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"The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender." - Haidar Eid
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"The people of Gaza did not give up, they did not surrender." - Haidar Eid
A conversation Haidar Eid, author of "Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind" and "Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza."
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-people-of-gaza-did-not-give-up?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Palestine has made radical solidarities possible: "The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation on hope and solidarity with writer Sisonke Msimang traversing Australia, South Africa and Palestine."
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Palestine has made radical solidarities possible
By Bhakti Shringarpure. The naked asymmetry of the Gaza ceasefire plan and a conversation with Sisonke Msimang by way of Australia, South Africa and Palestine.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/palestine-has-made-radical-solidarities?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang new episode of the Radical Futures
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14. Palestine, Black & African Solidarities, and the Perils of Online Activism: Featuring Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is clear that she is, first and foremost, an African.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/14-palestine-black-and-african-solidarities?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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What a perturbing program -- This is about the institutionalization of activism thus dismantling critique of power. Imagine activists getting off the streets sitting around reflecting, giving talks, attending wine receptions, probably brainstorming an undergrad major in activism
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ICYMI
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Horrifying state of things
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Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out.
At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/24/dhs-ice-recruitment-hiring-expo/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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From the incomparable, legendary Raji Sourani
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The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani
The clue is in the name: the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will we act?, asks Raji Sourani, the coordinator of the Palestinian legal team at the internatio...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/gaza-international-law-un-convention?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
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Why the World Just Won’t Stop a Genocide.
By Bhakti Shringarpure. A conversation with writer Omar El Akkad, a massive solidarity concert for Palestine in London and seeking the smallest of signs that the tide may be turning for Palestine.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/why-the-world-just-wont-stop-a-genocide?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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If you're shocked about Ezra Klein's op-ed fawning over Charlie Kirk, please know that this is a long liberal tradition of op-ed writing. From out podcast archives, the deep dive into the genre of the op-ed itself.
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If Op-Eds Could Kill
The hosts turn their lens on the insidious, galvanizing power of the opinion column.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-op-eds-could-kill?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, this podcast with Somali scholar Maxamed Abumaye offers fitting reflections on the wave of militarism, policing, surveillance and totalizing violence unleashed by the West's War on Terror.
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Episode 12. Black Muslim Refugee Resistance to US Militarism and Policing: Featuring Maxamed Abumaye
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https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/black-muslim-refugee-resistance-to?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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“Offers radical insights into how the past, present and future is made and re-made through statues and monuments in the public spheres.”
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speaks with
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on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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“Statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with institutionally constructed histories.”
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speaks with
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"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
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"A world order facilitated by the absolute failure of love" - Anna Badkhen
By Bhakti Shringarpure.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/a-world-order-facilitated-by-the?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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“Movements centered on either dismantling or building statues have become critical for understanding charged debates around history and memory today.”
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speaks with
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on The Psychic Lives of Statues
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10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with…
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-statues
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On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
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in conversation with Bhakti Shringarpure about his book "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" out
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10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with ...
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-statues?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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thrilling to talk to
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about 'The Psychic Lives of Statues': Rhodes, Mandela, Gandhi, Patel, Ambedkar, Fanon and more against the backdrop of the dystopian present + reflections on imperial settler colonial 🇮🇳, apposite on Aug 15
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10. On the Rise and Fall of Statues: Featuring Rahul Rao
Whether its legacy figures like Cecil Rhodes, Mahatma Gandhi and B.R Ambedkar, or various military men or aggressive phallic sculptures, statues are the public’s direct and unavoidable encounter with ...
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/10-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-statues
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"‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media" -- Appalling Australian media getting cookbook author Mona Zahed's visa revoked
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‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media
The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media.
https://amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity-is-an-insufficient-word?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Frantz Fanon Stands for Revolutionary Love, Not Violence: Featuring Hassane Mezine
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Frantz Fanon Stands for Revolutionary Love, Not Violence: Featuring Hassane Mezine
Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist, prolific scholar, and active participant in the Algerian war of independence against France would have been 100 years old this year.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/frantz-fanon-stands-for-revolutionary?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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The Age of Fanon, 2: Hunger and Starvation
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The Age of Fanon, 2: Hunger and Starvation
By Bhakti Shringarpure. As Israel starves Gaza, Frantz Fanon's references to hunger and starvation reveal that these have always been tactical weapons within the arsenal of settler colonialism.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-age-of-fanon-2-hunger-and-starvation?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
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“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
By Bhakti Shringarpure. In a candid interview, Olivier Fanon reflects on the legacy of his father Frantz Fanon at 100 years and speaks intimately about his late mother, Josie.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-want-to-claim-fanon-do-something?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Maura Finkelstein, the tenured professor to be fired for her pro-Palestinian stance from Muhlenberg College joins me to talk about “The Repression of Palestine on American Campuses”
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The Repression of Palestine on American Campuses: Featuring Maura Finkelstein
Anthropologist Maura Finkelstein had always incorporated Palestine in her university teaching and felt that, as an anti-Zionist, Jewish American academic, it was her moral obligation to do so.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-repression-of-palestine-on-american
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"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine The Arabic literature scholar on being vilified at a US congressional hearing, UPenn's cowardice, and the racism of literature departments even as Palestinians are being massacred.
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"With Gaza, we are beyond the breaking point." - Huda Fakhreddine
Scholar of Arabic literature Huda Fakhreddine on being vilified at congressional hearings, UPenn's cowardice, and the racism of literature departments as genocide of Palestinians continues unabated
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/with-gaza-we-are-beyond-the-breaking?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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What Does It Feel Like To Be A Problem? Featuring Huda Fakhreddine (new podcast episode)
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What Does It Feel Like To Be A Problem? Featuring Huda Fakhreddine
For the last two years, Huda Fakhreddine has endured a barrage of harassment by the US government and her employer, the University of Pennsylvania, for the simple reason that she writes about, teaches...
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/what-does-it-feel-like-to-be-a-problem?r=1pufcd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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This July, we commemorate Frantz Fanon's 100th birthday with essays and podcasts that explicitly connect his life and writings to Palestine. The first essay "The Age of Fanon" is up now
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The Age of Fanon, 1
By Bhakti Shringarpure. This July, we commemorate the centenary of Frantz Fanon with writings and podcasts that explicitly connect Fanon's life and writings to Palestine.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/the-age-of-fanon-1
3 months ago
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Humanitarianism is over.
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This is humanitarianism so openly genocidal that it can be only be called inhumanitarianism. Their cannibalism and savagery has become so unhinged, they are the ones who must be banished from the category “human” altogether.
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Genocidal Inhumanitarianism
Lets stop playing games with the word “human.” By Bhakti Shringarpure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/radicalbookscollective/p/genocidal-inhumanitarianism?r=1pufcd&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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The time has come for me to dust off my old interview with Mahmood Mamdani so i can feel close to the ❤️Zohran Mamdani❤️ miracle in NYC today!
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In Conversation with Mahmood Mamdani
It is in his bittersweet and touching book on the Asian expulsion from Uganda that one can trace the beginnings of author and intellectual Mahmood Mamdani’s world-view. He captures the terrifying expe...
https://www.warscapes.com/conversations/conversation-mahmood-mamdani
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Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
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Genocide media rages away — gleefully telling lies about Iran, offering horrifying “expert” “analysis” on “regime change” in Iran not US or Israel‼️Even the pretense that American liberal media was anti-Trump is gone. No glue as potent to bring a nation together like bloodthirsty hatred for Muslims
4 months ago
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It’s international yoga day 🙄 Re-upping essay on what’s wrong with all that “Notes of an Ambivalent Yogi” published at
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Notes of an Ambivalent Yogi
Evergreen Review
https://evergreenreview.com/read/notes-of-an-ambivalent-yogi/
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Condemn Gaza genocide, academics, more than 200 staff urge Stellenbosch University. They said they believe the institution has ‘a special moral responsibility’ to break its silence on the issue, given its history with apartheid.
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Condemn Gaza genocide, academics, staff urge Stellenbosch University
More than 200 Stellenbosch University staff have said they believe the institution has ‘a special moral responsibility’ to break its silence on the issue, given its history with apartheid.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-06-19-condemn-gaza-genocide-academics-staff-urge-stellenbosch-university/?utm_source=socialshare&utm_medium=twitter
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Thanks to The Daily Show for showing us the receipts 😡
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Debut novel by Reem Gaafar explores anti-Blackness in Sudan
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A Debut Novel Explores Anti-Blackness in Sudan: Featuring Reem Gaafar
When a little boy drowns in the Nile, a Sudanese village is forced to confront its racist past in Reem Gaafar’s debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt.
https://open.substack.com/pub/radicalbookscollective/p/a-debut-novel-explores-anti-blackness?r=1pufcd&utm_medium=ios
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Wonderful to Ibrahim Nasrallah on this list ❤️ fingers crossed
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2026 Neustadt Finalists - Neustadt Prizes
The nine finalists for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
https://www.neustadtprize.org/2026-neustadt-finalists/
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"What is finally becoming clear to more and more people is that, as far as Israel is concerned, Palestinian resistance begins with simply existing...Thus, every Palestinian, by virtue of their very existence, is considered a "legitimate" target" -Ammiel Alcalay
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For Palestinians, to exist is to resist Israel's war of annihilation
From algorithmic kill lists to occupation prisons, Israel's genocide targets Palestinian resistance in all its forms - treating daily life itself as an act to be punished or eliminated
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestinians-to-exist-is-resist-israels-war-annihilation
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Parenting in a time of genocide: Stories of Greta Thunberg on theGaza freedom flotilla, Laila Souief’s deteriorating health from a hunger strike, and Noor Abdalla's reflections on motherhood reveal parenting as a point of pain for Bhakti Shringarpure.
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Parenting in a time of genocide
Stories of Greta Thunberg on Gaza freedom flotilla, Laila Souief’s deteriorating health and Noor Abdalla's reflections on motherhood reveal parenting as a point of pain for Bhakti Shringarpure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/radicalbookscollective/p/parenting-in-a-time-of-genocide?r=1pufcd&utm_medium=ios
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Here's a
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link to Ngũgĩ's Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas (hardback), out now from
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And your pdf download link to this week's
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Check out Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas - <p><b>A <em>Literary Hub</em> Most Anticipated Book<br></b><br><b>Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial liter...
https://bookshop.org/a/90290/9781620979327
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Continued in this week's
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: "What Ngũgĩ meant: Jacqueline Nyathi asked global writers how they will remember him." Words from Zukiswa Wanner, Bhakti Shringapure
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, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Aminatta Forna, and
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Thank you
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A stunning essay from
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She asks: "How do we study an entire tradition, in this case the Arabic literary tradition, when we are witnesses to the annihilation of its people, their culture, and their memory?"
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Notes from the Field of Arabic Literature in the Time of Genocide | Modernism / Modernity Print+
It is the twentieth month of genocide, our planet’s second rotation around the sun, drenched in Palestinian blood, 600 days of Palestinian slaughter, and nothing is new except the finality of the massacre. The world has sacrificed the Palestinians with its complicity and silence, and it will soon start rehabilitating itself by erecting monuments of guilt, reciting land
https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/fakhreddine-notes-field-arabic-literature-in-time-of-genocide#_ftn1
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Why do people keep going on Piers Morgan show? It is clear that Morgan likes going viral by getting rebuked on his shows but why keep feeding this machine?
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Piers Morgan just can't stop himself inciting against the Palestinian people
Through his dehumanisation of Palestinians, his racist incitements and mindless conflation of “Israelis” and “Jews”, Morgan continues to add fuel to the fire of genocide
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/piers-morgan-just-cant-stop-himself?r=1pufcd&utm_medium=ios
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We need
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more than ever today! Support the ArabLit Quarterly's work in 2025-26 by buying one of their beautacious back-issues! This will fund their Gaza Translation Workshop, a Syria issue, May Ziadeh collection and more. Find all 18 issues + backlist books at
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Haphazard notes on mourning Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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Haphazard notes on mourning Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Literary giant, intellectual, and dissident Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o passed away on May 28, 2025. He leaves us with a mountain of ideas filed away in hundreds of essays, books, lectures and conversations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/radicalbookscollective/p/haphazard-notes-on-mourning-ngugi?r=1pufcd&utm_medium=ios
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) From the Warscapes archives, a radiant event from 2015 in New York City. "African Literature...Says Who? The Last 50 Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o"
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) a true giant of literature has passed away. We are at a loss of words even though he blessed our world with so many. May he rest in peace and power ❤️🌻✊🏿
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Actual policing and administrative policing are two sides of the same coin at a rural state campus as the violence towards the pro-Palestine encampments and an untenured gender studies professor reveal. 2nd one in the Carceral Academia series
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UCop: A Small Town Tale of Big Cop Ambitions
Actual policing and administrative policing are two sides of the same coin at UConn's rural campus as the intersecting violence toward pro-Palestine encampments and a gender studies professor reveal.
https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/ucop-a-small-town-tale-of-big-cop
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5 months ago
A small discussion of publishing & Palestine.
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Beautiful news 💖🥳
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‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize
Translator Deepa Bhasthi’s pick of 12 of Mushtaq’s ‘life-affirming’ tales about women’s lives in southern India becomes the first short story collection to win the £50,000 award
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/20/radical-translation-of-heart-lamp-by-banu-mushtaq-wins-international-booker-prize
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Marcia Lynx Qualey, the force behind
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in nuanced and wide-ranging conversation on the politics of publishing about Palestine for the Radical Futures podcast
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Publishing on Palestine: Exploitation or Activism? Featuring Marcia Lynx Qualey
Podcast Episode · Radical Futures · 05/19/2025 · 46m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radical-futures/id1812017818?i=1000709154295
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These two beauties are available for pre-order now in the US. The Women’s Courtyard cover is a beautiful painting by renowned Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander and the Tamas cover is an amazing woodblock print by Indian illustrator Anagh Bannerjee.
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