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Obviously I understand the no sick day struggle, but this is still very much an ethos when people have some agency.

Working while sick is something I’ll never understand, I’ll never be Protestant enough for that work ethic

One of *my extras, not sure where that extra word came from.

My favorite part was when he said he’d put one on, started rummaging through his bag, didn’t have one, AND THEN refused one when I offered one of my friends extras. All that for what?

Half a decade into COVID plus a swirling matrix of other highly communicable illnesses and masking in crowded public spaces for some is still contingent upon whether people are symptomatic or know/believe themselves to be ill.

An unmasked man sat next to me (masked) and said “are you feeling okay or just preventing illness?” To which I replied “I feel fine but what difference does it make if you’re not wearing a mask?” He said he’d throw one on if I said I was unwell (he didn’t have one), this rationale is lost on me.

#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

If they also push harder for these mask bans…

Eyebrows are thick as hell but that boy is immaculately groomed and clean shaven. They’re not slick AT ALL

Galleanisti is back and so is the attendant sub-whiteness of the 19th/early 20th century Italian in the U.S.!

I can’t get sew ins because I would turn into an absolute my little pony menace with that hair

Of course I absolutely will, thank you so much for your warmth and encouragement. It’s felt and deeply appreciated.

Saw the IG post of someone who went to a museum of Danish resistance. Their last slide was about how, in the election immediately after WWII, most Danes voted the way they had before the war. Because of course they did.

Text that reads: “Please direct any questions to President Cathi Ho Schar (president@acsa-arch.org) or Executive Director Michael Monti (mmonti@acsa-arch.org).”

We’re figuring out next steps for collective action, but perhaps consider sending an email to ACSA board leadership, which they even suggested in their statement (which was released without informing the journal editorial board)

www.acsa-arch.org/acsa-message...

It’s a disappointing cancellation, they always are. The ACSA board has been patronizing & awful to us as issue editors from before our CfP went live. And they’ve trampled on the dignity and academic freedoms of the journal board who endured awful treatment because they deeply believed in the issue.

We make constant historical references to terrifying authoritarian times, but persistently refuse the lesson that the glimpse of violent illiberalism is the moment to double down on protecting our collective freedoms. Useful, I guess, to remember some people have never had skin in any game, ever.

I’m unsurprised but astounded by the eagerness with which universities have dispensed of diversity and inclusion “commitments” and their belief that abandoning brief attention to racial justice will make their jobs easier. The Venn diagram overlap of cowardice and monstrosity in times like these.

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons

Not a thought!

www.theguardian.com/world/2010/m...

Mnangagwa doesn’t have the same energy for lip service to Palestine as Mugabe’s performances of revolutionary discourse. This diplomatic move would effectively be full normalization. No more state investment in the patriotic histories of struggle (though compensating whites would’ve told you that).

Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine? Israel has made deep inroads into a continent traditionally sympathetic to Palestine. But its gains have limits too.

Superficially, the African Union has called for an end to normalization with and prosecution of Israel because of its genocidal violence in Gaza and withdrew observer status AT THE SAME TIME that too many of these states maintain strategic relations with Israel

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

It supported Rhodesian and apartheid South African militaries with both tactics and weaponry, further alienating it from the continent because of support for liberation struggles AND decolonization era solidarities with the Palestinian struggle.

I was writing abt Israel’s pariah statecraft during Nigerian Civil War in its support for the Federal Republic *and* Biafra. After its alienation of African & the Middle Eastern states after the 6-Day War — Biafra War began a month after Israel attacked Egypt — it pivoted towards apartheid regimes.

Being immiserated by sanctions and climate change-induced drought hasn’t been bad enough: now the state is opening our lands to the same country that sold weapons to the Rhodesians when we fought for our independence.

I’m so beyond unbelievably sad and angry about this.

AI-generated image of Trump holding an American flag

This is a photo from the Twitter of Ronny Levi Musan, the Zim ambassador to Israel. I can safely assume he supports whatever Trump is doing with the Afrikaners, meaning a dispositional opposition to land reform — a support to keep paying back white farmers whose land was taken and reverse gains made

Collaborations in mining, tourism, and agriculture make me most nervous because of how this will undoubtedly facilitate state and corporate/private access to extractive industries & land grabs: we saw what it looked like when Dan Gertler was running around Congo DR
news.mongabay.com/2023/05/ngos...

Zim and Israel forge new path for collaboration in tourism and agriculture - ZBC NEWS Story by Peter Chivhima ZIMBABWE and Israel are set to embark on a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of tourism and agriculture. During the launch of the Zim-Is...

On one hand, I saw this coming because our neoliberal president is desperate to get out from under US/EU sanctions and attract foreign capital and Israel is very busy remaking inroads in Africa. On the other, the Israeli state after our land and minerals is beyond.
www.zbcnews.co.zw/zim-and-isra...

Poster with red/green/black flags representing Palestine also has an image of German police with their backs to the camera revealing the words POLIZEI on their uniforms. The event poster says “Censorship and Suppression: Solidarity with Palestine in Germany and German Studies, a webinar with Hanna Al-Taher and Anna Younes” on March 2, 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST

Join us for this webinar with Hannah Al-Taher and Anna Younes about the suppression of Palestine both in Germany and within German Studies

It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST

You can register here:

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Nakba Denial — Parapraxis On the politics of history and genocide Esmat Elhalaby

Grateful for Esmat Elhalaby writing on the inability of genocide studies (vis-à-vis Omer Bartov) — with the Shoah at its core — to contend w settler coloniality and/in Palestine & the bare concessions many scholars are making over a year into this genocide
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/nak...

An only logical application of Zionism’s zero-sum rationale: that any presence of Palestinians anywhere — in our scholarship, on a map, in our cookbooks, in Palestine or it diasporic geographies — is an altogether negation of Israeli existence.