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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 11h

I love this paragraph:

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11h

This is insane?!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12h

Yes way weirder than usual which ….

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12h

Today Columbia University literally allowed an Israeli vigil with flags on its campus but not a Palestinian one.

And we caught so much flack for organizing a boycott of that institution. Imagine.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h

Wow. And even if we were to imagine that to be true — what if the successful genocide, Arne? The one recognized by every major institution in the world? Horrible ethics, and somehow even worse logic.

Arne Blixhavn @arneblixhavn.bsky.social · 18h

Second anniversary of Hamas' failed genocide of the Israeli people.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18h

Baby is lucky to have you as a grandpa - thanks for the kind words.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 19h

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children & families have proven to be the most vulnerable.

In this 2024 piece, sociologist and new mother @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the unbearable loss of Palestinian children—and the power of parental love as resistance.

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

inthesetimes.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20h

thing about it is there's more than one way to empty places of people of color. Alienation is tried-and-true. No one who loves their people is going to stick around long for this shit.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 21h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21h

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 23h

"My chest constricts with the enormity of my gratitude for his existence and joy. And, as I have often done in the last 100 days, I think of Gaza."

@hebagowayed.bsky.social ✊🏾

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

inthesetimes.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

inthesetimes.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful effort Mel! Thank you!

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Mel Lee-Smith | Writer @melleesmith.com · 1d

🧵 @gazasupporthub.com is now on Bsky! Please follow & share!

~50 campaigns from @mommunism.bsky.social's megathread are now live on the site.

ALL of them will be live soon.

GSH was created in direct response to Bsky's mistreatment of Palestinians. (More in thread 👇)

www.gazasupporthub.com

Gaza Support Hub - Welcome

www.gazasupporthub.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

That’s nice.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

Before a lot of other folks who you’d think would do it? It’s also like nice to listen to. Made me emotional!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

i think I’m not the asshole in this exchange Stu

Just to be clear this is literally “don’t talk about history”

Screenshot of quoted post and the post he is replying to

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t listen to country so maybe yall knew this but Zach Bryan releasing a protest song was not on my bingo card.

“And ICE is gonna come, bust down your door
Try to build a house no one builds no more
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I got some bad news
The fading of the red, white and blue”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

Omg adorable!!!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

Friends @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is doing well— she’s at home, released last night. I’ll let her speak on the ordeal when she’s ready but for now wanted to share this update.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

❤️❤️❤️

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

😂 i wonder how many videos they went through to get this still of me — wish they’d learned something in the process but alas.

Hair on point tho— thanks Canary

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

Mama we made it. Was wondering what took them so long, was starting to feel left out!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3d

Appreciate heads up

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3d

Mine I wrote over years — 5 single spaced pages.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 4d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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