Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom)

Wunmi Mosaku in orange dress

This is what Wunmi Mosaku looks like @newyorker.com:

I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Applications due by March 31, apply soon, and please share with any Indigenous youth that you know! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The profession is abusive.

Myriam Gurba presents THE HARD STUFF, a six-day craft seminar and workshop where we will access different techniques that enhance, enrich, and complicate prose that addresses the defining word of our age: TRAUMA! Magic realism, ancestral influence, co-authorship with the more-than human, humor, epistolary perspectives, and multimedia authorship will be the themes that structure our first five meetings. The final meeting will be participant led. For more information, email gurbamyriam@gmail.com (mailto:gurbamyriam@gmail.com)

I’ll be facilitating a writing seminar and workshop soon!

​​Native Students Receive Excessive Discipline in This New Mexico School District, Report Finds The Navajo Nation report echoes a 2022 investigation by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica that found Indigenous students were punished more harshly than other students in the state’s Gallup-McKinley ...

NEW: One of New Mexico's largest school districts subjects Native students to excessively harsh discipline, a Navajo Nation report says, echoing the findings of a 2022 New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica investigation.

One, they wanted the content.
Two, they wanted to get rid of women and Black people.
Three, they wanted to install loyalists.

The wind has really doing a lot lately

As my Mexican relatives say, somebody suicided him.

These Women Exposed Prison Sexual Abuse. Now ICE Wants to Deport Them. Federal protections against detention and deportation for sexual abuse survivors have deteriorated under Trump.

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WA commission acts against 2 police trainers accused of sexual harassment Multiple women accused two former instructors at Washington's police training academy of sexually harassing them in 2022.

I think when people imagine "police training" they imagine a v professional teacher in a tweed jacket. But they are actually a variety of cranks, Christian Nationalists, and burn outs.
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I used to hate International Women's Day until I spent the day in Tijuana where it was a riot against the patriarchy. Where race and imperialism was at its core.

Happy International Women's Day to the women who fight.

Netanyahu is a product of MIT and Harvard & other US schools in his childhood and teen years.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Okay, it’s supposed to be #SmallBirdSaturday, but I really couldn’t resist posting this one I captured this morning in an apartment parking lot in Oakland, California #Photography #Birds #California #Oakland #Urban 📷

A meme that suggests that men are the biggest drama queens on the planet

EVERGREEN

A local newspaper in LB, CA reported that after the LBPD brutalized protestors after a major BLM march, some LBPD officers received a totenkopf challenge ring. That was when Congressman Robert Garcia was mayor and Sheriff Robert Luna was police chief.

If you want to stop Newsom, build up his negatives with Black voters *now.* Emphasize how he keeps hanging out with racists and inviting them to talk on his show. Ask how Black people have fared in his California and how he’s responded to racism against us. What was he doing in 2014? 2016? 2020?

"anybody could just walk up in here now"- my mother

And racist.

For real. I’m not choosing between the “lesser” of two fascists.

Maher is an Islamophobe of the highest order. The fact that he has not been run out of town is a measure of how unseriously Islamophobia is treated in this country.

Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."

But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

i feel like this is all happening cause we stopped pumping up the jam

“Parents explicitly cited fear as the primary driver… Families of our Black and brown students feared profiling and family separation, even as legal residents. White families reported keeping children home due to anxieties about potential armed law enforcement activity inside our schools.”

L.A. woman Myriam Gurba in conversation with author Keeonna Harris

"The whole notion of prison is bullshit. Women bear the brunt of it." - Keeona Harris in conversation with Myriam Gurba

We know that ICE never left Minnesota, but there are signs that any drawdown phase is over.

ICE activity is ramping up across the country and Minnesota isn’t exempt from that. ICE has set a new baseline of “normal” ICE activity in our state and that baseline is rising again.

A forager sits on a rock in an oak woodland

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Good luck!🍀