Zakiyya Ismail

Freethinking/social justice/food sovereignty /alternative education/GMO/politics/homeschooling/unschooling/tennis

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Hot take: Students using chatgpt to cheat are just following the system’s logic to its natural conclusion, a system that treats learning as a series of hoops to jump through, not a path to becoming more fully oneself.

[Zakiyya Ismail @zerebral]

@KChicktay Boring is nice sometimes

[Zakiyya Ismail @zerebral]

YES! Finally

[Gamers of Colour @GamersOfColour]

Today we officially announce the existence of the Gamers of Colour community! This space is created with the intention of bringing together the people of colour in the gaming world and to create a community that supports itself through the wonderous world of gaming. #GOC

[ACGL @AfricanGaming]

#ZeroTolerance

#SAesports #EsportsZA #esports #FortniteZA #CODZA #ApexZA #R6ZA #WarzoneZA #PUBGza #RLza

[Pouya Alimagham | پويا عالي مقام @iPouya]

Whatever happens on Tues, never forget that #Trump was not the exception but the norm when it comes to #Iran.

In 1953, Trump was 7 when Eisenhower overthrew the Iranian govt.

Trump was in his 30s when Reagan tried to put down the Iranian Revolution by backing Saddam’s invasion.

[Christian Flores-Carignan @truthnprogress]

An opportunity to come together to discuss consent-based, self-directed education oriented toward radical social change.

Save The Dates: December 2nd-6th, 2020

Organized By: @zerebral, @RadicalSelfie, & Kelly Limes Taylor

https://t.co/HQaYl6blLG

[Zakiyya Ismail @zerebral]

Towards Radical Social Change: Unschooling and Parallel Education. And Earthwide Gathering.
Come Co-Create with Us.

#UnschoolingAsSocialChange #UnschoolingAsDecolonisation
#TrueGathering2020

https://t.co/LfCHxB5GNh

[Heshmat Alavi's Trenchcoat @UrOrientalist]

Friendly reminder folks that Borat is an Anglo-Israeli guy who does what is essentially Islamophobic race baiting caricaturing an entire Muslim-majority country as subhuman cave dwellers whose entire lives orbit around their raging antisemitism

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Nok Culture
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The Nok kingdom existed from 900 BC until AD 200 in now Nigeria, Nok culture created a complex judicial system centuries before modern ones were invented. Using several classes of courts, they dealt with matters such as theft, murder, adultery, and family disputes.

[Zakiyya Ismail @zerebral]

I vote for Cyrus The Great decade! Starting 2021? Who's with me?

[Historians of Iran @HistorianofIran]

On Nowruz 1350 (1971/72), the Shah declared the new year “Cyrus the Great Year.” He said: “The best gift which we can certainly offer to this immortal hero at the beginning of such a year is the existence of a proud, progressive and prosperous Iran who, ~rs 1/20

[Zakiyya Ismail @zerebral]

Right then... Hopefully, this time I'd get to listen to not Hassen Minhaj

[Esports Central @EsportsCentrlZA]

So... about the #podcast...

@KChicktay
#esports #EsportsZA #SAesports

[Abantu basePalestine bangabantu bakithi 🇵🇸 @aasifbulbulia]

Pay careful attention to the xenophobic language that's being used to talk about people who are labelled as "foreign nationals", "aliens" etc. This rhetoric around "cleaning" SA is incredibly dangerous. Historically, such language has had catastrophic consequences.

[yasmina @jasminprix]

green imperialism is anti-indigenous and anti-black and not going to save anyone

[TEDxLytteltonwomen @TEDxLWomen]

The backdrop to this year’s event is a COVID-19 impacted world which has had devastating implications for African women - economically, socially and from a humanitarian perspective. #jointhecommunity
#tedx #tedxlytteltonwomen #tedxwomen

[Zakiyya Ismail @zerebral]

@Tameer_Chicktay I think that calls for an accompanying pic. Just a name doesn't do the guilty as charged justice

[Andrea Landry @AndreaLandry1]

Raise, and relate to, the children in your lives in ways that completely obliterate and destroy all the ways that those priests and those nuns raised, and related to, children in those schools.

Because that is what indigenous kinship really means.

[TheLemons 🍋 @TheLemonsDidIt]

If there's anything I wanna do in this world, it's to prove to my parents that they were wrong in doubting me and that gaming can be a career just like anything else.