sophia / صوفيا
@brownisthecolor.bsky.social
prof @ UCSC. Black study, translational + transnational blackness, disaster, diaspora, Palestine. Fond of toast. Often bruised. she/they.
look who made it to Oakland! outside Jerusalem coffee house , of course
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
look who made it to Oakland! outside Jerusalem coffee house , of course
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Zohran breaks a weird streak in American politics, in that he is the child of a foreign-born radical professor but has not become a centrist
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Zohran breaks a weird streak in American politics, in that he is the child of a foreign-born radical professor but has not become a centrist
Photo: loser ICE/DHS brownshirt shoots a pepper-ball point blank into a local clergyman’s face as protestors blockade the coast guard entrance in Alameda (where the feds are currently staging to invade the Bay Area) with peepee in his big boy pants
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Photo: loser ICE/DHS brownshirt shoots a pepper-ball point blank into a local clergyman’s face as protestors blockade the coast guard entrance in Alameda (where the feds are currently staging to invade the Bay Area) with peepee in his big boy pants
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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
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"Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA—But He Should Push Harder." Great that Mamdani's holding FIFA accountable for fleecing fans. But cheaper tix won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van. My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA. But He Doesn't Go Far Enough.
Mamdani is right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing its fans. But cheaper prices won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van.
www.thenation.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA—But He Should Push Harder." Great that Mamdani's holding FIFA accountable for fleecing fans. But cheaper tix won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van. My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
I am screaming
October 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I am screaming
Aycin Kantoglu, Turkish citizen kidnapped by the IOF while at sea in the Sumud Flotilla, when Ben-Gvir was declaring all the flotilla participants as ‘terrorists’: “Shut your mouth, you genocidal filth.”
October 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Aycin Kantoglu, Turkish citizen kidnapped by the IOF while at sea in the Sumud Flotilla, when Ben-Gvir was declaring all the flotilla participants as ‘terrorists’: “Shut your mouth, you genocidal filth.”
They turned Gaza into a death camp and call it a kindness.
September 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
They turned Gaza into a death camp and call it a kindness.
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Also...don't bring it up with Palestinians unless they bring it up first.
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Also...don't bring it up with Palestinians unless they bring it up first.
I am trying to finish something like a book manuscript for my workshop in December while navigating the survivor’s guilt all diaspora Palestinians live with amid nearly 2 years of genocide…. Alan Dershowitz getting banned from every pierogi shop in Martha’s Vineyard is basically what keeps me going
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am trying to finish something like a book manuscript for my workshop in December while navigating the survivor’s guilt all diaspora Palestinians live with amid nearly 2 years of genocide…. Alan Dershowitz getting banned from every pierogi shop in Martha’s Vineyard is basically what keeps me going
bruh I know folks in Vietnam have to be cackling over USians blasting “Hanoi Hannah” (Trịnh Thị Ngọ, may she RIP) recordings at US military personnel occupying cities IN the US bc I surely am
September 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
bruh I know folks in Vietnam have to be cackling over USians blasting “Hanoi Hannah” (Trịnh Thị Ngọ, may she RIP) recordings at US military personnel occupying cities IN the US bc I surely am
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“But we don’t abandon hope. We keep going. We believe.”
We are matching 1500 to rescue Mai & her family as their beloved home of Gaza City literally falls around them
But we don’t abandon hope. We keep going. We believe. 3257/4000 by tomorrow night.
But we don’t abandon hope. We keep going. We believe. 3257/4000 by tomorrow night.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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September 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“But we don’t abandon hope. We keep going. We believe.”
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Amid Israel’s man-made famine in Gaza, a young Palestinian boy scours the streets for fallen pasta from an aid truck, a stark reminder of the severe hunger and suffering that is still gripping the strip.
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Amid Israel’s man-made famine in Gaza, a young Palestinian boy scours the streets for fallen pasta from an aid truck, a stark reminder of the severe hunger and suffering that is still gripping the strip.
But if I set my account to private what would my racist colleagues email my chair or dean to complain about
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
But if I set my account to private what would my racist colleagues email my chair or dean to complain about
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a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
lmfao that it’s jimmy kimmel of all people. not exactly a boundary pusher.
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
lmfao that it’s jimmy kimmel of all people. not exactly a boundary pusher.
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i cannot comprehend what this means
September 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
i cannot comprehend what this means
A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share widely and encourage colleagues to give generously 🇵🇸
leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization
The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in...
leonardeducation.org
September 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share widely and encourage colleagues to give generously 🇵🇸
leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
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Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: being racist & advocating for mass shootings
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: being racist & advocating for mass shootings
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Maybe Newsom really is just tweeting all day and his social media staff isnt because the dude's been absent from governing these last few months or advancing key legislation to make our state better. Its just Trump mockery and then some anti-homeless task force or photo-op.
September 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Maybe Newsom really is just tweeting all day and his social media staff isnt because the dude's been absent from governing these last few months or advancing key legislation to make our state better. Its just Trump mockery and then some anti-homeless task force or photo-op.
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700 days of gencide in gaza
I don't know but all I can say is I'm going to lose my mind
I don't know but all I can say is I'm going to lose my mind
September 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
700 days of gencide in gaza
I don't know but all I can say is I'm going to lose my mind
I don't know but all I can say is I'm going to lose my mind
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If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now?
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
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Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)
Paris on September 1, 2016 By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now?
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...