Carmella Carmella
@carmellacarmella.bsky.social
books, babies, liberation, this gd sacred earth
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“I have spent two years watching mothers in Gaza grieving their dead children. If I don’t speak out about it today I think I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.
“We are watching children die that should affect us. Please do not get used to children’s deaths.”
theindependent.ca/news/st-john...
“We are watching children die that should affect us. Please do not get used to children’s deaths.”
theindependent.ca/news/st-john...
St. John’s city council passes resolution in support of Palestinians – The Independent
Coun. Maggie Burton put forward the motion calling on the City to write to PM Carney expressing the City’s support for a two-way arms embargo and calling for improvements to the Gaza Temporary Residen...
theindependent.ca
October 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“I have spent two years watching mothers in Gaza grieving their dead children. If I don’t speak out about it today I think I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.
“We are watching children die that should affect us. Please do not get used to children’s deaths.”
theindependent.ca/news/st-john...
“We are watching children die that should affect us. Please do not get used to children’s deaths.”
theindependent.ca/news/st-john...
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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"I say: How is this my concern? I’m a spectator
He says: No spectators at chasm’s door ... "
From "I have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater"
by Mahmoud Darwish
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52553/...
He says: No spectators at chasm’s door ... "
From "I have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater"
by Mahmoud Darwish
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52553/...
I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
The actors were tearing up their scripts and searching for the author among us, we the witnesses sitting in our seats I tell my neighbor the artist: Don’t draw your weapon, and wait, unless you’re the...
www.poetryfoundation.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"I say: How is this my concern? I’m a spectator
He says: No spectators at chasm’s door ... "
From "I have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater"
by Mahmoud Darwish
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52553/...
He says: No spectators at chasm’s door ... "
From "I have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater"
by Mahmoud Darwish
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52553/...
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Well this is HORRIFYING. With you in love and resistance my friends, especially those directly impacted.
THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Well this is HORRIFYING. With you in love and resistance my friends, especially those directly impacted.
UBC Students read and sign here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
February 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
UBC Students read and sign here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.
February 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.
I didn’t know this was on the internet! It’s about my beloved neighbourhood in St. John’s that I miss so much rn ❤️
The Eviction
The guy who bought the house next to my apartment is the heir to a chain of hardware stores. I saw him teaching a young woman about the stock market at a local coffee shop. I watched him as he leaned ...
this.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I didn’t know this was on the internet! It’s about my beloved neighbourhood in St. John’s that I miss so much rn ❤️
Teach the babies about the world. From The Breaks by Julietta Singh.
February 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Teach the babies about the world. From The Breaks by Julietta Singh.
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Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!
February 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our FREE submission window is nowwwww OPEN -- from now until March 31, submit your work for free to Riddle Fence. All the details at www.riddlefence.com or on our Submittable. PLUS: POETRY AND FICTION ONLY --- IT'S A THEMED CALL!
Armed military police on UBC campus today to protect IOF war criminals invited to compete at sporting events as though they didn’t serve in an army that has killed at minimum a child every 30 minutes for the past 16 months. Monitoring from the rooftops like snipers.
February 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Armed military police on UBC campus today to protect IOF war criminals invited to compete at sporting events as though they didn’t serve in an army that has killed at minimum a child every 30 minutes for the past 16 months. Monitoring from the rooftops like snipers.
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule… it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and … improve our position in the struggle against Fascism.” Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
February 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule… it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and … improve our position in the struggle against Fascism.” Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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Drag shows are so threatening to fragile men they require the commander in chief of the world’s superpower to try and ban them in all caps
The President says he is appointing Ric Grenell to serve as the Interim Executive Director of the Kennedy Center.
Ric currently serves as Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions and in the first Trump administration he served as US Ambassador to Germany and acting DNI.
Ric currently serves as Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions and in the first Trump administration he served as US Ambassador to Germany and acting DNI.
February 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Drag shows are so threatening to fragile men they require the commander in chief of the world’s superpower to try and ban them in all caps
Fascism hates books, hates the people who write them, publish them, print them, sell them (unless of course they’re books of fascist propaganda). So we must keep making them and they must be revolutionary. May Mahmoud and Ahmed break the chains of the occupation ⛓️💥
Reports on the seizure of books at Educational Bookshop & arrest of owner Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed Muna for "disturbing public order".
“They took every book that had the Palestinian flag on it":
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
“They took every book that had the Palestinian flag on it":
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
February 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Fascism hates books, hates the people who write them, publish them, print them, sell them (unless of course they’re books of fascist propaganda). So we must keep making them and they must be revolutionary. May Mahmoud and Ahmed break the chains of the occupation ⛓️💥
My fascism class is on the gd nose right now.
The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism - Boston Review
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.
www.bostonreview.net
February 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
My fascism class is on the gd nose right now.
You can’t tell the children there’s no hope.
February 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You can’t tell the children there’s no hope.
“[Fascism] produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product…or kill generations for control of products…”
Toni Morrison, Racism and Fascism
Toni Morrison, Racism and Fascism
February 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“[Fascism] produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product…or kill generations for control of products…”
Toni Morrison, Racism and Fascism
Toni Morrison, Racism and Fascism
Y’all BDS works! This is a huge win!
Giller Foundation, lead sponsor Scotiabank end partnership
The sponsorship had come under fire over a Scotiabank subsidiary’s investment in an Israeli arms company
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Y’all BDS works! This is a huge win!