Arundhati Roy's incandescent award acceptance speech about Palestine and Lebanon, in which she acknowledges so many jailed writers.

"Not all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine."

Cruel policy and a betrayal of human rights and our values.

I understand the political value, but the politics of immigration are not going to change as long as we continue to accept the right's frame. And we really need to change them before we sink much deeper into climate crisis.

How CNN describes ethnic cleansing

Would love to see democrats counter this xenophobic hate speech by doing literally anything besides showing that they’re also willing to dehumanize migrants with increased border militarization and weakened asylum protections

I believe our democracy depends on Kamala Harris defeated Donald Trump in November.

This speech seems completely consistent with that belief and that goal.

Academic milestone: Paid by the university to teach students to engage in global politics, and punished by the university for keeping students safe as they engage in global politics

www.waer.org/news/2024-08...

This weeks roundup of misplaced transphobia demonstrates the ways that—beyond harming trans people—transphobia often extends to cis people to create and enforce a regulatory system around what it’s “natural” and therefore “right” for men and women to be

"just five days after the ICJ notified all U.N. member states that they have a legal “obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

consortiumnews.com/2024/07/26/n...

I do stutter and think this line of Biden apologia is ableist. Lots of people communicate effectively while stuttering—Biden isn’t. And the notion that we should expect some incompetence from people who stutter is bad!

you don’t have to subject yourself to images of gruesome violence, but you should know that they exist, that you and I paid for that brutality with our taxes and our ignorance, and that nearly every one of our elected officials thinks that that violence is good and that we should fund more of it

When so much of grad schools feels like socialization in how to compromise enough for the academy to be rewarded by it, it’s a privilege to learn from student encampments what it looks like to risk security so that education/scholarship might become liberatory.

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: "In the year after the New York Times was met with public scrutiny for its coverage on transgender legislation, Media Matters found that it failed to quote trans people in 66% of stories on the subject."

Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

The religious right so often frames anti-LGBTQ school policies as protecting childhood innocence, but it’s their anti-trans vitriol that radicalized 3 teenagers enough to fatally wound a peer and their policies that have other queer kids afraid of the same. Nex Benedict should be happy and alive.

“Israel has long rejected accusations that it operates an apartheid system, calling such allegations a slur…”

A SLUR???

Language is being gutted and the incoherence this shift creates is lethal.

"What could we, a silly little global hegemony do to influence our terrifying client state? Surely we could never stop running interference in various international forums or providing several kinds of direct military support?!?? That would never work."