"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."

(I was in grad school. I knew many assholes who read a lot. Reading a lot does not improve character or build imagination.)

I was happy to review Harry Cross' new book Undoing a Revolution: Sudan and the Politics of Debt. atarnetwork.com?p=25376

read every genre, especially if you want to be a writer. read everything, if you want to call yourself a reader. read a short story collection about astronauts and then read a children’s book about mortality. grow up.

This is absolutely true. It also intersects with the enshittification of social media-during the 2018/19 revolution in Sudan, people could see how many people were on the street even when other media refused to cover it. Now we think it isn't there because we don't see our community going out online

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Today at tv time, my nephew earnestly asked his parents if he could watch "the show with a gargoyle and dragon, and they're both good, and they're both friends." Turns out this show does not (yet) exist. TV producers, you have your task. We're waiting.

The article's author wants the AHA "to defend the interests of the profession." I concur, but those interests aren't only or predominantly professors' paychecks and comfort levels. Rather's, the profession's interests center our ethical obligations to society, as historians.

1000 days ago we woke up to my then 3 year old asking me if I could turn that horrible sound (of gunshots and explosions) off, because it’s scary. My heart goes out to everyone, especially those parenting while surviving this war in Sudan and elsewhere. May it all end inshallah. Everywhere.

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real Both are true

The revival issue of the Makerere Historical Journal is out! It has been an honor working with the rest of the editorial team to publish this issue and revive a historic East African journal.

This article profiles how impressive Khartoum residents are in rebuilding their homes together, as a community. I'm struck by the injustice of it though nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine. "in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."

What an embarrassing interview. Choosing to interview a British NGO director rather than someone specialized in Sudan. THEN editing out almost all mention of the revolution, popular demands for civilian government, and ERRs and Sudanese mutual aid. Bad choices by Harris, and bad framing by Miliband

I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine. "in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."

Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.

Some people really make me wish their liberation was not bound up with mine. But like, you deserve to be free, but I wish you would stop being a turd.

During each of the previous assaults on Gaza, Sudanese women brought their gold - their only asset and means for security - to send aid to the people of Palestine. Do not dishonor my people by using Sudan's suffering as a zionist shield.

and she seems very very upset...

This is important. During famines in Sudan in the 1980s, rural dwellers would leave their land in moments of food unavailability (from systematic dispossession followed by crop failures) and take up exploitatively low wage jobs in cities in order to get food, creating essentially a slave economy.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.

Simply do not vote for the bloke with the Nazi tats. I'm drunk and think people should not pretend this is a difficult choice politically. No Nazis.

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

All the commentary about humor being effective in fighting fascism is true, but one thing I think Americans sometimes miss is that protesting *should* be fun and contain joy... I will always look back fondly on the guy in Khartoum who attended anti-coup protests in 2021 in full spiderman costume.

Look, the Nobel Peace Prize has *never* been the arbiter of good works. Maria Corina Machado takes her place among Abiy Ahmed, Henry Kissinger, and Theodore Roosevelt. That good people sometimes get awarded it is just proof that a broken clock is correct twice a day.

I've said it before and will say it again: people who use endnotes have something to hide and should not be trusted.

the people at the institutions they are admitted to are unwilling to help them find funding, or even write letters in support of their visa applications. Without that support, it’s almost impossible to get a N. American visa. (2/3)

Push your institutions to designate scholar at risk funds + other support that may already exist for Ukrainian students. It’s heartbreaking to see how many Sudanese students exhaust all their resources w/o any support from the institutions and faculty who admitted them. (3/3)

🧵 Fellow academics in N. America if a Sudanese student has been admitted to your graduate program MA or PhD please please do your best to help them gather the necessary paperwork for their visa. So many are getting into great programs but (1/3)

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

Important piece on government demolition of informal settlements in Khartoum and Gezira.

The great curse of adulthood is knowing that there will always be dirty clothes and dirty dishes to clean.

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

What can the academic community in the Global North do to show solidarity with Sudanese faculty and students who continue working in an extremely challenging situation? Check out @rmglade.bsky.social and Muna Elgadal's latest contribution to the Sudanese Perspectives blog. #Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.

Using anti-imperialist, Decolonial language does not make someone’s analysis anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. Reactionary propaganda can dangerously be cloaked in such language and I’m not talking about the US context here.

God this is such a banger @andrealongchu.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/post...

So the coup was instituted by the security apparatus as a whole-meaning SAF and the RSF. They were betting that a month of no internet and sustained repression would stop the protests, but as they continued post-coup, the country was paralyzed.

What an awful set of principles. Really, between the scholasticide resolution and this, AHA is failing systematically at the major ethical and professional challenges of our age. Truly an embarrassment.

This is basically true, but it's a bit more than that. Prior to the revolution, footage or photos of state buildings or infrastructure was treated as *super* sus by the state. Tourists would mostly get in trouble for pictures that showed a bridge or police station, but Sudanese were careful too

This is excellent! Would love to see more initiatives like this, both for scholars from Gaza as well as those from Sudan.

Not to be dramatic, but the fact that euro-American banking restrictions and sanctions still persist for Sudan should be considered a war crime. People are dying of starvation and it is so unnecessarily complicated and damn near impossible to move funds from N. America tô Sudan.