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Radical Books Collective
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 4d
Grotesque.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 8d
What a perturbing program -- This is about the institutionalization of activism thus dismantling critique of power. Imagine activists getting off the streets sitting around reflecting, giving talks, attending wine receptions, probably brainstorming an undergrad major in activism
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 8d
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 17d
Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
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Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
By Bhakti Shringarpure. A conversation with writer Omar El Akkad, a massive solidarity concert for Palestine in London and seeking the smallest of signs that the tide may be turning for Palestine.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 13d
Horrifying state of things
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Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out.
At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 15d
From the incomparable, legendary Raji Sourani

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The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani
The clue is in the name: the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will we act?, asks Raji Sourani, the coordinator of the Palestinian legal team at the internatio...
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 17d
Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
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Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
By Bhakti Shringarpure. A conversation with writer Omar El Akkad, a massive solidarity concert for Palestine in London and seeking the smallest of signs that the tide may be turning for Palestine.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 24d
If you're shocked about Ezra Klein's op-ed fawning over Charlie Kirk, please know that this is a long liberal tradition of op-ed writing. From out podcast archives, the deep dive into the genre of the op-ed itself.
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If Op-Eds Could Kill
The hosts turn their lens on the insidious, galvanizing power of the opinion column.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 27d
Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, this podcast with Somali scholar Maxamed Abumaye offers fitting reflections on the wave of militarism, policing, surveillance and totalizing violence unleashed by the West's War on Terror.

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Episode 12. Black Muslim Refugee Resistance to US Militarism and Policing: Featuring Maxamed Abumaye
Listen now |
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Sep 5
“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.”

@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 29
“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.”

@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28
"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
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"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
By Bhakti Shringarpure.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 22
“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.”

@rahulraothariel.bsky.social speaks with @radicalbooks.bsky.social on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with…
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Aug 15
📣 #podcast On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social in conversation with Bhakti Shringarpure about his book "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" out @plutopress.bsky.social

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10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with ...
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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · Aug 15
thrilling to talk to @radicalbooks.bsky.social about 'The Psychic Lives of Statues': Rhodes, Mandela, Gandhi, Patel, Ambedkar, Fanon and more against the backdrop of the dystopian present + reflections on imperial settler colonial 🇮🇳, apposite on Aug 15 www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-...
10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with ...
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Aug 9
"‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media" -- Appalling Australian media getting cookbook author Mona Zahed's visa revoked amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...
‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media
The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5
Frantz Fanon Stands for Revolutionary Love, Not Violence: Featuring Hassane Mezine
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Frantz Fanon Stands for Revolutionary Love, Not Violence: Featuring Hassane Mezine
Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist, prolific scholar, and active participant in the Algerian war of independence against France would have been 100 years old this year.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5
The Age of Fanon, 2: Hunger and Starvation

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The Age of Fanon, 2: Hunger and Starvation
By Bhakti Shringarpure. As Israel starves Gaza, Frantz Fanon's references to hunger and starvation reveal that these have always been tactical weapons within the arsenal of settler colonialism.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17
“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon

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“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
By Bhakti Shringarpure. In a candid interview, Olivier Fanon reflects on the legacy of his father Frantz Fanon at 100 years and speaks intimately about his late mother, Josie.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jul 15
Maura Finkelstein, the tenured professor to be fired for her pro-Palestinian stance from Muhlenberg College joins me to talk about “The Repression of Palestine on American Campuses”

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The Repression of Palestine on American Campuses: Featuring Maura Finkelstein
Anthropologist Maura Finkelstein had always incorporated Palestine in her university teaching and felt that, as an anti-Zionist, Jewish American academic, it was her moral obligation to do so.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jul 11
"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine

The Arabic literature scholar on being vilified at a US congressional hearing, UPenn's cowardice, and the racism of literature departments even as Palestinians are being massacred.

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"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine
Scholar of Arabic literature Huda Fakhreddine on being vilified at congressional hearings, UPenn's cowardice, and the racism of literature departments as genocide of Palestinians continues unabated
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jul 11
What Does It Feel Like To Be A Problem? Featuring Huda Fakhreddine
(new podcast episode)
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What Does It Feel Like To Be A Problem? Featuring Huda Fakhreddine
For the last two years, Huda Fakhreddine has endured a barrage of harassment by the US government and her employer, the University of Pennsylvania, for the simple reason that she writes about, teaches...
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jul 11
This July, we commemorate Frantz Fanon's 100th birthday with essays and podcasts that explicitly connect his life and writings to Palestine.

The first essay "The Age of Fanon" is up now
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The Age of Fanon, 1
By Bhakti Shringarpure. This July, we commemorate the centenary of Frantz Fanon with writings and podcasts that explicitly connect Fanon's life and writings to Palestine.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jun 29
Humanitarianism is over.

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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jun 28
This is humanitarianism so openly genocidal that it can be only be called inhumanitarianism. Their cannibalism and savagery has become so unhinged, they are the ones who must be banished from the category “human” altogether.

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Genocidal Inhumanitarianism
Lets stop playing games with the word “human.” By Bhakti Shringarpure.
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · Jun 27
Yes, very surprising. Thank you for reading.
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