose..."

What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse

You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

artreview.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

writing is

David Lynch on set, in bullhorn: "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."

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Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social · Aug 14

Can't believe no one has said Berlin Brandenburg. Absolute joke of an airport that I loathe with my whole being (I frequently fly between there and Stansted, and I hate Stansted less. That's how bad it is). Wish DB wasn't a flaming (and expensive) shitshow, otherwise I'd take the train more often 😭

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Dante SCAREline 🏴‍☠️ @dantescanline.autonomous.zone.ap.brid.gy · Aug 11

still looking for a non scalped ticket for #autechre in #berlin on wednesday

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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · Aug 4

Please help out a sister.

Donate to Help Xio's Fight Against UIUC for Trans Rights, organized by Xiomara Cervantes-Gomez

Hi, I’m Dr. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez. I’m a transgender Lati… Xiomara Cervantes-Gomez needs your support for Help Xio's Fight Against UIUC for Trans Rights

gofund.me

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · Aug 1

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support for the war is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.

By Amos Brison.

www.972mag.com/germany-gaza...

Germany's angel of history is screaming

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course.

www.972mag.com

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · Aug 2

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

A white banned says FEED GAZA in front of a digital drawing of red poppies with black and white details and green leaves in front of a blue sky with clouds

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Dante SCAREline 🏴‍☠️ @dantescanline.autonomous.zone.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24

god bleas the renters cooperative, nothing like a kinda grumpy old lawyer giving you a pep talk to get your deposit back

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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · Jul 21

If there are a million Jules Gill-Peterson fans, I am one of them. If there are a hundred Jules Gill-Peterson fans, you will find me. If there is one Jules Gill-Peterson fan, there I am. If there are no Jules Gill-Peterson fans, I am dead.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/reject-transgender-liberalism-gill-peterson

t.co

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