Mariam Rashid, PhD

Mariam Rashid, PhD

@unconvivial.bsky.social

Mkenya || Opinions ni Zangu || Educator || Forced Displacement and Migration Studies || Interna'l and Comparative Ed || Higher Ed

9 Followers 12 Following 1 Posts Joined Nov 2024
4 months ago

The lesson here is that if you can get the aunties to approve of you without changing anything about yourself, you can do anything you set your mind to.

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4 months ago
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At least 700 dead in three days of post-election protests, opposition says

The opposition in Tanzania claims that at least 700 people have been killed by security forces in the last three days following protests against the general election on Wednesday.

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11 months ago
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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Every network should be covering this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK...

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11 months ago
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Columbia president resigns after university cedes to Trump demands Katrina Armstrong exits a week after the institution agreed to a list of reforms to fend off funding cuts

Columbia president resigns after university cedes to Trump demands

https://www.ft.com/content/e4f23164-041d-47e5-be0a-7e0f06b3bb3a

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1 year ago

If you watched season 2 of “Mo” you will have learnt that the US cannot deport Palestinians because to do that it would have to acknowledge that Palestine exists. So effectively what they’ve done is made this young man stateless.

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1 year ago
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Target Loses Web Traffic As Costco Gains On Feb. 28 Economic Blackout Day Target's website traffic dropped 9% on Feb. 28 in the People's Union online shopping boycott with its app usage down 14%, compared with mid-February Friday results.

Seeing what happens >> telling people nothing interesting will happen so don’t try
www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...

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1 year ago

Claudia Sheinbaum probably called Justin and told him to just promise things they were already doing. And then they laughed.

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1 year ago
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Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest space missions as a rocket scientist, mathematician and computer programmer.

Today's inspirational story to balance the deluge of bad news: a belated obit of NASA "human computer" Annie Easley. She wasn't profiled in Hidden Figures but had a similar story, and judging from the photo she could have played herself without a glam up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/o...

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1 year ago

This is some BS.

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1 year ago

I get the impulse but let’s keep a sober eye on facts and history. The US is the villain in many, many, MANY stories in African history. That doesn’t mean don’t resist - it just means keeping clear eyed so that you’re not just swapping out one oppressor for another.

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1 year ago
screenshot of the german paper Die Zeit with the headline and subhed reading

Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß
Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime. in english: 

A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a
Hitler salute
Elon Musk stretches out his right arm, and everyone jumps over it.
Welcome to the new attention regime.

while musk’s fanbois and the ADL tap dance around it, the German papers call it what it is

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1 year ago
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

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1 year ago

Musk's last spaceship blew up during launch.

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1 year ago

One of the biggest memory holes in the US electoral cycle was that millions of people died because DJT didn’t believe in COVID, then used racist tropes to try and explain it away, and then withheld medicines from much of the world. (Biden was no saint in this last act either).

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1 year ago
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Bluesky,

Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this

I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

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