Sam Godfrey

For Assata New Brunswick Prison, 1977 In this new picture your smile has been to war you are almost obscured by other faces on the pages those shadows are sisters who have not yet spoken your face is in shadow obscured by the half-dark by the thick bars running across your eyes like sentinels all the baby fat has been burned away like a luxury your body let go reluctantly the corners of your mouth turn down I cannot look into your eyes who are all those others behind you the shadows are growing lighter and more confusing. I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence who war and weep sometimes against our selves in each other rather than our enemies falsehoods Assata my sister warrior Joan of Arc and Yaa Asantewa embrace at the back of your cell. By Audre Lorde

Assata gesturing and smiling

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence

👇Here's the whole poem

it's AI schadenfreude season

Man i fucking wish 1 in 5 were trans. And you 🫵 can help make this dream a reality

Excited to start rummaging around in Ronald Duncan's archives and travel to his writing hut in Welcombe this autumn 🍂 🍂

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree

“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”

Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.

Know of any WGs in Berlin with openings? If so please send them my way!

I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Thank you so much!

hi, I'd love a copy of the Museums: Power & Politics syllabus please! Super cool you're making these available

Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.

TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit

"One display is ‘guest-curated’ by the museum’s royal patron Kate Middleton... She has even ✍️ a gallery text. ‘Objects can tell a story... A collection of objects can create a narrative'... If you haven’t lost the will to live by this point[,] then you cld find out about the 14 objcts she chose..."

David Lynch on set, in bullhorn: "Okay, let's try that again, but this time good."

writing is

Can't believe no one has said Berlin Brandenburg. Absolute joke of an airport that I loathe with my whole being (I frequently fly between there and Stansted, and I hate Stansted less. That's how bad it is). Wish DB wasn't a flaming (and expensive) shitshow, otherwise I'd take the train more often 😭

still looking for a non scalped ticket for #autechre in #berlin on wednesday

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Donate to Help Xio's Fight Against UIUC for Trans Rights, organized by Xiomara Cervantes-Gomez Hi, I’m Dr. Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez. I’m a transgender Lati… Xiomara Cervantes-Gomez needs your support for Help Xio's Fight Against UIUC for Trans Rights

Please help out a sister.

Germany's angel of history is screaming As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course.

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support for the war is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.

By Amos Brison.

www.972mag.com/germany-gaza...

A white banned says FEED GAZA in front of a digital drawing of red poppies with black and white details and green leaves in front of a blue sky with clouds

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

god bleas the renters cooperative, nothing like a kinda grumpy old lawyer giving you a pep talk to get your deposit back

If there are a million Jules Gill-Peterson fans, I am one of them. If there are a hundred Jules Gill-Peterson fans, you will find me. If there is one Jules Gill-Peterson fan, there I am. If there are no Jules Gill-Peterson fans, I am dead.

Lacemaking detail: pattern behind, with multicolored pins securing a weave of radiating threads from a central, multicolored floral pattern

"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'"

untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...

*unlike transitioning, there is a VERY high and probably rising regret rate for academic PhDs. We should probably have some kind of therapy option for people who think they want a PhD before they commit to it...

And drop gatekeeping for adults who want to transition!

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.

Online early from our next issue.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.