Tharmila Apputhurai

Educator/learner (she/her/hers)

[Tharmila Apputhurai @T_Apputhurai]

@darthvethar 🥰 Congratulations!

[Tharmila Apputhurai @T_Apputhurai]

@darthvethar Congratulations Dr. T! 👏🏽

[The Cutlass Magazine®️ @cutlassmagazine]

“Chicken Curry to Comfort Your Worry” is a children’s book by Guyanese-American author Shabana Lall. It is a story about a little girl who wants to share her love of cooking. In an effort to lift her brother’s spirits, she gathers the family to make his favorite comfort food.

[Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁 @ShreeParadkar]

I thank Doug Ford for offering so many teachable lessons for future generations in one fell swoop: how not to jump to conclusions in criminal cases, how not to be xenophobic, how not to pathologize entire groups of people… how not to be a leader. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty.
A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid.

A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home.
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Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer homelessness, the fact that colonizers look and feel like aliens to natives not only because they don't belong, but because the colonizers themselves feel the same way.

Think about it: wherever a colonizer goes, whatever they see, smell or taste, it is never theirs, or completely natural. It is not organic to them, but engineered; their whole existence is.

Whatever sustains and nourishes the native, threatens the colonizer and reflects their strangeness: the food, the music, the landscape, the flora and fauna. the sounds and smells, everything.

Whatever comes naturally to the native is a great effort for the colonizer: they don't understand the codes, and never will. They can't be still.

Aa colonizer is not an immigrant, a tourist or a guest, they have to find meaning for their stay. It must be a higher purpose, a higher calling, else what can explain both their presence not home, and the violent means they always need to maintain it? We are not designed to inflict pain and injury for comfort. We need a story to put us in a positive light.
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So much of the western world's anxiety, I think, is just a colonizer's latent, repressed homelessness. Because colonialism is not just taking other people's home, it is also, and forever, being without one yourself.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Premier Ford - every day across Ontario ER docs like me turn away patients drinking too much alcohol but who want to make a change - there are just no detox or rehab facilities available. Could that $225 million instead have helped those Ontarians? @fordnation

[Ambika Satkunanathan @ambikasat]

#Memorialisation #18May

1/15 yrs since end of the war, words are inadequate to express the grief, wounds, loss and strength of the people at Mullivaikkaal today. They endured atrocities and continue to resist oppression and denial of their rights, even right to mourn the dead.

[Krisna Saravanamuttu @KrisnaS85]

The struggle continues.

[Kumanan @kumanan93]

Tamil Genocide monument at University of Jaffna ❤️💛

தமிழினப்படுகொலை நினைவுத்தூபி @யாழ் பல்கலைக்கழகம்

#May18 #TamilGenocide #universityofjaffna #tamilgenocidemonument #mullivaikal #commemoration #resiliance

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

on the eve of Mullivaikkal remembrance day as the genocide in Gaza escalates, it’s impossible not to be devastated by the reality that the world watched this scale of mass atrocity, war crimes & crimes against humanity happen at the hands of belligerent states twice in 15 years.

[Parsa Shahid//পারসা শহীদ (she/her)🍉 @ParsaShahid]

Paulo Freire re education from @McMasterU faculty at the beautiful community of resistance @mcmastersphr has set up. These students are fighting for transformation, for a just world. As an educator, I firmly stand with their principled and brave movement. #divest #freepalestine🇵🇸

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“I choose to stand for [children] to keep their right to learn alive.”

This teacher created a classroom in a Deir al-Balah refugee camp to help fill the gap in education Palestinian kids have experienced over the past seven months.

[Educator @DrAnnLopez]

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -

James Baldwin

[கண்ணம்மா ♡ @iThamizhi]

சார்ந்தோர் அனைவருக்கும் சித்திரை திருநாள் வாழ்த்துக்கள் 🥰

Happy Bengali, Sinhala, and Thai new year 🥳

Happy Vaisakhi to all my Punjabis 🎊

Many other ethnic groups around Asia observe April 13 to 15th as a celebratory day, either new year or harvest festival. To those celebrating, wishes ✨️

[கௌதினி @Gowi19]

The ultimate goal is to live in peace. Nothing and no one will disturb that state of mind. For me I think it doesnt mean you wont have no worries, no bad days, no anger but more like you accept things, situations and people as they are. The strong foundation cant be shaken up...

[rupi kaur @rupikaur_]

Greater Toronto Area: It’s Sikh Heritage Month & on April 12 I’m hosting this incredible event where I’ll be reading poetry, interviewing @RaviSinghKA on stage and the night will also include musical performances. Join us at @bramptononstage

https://t.co/BoRjtNE9eF

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs at @UN Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

[Dr. Thusiyan Nandakumar @Thusi_Kumar]

The goal is to instil a fear that the very prospect of defying the Sri Lankan state, whether to protest or to pray, will provoke an overwhelming and violent backlash.

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Moves to characterize violence in Haiti, Sudan, Congo as "internal conflict" is anti-Black working of empire.

From assassination of Lumumba to coup against Aristide, from EU/UAE/Israel-backed RSF to US-backed First Congo War & resource wars - there is long legacy of imperialism.

[Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁 @ShreeParadkar]

"The richest, most powerful countries in the west..., those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza" : Arundhati Roy https://t.co/UH9VfUDj7e