Leire Barrera-Medrano

lecturer @POLIS_bath, co-editor @girasolpress / comp lit / translation / decadence / linguistic resistance

[Girasol Press @girasolpress]

Mañana! lunchtime poetry interval at BSU's Colloquium of Global Philosophies 24: DECIPHERING THE ETHICS OF LAND OWNERSHIP, soft launching *Xtámbaa/Landskin/Piel de tierra*, trilingual pub by Hubert Matiúwàa/@gusanosmemoria /@jennivora. Free, tix here: https://t.co/QY4OtyKT6o.

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

Universities often name campus spaces “commons,” which are in name only. But Columbia students have created a true commons at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment: collectivized space w food, shelter, clothing, medicine for all, many cultural, recreational, & religious activities (1/2)

[Girasol Press @girasolpress]

Thanks @LyraFest & @wshed for having us on Saturday as part of *Translation & Displacement*, to Stephen Watts & @PoetryTranslate for organising & chairing, & to Al-Saddiq Al-Radd, Sabrin Hasbun & Ibrahim Hirsi for gorgeous, stirring multilingual performances. A grand afternoon!

[Girasol Press @girasolpress]

We are @LyraFest this Saturday! 'Translation & Displacement', headlined by Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, hosted by @PoetryTranslate. We'll share forthcoming book *Inside* for the 1st time: prison poetry from the Argentinian dictatorship. Free, 2pm: https://t.co/wtzXAQAbgX

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Important. Bombing in a time of climate catastrophe add to the genocidal dimensions of this, & affects all of humanity.

[Dr Daniel Fountain @Daniel_Fountain]

Now over 30 Uni's looking at closures and implementing redundancy schemes, 10 added to this list in the past 24 hours alone. ⬇️Where is @ucu's national stance? Where is @UKLabour? Why is nobody talking about the fact that UK HE is literally crumbling around us? Wake up!

[Girasol Press @girasolpress]

Two new books imminent, firstly *Xtámbaa/Landskin/Piel de Tierra*, by Hubert Matiúwàa. 2 poems trilingually (Mè’phàà, Esp., Eng.). English translations by Juana Adcock. Profits donated to @gusanosmemoria, Guerrero, towards their Artist Residency Project: https://t.co/2u059RIJU3

[Dr Sasha Dovzhyk @sasha_weirdsley]

“We resist by editing the manuscripts which will not be finished by their authors and opening exhibitions of artists who will never produce another work”. My essay on the ru genocide of Ukrainians and our cultural resistance for @ispionline: https://t.co/Uw4O4iv9qh

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

These days, every time we manage a glimmer of excitement in class - delight in what language can do, what literature can change, why life might be worth living purely in itself - it strikes me how these moments are getting rarer and rarer under marketisation

[Don Mee Choi @DonMeeChoi]

my late Mother once said about her experience during the Nazi holocaust: “It was not a war; it was an extermination.  We were like cockroaches, scurrying this way or that whenever the light shone on us.”

[Shreeta Lakhani @LakhaniShreeta]

It’s absolutely horrifying that a SOAS student was raided and arrested this morning for speaking up against Israeli genocide. If you can get to Hammersmith station, there will be a demo from 5pm TODAY!

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

I taught my first UG seminar of term on Friday and have just put my finger on why I left feeling so bad. Classes have been overcrowded since I arrived at Bristol - 20 students per class is a poor offering - but every term the room I am allocated gets smaller and smaller

[Dr Sasha Dovzhyk @sasha_weirdsley]

Oh sweet summer times when lyrics like 'hey man you're never coming back' could evoke tortuous love relationships. Never coming back are landscapes of our childhoods, friends of our youth, dreams we had, people we loved and people we were, but also our naivety, but also our fear.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Nearly ONE HUNDRED PROFESSORS killed--not one word from Western universities. One hundred professors.

[Birzeit University @BirzeitU]

Birzeit University condemns the brutal assault and bombing of @Al-Israa University campus by the Israeli occupation south of #Gaza city, this occurred after seventy days of the occupation occupying the campus; turning it into their base, and military barracks for their forces

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

This is the devastating j'accuse of the century spoken in the voice of decolonisation. Regardless of what the judges do or bow to, history has been made.

[Dr Sasha Dovzhyk @sasha_weirdsley]

Maksym Kryvtsov was a wonderful poet and Ukrainian defender. He was killed today defending us from erasure. We won’t fade away. We won’t fade away. We won’t fade away. And we will never forget.