Express righteous anger with your students. They deserve to see us vulnerable, angry, and all the emotions. It opens space for them to also feel the same and from that potentially to move in passion, spontaneity, and collectivity.

Bianca Beauchemin - Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, York University Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · March 9 · 1h

Bianca Beauchemin on the podcast discussing gender, history, and blackness and Black Studies in the Canadian context. Listen here or other streams: go.umd.edu/BiancaBeauch...

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Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran

- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact

- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures

- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems

They really saw what was done in Gaza and thought "what if this was the whole world"

Going after desalination is closer to nuclear war than anything else weve ever seen there is no world if this is done there is just no world left after the horrors this will unleash

UAE and Kuwait Start Oil Output Cuts After Hormuz Blockage The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait started reducing oil production, as the near-closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz ripples through energy markets and affects global supply.

The UAE & Kuwait started reducing oil production after Hormuz blockage

Also "Kuwait Petroleum declared force majeure — a legal clause allowing a company not to fulfill contractual obligations because of circumstances outside its control"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saudi Civil Defense: Projectile Strikes Al-Kharj Residential Area, Leaving Two Dead and 12 Injured RIYADH, Mar 8: The Saudi Civil Defense reported that a military projectile fell on a residential site in Al-Kharj Governorate on Sunday, resulting in two deaths...

A strike on a residential area (polite way of saying labour accommodation) in Saudi has left two dead (Indian national and a Bangladeshi national), and 12 injured—all Bangladeshis.

The attacks are killing migrant workers who’ve come to earn a living. They’re the ones bearing the brunt of this war.

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Israel and the United States -- you just wait to see what comes the next two weeks

BARTIROMO: Meaning what?

GRAHAM: We're going to blow the hell out of these people

“What are we pretending not to know today?”
—Toni Cade Bambara

Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices Donald Trump has not fulfilled a vow to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was drained by Joe Biden

"The reserve currently contains 415m bbl of oil, or ~ 20 days of US consumption, well below its 714m-bbl capacity. Drawing down too much of the oil too quickly could damage the salt caverns holding it. It would cost more than $20bn to refill."

www.ft.com/content/d546...

Nothing for the millions of refugees and displaced persons the bombing creates.

Poster for "Monstrous Intimacies at 15," an in-person colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's first monograph. It will be held June 22 - 24, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The poster features a photograph of a light taken by Boz Deseo Garden.

Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

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"The chemicals being used to pry gold from the earth are poisoning the local land and water. People living nearby have reported strange skin conditions. Their crops and animals are dying."

“Without these chemicals, we don’t earn enough,” she said. “But they are also killing us.”

"Canadian companies hold most foreign mining licences in Tigray, where an emerging resource economy must contend with a thriving illicit one."

"For more than a year, these sites, [...] were part of a postwar gold rush in Tigray now worth billions, according to records from Ethiopia’s national bank. The industry has ruined the land, stoked deadly violence and could fund the Horn of Africa’s next devastating war"

How Gold Tarnished Tigray Once a war zone, this region of Ethiopia became a ‘Wild West’ of illegal mining and unsafe labour. Sites licensed by Canadian firms were at the heart of it. The Globe and Mail investigates At a...

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"Once a war zone, this region of Ethiopia became a ‘Wild West’ of illegal mining and unsafe labour. Sites licensed by Canadian firms were at the heart of it."

“All artists are involved in their time.”
Dionne Brand
A Map to the Door of No Return

EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say 'End the Genocide' in Gaza "To be silent is to be complicit," the healthcare workers write in an open letter.

News: Hundreds of Jewish healthcare workers from around the US and beyond are circulating a letter demanding an “end to the genocide in Gaza.”

They “reject the weaponization of accusations of antisemitism to suppress criticism of Israel and expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.”

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

A forest floor is blanketed in small shiny oval leaved plants with tiny pink and white flowers that hang like bells from thin red stems, called twinflowers

A carpet of wildflowers for the #bloomscrolling 🌱

Thank you Bisan. We will never give up. Day of action: this Thursday, July 24.

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. Left of Black | A World Beyond Policing with Celeste Winston on Black Maroons

Marronage as a Guide to Police Abolition

On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...