Abigaël

‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what...

“My once-firm stride, the stride of a university instructor who hurried between lecture halls, had turned into a limp. My shoes were worn and coated with much dust, my clothes tattered and stained, and my face—once animated by ideas and humor—had grown pale and gaunt.” mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...

I guess all phishing is designed to capitalise on some sort of crisis, or the fear of one, but I feel there’s something particularly vile about phishing that purports to be from the Department of Homeland Security

Uk academics and teachers - just take this in. And huge respect to everyone who has worked to sustain education in the emergency and provide access and lecturing through this devastation.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Tying people’s insurance to their job and it’s not even free has got to be one of the biggest scams America ever concocted.

Yesterday was the 70 year anniversary of 14 year old Emmett Till's death.

I don't think people realize how recent that actually is. That was within my dad's lifetime. Within the current president's lifetime.

It's not ancient past.

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

🧵Ahmed Kamal Junina is a linguistics professor. He writes about trying to teach in Gaza while starving.

"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter."

tinyurl.com/toohungrytot...

“So, are we going to survive Trump?” <- this rideshare is getting a little too real

The music in this cafe is a reggae cover of Pink Floyd’ “Wish you were here”, so now I don’t know if I feel sad or upbeat

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Going through old papers I find all manner of treasures. Letters from my grandparents. A much loved copy of the Earthsea stories, repeatedly repaired with tape. A Peters’ projection map from 1991(?). The world looks different now, but I loved that map

Some ways linguists can help support and defend immigrants & refugees in their local communities (free free to add more, these are just things that have come up locally)

-consulting on political communication
-identifying trolls on icewatch apps through their writing style
-interpreting/translation

Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls

🚨🗣️ 52 influential women unite to urge the Government: do not abandon asylum-seeking survivors.

Violence does not stop at the border, and neither should our compassion and support for survivors.

Read more: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#WelcomeEveryWoman

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

“ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows”

“The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.”

This Dinosaur Probably Tweeted More Than It Roared

In my latest for the @nytimes.com, I wrote about an adorable new dinosaur with something extremely rare: fossilized vocal organs!

This is really worth a read.

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Palestine Action will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation - with the same legal status as ISIS and al-Qaeda - from midnight tonight.

No non-violent direct action group has ever been banned as a terrorist group before.

Supporters face up to 14 years in jail.

Rest in Power: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Abortion Pill Inventor and Women’s Rights Advocate Millions of women around the world gained safety, dignity and autonomy over their bodies thanks to Étienne-Émile Baulieu. The visionary biochemist, feminist and fearless innovator—best known for devel...

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, inventor of mifepristone, died last week at age 98.
A true legend.

Before inventing the pill that helped millions of women gain more control over their bodies, he joined the French resistance against the Nazis—at age 15!
msmagazine.com/2025/06/04/e...

I say this from the very bottom of my heart: fuck ICE

Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

It’s the year 2025 and the headline is…

The NeuroGLAM 2025: Conference Call for Proposals is starting to be circulated in GLAM channels across Canada.

This year's theme is: "Neurodiversity, GLAM, fascism, and its discontents"

The conference will take place online on August 22nd.

The deadline for submissions, July 31st

We need/we don"t need +immigrants. Language i have always hated. We are not, as Samuel says, a product for the country's needs. We are people who want to explore their potential, freely.

Prime Minister unveils new plan to end years of uncontrolled migration The Prime Minister will today announce an end to Britain’s failed experiment in open borders that saw migration soar to one million a year by ensuring people coming here earn the right to stay in the ...

Imagine, just for one moment, that a UK government put as much imagination and effort into making life better for people as they do making life worse for migrants.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Protect Native Women: A Conversation with Sarah Deer All My Relations Podcast · Episode

Mvskoke legal scholar Sarah Deer is interviewed on All My Relations podcast about the #MMIW/#MMIP campaign. The episode gives some context to #MMIW crisis and the jurisdiction struggles on Indigenous reservations
open.spotify.com/episode/5l2J...

'I see a bank card, like I value it because I've never held one. When I look at it, even to say that my name is written on it, that it belongs to me. I will be so happy. That will make me feel like a part of life and a part of the system and doing what human beings are doing. I can see myself as human. I'm existing.' - Economic abuse victim-survivor Image depicting a woman holding a baby.

No one should be trapped with an abuser because of their immigration status.

Yet @seacharity.bsky.social's report reveals the law is stopping migrant survivors w/o leave to remain from opening a bank account.

Govt must remove this barrier to safety. survivingeconomicabuse.org/news/migrant...

Sign the Petition Stop the National Autism Registry: Protect Our Children’s Privacy and Human Rights

There’s a petition against RFK’s proposed national autism registry - please sign!

www.change.org/p/stop-the-n...

No one deserves detention.

No one deserves deportation.

No one deserves prison.

No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones.

No human is illegal. Free them all.