Friends, please consider donating to support Fares, a Gazan refugee who is now in Xi’an, China. His family and him needs our help. I am committed to a monthly donation, please do so if you can! 请大家帮助Fares, 现在居住在西安的加沙难民。他在加沙的加人和他都需要我们的帮助！谢谢！如果可以，请大家成为月捐者。 chuffed.org/project/1417...

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

A 15 year old is shot dead within two seconds of police arriving!!!!

Publication day! I used social reproduction theory to rethink digital labour: what if social reproductive labor is recorded and vlogged by gay couples in China? What new kinds of dynamics emerge? Please check out my article: “Queering digitally-mediated social reproduction”

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Duaa. Duaa was a mom of five and was studying at university. She lost everything including her 2 month old son Salim in a bombing. She is trying to survive with Bilal, 9, Life, 6, Farah, 4 and Mohammed, 2. Farah has a severe skin condition.

One can watch No Other Land on Cathy Pacific flights. It might be ironic given that China has taken over the last bit of HK’s autonomy.

NEW: Canada’s Arms-to-Israel Scandal Explained A timeline of Canada’s exports to Israel and the Liberal government’s attempts to make the scandal disappear. www.readthemaple.com/canadas-arms...

Home truths: Obligated to Care, our new Sociological Review Monograph, focuses on the family in today’s China. Edited by Xiaoying Qi & Jack Barbalet, its 11 chapters focus on subjects ranging from LBGTQ+ people’s intergenerational relations to da pei and modern childrearing. ➡️ buff.ly/BbE8crZ

Our department is hiring a two year Nancy’s chairship, and we welcome junior scholars! Please consider applying or pass on the information to people in your network! The focus is broad enough. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Back off, Carney. Let #AirCanada and the union representing #flightattendants negotiate a fair deal. We stand with them—#UnpaidWorkWontFly! Support the crew demanding respect and fair treatment. #Solidarity #united #flightattendant #strike #aircanada #onstrike #cabincrew #FairDeal #union #solidarity

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

By rejecting Halifax’s regional plan updates, the Houston government is abandoning its own environmental policies Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Their cruelty is beyond belief.

👇🏻 he is dismantling DEI (which is mentorship opportunities, leadership training, pay equity, the GBV strategy, rape crisis centres, women’s unions, women’s shelters etc. It’s everything, especially in Conservative provinces who don’t help fund these things. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Israel says it has a plan to build a “humanitarian city” built over the ruins of Rafah for 600,000 Palestinians in Gaza. A local gang lord in Gaza and the United Arab Emirates will be running and supplying services to the concentration camp. #GazaGenocide mondoweiss.net/2025/07/is-t...

I can't believe I'm only hearing about this now and it's already been 10 days??

Israeli forces have raided and demolished the Palestinian seed bank in occupied Hebron, West Bank. They used heavy machinery to destroy the seeds and the equipments required to store them. Israel’s war is against Life itself. More here www.instagram.com/p/DMyWONPujY6

9. Uthmeier’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.

CAMBODIA: ‘There’s no work now, just debt’: Cambodian garment workers face precarious future as US tariffs loom www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Maryam looked so thin I gasped

My friend Chris Smalls was the only black man among the 20 activists on the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social. He also appears to be the only passenger violently assaulted by Israeli forces after those on the boat were abducted before they could deliver life-saving aid to starving children in Gaza.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Shireen. Before the war Shireen was the gym manager a body builder and coach at The Arab Orthodox Cultural and Social Center, before that she was an attorney. Now she has lost her gym and home and is struggling to alive with her family.

I have no words. But profound sadness. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Another day full of exhaustion and hunger. We are still fighting the symptoms of hunger and exhaustion. I don’t know how long we will continue. We need you. Please don’t forget us . @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/save...

The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

Liberals will not save us. They're collaborating with fascists already www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

First publicity for the demonstration on Auugst 2nd in defence of the residents at the Barbican Thistle - plan is to occupy the space before the far right show up at 130 - do share if you can

IPC is projecting 22% of Palestinians in Gaza (495,000+ people) face a Phase 5 Catastrophe level of food insecurity (extreme food shortage, starvation & high death rates) June-Sept if food aid is not forthcoming & 33% (745K) at the Emergency level (high malnutrition). www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-...

Wonder who is selling their soul to work at ICE? Here you go! Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the link!

What if we read Mr. Robot & Uterus Man through a queer techno-Asian lens? @ianliujiatian.bsky.social proposes queer techno-orientalism as method to imagine reparative tech futures for Chinese queer/trans bodies. #OnlineFirst #QueerAsia #TechnoOrientalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

CANADA: Navigating global challenges and fostering solidarity for social change usw.ca/navigating-g...

What does queer life feel like on the margins of China’s cities? In this essay, Ian Tian traces the stories of gender- and sexually nonconforming migrant workers in urban villages, exploring how queerness is shaped by class and space and why the LGBTQ+ movement must reckon with its own exclusions.

Hot off press, the first piece out from my book project! Its free access from Made In China Journal! madeinchinajournal.com/2025/07/15/b...

Francesca Albanese's most recent report has profound implications for higher ed. None is more serious than this: administrators are *personally accountable* under international law for complicity in genocide for institutional entanglements w/ Israel and military-industrial companies. We explain:

READ: Israel is building aparthied tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...