very happy to share that my first peer-reviewed article is out in @millennjournal!
there, I discuss some of the tensions arising from the entanglement of nationalism and anticolonialism, as expressed in 1960s Iran.
you can find it open access here:
https://t.co/Ea5m0VfaCU
Syria on my mind - A thread🧵
1. For those expressing surprise at what is happening in Syria, what did you really expect? That all will be fine and dandy after the fall of Assad? Haven’t we seen this movie before in Iraq and Libya?
Na PB existiu uma fazenda de reprodução de escravos. As mulheres escravizadas engravidavam repetidamente e depois davam seus filhos para venda. O episódio foi um dos mais sombrios da escravidão. O que ninguém sabia é que o negócio era de um antepassado de um senador paraibano. +
URGENT: University administrators across the United States have declared an indefinite state of emergency on college campuses.
Schools are rolling out policies in preparation for quashing pro-Palestine student activism this Fall semester, and reshaping regulations and even campuses in the process to suit this new normal.
https://t.co/xkqbKKVyhu
I've been telling y'all that @khilfish is a poet you need to be reading. I hope people really sit with this poem, and the ways US language apparatus is failing us & manufacturing consent to genocide.
Awesome people, awesome workshop!
Thanks @CataWinnie, Asad, and Kevon for putting it together and everyone there for the enriching discussions!
@europeanisa #EWIS2024 Anticolonial pasts and futures
A sweeping, heavily-resourced Toronto Police operation has been cracking down on pro-Palestinian activists.
In a new investigation, @Martin_Lukacs reports on tactics of night raids, surveillance, intimidation, and trumped-up "hate crime" charges.
https://t.co/E9dKuhpG8G
🍉As BISA opens in the UK this week, we are launching the International Studies BDS Pledge for scholars within our community to affirm/reaffirm their commitment to Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions against apartheid & genocide in Palestine. Please sign! https://t.co/CIHPMLfyin 🍉
@LulaOficial intervenção federal no RS AGORA!
Temos dois vermes escondidos atras das cadeiras de prefeito e governador em poa que precisam renunciar e ser responsabilizados
Nothing exposes Greenwald's toxic narrative that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes is "de fato" ruler of Brazil like Lula's response to the floods in Rio Grande do Sul, starting with his R$50.9 billion decree for disaster relief+
The B story in Rio Grande do Sul(RS)🇧🇷 is just as horrific as the catastrophic floods. It's about parallel realities, blame shifting & disaster opportunism worthy of a sequel to "Don't Look Up." And it has obvious & scary global implications🧵
No meio disso tudo, sabem qual é o ponto que liga os grandes influenciadores e doadores? o Matheus Gomes, não é o prefeito, não é o governador, quem ta MOBILIZANDO AJUDA é o Matheus. Meu voto nunca foi tão bem feito na vida.