Rebecca Glade

Fun doesn't take away from the seriousness nor does it nullify the anger. But joy goes much further in sustaining long-term action than anger and seriousness alone.

All the commentary about humor being effective in fighting fascism is true, but one thing I think Americans sometimes miss is that protesting *should* be fun and contain joy...

I will always look back fondly on the guy in Khartoum who attended anti-coup protests in 2021 in full spiderman costume.

This isn't a commentary on Machado, it's a criticism of the prize itself. If the ERRs in Sudan had won, it would have been good for their access to funds and leverage re armed parties. But *they* would have given the Nobel foundation prestige as far as I'm concerned, not the opposite.

Look, the Nobel Peace Prize has *never* been the arbiter of good works. Maria Corina Machado takes her place among Abiy Ahmed, Henry Kissinger, and Theodore Roosevelt. That good people sometimes get awarded it is just proof that a broken clock is correct twice a day.

I've said it before and will say it again: people who use endnotes have something to hide and should not be trusted.

the people at the institutions they are admitted to are unwilling to help them find funding, or even write letters in support of their visa applications. Without that support, it’s almost impossible to get a N. American visa. (2/3)

Push your institutions to designate scholar at risk funds + other support that may already exist for Ukrainian students. It’s heartbreaking to see how many Sudanese students exhaust all their resources w/o any support from the institutions and faculty who admitted them. (3/3)

🧵 Fellow academics in N. America if a Sudanese student has been admitted to your graduate program MA or PhD please please do your best to help them gather the necessary paperwork for their visa. So many are getting into great programs but (1/3)

For sure. But the speed at which Giles could find stuff on his own vs having to walk 16 year olds on how to skim things and then trust that they didn't miss critical info would be such a huge risk. Once they got good, it'd be okay, but the learning curve at the beginning is what gets me.

Like, as a university lecturer, I'm still working with getting early uni students to learn how to read and take notes for less complicated texts. The idea that he just gives them big ancient texts on demons and expects them to find anything useful at all seems wild to me.

This is random, but your buffy posting has prompted me to rewatch the show, and while I have no problem suspending disbelief for vampires and other magical forces, I'm having trouble believing Giles can get assistance in his research from high school students.

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

It's also significant that this is happening now, as the Port Sudan government seeks to pressure and convince the middle class to return to Khartoum. The demolition of the homes of the lower classes may be a sort of incentive, even as it functions as a means of demographic change for cities

At it's core, this is a campaign against those from the periphery who resettled in Khartoum over the course of Sudan's civil wars. Some of those people were displaced by the war, others stayed through it. But cities have long sought to oust these people.

No Shelter After War: The Demolition of Khartoum and Al-Jazirah’s Informal Settlements - أتر In mid-March 2025, residents of the Al-Izba neighbourhood in Bahri, north of Khartoum, were jolted awake by the roar of bulldozers and heavy machinery as their homes were razed to the ground, with fur...

Important piece on government demolition of informal settlements in Khartoum and Gezira.

The great curse of adulthood is knowing that there will always be dirty clothes and dirty dishes to clean.

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

Sudanese higher education in crisis Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

What can the academic community in the Global North do to show solidarity with Sudanese faculty and students who continue working in an extremely challenging situation?

Check out @rmglade.bsky.social and Muna Elgadal's latest contribution to the Sudanese Perspectives blog.

#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

Sudanese higher education in crisis Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.

Using anti-imperialist, Decolonial language does not make someone’s analysis anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. Reactionary propaganda can dangerously be cloaked in such language and I’m not talking about the US context here.

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

God this is such a banger @andrealongchu.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/post...

It really drives home that the "store it in a museum" argument is really a backdoor to "warehouse it until we can restore it later."

This is why some refer to this as a counterrevolutionary war. Both the armed parties are hostile to civilians and the revolution's demands for civilian government. The armed parties are not equivalent; the nature of their violence is different, but both have an interest in marginalizing civilians.

In that sense, civilians never broke--the security apparatus turned on itself. Neither the army nor the RSF were innocent in this, though there is significant polarization right now on the issue of who took the first shot and what that means politically.

SAF favored a long transition with them in power, but a quick move to absorb the RSF into the army (full absorption in 3 years). The RSF favored a long transition with them distinct from SAF the whole time (10 years before absorption).

The security apparatus fractured during these negotiations over the issue of what concessions to make on what was termed "security sector reform." The demand on the street was "the army to the barracks and the janjaweed dissolved."