Sabaah Jauhar-Rizvi

My mom and I adopted a dog from CCAC Saturday. She is now in line to get spayed and then we will bring her home.

Pictures will be forthcoming and you have been warned.

Her name is Margot

Nice

It feels like a really long time ago too. But then, this year feels like a decade.

Oh we want Schumer out now. He’s long past his expiration date.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and making a funny face .

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

Almost as if empathy and respecting everyone is a higher priority than being anti-trans.

The biggest threat is the Trump Administration and looks like even a red state like VA acknowledges this.

Which I STAN

Between him and the Pope, Chicago is becoming even more of a thorn in Trump’s ass.

❤️

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

Bingo

"Like all the Syrian kids, she is very pretty: pale skinned & dark eyed with a sensitive mouth & a tiny, high-pitched voice." p263 "Izzat so small & square & Afghan with his big nose & premature moustache." p139 "Aadil always seems so grand: a tall Somali boy with a deep, African voice, & the almost aristocratically calm manner that sometimes goes with being extremely good-looking." p85 "Cumar is long & slender as many of the Somali kids are, with a thin nose, narrow skull, & very dark, almost black skin. Aadil is more muscular & square-set, with chocolate-coloured skin, a broad-based nose, & rounded head." p85 "Jonathon, six-foot five inches tall with a slow, resonant African accent." p78 & "Tall, strong, African Jonathon." p243 "The small round Priti & her taller, silent cousin, Priya." p93 "She would call out to me for words, urgently, her black, almond-shaped eyes snapping, slim fingers blossoming." p108 All so different from "my Nordic height & Celtic colouring".

Hijabs Clanchy thinks about hijabs - a lot. "I wonder again what Shakila does to her hijab, & why it seems to sit fuller & higher than the other girls' - a Mother Superior hijab, or one from Vermeer. It can't be starched. Maybe it's draped over twisted horns of hair like Carrie Fisher's in Star Wars. That would go with her furry eyebrows, her slanting, sparkling black eyes, her general, Mongolian ferocity." p78 "Her high-set, starched hijab - did she have extra ears under there?" p109 "It is possible to wear a flirty hijab, like Samira's leopard-patterned one. & that Farida's dress may be loose & floor-length, but it still manages to show the beautiful lines of her figure when she hitches it tight around her as she sits by the basketball courts." p117 "If I could put a burqa on Susie & Kristell tomorrow, I would. A year or two of being invisible to the male gaze, of going home quietly to study, could only be liberating, & enabling too, of the rest of their lives... It's important to say that nothing that Susie or Kristell ever wear, however brief, entitles them to any abuse, ever." p165

LGBTQI+ Clanchy is supportive of gay pupils, although she's hampered by stereotypes & sees camp as a "statement of otherness". Nevertheless, she takes an 18-year old to his first gay club, which she admits wouldn't be acceptable now. She sends him in with the words: ""Liam,' I said, 'I love you. You have to promise me to always use a condom & never get AIDS." p33 But she's more dismissive of trans pupils. Like much of what she writes, I understand the concern she's raising, but the tone is trivialising: "Are we all 'fluid' now? Perhaps. It is commonplace to proclaim oneself transsexual. & to actually be gay, especially if you are as pretty as Kristen Stewart is positively fashionable. A couple of kids have even changed gender, a decision so deliciously of the moment, so furiously defended by righteous students against non-existent opposition from staff that I worry only that they won't feel the freedom to change back if they feel the need." p34

Weight All the critical comments about weight are applied to girls, & most are in a section about health. Clanchy tries to include a compensatory compliment, but there are weird sexualising & classist undercurrents: "When Kristell arrived in Year 9, she had a bosomy, curvy figure, with a tiny waist & pretty ankles... She had a soft, breathy voice to match the Bambi lashes & fresh mouth." p237 Later "She has put on a great deal of weight, so that the pretty figure is blurred... The dark eyes gazing out of the fat pink cheeks are still so very lovely." p238-9 "Danielle really was special: she was exquisitely pretty in the dark & elfin, Audrey Hepburn mode. She knew it too; she was always finding occasion to take off her clothes & expose her pale, beautifully turned limbs." p233 Later "As if refusing middle-class food along with middle-class ambition, Danielle put on weight... her new bosom protruding ever more bulbously... I was surprised how hurt I was to see it. It wasn't the flesh so much as the loss of grace." p234 I know what she means with this next one, & there is a valid point. It's probably intended to be self-deprecating & tongue-in-cheek, but... "Lianne is stuffing fig rolls, my favourite, into her pretty fat face, & it is very hard indeed not to have one. I can manage it, I think, in the same way that I can manage to finish a poem, because I am middle class. Because, since I was a tiny child, I have been taught to wait for long-term goals." p235

I see the 2021 scandal around Kate Clanchy's book "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me" is back in the news as Clanchy receives an apology from the publisher of that book. Here's a reminder of the racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBT comments, and fat shaming from the book.

This is a valid concern

Yes. Yes they do

Tear gas in use during a strike in the 1930s

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

Wait? They have a football team?!

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

The Death of Shame Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

Zohran Mamdani won NYC Mayor while unapologetically:
-Calling Israel's siege on Palestinians a genocide
-Upholding ICC's warrant to arrest Netanyahu
-Upholding BDS as a legitimate form of free speech
-Demanding Palestinian self-determination
-Securing a plurality of Jewish voters

This is the future

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

Right?! His ideas are moderate in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Why Planned Parenthood Is Getting In on the California Redistricting Effort (Podcast) Jodi Hicks from Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California explains the organization’s decision to back Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50.

ICYMI, @hegemommy.bsky.social and I talked to the head of Planned Parenthood CA last month about Prop 50 and why PPCA joined the redistricting fight.

That’s a huge win for repro rights. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/16/w...

The Washington post Democracy Dies in Darkness Media Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon

we live in hell

Want to see how racist Anger Yam is?

The man endorsed a white Democrat to defeat an immigrant in NYC and refused to endorse a Black Republican candidate in VA.

Awwww!!!!

A picture of my coworker dressed as Amy Winehouse. I am dressed as Lydia from the cartoon Beetlejuice show.

Yesterday was the 45th rotation around the sun for me. Dressed up as Lydia from the cartoon Beetlejuice. Went trick or treating with the niece and nephew. Allergies are real bad too.

Oh lawd! My crush has intensified

I have a classmate from college whose child is ASD and every time they eat something new, it’s a win. So I understand how huge this is for you!

Damn that’s harsh. But fair.