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ALL EYES ON PALESTINE: The Israeli military is resuming its all-out assault on Palestinian families in Gaza, drastically escalating its violations of the ceasefire, killing and wounding hundreds.

Two daily #SmallPress #books:
1. Until We Are Free: contributors include: @biidaasamose.bsky.social, @drdryden.bsky.social, and @sarahjama.bsky.social.
2. From My Mother's Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada (Njoki Wane, Wolsak & Wynn)
💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #reading #nonfiction

York University is suspending admissions to over a dozen programs in the fall, likely planning to shut them down completely in the next few years. Faculty member shares this list that went over the YU Faculty Association council email list. Astonishing

Horrifying Canadian higher ed news:

York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts.

This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

Thank you!! So good to see you! 🖤🩸✊🏿🌈🎉

#Montreal we are postponing our event tomorrow #Feb17. We will definitely keep you posted abt new date

“Ceasefire”.

Thank you #Vancouver and Cross & Crows!! 🖤🌈🩸✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

What crime did the person commit that merits detention?

Related: it’s been three weeks since Elon Musk vigorously saluted his fellow Nazis at the inauguration

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

READ THIS ASAP:
“If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"As much as the Caribbean is made of islands of European experimentation and exploitation, the region is also full of hidden laboratories for Afro-Indigenous sovereignty." - @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social

Dark Laboratory is making connections, sparking thought, and verifying ideas I've had. Love it.

Thank you @malindasmith.bsky.social #Calgary a fantastic evening. Check out livestream on @shelflifebooks.bsky.social instagram page!

@fernpub.bsky.social

#Calgary #BookLaunch Join us #Feb5 7pm at Shelf Life Books. I’ll be in conversation with @malindasmith.bsky.social
#GotBloodToGive
@shelflifebooks.bsky.social

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Coming up in Ottawa - many educational events about Palestine, book launches w/ @drdryden.bsky.social & @alansearslefty.bsky.social, a community gardening workshop, a Valentine's fundraiser for Gaza, a @briarpatchmag.bsky.social Skate-a-thon, and more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/

Thank you!!!

Join me tomorrow #Feb3 2pm @uottawa.bsky.social
#GotBloodToGive #BookTalk

WELCOME AQUARIUS SEASON! AHEAD OF YOUR TIME AS AN EXTREME SPORT! APATHY IS OUT! FREEDOM AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! ORGANIZE! REVOLUTIONIZE! FUTURIZE! REFUSE TO OBEY IN ADVANCE! CEASEFIRE IS THE FLOOR! COLLECTIVE LIBERATION IS THE GOAL! LIFE IS SHORT! THE OLIGARCHY IS HERE! NEVER LET THEM STEAL YOUR JOY!

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Looking forward to the Ottawa launch of Got Blood to Give by @drdryden.bsky.social

A poster advertising the event featuring the cover of the book Got Blood to Give and a photograph of the author, Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden.

Join us to celebrate the launch of @drdryden.bsky.social's book, Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation.

Mon Feb 3, 2pm-4pm
University of Ottawa, FSS building rm 4007

Presented by the Joint Chair in Women's Studies & the Interdisciplinary Centre for Black Health at Ottawa U

Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan says that sanctuary cities “will see a higher number of more collateral arrests.”

This is another criminalization of solidarity.

Thousands of Palestinians begin returning home to a devastated Gaza The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.

The long trek home by Palestinians comes as mediators helped end twin crises over ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon.

UN experts slam Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah’s arrest in Switzerland They call the arrest of Electronic Intifada website’s founder ‘shocking’ and urge the Swiss government to release him.

UN human rights experts have condemned the arrest of prominent Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah in Switzerland, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech.

A blistering attack on 'gender-critical' transphobia disguised as feminism by @saranahmed.bsky.social.

feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/a-noisy-part

The #WeeklyRead is “On Receiving Accounts from Others” by Sara Ahmed. The article appears in "Unaccountably Queer", a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (35:3) edited by Teagan Bradway

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