Syeda Q Masood

Assistant Professor, Social Justice and Social Change @HamlineU. PhD @BrownSociology.

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

4 yrs since Taliban takeover in Afg so Afg women erased from public. Was sealed whn US struck a deal with the Taliban, cutting out Afghan govt & civil society—like Ukrainians cut out of Trump–Putin talks today. For empire, the periphery is a mine—once drained, it’s left to burn.

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

No wonder the markets have been in the green today (the first day the stock exchange opened after the U.S. entered the Iran market war)

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

The U.S. attack on Iran is racial capitalism in action. “The Muslim” is the perpetual enemy: always fought, never vanquished. War, surveillance, and fear = profit. Iranians are the racialised other, on the death of whom capital wants to once more expand.

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

@grundrza first response to reading this opinion piece...."WTF!"

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

LA sits on stolen Indigenous land. Borders, a colonial invention, criminalize migrants—many Indigenous themselves. The original violence is not by the immigrants but by the state. And the only criminal here is the settler colonial state.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

I’m so sick of this stupid question but once again Francesca schools these fools.

She is amazing!

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Goethe wrote in 1833 that a culture of constant news eviscerates the past and the future, leaving you no time to metabolize lessons or sketch out a plan, always pulling you into the whirlpool of Something Important Happening Somewhere

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

@zyedwards Here here!!

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

Rich private university in Manhattan vs. public university across the Hudson—very different reactions to the times. Yay for public education!

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Rutgers Faculty Senate calls for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact, including "a shared or distributed defense fund.... to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution."

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

New ways of old symbolic violence

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

NEW: Hundreds of international students in the U.S. have been told to self-deport and have had their F-1 visas revoked for sharing “anti-national” content on social media or for alleged involvement in campus activism, according to reports.

Details in thread 🧵⬇️

[janna elizabeth haider, phd🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @janna_e_haider]

i'm not saying this to be like "calm down this is how it's always been." quite the opposite. i'm saying this because it has Always Been This Bad. this is just another example of how US institutions have always been evil, and you've just been fine with it bc you liked Obama 5/x

[مريم @bluepashminas]

This was under the Biden administration in May 2024, the second NYPD raid of Columbia’s campus in two weeks. What we are seeing now is the culmination of the bipartisan efforts to criminalize every aspect of our student movement.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

If you haven’t already joined your university’s chapter of the @AAUP, now’s the time to join. If your chapter is defunct or non existent, now’s the time to build it. We can only survive together.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Maybe we should be mad about the actual bombings, not just the group chat about the bombings.

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

ICE on abducting Tufts University student. Didn’t Trump say “there are very fine people on both sides” after white supremacista killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville? Where is the common sense?

[Zachary Levenson @grundrza]

Great posthumous piece from Michael Burawoy comparing modalities of settler colonialism, Israel and South Africa

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

@alim1213 I am devastated by the violence of his death. It’s really hard to imagine.

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

@EricKlinenberg Indeed.

[Syeda Q Masood @SyedaMasood1]

@MichaelRMuniz Indeed he was a giant of a man. Sorry for your loss!!!

[Bikrum Gill @bikrumsinghgill]

Again, let the imperialist dominate the seen world, let them create the spectacle.

It is from the unseen, the tunnels of the earth, the interior of the will of those proclaiming "victory or death", that the colonized emerge and renew a liberated space and time