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Bhakti Shringarpure

16 days

Notes of an Ambivalent Yogi My hit piece on Modi and India these days through a journey down the dark side of yoga! But also an essay about my personal tangling with yoga's complete politicization and commercialization. @EvergreenReview

Notes of an Ambivalent Yogi

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I’ve written so many long and short things about Frantz Fanon over the years. On his birthday today, I’ll share one of first public essays I wrote on Fanon and his misunderstood ideas on violence inspired by the powerful documentary by Göran Hugo Olsson

Fanon documentary confronts fallacies about anti-colonial philosopher

Swedish filmmaker taps into the primary violence of the coloniser rather than the colonised, says Bhakti Shringarpure

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So moved by Namibia’s powerful statement. The images of the genocide in the museum in Windhoek are haunting and painful, they’ve stayed with me. And are essential for understanding Germany as a country whose history is founded in settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide

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Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most

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I know #Pathaan discourse is saturated but wow, Bollywood’s racist depictions of Africa/Africans remains unchanged. Film is able to name all the world cities but this scene was titled “Somewhere in Africa.” And this is what dangerous, tattered, weapon-filled somewhere looks like

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3 years

Academia is utterly abnormal. I never recover from the shock of seeing peer reviews that are vile, gatekeepery, invested in destroying. It’s happened w/ my book, articles etc but finally now in position of editing a project where I will absolutely not stand for it (1)

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flooding us w/ #Barbie and #Oppenheimer as exciting and progressive cultural phenomenon, we are seeing how colonial white supremacy is legitimized before our very eyes thru all the frames: science, feminism, ethics, aesthetics...its not even soft power anymore, just regular power

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“corporate class underwrites Hindu nationalism” “now you have democracy for people who can afford it…” Arundhati Roy’s lucid breakdown

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"I couldn’t rescue my aunt in Gaza, but I can keep her recipes alive." Devastating essay by @gazamom El-Haddad & Schmitt wrote The Gaza Kitchen, one of the most extraordinary books on Gaza - intimate, theoretical, ethnographic, lyrical all at once.

A Cuisine Under Siege

I couldn’t rescue my aunt in Gaza, but I can keep her recipes alive.

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An important critique of Pankaj Mishra’s much touted essay “The Shoah after Gaza” in London Review of Books by @molarawood Simply put, why is it so hard to engage with actual Palestinians about Palestine?

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Weird I’ve been studying decolonization for over two decades but never came across Queen Elizabeth 2 as having been instrumental in ushering it across the planet. The things you learn everyday…

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Revised tweet again! 2021 is a MASSIVE prize year for #AfricanLiterature David Diop (International Booker) Abdulrazak Gurnah (Nobel) Boubacar Boris Diop (Neustadt) Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Goncourt) Tsitsi Dangarembga (PEN Pinter) Paulina Chiziane (Camões) Damon Galgut (Booker)

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Salman Rushdie has survived the brutal public stabbing but may lose an eye & liver and he can’t yet speak. This is devastating. Despite all the critiques we have of highly political writers, we cannot undermine for a moment how visceral and urgent the work of literature can be.

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This is a disgusting turn of events. These Hindu supremacists attack, malign, threaten, censor, menace. They co-opt U.S discourses of diversity to prevent free speech to support a genocidal regime in #India

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An extraordinary happy news -- Boubacar Boris Diop of #Senegal has won the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A prolific writer, courageous journalist, radical thinker, Diop has a wide range of publications and also writes & promotes writing in Wolof

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QuickThots on #NobelPrizeLiterature Abdulrazak Gurnah is the SIXTH African writer to have won the Nobel Prize in literature. Others include Wole Soyinka, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee and Doris Lessing. 1/

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As a junior scholar, mentors will tell you it improves your work, that in the end it is good for you, just get past the snark, take what’s valuable. NOT TRUE. It a problem of genre and structure, it breaks you slowly. the investment in destroying must stop (2)

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I asked Tsitsi Dangarembga why African literature is often only evaluated for political and social themes and not as much for aesthetics, form, storytelling methods. Her reply was brilliant👇🏾 and full podcast here: @WARSCAPES

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The inability to write a headline that can admit Israel’s indiscriminate relentless violence especially against writers, poets, artists…The headline’s desire to claim the kidnapping & torture as morally sound, as a “mistake” and as justified…This gaslighting media, my god

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4 years

An extremely relieved NYTimes now publishing these grandiose pieces after spending a solid 5 years vilifying the only decent man politics has seen in decades

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Boarding flight to Nairobi and will share plane with 32 humanitarians + their group mom Their motto: “love god, love people” Their age-group: early 20s Their race: ⬜️ Their plan (overheard): split up to do humanitarian work in various parts of Kenya and then meet up at safari🤷🏻‍♀️

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The incredible filmmaker and activist Anand Patwardhan starts off the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference @dghconference on a fierce note!

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The Somali queen that defied patriarchy! Gorgeous podcast with Ali Jimale Ahmed on the children's story of Queen Arawelo, an ancient queen who organized a revolt for women #Somalia #oralhistories

Queen Arawelo

Growing up in Somalia, a country where stories are handed down through generations, one of the first tales that children are told is about an ancient queen who fought to give women power by castrat...

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My conversation with @PriyamvadaGopal for Decolonize | Defund | Abolish is now up. Spoiler: its pretty fab💥🔥 via @lareviewofbooks

A Demanding Relationship with History: A Conversation with Priyamvada Gopal | Los Angeles Review of...

The postcolonial studies scholar speaks on the challenge of writing radical histories and the relentless coloniality of English departments....

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Who the hell are these people? Why are they so mean and ungenerous? How do they sleep at night? 😡

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi speaks about the journey of debut novel KINTU and exposes the powerful editor-agent-reviewer nexus in the west that can make or break new writers.

Radical Books Collective 🇵🇸🍉

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“African Authors in Markets” is on now at #ABF2022 an important conversation addressing the gap between the authors and readers, the vast market forces that lie in between. @ainehiedoro leads discussion w/ Margaret Busby, Jennifer Makumbi, Hans Balmes & @NiqMhlongo @iKontinental

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I brace myself for an insufferable assault of empire nostalgia and acute historical amnesia over the coming weeks. That said, I’m also low key interested because I do have a “fascination with the abomination” as we sail into the heart of whiteness.

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coming up to a decade of feeling exhausted by her

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You are doing well Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells 99–year-old Kissinger at #ftweekendfestival “I chose my parents well” he says.

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Embrace of the violent, xenophobic, toxic males devoid of empathy juxtaposed with the fakery of #BastilleDay celebrations which once stood for the downfall of tyranny

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The Frankfurt Book Fair ceremony honoring Adania Shibli's novel Minor Detail which won a German literature prize has been canceled. Why? Simply because she is Palestinian?

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1 year

I was late but finally read this tremendous book. This 100 page novella is deceptive—it takes a long time to finish because of the claustrophobia and menace it induces. Definitely one of the most formally innovative works I’ve read in a long time #Palestine

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There’s always critique about lazy acacia-sunset book cover for African books. I don’t get when/how the fertile acacia period occurred but older covers of #Africanlit are just extra extra extra fabulous 🌸💖Offloading #thread here for future reference

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More than a hundred profs of AfricanLit took part in this study. @LilyLSaint & I are grateful to them and to @africasacountry for publishing our findings and for starting a conversation on how to #decolonize that syllabus!

African literature is a country

What if you survey African literature professors to find out which works and writers are most regularly taught? Only a few canonical ones continue to dominate curricula.

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All this sudden focus on the genocide in Namibia-decades too late. June Jordan said Palestine is the litmus test of morality. Absolutely true. But so is everything to do with Africa, the continent where every atrocity is first tested but always ignored or deliberately mis-studied

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No shade to Battle of Algiers at all but it is Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (1972) that is the best and most brilliant film about anti-colonial revolution.

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Pioneering filmmaker, Sarah Maldoror, was born on this day in 1929. Born in France of Guadeloupean descent, Maldoror is respectfully regarded as the matriarch of African cinema. (cont’d)

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Yesterday, I wrote to editors & board of @ASRJournal and articulated what was at stake for this field. Additionally, I offered a roadmap and language for building bridges not walls. I'm appalled at their dismissive response which casts the protesting scholars as bullies.

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The world allows this because they don’t see them as journalists to start with. We’ve reached a point where we don’t even recognize reporting unless it’s a state-sponsored, army-promoted narrative devoid of history, ethics or analysis and mandatorily published in western outlets

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But if only UConn had faculty of color who did decolonial work. If they did exist it’s not like their funding requests for decol-related projects have been rejected 2 yrs in a row. And if they did exist, it’s not like some have chapters in their books dedicated to area studies

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Happy birthday to Frantz Fanon! And glad to have had the opportunities to read and write about him again and again over the years. Here's to radical afterlives! @africasacountry

The radical afterlives of Frantz Fanon

A documentary film takes Fanon's ideas out of the past and tracks the ways in which his ideas are resonating with today's young across the planet.

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Woot! My book is FINALLY out in paperback for the still steep sale price of 29.59£ but I'll take what I get. Alternatively, ask and you may receive😉

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8 novels from and about #Sudan @lithub

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Ama Ata Aidoo has passed away this morning. I can barely fathom the news, the loss is just extraordinary 🖤🥀

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2 years

how is it possible to actively do the work of discrimination in this extraordinary ongoing emergency?

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4 years

It’s a courageous Black woman Dawn Wooten who blows the whistle on the hysterectomies at Irwin county facility. And it’s an Indian male doctor Mahendra Amin who’s been doing these unlawful and horrific surgeries. It’s clear who’s complicit and benefits from empire.

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Finished it in one sitting. The most mischievous, addictive & deliciously vicious little book I’ve read in forever. It’s a brutal exposé of writers, US publishing, editors, agents, diversity, whiteness + a revealing depiction of obsession w/ social media celebrity esp Twitter.

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I really hope the vile and racist cartoon of Serena doesn't take over the internet. It is so very triggering and likely takes us all to a really bad place, from where its hard to return. Lets not encourage this shitty cartoonist. Here's the sweet image #SerenaWilliams #Osaka

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🕺🏼Book arrived today! Thanks to everyone who made this possible and supported me throughout, love and hugs 💖

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Friday book clubbing in Loresho...Hi @MaazaMengiste we LOVED The Shadow King💗

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Hardly a review of The NYT Review since Parul Sehgal doesn't shed light around the commissioning process. While reviews are often solicited from non-experts, African literature is almost always reviewed by white non-experts. (thread continued)

Reviewing the Book Review (Published 2021)

As the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary, Parul Sehgal, a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, delves into the archives to critically examine its legacy in full.

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I've never seen this beautiful photo of legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and his Israeli lover Tamar Ben Ami who inspired his "Rita" poems. Lovely start to the day thanks to the internet! + thanks @arablit for that sweet post from 2014 #Palestine #RevolutionaryLove

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1 year

Anti-black racism is completely normalized in Bollywood and has a long history. Pathaan goes further because it borrows its imperial lexicon from Hollywood as it exoticizes, stereotypes & “others” every foreign place. Reminds me of this panel we did

Questioning Racism in the Indian Diaspora: Cultural Perspectives

As we witness a global movement against racism, it is imperative to analyse the distressing currents and ideologies around colourism, racism and the normalis...

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Beautiful Monica Popescu, gone too soon, too young. I will miss my most generous, vibrant, brilliant friend. Her intellectual legacy of reinventing Cold War studies thru incisive interpretations of African literature is an extraordinary loss. Rest in peace & power ❤️🌹

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Landed in Oslo for my conversation with the incredible Nuruddin Farah tomorrow. But the encounter began at the airport 💖🌸 He insists we’ve met before but no, it’s mailing been over a decade of sporadic emailing…

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Feeling of futility is inevitable but anything you do is useful & adds to a tidal wave of resistance drop by drop--marching, calling govts, donating, social media, sharing books/links, dialogues w/ people...Don't fall into the trap of thinking hierarchically abt activism. Just do

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Arundhati Roy: “If we allow this brazen slaughter to continue, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it. Something in our moral selves will be altered forever.“

Arundhati Roy: The siege of Gaza is a crime against humanity. The world must intervene

The text of the writer’s remarks at the Munich Literature Festival on November 16.

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3 years

I’m full of hatred. At an airbnb on the coast, I found this 1973 cookbook called “Cooking with an African Flavour” by some Belgian lady whose friends called her Mama Safari😭 The illustrations are just .... .... ....

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#BookerPrize disappointment analysis — have you ever read the story of a poor young boy coming of age in bleak ol England? Only since the dawn of EnglishLit. Sorry, I mean, since the YAWN of EnglishLit. I seem pissed? Well, don’t let the AfricanLit hit you on the way out😶

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Beautiful thread of films from/about Sudan, an under-represented film industry that has produced some stunning films in the last many years despite having to work against the grain of government and institutions

afikra | عفكرة

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9 Sudanese Films To Watch: A Thread 📽️ 1. Al Mahatta (via Berlinale), directed by Eltayeb Mahdi

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after seeing umpteenth meme/post/tweet/busy-porn signature, I’m just laughing at how much academics complain and how highly they regard their place in the world. academia is hardly that much work compared to many many many many many other professions and not half as important‼️

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This brilliant Hassan Mezine documentary on Fanon is now streaming on Vimeo I also reviewed it for @africasacountry here:

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BREAKING NEWS: Physically unfit, intellectually uninspiring and decidedly evil tyrannical leaders pass time and regale world with unwatchable comedic fitness videos. What a time to be alive! 🤮😤 #India #Uganda #Turkmenistan

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An unsettling, gripping book on caste violence in rural India. The carefully crafted minimalist prose generates a structure of terror as we scramble to know more, see more and to somehow protect the vulnerable protagonist Saroja. So glad we organized a @WARSCAPES book club on it

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My thoughts on Jonathan Glazer’s wonderful speech, establishment obsession w/films & books about one period in history, and why we must build capacity to listen to Palestinian voices, not just white, European or Jewish ones on occupation, genocide & holocausts #FreePalestine

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A sweet treat from the pensive, understated Somali-Italian writer and my lovely friend 🌸Ubah Cristina Ali Farah🌸 An excerpt from her novel about war-struck #Mogadishu in 1943 along with some stunning archival images #CoronaNotebooks #Somalia

Ubah Cristina Ali Farah

Somali-Italian writer Ubah Cristina Ali Farah shares an excerpt from the novel she has been working on. As the pandemic forced people around her to return home, Farah found herself asking what really

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"I prefer literature to cinema. But in our time, literature is a luxury. To summarize history using our oral tradition, cinema is an important tool for us." -- the ever brilliant Ousmane Sembene speech excerpted in video essay by @africasacountry

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Ugh, more French humanists and universalists. Cannot stand this super specific strand of writer that emerges year after year from France, and lauded in the US.

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📣📣 #2020 — I have signed the dotted line to spearhead a short-books series called 💥DECOLONIZE THAT: Handbooks for the Revolutionary Overthrow of Embedded Colonial Ideas💥 Published by @orbooks and @WARSCAPES with the support of the wonderful @johnghoakes

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As 2020 comes to a close, a resurgence at a western news outlet has meant that there’s yet another alarmist necro-phantasmic headline outbreak about the country of #Africa

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"Ladies First: A Story of Women of Hip Hop" on Netflix is an absolute gift. So brilliant. Academics, feminists: resist putting Barbie movie on your syllabi and forcing engagement with that deep, toxic whiteness. Switch it out with this. You’ll instantly decolonize your syllabus

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LitNobel holds up a mirror to publishers, agents, critics. In the US, no one can find his books. Media scrambling to get info on him. US publishing is truly hostile to African literature, not a doubt. Here, only 1-2-3 writers are held up to represent an entire continent. 8/

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Let’s stop the snark and backstabbing. Love, let live and #decolonize 😉 @africasacountry

Notes on fake decolonization

What counts as “authentic” decolonization as the term takes over our social media and influencer bubbles? And how we can sharpen our activism.

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Biryani, 2am. Zaiqa in Chicago 😉

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traversing intergalactic futures with Yvonne @AdhiamboKE ✨🌸🗺️

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“Literature has been an ethical ground for me since childhood. In Arabic, the word for literature and ethics is one and the same, adab. The Frankfurt Book Fair’s statement, though, mirrors something else.” - Adania Shibli on her prize being rescinded and the ceremony cancelled

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Adania Shibli in the Berlin Review. On her canceling in Germany, Minor Detail, the facelessness and namelessness to which Palestinians are subject, and more.

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so surreal that #DMX and Philip have died on the same day. Two polar opposite lives but entangled because one is empire and the other marked totally by resistance to it

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GENIUS. east afrika represente 🤣🤣 thank you @Zoe_Flood & @MegArenberg

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TFW she finished my sentence 💖 "Me: There's lot of funding now for anti-racism & decolonization projects...But one year in and it’s already clear that white people are LTS: …getting all the money. Yeah." learn from univs on how to never-ever-decolonize

Decolonizing Education: A Conversation with Linda Tuhiwai Smith | Los Angeles Review of Books

The first installment in a new LARB series of interviews, DECOLONIZE / DEFUND / ABOLISH....

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On Nobel winner Dr. Katalin Karikó: "Instead the woman who had bounced from department to department, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year..." So typical in academia and for most, there's no game changing pandemic either.

The Scientist Who Saved the World

Dr. Katalin Karikó devoted her career to understanding—and evangelizing—the possibilities of mRNA. When the pandemic struck, her unheralded work became the basis for the world’s most effective...

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Royalty porn shows like #TheCrown #DowntownAbbey #GameOfThrones #Bridgerton etc that fetishize bloodlines, narrate relatable upperclass, objectify class rituals (polishing silver, brushing upholstery) are deeply related to #Brexit Remember Raj nostalgia during the Thatcher era?

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#ICJ verdict today Bracing myself for disappointment but keeping radical hope that justice and pure empathy may prevail.

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Gurnah's simple tweet this morning "I dedicate this Nobel Prize to Africa and Africans and to all my readers" made me kinda teary. But the fact that someone dedicates a prize to a continent of 50+ countries and a gazillion languages, cultures, landscapes also tugs at me...

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First the NYT now WSJ. Once again, the vultures have gathered to slander the legacy of Edward Said. And as was the case even when Said was alive, these are often brown men shouting the loudest, cheapest slurs.

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Promoting your projects can be hard work

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I was late but finally read this tremendous book. This 100 page novella is deceptive—it takes a long time to finish because of the claustrophobia and menace it induces. Definitely one of the most formally innovative works I’ve read in a long time #Palestine

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UGH the "good migrant" achievement porn narrative. Let's make room for the lazy and the losers please, they also have the right to move through the world.

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@bhakti_shringa

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An absolutely beautiful conversation between Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mshai Mwangola @MacondoLitFest

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@bhakti_shringa

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There’s the xenophobic version of “where are you from?” but I love New York City version of this question at coffee and kebab carts, in cabs and in bodegas. Them and me really do want to know, we want to connect and exchange all kinda banter… 💖

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This was the ABSOLUTE BEST! The kindest, most generous, most eloquent person. Huge thanks to Abdulrazak Gurnah for coming to the Radical Books Collective club! ❤️

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We watch a genocide unfold. But its feminist. We watch a white supremacist film. But its feminist. Actresses cut locks of hair in France. But it’s feminist. Some colonizer queen dies in UK. But she was feminist So much rot, so many examples, such an old dangerous story

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This is the second @nytimes notification in the last couple of weeks about how feminist this genocide is.

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To those who inhabit the world of books, name a super important writer you should have read but never have. But life seems to moving along fine nonetheless. For me: Zadie Smith

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Though it was slow to pick up and foreword is a bit scant, I’m now deep in and loving this essay collection by @VersoBooks The title which didn’t sit right is also making sense. Essays are crisp and current despite being written at least 40 years ago.

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I made a short list of some of the most brilliant and haunting novels that I love and that engage with the difficult history of the Sri Lankan civil war @scroll_in #BlackJuly1983 #SriLanka #literature

Forty years since Black July: Seven novels about the traumatic legacy of the Sri Lankan civil war

Black July marked the beginning of a 25 year-long civil war that would result in a devastating death toll and displace 800,000 Sri Lankans.

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Etel Adnan — losing her is like feeling that an ocean receded. What a force 🖤 RIP

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My first time in @Transition_Mag 💖 "Love, Feminism, and Freedom on the Indian Ocean: Lula Ali Ismail and Amil Shivji on East Africa's Film Renaissance" celebrates the exceptionally talented filmmakers of Dhalinyaro (Djibouti) & Vuta Na Ku'vute (Zanzibar) Hope its up online too

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Gurnah would likely even agree here about the strange snub to the giant of African letters, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. East Africa is being placed on a certain western prize circuit but it has been emptied of its most important writer and most vocal native-languages advocate, Ngugi. 5/

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4 years

But obviously, Fanon had commented on statues 💫 #StatuesMustFall

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@bhakti_shringa

2 years

The University of Khartoum is picturesque, green and lively though somewhat unkempt (understandably) from the longue durée of protests, strikes and closures.

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A griot of the sea is no more. Tribute to poet Haji Gora Haji of #Zanzibar who we lost recently

Tribute to Swahili poetry maestro Haji Gora Haji

He's most famous for 'Kimbunga: Tungo za Visiwani'

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As commemorations begin for 30 years since Rwanda genocide, how even to reflect on why genocides take place in the bright light of day, how consent is kept alive by media, institutions, govts until a population is exterminated. How empty is “never again” in light of #Palestine

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This #StrikeMoMA conversation is absolutely crucial: "Museums and universities are necropolitically adjacent to police and prisons. Museum is supposed to be public good but sanctions violence for the dispossessed" -- @jkpuar

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I am mindblown by the Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes by Shaunak Sen. It is deep, existential, moody, complex, stunningly shot. So glad for our planned Mehfil episode where @doctorpoco will interview this talented and sensitive director

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Actually this is what right wing extremists look like. Screw your islamophobia

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I recommend speculative fiction anthology "Palestine + 100" @commapress I reread my 2019 @lithub review of the book and this makes sense: "devising and imagining the future was an opportunity to assert what the present actually feels like" #ReadPalestine

The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

As a guest of the annual Palestine Festival of Literature in 2016, my first impressions of the West Bank were marked by the surreal: sand-colored, stubby hills; an excess of barbed wire; rooftops o…

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