Z Samudzi
@zsamudzi.bsky.social
visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
An unmasked man sat next to me (masked) and said “are you feeling okay or just preventing illness?” To which I replied “I feel fine but what difference does it make if you’re not wearing a mask?” He said he’d throw one on if I said I was unwell (he didn’t have one), this rationale is lost on me.
March 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An unmasked man sat next to me (masked) and said “are you feeling okay or just preventing illness?” To which I replied “I feel fine but what difference does it make if you’re not wearing a mask?” He said he’d throw one on if I said I was unwell (he didn’t have one), this rationale is lost on me.
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#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...
March 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...
If they also push harder for these mask bans…
First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"
Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If they also push harder for these mask bans…
Galleanisti is back and so is the attendant sub-whiteness of the 19th/early 20th century Italian in the U.S.!
Girl!!! The sketches coming out of that courtroom say it ALL
March 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Galleanisti is back and so is the attendant sub-whiteness of the 19th/early 20th century Italian in the U.S.!
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
www.archpaper.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
I was writing abt Israel’s pariah statecraft during Nigerian Civil War in its support for the Federal Republic *and* Biafra. After its alienation of African & the Middle Eastern states after the 6-Day War — Biafra War began a month after Israel attacked Egypt — it pivoted towards apartheid regimes.
February 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I was writing abt Israel’s pariah statecraft during Nigerian Civil War in its support for the Federal Republic *and* Biafra. After its alienation of African & the Middle Eastern states after the 6-Day War — Biafra War began a month after Israel attacked Egypt — it pivoted towards apartheid regimes.
On one hand, I saw this coming because our neoliberal president is desperate to get out from under US/EU sanctions and attract foreign capital and Israel is very busy remaking inroads in Africa. On the other, the Israeli state after our land and minerals is beyond.
www.zbcnews.co.zw/zim-and-isra...
www.zbcnews.co.zw/zim-and-isra...
Zim and Israel forge new path for collaboration in tourism and agriculture - ZBC NEWS
Story by Peter Chivhima ZIMBABWE and Israel are set to embark on a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of tourism and agriculture. During the launch of the Zim-Is...
www.zbcnews.co.zw
February 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On one hand, I saw this coming because our neoliberal president is desperate to get out from under US/EU sanctions and attract foreign capital and Israel is very busy remaking inroads in Africa. On the other, the Israeli state after our land and minerals is beyond.
www.zbcnews.co.zw/zim-and-isra...
www.zbcnews.co.zw/zim-and-isra...
Join us for this webinar with Hannah Al-Taher and Anna Younes about the suppression of Palestine both in Germany and within German Studies
It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST
You can register here:
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It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST
You can register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Join us for this webinar with Hannah Al-Taher and Anna Younes about the suppression of Palestine both in Germany and within German Studies
It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST
You can register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST
You can register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An only logical application of Zionism’s zero-sum rationale: that any presence of Palestinians anywhere — in our scholarship, on a map, in our cookbooks, in Palestine or it diasporic geographies — is an altogether negation of Israeli existence.
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
An only logical application of Zionism’s zero-sum rationale: that any presence of Palestinians anywhere — in our scholarship, on a map, in our cookbooks, in Palestine or it diasporic geographies — is an altogether negation of Israeli existence.
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
Anyway, inb4 I’m further accused of stigmatizing drug use, I have no problems with ketamine. And, when you have a culture of diabolically ambitious and cruel people as in today’s Silicon Valley, the relationship to psychoactives and their probably desired self-knowing outcomes aren’t gonna be great.
February 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Anyway, inb4 I’m further accused of stigmatizing drug use, I have no problems with ketamine. And, when you have a culture of diabolically ambitious and cruel people as in today’s Silicon Valley, the relationship to psychoactives and their probably desired self-knowing outcomes aren’t gonna be great.
There’s an affective thing in talking to elders when they’re being honest: they’ll tell you the worst story you’ve ever heard and they’ll be morose and reflective, and moments later laughing about something else. And it’s a rollercoaster of fullness that usefully frames traumatic history.
February 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There’s an affective thing in talking to elders when they’re being honest: they’ll tell you the worst story you’ve ever heard and they’ll be morose and reflective, and moments later laughing about something else. And it’s a rollercoaster of fullness that usefully frames traumatic history.
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I absolutely agree with this. The casual cruelty of the bored and comfortable should be discussed more often.
I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.
February 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I absolutely agree with this. The casual cruelty of the bored and comfortable should be discussed more often.
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replicating racial-Malthusian inequities, gives that system fuel and reinforces the myth that gathering more money and more things is a form of freedom-making.
February 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
replicating racial-Malthusian inequities, gives that system fuel and reinforces the myth that gathering more money and more things is a form of freedom-making.
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capitalism is therefore often depersonalized: that is, we often (not everyone of course!) blame “capitalism” without thinking through the who of capitalism. this is because it’s presented to us as a magical nobody, a divine (biocentric, in fact) socio-spatial structure.
February 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
capitalism is therefore often depersonalized: that is, we often (not everyone of course!) blame “capitalism” without thinking through the who of capitalism. this is because it’s presented to us as a magical nobody, a divine (biocentric, in fact) socio-spatial structure.
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one of the many important things I learned from Sylvia Wynter is that capitalism (specifically dispossession by accumulation) is a belief system (not just, say, a social-economic system). it is deified and worshipped. dig this: it’s a religion, faith, theology. we follow it.
February 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one of the many important things I learned from Sylvia Wynter is that capitalism (specifically dispossession by accumulation) is a belief system (not just, say, a social-economic system). it is deified and worshipped. dig this: it’s a religion, faith, theology. we follow it.
Who doesn’t get death threats? White supremacists sent emails to my new department head in 2022 saying they’d shit in my skull because I said I’d dance on the royal family’s graves, and I’m a nobody.
Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Who doesn’t get death threats? White supremacists sent emails to my new department head in 2022 saying they’d shit in my skull because I said I’d dance on the royal family’s graves, and I’m a nobody.
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just despicable www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Raid on Educational Bookstore branches described by rights groups as part of harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
just despicable www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Thinking about Afrikaners (smh) but actually thinking about the white American insistence on framing the post-colonial white settler as perpetually imperiled in stark opposition to their material and political economic conditions/realities. The foundational anxiety of the settler international.
February 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Thinking about Afrikaners (smh) but actually thinking about the white American insistence on framing the post-colonial white settler as perpetually imperiled in stark opposition to their material and political economic conditions/realities. The foundational anxiety of the settler international.
For my horror & monstrosity class, I’m teaching about gender: the murders of trans youths, bathroom panics and anti-“gender ideology” discourses revolving around trans femininity as a kind of primordial monstrous feminine, and Davey Davis reading conversion therapy films into body-snatching horror 😮💨
February 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
For my horror & monstrosity class, I’m teaching about gender: the murders of trans youths, bathroom panics and anti-“gender ideology” discourses revolving around trans femininity as a kind of primordial monstrous feminine, and Davey Davis reading conversion therapy films into body-snatching horror 😮💨
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Our freedom is not for sale.
The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere.
groundup.org.za/article/dona...
We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity.
#SouthAfricaIsNotForSale
The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere.
groundup.org.za/article/dona...
We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity.
#SouthAfricaIsNotForSale
Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives
But we must not allow peddlers of hate to undermine our fragile constitutional democracy
groundup.org.za
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Our freedom is not for sale.
The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere.
groundup.org.za/article/dona...
We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity.
#SouthAfricaIsNotForSale
The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere.
groundup.org.za/article/dona...
We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity.
#SouthAfricaIsNotForSale
Ok so let’s dig into the theology:
When they’re facing the Zulus @ the Battle of Blood River, the Voortrekkers took a covenant — in return for God’s help in their victory, them & their descendants would keep the day as holy as the Sabbath. They won: God helped 460 Voortrekkers defeat 25,000 Zulus.
When they’re facing the Zulus @ the Battle of Blood River, the Voortrekkers took a covenant — in return for God’s help in their victory, them & their descendants would keep the day as holy as the Sabbath. They won: God helped 460 Voortrekkers defeat 25,000 Zulus.
Hi Zoe!!! So good to see you here!!!
Just saw the recent State Dept statement about the US now protecting the “God-given rights” of the Afrikaans…
The implications of that language…
Just saw the recent State Dept statement about the US now protecting the “God-given rights” of the Afrikaans…
The implications of that language…
February 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ok so let’s dig into the theology:
When they’re facing the Zulus @ the Battle of Blood River, the Voortrekkers took a covenant — in return for God’s help in their victory, them & their descendants would keep the day as holy as the Sabbath. They won: God helped 460 Voortrekkers defeat 25,000 Zulus.
When they’re facing the Zulus @ the Battle of Blood River, the Voortrekkers took a covenant — in return for God’s help in their victory, them & their descendants would keep the day as holy as the Sabbath. They won: God helped 460 Voortrekkers defeat 25,000 Zulus.
This “Trump saves the Afrikaners” saga is wild. So Trump made that EO in which he commits to “the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination,” and Afriforum — an Afrikaner rights group — is like no thanks, we aren’t refugees and we aren’t leaving lmfao
February 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This “Trump saves the Afrikaners” saga is wild. So Trump made that EO in which he commits to “the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination,” and Afriforum — an Afrikaner rights group — is like no thanks, we aren’t refugees and we aren’t leaving lmfao
It’s the Carnegie Commission of investigating the “Poor White Question” all over again.
The Carnegie Corporation funded an inquiry into the condition of poor whites, ie rural Afrikaners who’d been dispossessed by the 2nd Boer War — the recommended economic upliftment was a blueprint for apartheid.
The Carnegie Corporation funded an inquiry into the condition of poor whites, ie rural Afrikaners who’d been dispossessed by the 2nd Boer War — the recommended economic upliftment was a blueprint for apartheid.
Trump has ordered federal agencies to prioritise humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa.
You know, that poor, victimised minority.
America - the new home of Apartheid.
You know, that poor, victimised minority.
America - the new home of Apartheid.
February 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It’s the Carnegie Commission of investigating the “Poor White Question” all over again.
The Carnegie Corporation funded an inquiry into the condition of poor whites, ie rural Afrikaners who’d been dispossessed by the 2nd Boer War — the recommended economic upliftment was a blueprint for apartheid.
The Carnegie Corporation funded an inquiry into the condition of poor whites, ie rural Afrikaners who’d been dispossessed by the 2nd Boer War — the recommended economic upliftment was a blueprint for apartheid.
Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia have inhabited a crucial part of the white ethnonationalist political imaginary for decades. Dylann Roof was born 14 years after Rhodesia’s collapse, yet still wore its flag — and the Union of SA’s — on his lapel.
they're getting real comfortable over on Elon Musk's X
they should all be so open
also, check out that follow
they should all be so open
also, check out that follow
February 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia have inhabited a crucial part of the white ethnonationalist political imaginary for decades. Dylann Roof was born 14 years after Rhodesia’s collapse, yet still wore its flag — and the Union of SA’s — on his lapel.