Aytak Dibavar آی تک‌ دیباور

Picture, outside, red shoes and flower, green matcha and photography book on a wooden bench.

Instagram post by poets ••• maybe you don't belong anywhere because you are the bridge between worlds

maybe
you don't belong anywhere
because you are the bridge
between worlds

New Beginnings 🌿
#portlandmaine

Chicago things and more…

# 1: Beehive
# 2: Me and the headdress of my ancestors at the Chicago institue of art
# 3: Musk Rat
# 4: و‌ من فقط میتونستم‌که بنویسم

Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

A short reflection on the Shadows of Nothingness exhibit. Read here: www.aytakdibavar.com/blog/shadows-of-nothingness

Go ELGSES!!! 😁

Transgender parents are smashing damaging perceptions of gender roles in the family Queer and trans households are steadfastly raising children to live without gender bias

👏 "At a time when the trans community is under threat from overt attacks across the country, Queer and trans households are steadfastly raising children to live without gender bias” - Logan Blackburn-Issitt

www.wearequeeraf.com/transgender-...

this morning, my local librarian recognized me by name, and it made my day

get to know your libraries and defend them

Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government... I cannot be silent." - Dr King

Happy MLK Day!

Bosnian writer, Aleksander Hemon writes;
"Exiles, no matter what their origin, share this in common, they never are 'home.' In fact, if you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, nowhere is the biggest place in the world - indeed, nowhere is the world."

Learning with Lotus What do anticolonial archives tell us about efforts to decolonise the university today? Malek Abdelkhalek reflects on anti-racism and solidarity in and beyond the classroom.

In 2022, a student-staff research project @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social explored how histories of anticolonialism and solidarity can inform inclusive pedagogy.

Malak Abdelkhalek reflects on what putting decolonial, anti-racist learnings into practice looks like.

In conversation with Dr. Silvia Federici on transnational feminist solidarity and intersectional social reproductive theory at our conference: a dream come true moment - also Sarvenaz Ahmadi's picture on Dr. Federici's wall, a testament to our entangled struggles.