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Ekrem Serdar @ekremserdar.bsky.social · 20d

It's additionally special for us to be able to work with our former Workspace Residents, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin (resident in 2017) and Hanae Utamura (resident in 2021), and welcome their work back to Buffalo. The show is on view through December 12. Hope you get to drop by.

Ekrem Serdar @ekremserdar.bsky.social · 20d

Opening next Friday, September 26: Happy to be presenting Radiation Borders, with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. The four artists in the exhibition trace the borders, and lives inside and outside of nuclear toxicity.

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Radiation Borders

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Ekrem Serdar @ekremserdar.bsky.social · 28d

One of the books I'm most looking forward to this year.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · Sep 1

I wrote about @iceblock.app, the developer's infuriating HOPE talk, and how it's unfortunately basically activism theater micahflee.com/unfortunatel...

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others r...

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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · Aug 22

We mourn the passing of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim (1937–2025), whose fearless, unflinching works shaped generations of Arab literature. His voice endures.

We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · Aug 15

Remembering Sonallah Ibrahim: His ‘Arsène Lupin’

Sonallah Ibrahim died this week at the age of 88. His "Arsène Lupin," originally written in the al-Wahat Prison Camp, Western Desert, Egypt, in 1963, appeared in translation in the Summer 2020 CRIME issue of ArabLit Quarterly.

Remembering Sonallah Ibrahim: His ‘Arsène Lupin’

Sonallah Ibrahim died this week at the age of 88. His "Arsène Lupin," originally written in the al-Wahat Prison Camp, Western Desert, Egypt, in 1963, appeared in translation in the Summer 2020 CRIME issue of ArabLit Quarterly.

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Squeaky Wheel @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social · Aug 22

We will soon be accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of our Workspace Residency! Learn more at the link to learn more, and get your applications ready: squeaky.org/workspace-residency

Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.

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Pooja Rangan @p8ja.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us for the Documentary Audit Book Launch! September 19, 6PM at NYU's Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway. Register here to attend in person or on Zoom: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... With special guests Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Jordan Lord, and LaCharles Ward.

Book Event: THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT

How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible?

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.⁠

Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants

60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts

The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.

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Ekrem Serdar @ekremserdar.bsky.social · Jul 26

For international consistency sake, it does make me happy to hear US lefties embrace “liberal” as an insult.

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · Jul 22

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

Interview by Shatha Yaish

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Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip'

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 10

Outward portents and inward presentiments

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · Jul 9

As someone targeted by the ADL, this is welcome news: The National Education Association, the largest union in the US representing over 3 million members, voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties

The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

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Ekrem Serdar @ekremserdar.bsky.social · Jul 5

Not saying they aren’t or can’t be related - I have lived in Austin - just saying that a pencil shaped old dude with long hair talking about Biden letting in too many refugees wasn’t immediately expected

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Ekrem Serdar @ekremserdar.bsky.social · Jul 5

I forget current fascist aesthetics sometimes, and am taken aback when someone who looks like they went on tour with the Disco Biscuits starts spouting qanon

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Jul 1

A reminder that Dr. @shannonmattern.bsky.social announced her resignation from this awful place just yesterday. I’ll link to what she had to say about it. Imagine what went unsaid.

Dee, Trans Esq. @gkarwasright.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.

ESPN @espn.com · Jul 1

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Is there any sign of life?”
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”

no paywall for this harrowing breakdown of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers that WIRED obtained. experts believe the true number of medical emergencies is far higher.

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls

Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

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Carol 水晶餃 Zou @coralzoa.bsky.social · Jun 25

zohran winning is satisfying but not as satisfying as my archnemesis the nyt once again being WRONG AS FUCK

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Jun 22

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jun 19

i am deeply troubled by the media’s reluctance to cover the rise of conversion therapy activism in the U.S. and hope that future coverage of this ruling focuses on how it could further popularize what some U.S. states and other countries consider to be cruel and inhumane treatments

OHCHR | Report on conversion therapy

"Conversion therapy" is an umbrella term used to describe interventions of a wide-ranging nature, all of which have in common the belief that a person's sexual orientation or gender identity can and s...

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