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she/her • organizing with @northwesterngw • reading/writing @northwesternu

[alex turntine @turntineforwhat]

READ, SHARE AND SIGN
two Black Northwestern students are being charged with Class A misdemeanors in response to a parody of @thedailynu
https://t.co/OkpyRJ9ABQ

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is the longest piece I ever published, and with the New Yorker.

“A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza”

It’s about my painful experience of being separated from my family, beaten and shackled, as well as the terrorizing days before and after.
It’s published both in the print edition as well as on the New Yorker’s website.

#CeaseFireNow
Stop the genocide

https://t.co/bDQVibPRya

[Sana Noor Haq • سناء نور حق @sananoorhaq]

Refaat Alareer, a leading Palestinian professor and writer, was killed in an airstrike in northern Gaza, on December 7. We spoke in October about the trauma of being a parent during war. He asked for the audio to be shared in the event of his death.

[Tobi Haslett @tobihaslett]

Refaat was a poet and professor of literature who adapted this classic poem by Jamaican writer Claude McKay: https://t.co/y8aqVhLO4w

[stefanie lyn kaufman-mthimkhulu @stefkaufman]

Sharing as Brown alumni, posted by Brown Students for Justice in Palestine — A message from our classmate & friend, Hisham Awartani:

“Had I been shot in the West Bank, where I grew up, the medical services that saved my life would likely have been withheld by the Israeli army.”

[xxxxxxxxxxx @MorganEliseJ]

More important context is that Chicago police have trained with Israeli law enforcement. So, there are deep ties between Palestinians and Black people through the shared trauma of increased police presence, surveillance and brutality. https://t.co/slLR46j88z

[Marina Giselle Peña @bymarinagiselle]

Still saddened by the news in Monterey Park.😢In 2016, I wrote about Star Dance, the dance hall where the tragedy took place. It was such a lively place where folks of all different backgrounds would come together to enjoy themselves on the dance floor: https://t.co/VpUhyQserc

[Literary Hub @lithub]

"We may write in solitude but we labor in solidarity." –Imani Perry, in something like a sermon on the power of words. Beautiful. #NBAwards

[derecka @dereckapurnell]

“We critique each other because our lives depend on getting the right answer.”

-Robin DG Kelley
#Socialism2022

[Astra Taylor @astradisastra]

That’s why we intend to keep fighting until all student debt is canceled and college is free. If Biden can cancel this much debt, he can cancel it all. And one day, a president will.

And yes, we are coming for medical debt, rent, and carceral debt too.

[zoë hu @z_hu__]

roe overturned, and im thinking today of the old May ‘68 slogan: “cours vite, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi”— run fast, comrade, the old world is right behind you

[franny choi @fannychoir]

One year after the Atlanta spa shootings, I haven't been able to turn the grief and rage into anything except for grief, rage, and this one very small poem. All I can say is: Hi, hello, also-hurting You. I'm holding us close today.

[South Side Weekly @SouthSideWeekly]

“In my head, if the music is right, everything else will come.”

In conversation with Dimitri Moore on R&B, collaboration and performance. Story by @magic_johnsonn

https://t.co/sLTeqFf4q9

[Emote! at the Location @emotionlocation]

sob! at the archives

[Kim Bellware @bellwak]

Happy third anniversary to one of favorite stories 🚇🚍https://t.co/dRboZwPr3x

[South Side Weekly @SouthSideWeekly]

“The South Side of Chicago reminds me so much of the North Side of Milwaukee. There was something very familiar and both are cities full of soul and full of genuine people.”

A conversation between @madmyquale and @magic_johnsonn

https://t.co/BgGarannMP

[South Side Weekly @SouthSideWeekly]

The Story of Lorraine Hansberry, Beloved South Side Playwright

‘Looking for Lorraine’ provides a fuller portrait of the author best known for ‘A Raisin in the Sun’.

https://t.co/nr1Asxjbo8

[Corey J. Miles @CoreyMiles__]

How might we understand mourning, when the event has yet to end? - Saidiya Hartman

[A Zora Neale Hurston Capricorn @God_sgift_]

Found a few Black owned record shops online, making a thread: