Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.

Black feminist. Digital ethnomusicologist | Professor | Author | TED speaker | Principal Qual Researcher at Creative Theory Agency

[Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. @kyraOcity]

How do we not only get #blackgirls to listen/like/love producing their own voices, engineering music as sound AND embody trauma release thru twerking or TikTok dancing? My #TEDTalk hit 1M views a min ago. Bragging! Pls keep sharing!! https://t.co/DAuWj7vPd9

[Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee]

Today, March 30, 2026, the Knesset votes on the Palestinian prisoners’ death penalty law ⚠️
A move that throws thousands of prisoners into the face of death. Ben-Gvir and his party members wore a noose-shaped pin, demanding it be turned into an enforceable law.
🆘Save the prisoners✊🕊️

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

A resident in Tehran films the US and Israel bomb densely populated neighborhoods in Tehran. These are clearly massive munitions with little to no regard for civilian casualties. Indeed, the entire neighborhood is engulfed in fire and smoke.

Just as Israel did in Gaza.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israel has just killed Lebanese journalist Fatima Ftouni. I am honoured to have known her.

Just at the beginning of the month she reported on Israel killing seven members of her own family live on air.

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Almost 30 years after the nerves inside the penis were mapped, the same mapping has been completed on the clitoris. Cultural taboos about female sexuality have held back scientific study. The clitoris wasn't in standard anatomy textbooks until 1995.
https://t.co/Qpce2istWS

[Charles Patrick @CharliePatrick]

@JDiamond1 @cyrilthps 🤔

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

While covering the latest Israeli settler attack in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted my photojournalist @cyrilthps and detained my team.
But our 2-hour detention revealed a lot about the motives of these Israeli soldiers: acting in service of the settler movement.
W/ @AbeerSalmanCNN

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

This is an extremely good!!! @DavidAFrench is more worried about social media than I am but extremely thoughtful and measured in his analysis of free speech implications. We need more of this. Please read the whole thing

"A social media site isn’t a bottle of alcohol or a cigarette. It’s not delivering a drug. It’s delivering speech. Sometimes that speech is silly and harmless. Sometimes it is toxic and harmful. Sometimes it’s educational or inspiring. But it’s all speech, and in America speech traditionally can only be blocked, censored or regulated in the narrowest of circumstances."

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

24-year-old Hunter Adkins, who lived with muscular dystrophy, died after a fall while being assisted onto an Allegiant Air flight. A lawsuit alleges he was placed in a wheelchair without safety straps while boarding was rushed. What happened to Hunter raises serious concerns about how passengers with disabilities are treated when it matters most. https://t.co/xFpwxq5eUj

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

A 24 year old disabled man died when an airline mishandled him during boarding

They pushed him down the ramp in a chair without safety straps

He fell face first and the assistant fell on top of him

He died of multiple blunt force injuries

Disability accommodations save lives.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

We need a lot more oversight over where these data centers end up. The noise pollution is something I hear about constantly from people who live nearby

[Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. @kyraOcity]

@USA_Polling @TaylorLorenz It’s also addicting users before they come of age. Before they can resist.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

You can have your opinion on whether teens should be on social media

But we have -got- to understand that this is nothing but a brute force method by companies and governments to have more control over our data and lives

Only way to enforce this is ID verification and the like

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Democratic senators Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin all told Politico they wouldn’t go on Hasan Piker’s show.

But they have all been on Bill Maher’s show, who says Islam is like “the mafia”, the Muslim world has “too much in common” with ISIS, Muslims bring “desert stuff” to the west, and has also used the N word on his show.

Why the double standard? Slotkin was on Maher’s show *yesterday*

[“Check Your Wings” 🪽🪽✈️ @OhBeWon_redux]

The book:

[Nicky Allt. @NickyAllt]

John Lennon: “Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it.” #JohnLennon #War #Peace

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

@mhdksafa It is true, and thank you for your sacrifice in telling the truth about what is happening @mhdksafa

[Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. @kyraOcity]

@PVAenglish @mhdksafa These are the most turbulent times. I’m a professor and despair has taken hold in the classroom. Not doing is the ailment. Resistance and community organizing may be a solution if business as usual weren’t so toxic.

[PVA @PVAenglish]

@mhdksafa 80 years since Nagasaki and Hiroshima, we remember the tens of thousands who perished in an instant.

Today, "the risk of nuclear weapon use is the highest in decades."

Remembering the catastrophic past must move us to build a peaceful today and tomorrow.

[Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. @kyraOcity]

@mhdksafa .

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.