This is finally out! An essay about whiteness as religion and museums as temples of whiteness... I've been thinking through this for years, very grateful for the space to express these ideas. Whiteness is not simply psychological, but a way of being. Saying this with Palestine on my mind.
I cannot begin to summarise this astounding piece of work by @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on the racial, colonial & imperial qualities at the core of the US Constitution.
It's 150 pages long, it has 985 footnotes. It should be a book. You can read it free here: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
“As scholars of South Asia, we are strongly obliged to note the longstanding affinities between Zionism, Hindutva, and US empire that are further heightened through military interdependence.”
Dia Batal, "Playing on the beach is a dangerous course" -- each embroidered panel lists the name of a Palestinian child killed by Israel on Gaza beaches in 2014.
Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.
a picture of a huge crowd of protesters at Grand Central Station in New York
this is absolutely remarkable, organized by @jvp.bsky.social
they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW
There is no decolonisation of institutions in a world that is so brutally in the grip of colonial conquest and capitalist extraction
Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
How many more apocalypses will we witness? How many more will they create to serve their fantasies of power and conquest? When will colonialism end?
As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.
Flyer for Poets for Palestine, Monday 30 October 7-10pm UK, hosted by Sarò a Abuaker. An online evening of poetry raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Readers: ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU • LOWKEY • CHEN CHEN • OMAR SAKR • MIRA MATTAR VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY • LEONE ROSS • ZAFFAR KUNIAL • NATALIE SHAPERO ZEINA HASHEM BECK • JOELLE TAYLOR • JAY BERNARD • YOUSIF M. QASMIYEH LISA LUXX • SHAREEFA ENERGY • ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED • REBECCA TAMÁS NUAR ALSADIR • SANAH AHSAN • MARYAM HESSAVI • AZAD ASHIM SHARMA SANDEEP PARMAR • AK BLAKEMORE • JUANA ADCOCK • SO MAYER INUA ELLAMS • EVE ESFANDIARI-DENNEY Out-Spoken Press logo, supporting presses: Makina Books, The 87 Press, Broken Sleep Books, Hajar Press
Please join us for an online fundraiser:
🔴 Poets for Palestine
⚫️ Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK
🟢 raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians
Please share widely and donate if you’re able 🇵🇸
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With everything that's happening, the loss of the other place as a functioning platform where people across the world could document and share state violence and abuses is clear. We can't underestimate the importance of social media. This is, unfortunately for many, a perception war.
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." --James Baldwin
Holding this quote close to my heart while I grieve and call my reps again and again making my flaccid little Jewish pleas to cease the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Borders are inherently anti-human and inhumane.
so tempted to write a "I'm not actually dead" article from the perspective of Literary Fiction herself... "all rumours about my demise are greatly exaggerated. I'm just wearing different clothes and avoiding the limelight."
I am absolutely terrified for the Palestinians trapped in the open air prison created by their colonisers. To think that the Israeli government can call Palestinians "human animals" and still be defended... there is no justice until Palestine is free
Watcjing Dune and it's terrible that villains are always coded as disabled. That's another thing The Matrix got right, where the villain/s look like a basic politician starter pack
🏺📜 Really honoured to be interviewed as part of Mummy Stories’ new series, “The Bridge”, talking a bit about repatriation and human remains in museums: www.mummystories.com/single-post/...
It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org
this year I embargoed myself from publishing essays and stories and the result has been 100000s of words written because getting short pieces into publishable shape can be incredibly time and energy consuming. just had to do without the dopamine hit of getting stuff out there! #AmWriting #Writing
tomorrow the fourth of four essays about teaching and practicing poetry will be here:
bewilderment.substack.com
and next Sunday, back to walking. Every Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Irish time, one essay. Pictures, poems, rooms, walking, looking, being together. If you enjoy what you read, please pass it on.
Just got back from seeing #JoeHisaishi at #Wembley and it was breathtaking - made me cry a lot. The concert was due to happen years ago but was delayed due to covid. It felt like the concert was dedicated to the those we've lost and the beauty of life despite its transience...
referencing Sara Ahmed, Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva and many other amazing thinkers and writers!
I have a chapter forthcoming in Routledge's Decolonizing Art History, ed. by Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, & Charlene Villaseñor Black <3 It's called 'Museum are Temples of Whiteness' and details my thoughts about what human remains and sacred objects in museums really signify
