“You should have seen the exodus in the darkness. It was devastating—some people on motorcycles, others on foot,” [Um Mahmoud] said. “Farmers without trucks herded their sheep on the shoulders of the road.”
www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-he...
… whole article is good. but basically niggas need to be dangerous right now.
If you have a collective agreement, read it!
Poster for "Monstrous Intimacies at 15," an in-person colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's first monograph. It will be held June 22 - 24, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The poster features a photograph of a light taken by Boz Deseo Garden.
Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Nathaniel Mackey: "Perhaps all kinship is wounded, incomplete, short of its ideal"
The cover of Lucky Jefferson’s 17th issue Bond. Orange moths gravitate around a light. The word “bond” is hand drawn with a barbed wire style
Our THIRD release of the year is here!
In our 17th anthology, #Bond, we partner with Juan Hernandez, a currently incarcerated artist, to bring together the poetry, prose, and art of 18 currently and previously incarcerated creatives, as well as those connected to them and the system.
Nearly 200 artists are boycotting the Scotiabank Photography Award over the bank’s investments in Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems, rejecting cultural prestige built on war profiteering and genocide.
@tianareid.bsky.social on the growing cultural boycott and the fight to divest art from war.
🚨NOW OPEN🚨
The Claire Harris Poetry Prize is now open for submissions!
The biennial prize will be awarded to a full-length debut poetry collection by a writer who is Black, Indigenous, or from another racialized community.
Details at gooselane.com/ClaireHarrisPoetryPrize
There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
“so much black history is about black people forced to migrate”
Oh, it’ll be even better after a break I bet!
Standing upright, her eyes meeting my disapproving look, she mutters between teeth reddened by cola nuts: “Lady, death is just as beautiful as life has been.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter
“In my twenties my watchword was ‘nothing even matters’ à la Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo (RIP) and now, well into my thirties, I can resolutely say that everything does.” ← @tianareid.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
“Bahro pointed out the same disillusionment with elections, unchecked corporate expansion, and political malfeasance that Ervin encourages us to use to organize the ideological defeat of capitalism, fascism, and empire.” From @williamcson.bsky.social’s latest: prismreports.org/2026/01/07/a...
Join us tomorrow night in Toronto! We are fundraising for Sondos Sabra and her family. I’ll be reading, along with many others.
“‘This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately,’ he said, explaining that Israeli forces had repeatedly stormed the university's campus.”
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...
last year gone!
Screenshot of text reading in part: Most important: Genocide, still. Least important: Whatever it was, wouldn’t it be so insignificant that I wouldn’t even remember it? Something like: a forgettable face, the same old headache, scrolling through my phone. I mean, my first thought was that 30 minutes ago I started crying in the Montreal airport because I couldn’t find a car to take me on a 90-minute ride. I was tired, I was hungry, I had a headache, and I also felt as I did as a child: a baby that had fucked everything up. “First world problems,” I hear people say on loop. In a universe of both the illusion of choice and the possibility of revolution, I wonder if we should take more responsibility for our own little problems, collectively produced as they are by the rotting imperial core and the international elite. All that to say, in my twenties my watchword was “nothing even matters” à la Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo (RIP) and now, well into my thirties, I can resolutely say that everything does
My reply:
I was asked, what were the most important events of 2025, and what were the least?
themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...
Teuta Hoxha, “on day 43 of a hunger strike…could die in prison if the UK government does not intervene.” news.sky.com/story/fears-...
“I think it’s important to share that the university administration heavily scrutinized the animation … We were concerned that the exhibition might be cancelled altogether, as the administration cited ‘possible safety issues." www.thegrindmag.ca/york-univers...
I am told we "discuss writing about place, the personal as critical position, and how art criticism can open up broader cultural histories and experiences by using art to write about something else.”
The live recording of my October conversation with Minh Nguyen about her book Memorial Park: Revisiting Vietnam is now up on the Momus podcast! momus.ca/podcast/minh...
Toronto climate these days reminds me of Angelina Weld Grimké's "A Winter Twilight:"
A silence slipping around like death,
Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath
"As the UAE systematically destroys Sudanese universities, schools, archeological sites, cultural institutions and heritage, it continues to rise globally as a cultural and academic powerhouse." spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
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“Aid groups are concerned that the GHF’s tactics would be replicated by the Board of Peace in Gaza and in other conflict zones across the world. They fear it normalizes private logistics and security firms managing humanitarian aid to turn a profit.” theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...
Giving up Tuesday
