Sarah Jane Cervenak

Reposting this quote today 🌺❤️

“If you are moved by someone, by someone's work, by their friendship, anything, tell them. You don't know how much they might need that ounce of encouragement, to feel noticed, to feel like their efforts are worthwhile.”

Victoria Wright

Portal flower ❤️💐

A blue and purple morning glory

Pretty flower for your day

Cover of Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances CO-MOTION Paola Bacchetta

Back cover FEMINIST THEORY In Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects, and alliances. Employing what she calls "theory-assemblages" to describe how diverse theoretical and political approaches inspire movements and produce different kinds of alliances, Bachetta engages the inseparability of power relations — such as co-lonialism, capitalism, racism, caste, misogyny, and speciesism—and how their combinations and operability, as well as the analyses they require, shift in different contexts and lives of subjects. Focusing on France, India, Italy, and the United States from the 197os to the present, Co-Motion addresses a wide activist, artivist, and social movement archive-group statements, banners, pamphlets, graffiti, posters, poetry, sit-ins, films, art exhibits—to think and feel with the many ways that people, historically and today, come together to act. Through her expansive engagement with varied bodies of scholar-ship, sites of analysis, and kinds of reading, Bacchetta offers new approaches to analyzing, confronting, and transforming power, and to enacting freedom. Bacchetta continues to be one of the most important intellectuals of this generation, and this book demonstrates exactly why that is the case. Co-Motion creates a compelling and dense lexicon for understanding the present conditions and functionality of power within what she calls situated planetarities. As opposed to the global, a planetary approach is a powerful corrective to much contemporary scholarship on the global. It's digestible and yet profoundly comprehensive. -Karma R. Chávez, author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Paola Bacchetta is Professor and Chair in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author or coeditor of multiple books, including Gender in the Hindu Nation, Fatema Mernissi for Our Times, Global Raciality,and Right-Wing Women. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRIDE 2020 MANIFESTATION SAMEDI 4 JUILLET - 16H PLACE PIGALLE - PARIS NOS FIERTÉS SONT POLITIQUES 5.4 "Pride 2020: Our Pride is Political." Poster for a sepa-rate, more radical Pride March, issued by Pride politique auto-gérée in response to Inter-LGBT's poster (Gaelle 2020). PRIDE 2020 T SAMEDI 4 JUILLET - 16H PLACE PIGALLE - PARIS CORTEGE DE TÊTE EN NON-MIXITE RACISEE s-s "Leading Contingent, Autonomous, Racialized" poster for 2020 Pride by Queers racisé.e.s autonomes (Autonomous Racialized Queers) (Gaelle 2020).

QUEERS & TRANS RACISÉES CONTRE L'HOMONATIONALISME 5.7 LGBT Pride March from 2018 with banner reading "Racialized Queers and Trans Against Homonationalism" (Manifesto 212018). this same police is violently hunting down migrants and murdering our brothers, our sisters, our siblings, our mothers, and our fathers in working-class neighborhoods, while this police is repressing social movements and establishing colonial order in France, the organizers of the march are rolling out the red carpet for them." Oitoko's call flagged that (white) queer police were planned to be on a float shooting water pistols into the air "for fun, a terrifying insult to all racialized people, including queer and trans people, who are faced with real police violence. The statement underlined that Inter-LGBT fully ignored that year's Asylum-Immigration Law that puts the lives of all racialized people including queer and trans people at risk. The law deprive (s] undocumented people who are HIV. positive or are undergoing hormonal treatment or medical treatment" of health care. The statement affirmed that since racialized queers and trans are not wanted in the march they would take it over, positioning themselves at its head. An important footnote in the call clarifies: "We refuse the command that we be out implied by this kind of autonomous contingent, but we want

Gratefully received!
Paola Bacchetta, Co-motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Duke UP, 2026)
It addresses queer,trans & social justice mobilisation archives in France, India, Italy & US.
We’ll hold a book launch in April - watch this space.

“I said I love you and I wanted genocide to stop”

June Jordan

Happy birthday to the great orator and anti-slavery philosopher-activist Frederick Douglass!💐

“Can art be, and show us how to be, something other than a society ‘structured in dominance’?

Fred Moten

The cover of Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life features the artist Xaviera Simmons standing in a creek wearing a green and white floral dress. A mountain and trees are in background. Book is on a blue shelf

Just received a pic of my book on shelf at hopscotch reading room in Berlin ❤️

UT Restructures Liberal Arts College, Targets Gender, Ethnic Studies - Reporting Texas The University of Texas at Austin on Thursday announced plans to shutter seven departments in the College of Liberal Arts devoted to ethnicity, gender and international studies and to review curriculu...

AAUP UT Austin Chapter Pres. Karma Chavez: “We can anticipate it’s going to involve major slashing of budgets…It likely will eventually lead to firing faculty. It’s definitely going to mean lower quality of education for students who want to study this major.”

www.reportingtexas.com/ut-restructu...

The cover of Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life features the artist Xaviera Simmons standing in a creek wearing a green and white floral dress. A mountain and trees are in background. Book is on a blue shelf

Just received a pic of my book on shelf at hopscotch reading room in Berlin ❤️

Love and solidarity with the impacted students and faculty at UT Austin.

"this narrow path of language leads me here"-

Dionne Brand,
"prologue for now-Gaza"

The Long War on Black Studies by Robin D. h G. Kelley —headline of this June 17, 2023 article is on a red backdrop

I assign this every year. Necessary read in these terrible times

www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

"But, beyond knowing much more than you believe or respect, you can, and I hope you will insist that your studies shall become Life Studies:
Black Studies. Urban Studies. Environmental Studies."-June Jordan

Solidarity with the impacted students and faculty at UT Austin

“What does it mean when even the dead are not allowed to rest?”

-Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

"this narrow path of language leads me here"-

Dionne Brand,
"prologue for now-Gaza"

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.” Yasmin Mahani speaking about her son

Al Jazeera just released an investigation revealing how US-made bombs vaporized nearly 3,000 Palestinians.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

Words break all the way down in the face of Palestinians being “evaporated” by bombs

“Settler colonial governance operates through differential grievability.”

Dr. Nadine Shalhoub-Kevorkian

"What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent and the offering in its place of another set of understandings and imaginings of the given world and the made world."

Dr. Christina Sharpe

How My Grandfather's Garden Taught Me to Survive While Black and Queer — DRØME Amirio Freeman meditates on how he found an unlikely source of knowledge regarding how to survive as a queer black person in America.

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@hystericalblkns.bsky.social

"What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent and the offering in its place of another set of understandings and imaginings of the given world and the made world."

Dr. Christina Sharpe

“Settler colonial governance operates through differential grievability.”

Dr. Nadine Shalhoub-Kevorkian

“She keeps account of cubic metres of senses, perceptions and resistant facts. No one need be aware of these; no one is likely to understand.”

Dionne Brand

‘From Scattering to Gathering: Flesh, Nonbeing and the Work of life in Gaza’ a lecture by Dr. Nadera Shaloub-Kevorkian

Webinar I’ll be attending tonite

events.georgetown.edu/ccas/event/3...

Link pasted here to register. It’s taking place over zoom

‘From Scattering to Gathering: Flesh, Nonbeing and the Work of life in Gaza’ a lecture by Dr. Nadera Shaloub-Kevorkian

Webinar I’ll be attending tonite

events.georgetown.edu/ccas/event/3...

Portraits of three Native American Professor speakers and their book covers, promoting an online event

I'm thrilled to be presenting @arsavium.bsky.social & @pepepierce.bsky.social in conversation about their new books at @intellpublics.bsky.social with Audra Simpson!! Monday, Feb 23 at 6:30pm EST via Zoom webinar. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social register: bit.ly/gc-cuny-regi...

A bright orange flower surrounded by yellow flowers

Good morning. Some flowers