Rebecca Glade

Historian of protest, political claim making, and state crackdowns. Student of Sudans and Horn of Africa. New Orleanian. Migrating to

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

I'm excited to share my contribution to the AHA's Authoritarianism 101 syllabus. My module uses a Sudanese national security report from 1971 to discuss how authoritarian regimes evaluate threats. https://t.co/C2u8zsPQBW

[safia aidid @safiyaaaay]

idk what the hell is going on in other disciplines but in History, lifting the citations from someone else's work is akin to plagiarism. You are falsely claiming to have done the research. It's intellectual dishonesty

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

@BSonblast Muted him post coup-no one should have ever given him a platform, he's always been awful.

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

"Muzan’s ability to create space for new possibilities should not be one that we yield in this terrible moment. By carrying her sensibility with us, we might build that better world, one of which she would be proud."
https://t.co/Lq0FojuILv

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

it’s okay to feel bad about bad things happening. to feel grief over loss, rage over injustice. it’s okay to weep and scream. it seems like poems are the last place where it’s okay to sit with a difficult set of tangled emotions. and leave it at that. at being a living thing.

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

@safiyaaaay It's such a good statement!! "Michigan is not a finishing school for polite young men and women. Our students are not wilting flowers. They have just finished their degrees at the foremost public university in the country. They can handle controversy" makes me want to applaud

[Neil Scott @MrNeilScott]

“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.”

Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.

[Eiad Husham @EyadHisham10]

Allah yerhamak @HamidMurtada.

Losing you feels unreal. You were one of the kindest, most genuine people I knew — always respectful, always thoughtful, always present for others. Sudan didn't just lose a bright mind, it lost someone who truly cared and gave his best.

Your absence leaves a heavy silence, but your character, your warmth, and your integrity will never be forgotten.

Rest in peace, my friend. You will be deeply missed.

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

I was happy to review Harry Cross' new book Undoing a Revolution: Sudan and the Politics of Debt in @atarnetwork
https://t.co/KBUQ1Ruque

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

—Frank O’Hara

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

@minlayla77 I love that people celebrate the anniversary of the beginning of the sit in (and the removal of Nimeiri in 85), not the removal of Bashir by palace coup on April 11th. It's a great symbol of principle.

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

Absolutely true-and it makes sense that a former CIA employee would assume the death of humanity occurred among the victims rather than the perpetrators of this unjust war.

[Nisrin Elamin @minlayla77]

Humanity has not died in Sudan, it died in the halls of power in Abu Dhabi, in Geneva, in Washington, in the private meetings with Epstein etc...I haven't read the article bcs it is behind a paywall, but humanity is well alive among Sudanese civilians helping eachother survive.

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

@minlayla77 Absolutely true-and it makes sense that a former CIA employee would assume the death of humanity occurred among the victims rather than the perpetrators of this unjust war.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

to live with an open heart does get tougher as you get older, but it becomes more important to do so, more urgent, essential

[Saiah @sighahh]

Translated text:

🔴 Victims on the margins of the war: children and girls in care homes

After the death of a young girl who was killed inside one of the care homes in Kassala State last year, and the accusation of a young woman without family support of killing her amid suspicions that a case was fabricated against her to cover up a crime committed by a police officer at the home—

The Kassala Ministry of Social Welfare continues to violate the rights of children without support by arranging marriages for underage girls in order to rid itself of responsibility for them. In doing so, the ministry becomes a direct partner in the crime of raping girls under the guise of the law.

A week ago, both the ministry and the care home violated the rights of another girl, breaching her childhood by contracting her marriage to a man from Kassala, in a blatant violation of children’s rights. Her wedding is scheduled to take place in the coming days.

Demands:
- Immediate and urgent action to stop the child’s marriage as quickly as possible, arrest the perpetrators and those involved in coordinating these legalized rape crimes against the girls in the home, and conduct investigations with all officials who allowed such a crime to occur under their watch.
- Immediate protection for the remaining children in the home from all violations, including child marriage, enforced disappearances, and physical, sexual, and psychological exploitation.
- The immediate transfer of the care home from Kassala State to a state that has the tools to deal with children fairly and humanely, given the clear inability of the state to bear responsibility for the children or the home and its grave failure to protect them.
- Opening transparent investigations with those responsible for these atrocities and the ministry officials, and holding all participants accountable—whether from the home, the ministry, or the police—in a manner proportionate to the severity of their involvement.
- Immediate justice for the unsupported girl imprisoned since last year in connection with the case suspected to have been fabricated against her; determining her current place of detention immediately; arresting the real suspect; and conducting a fair, transparent investigation to uphold justice.
- Creating close, transparent monitoring systems and involving international children’s organizations in the details of investigations and protection measures.

Children without support are the responsibility of us all and a mirror of our moral standing as a society.
“So as for the orphan, do not oppress him.”
“And when the buried infant is asked: for what sin was she killed?”

All Sudanese have suffered in this war, but these children suffer doubly—without family, support, or aid. The events clearly show that there are people who fully benefit from trafficking children and shedding responsibility in this way, which robs them of their childhood and places them at the mercy of husbands and families who exploit their domestic labor and, for men, their bodies.

It is our duty—as women and men, mothers and fathers, young and old, feminists, human rights defenders, lawyers, and citizens—to protect them.

Therefore, we Sudanese citizens call on the Government of Sudan to take immediate action to stop this disgrace.

#أنقذوا_الأطفال_فاقدي_السند_من_ولاية_كسلا
#اوقفوا_اغتصاب_الطفلات_المقنن

[Frank O'Hara bot @oharapoems]

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

[Rebecca Glade @rmglade]

@KushiticGyal I keep hoping it will migrate to Bluesky but it hasn't. Now it's not here, but it's not there either. Is there an app people are using that I missed?