Qian Xi Teng #FreePalestine
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they/she | research: elite education, academic assessment | wrote They hear salt crystallising | 💖💜💙gendernope | urdu mein aksar tweet koshish likh rahi hun
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to be an activist who can actly connect with people, you need to understand why some people in precarity don't want to talk abt serious things. you need to understand the emotional forces that make someone feel safer talking abt sth you might feel is much less important 1/n
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Compare this to a Norwegian prison cell, which has windows, a shower, toilet, desk, tv, and one bed.
Cities should be allowed to build housing for adults like this. We do it for hostels, and it can serve as "housing of last resort." Very cheap rent, by the bed. There'd have to be strictly enforced rules if paired with strangers, but it's not impossible.
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The lesson of the Holocaust should not be "but the problem was that it was *us* that got slaughtered" - for goodness sake.
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Don’t fall into the trap of mourning a life you can still live
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This quote is at the forefront of my mind when I read the work of any academic.
scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent. —Rabea Eghbariah
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U.S. society doesn’t hate vigilante narratives. It reboots a new Batman franchise every yr. But billionaire vigilante Bruce Wayne keeps the working class in check. What has the ruling class spooked now is that a vigilante killed a ruling class CEO & the working class cheered.
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PhD lady made exactly one mistake, and that was not naming her literature thesis on olfactory ethics “Scents and Sensibility”
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colleagues today saying one of the employees at the Jobs Hub "smells" which "isn't good for its reputation", despite the entire point of the Jobs Hub being to help vulnerable people get a job and now this vulnerable person has got a job. the Olfactory Ethics PhD lady is right !!
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people are always saying follow your passion and you'll never work a day in your life but as soon as your passion is olfactory ethics everybody has a meltdown
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The dissertation on olfactory ethics received unwarranted critiques. These reactionaries, however, will never critique articles like these, which victimize Israeli academics and ignore the fact that Israel systematically destroyed all the universities in Gaza.
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how can you try to discredit the olfactory ethics thesis when men search for fragrances for hours online to smell like a sigma male. smell is important whether y’all want to admit it or not. dior sauvage very quickly went from a high class scent to indicating a player
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One example for those who want the production of knowledge to be more real world applicable: olfactory ethics means your loss of smell always meant covid is a neurologic disease too, but it's still not politically convenient to regard it as such.
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hi! so if people are curious, in this workshop i will guide folks to buy and send an eSim during and answer questions as they come up! #ConnectingGaza
Never sent an eSIM before? Come learn from one of the founders of crips for eSIMs for Gaza, @pipagaopoetry 💖 Register here: https://t.co/W0iW1M3QuR
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Detroit, join us this Friday for PALESTINE & THE URGENT WORD with Zaina Alsous, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Mohammed El-Kurd, Fred Moten and Kamelya Omayma Youssef. Venue: Jam Handy at 7pm Tickets only $10: https://t.co/jVV6xbcoKA
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@annemichaels_ @GillerPrize Difference between the people who have principals and those who are ok with whitewashing genocide as long as the victims are brown Arabs https://t.co/03tK6nuxKY
I have written to the @gillerprize to request that my name, image and work be removed entirely from the their website and all related material and videos. My work will no longer be submitted. I thank them in advance for respecting my wishes.
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I don’t know if y’all have seen this post on FB about Asheville, NC right now, so I’m sharing it here: @Imani_Barbarin has BEEN telling us about how disabled people are abandoned incrisis, here’s the latest of that happening in the aftermath of #HurricaneHelene #Disability
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I am glad for people to "spend their capital," I suppose. But what ideas & analysis are they purchasing for us? Is it more than just personal redemption for having previously supported the apartheid colony they now give limited criticism of? Is it to put a ceiling on criticism?
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