About activism, June Jordan said, “You do something, rather than nothing… You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change. You admit the limitations of individual perspectives. You trust somebody else. You do not turn away.”

It's probably not a good "reform" if your opponents adopt it before you even pass the bill

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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

An excerpt from @harshawalia.bsky.social’s Border and Rule:

Blacks’ Myths meet Pat Thomas - The Mythstory School was published quietly at Luke Stewart‘s bandcamp. two different generations of those who rehearse liberation in musical communion coming together 💜https://lukestewart.bandcamp.com/album/the-mythstory-school

Incarcerated artist Keith LaMar reflects on an iconic painting by Faith Ringgold. www.moma.org/magazine/art...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Listen to Omar Jabary Salamanca. Writer, teacher, and organizer whose work explores how power operates through the ordinary systems that shape everyday life. Founding member of The Kitchen and University Workers for Palestine, he talks at @radiowebmacba.bsky.social about infrastructural violence.

You can’t support the Abundance bros and claim you are against reactionary centrism, just fyi

If you're interested in exploring the writings of Loraux, Zupancic, Butler & others on ancient Greek tragedy, sex, gender, and politics, there's still a few places left on this course, starting Feb 1.

From the abduction of Venezuela’s president to the seizure of its oil, @alfatau.bsky.social traces a chilling new phase of U.S. power—extortion dressed up as policy. As Professor Robert Pape put it, this is ​“Imperialism 101,” a vision of ​“America as predator.” inthesetimes.com/article/empi...

robin d g kelley, always a light in darkness www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

Our interviews are now available as podcasts! 🔗 Link in bio. • Nos entretiens sont désormais disponibles en podcasts ! 🔗 Liens dans notre bio.

A caregiving social movement IS political.

"Peace is not what you ask for when the boot is already on someone else's neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don't want to be interrupted." Also relevant re: Palestine.

I get it, who doesn't want a winter vacation in Italy but really wtf is going on here www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

Here's our recent Death Panel chat, notable for the great fun we had talking with @reallandsend.bsky.social & getting to meet the newest of the DP gang:

In our latest, we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way www.patreon.com/posts/149118...

#OtD 26 Jan 1944 Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, AL. Revolutionary, civil rights organiser and third woman to make the FBI's most wanted list, Davis was also associated with the Black Panthers. Works available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Teaching a course on the right to monuments (and impossibility of monuments) and thinking how this brilliant poem by @eveewing.bsky.social is all what the intergenerational transmission of memory should be. Monument as profanation integrated in life and not sacred separation…

FREE EBOOK! Cities Under Siege, Stephen Graham's powerful exposé of how political violence operates through the spaces of urban life is available as a free download.

This Thursday I continue Minorplanning conversations with Adam Greenfield. We will talk about lifehouse at every block and how this lays base for minorplanning! Join us! rca-ac.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

You should read this. James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966) www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Learning about what Marisa Belausteguigoitia and RianLozano describe as 'pedagogías del contagio': "classrooms, workshops, andpedagogical praxis as ‘contaminated,’ that is, committed to social urgencies." ➡️ internationaleonline.org/contribution... Thanks to Amanda Macedo's 'Notes On Generosity.'

writing about maintenance debt abolition,how this framing works as an interpretative tool+site of political organising w/my friend andrea steves. this statistics from 2024 how 1 in 5 maintenance workers in austria have right to vote is super pertinent(from oto neurath exhibition,city museum,vienna)

Every time I (re)read this book, I get amazed once more for the beauty of these words. I simply love this. So very much. ——— ~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

Rosa Luxembourg asked in 1911 “what is our role in question of peace?” In 1994 Gil Scott-Heron sang “Peace is not the absence of war / it is the absence of the rules of war” in “Work for Peace” Past few years both are constantly in my mind and how to make them collective youtu.be/XsR8NWFCRq4?...

Always a joy to collaborate with @dubravka.bsky.social! This will be fun

Palestinian Repairs vital series of essays edited by Emilio Distretti was just launched at e-flux architecture. I urge all to read the whole series, starting with Khaldun Bshara's incredible text www.e-flux.com/architecture...

I am so hyped about City Design in Conversation vol.2 MINORPLANING – the practices of designing the city that support the liberation and emancpation of those who live and struggle in cities. 2 December 1 PM GMT, online On Spatial Literacy with Iva Čukić www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-desig...

"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives" "Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Ethnic cleansing is now the official political position of the British and German center-right.

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Simply unbelievable. And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔 There are no words but this was my offering, once. For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social: www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...

New Celebrate People's History poster in the shop by UK artist Rachael House! "Sisters Uncut" was an ntersectional feminist British direct action group opposed to cuts to UK govt. services for domestic violence victims. justseeds.org/product/sist...

“But I want to be a kind of reader as I write. That means not knowing what’s up ahead.” – Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Israeli airstrikes are targeting Gaza City’s last high-rise towers - among the only structures still able to shelter thousands of displaced families. Most are surrounded by tent areas, making strikes deadly for those inside and around them.

The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

This is the replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces

"Let’s not sit inside our sorrows, let’s not describe things to death. My orientation is activism. Other than that it’s like a kind of vanity or a decadence." - June Jordan

Drawing on oral testimony, archival records and fieldwork, my colleagues at FA developed novel methods for the reconstruction of historical landscapes to make visible the long-term environmental degradation experienced in Namibia since German colonisation. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

"We are invited to consider [NYC's proposed skyscraper jails] as good neighbors, sites of life opportunity . . . anything but facilities for human caging." Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti reveal how NYC jail boosters abuse decarceral talking points. w/ @haymarketbooks.org