Okay friends, let's go! We're launching a new fundraiser for @sameerproject soon, so keep an eye out! In the meantime, reach out if you'd like to offer early matching funds and/or record & share a video of yourself reading a memorized poem. We need a big push right now 🌿💞

for some reason the Euro-American left heard "globalize the intifada" & thought " let your internationalism only extend to palestine" // what a stupid & myopic way to miss a global decolonial battle cry....

NEW: No Arms In The Arts launches boycott of the Scotiabank Photo Award. 70 artists, curators and photographers, including many past winners and nominees, are withdrawing their work ahead of the 2025 nominations. https://t.co/CU9PLQabhz

Sunday: Nov 16 9.30 am PST/ 12.30 pm EST Upstart & Crow (#Vancouver— online) #TamilTerrains Join Nedra, Geetha, Subhanya & Thamilini for Poems, Translations, Reflections Register on Eventbrite

Very excited to check out these (beautiful) books from @tracepress. 🙌🏼

Join us for this year’s READ PALESTINE WEEK, coming November 29-December 5 organized by @pubforpalestine For 7 days, people around the world read – publicly and in community – as part of the global resistance to the genocide of the Palestinian people. Publishers, librarians, &

« Goodison’s translation expands on this sense of a common cause. Her verses travel between registers, with phrases like “Gwey! You wutliss crow-bait” using phonetic spelling to evoke Jamaican patois, which some linguists argue should be considered a language in its own right. »

« What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war & forced or voluntary migrations? » #TamilTerrains Available in bookstores + https://t.co/13SfwgAaEa

From last Friday’s fabulous Toronto launch for #TamilTerrains Big thanks to editors Nedra & Geetha, & emerging poet-translators Abi, Gobiga & Subhanya.

Tanzania is facing a deepening human rights crisis. Under President Samia Suluhu Hasan, Tanzanian authorities have been deliberately silencing dissent by targeting government critics, journalists, civil society, human rights defenders, and opposition voices. Take action with

Visited ⁦@AnotherStoryTO⁩ this evening & LOVED their small press displays— Surprised & delighted to see #TamilTerrains & #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar from our trace: translating [x] series (so if in TO, go visit our favourite #bookstore!)

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🔸Friday: Nov 7 🔸Join Nedra Rodrigo & Geetha Sukumaran to celebrate the launch of #TamilTerrains with poetry & discussions on the art, politics & practices of literary translation. #Toronto #Tamil #poetry #translation

🔸🌊 Arrived! The books are beautiful!!! Will start mailing out to all who have pre-ordered —please be patient with Canada Post delays & Toronto folks, join us for launch Friday- Nov 7! #TamilTerrains #Tamil #poetry #translation

& Canadian mining companies have a long history of trying to silence Tundu Lissu when he defended artisanal miners in North Mara/ Bulyanhulu. See this from 2006: https://t.co/Nm0ves7wGA #MO29

Tanzanians want justice & liberation— & not to be subjected to abductions, beatings, rape, & incarceration by a repressive state. At the same time, the UAE & US & others meddling in the region have their own extractive agendas…

Samia & her ‘disappearing’ opponents. (following, with concern, today’s elections back home in TZ & ZNZ)

“(Soyinka) called it, with characteristic humour, a “rather curious love letter” to receive” — Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa

October reading 🍂🍁🍂

“Today, we are all witnesses. But the assumption that once gave value to the act of witnessing has proven to be completely untrue when it comes to Palestine.” —Saeed Teebi Read the book & this interview, gifted by ⁦@rdassaly⁩