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dubravka
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architect and educator, programme lead of MA City Design at Royal College of Art, London
minorplanning, spatial literacy, and spatial social contract
some poetry and a lot of music
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chowleen.bsky.social
I will share and share and share this poem until we all flower.
chowleen.bsky.social eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Oct 8
I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
January 15, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre
(Garrett Felber): www.akpress.org/a-continuous...
The cover for the book A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber
February 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.
February 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced Thursday it has joined a World Health Organization network that works on disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies around the world. The city said it was the first U.S. municipality to do so.”
New York City Joins WHO Network After U.S. Withdrawal
The city is the first municipality to link with a network that aims to rapidly detect and respond to public health threats and emergencies.
www.thecity.nyc
February 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
Ruth Wilson Gilmore tracing the nonprofit industrial complex in relationship to the prison industrial complex and foundations as "repositories of twice-stolen wealth".

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In the Shadow of the Shadow State
Even in today’s world, Ira Reid’s words still ring true, descriptive of a scenario many contemporary social justice activists think is unique to our times. Yet, more than 60 years ago the dimensions…
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February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
In this reprint of “Peril” and “Racism and Fascism,” Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism’s reach.

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February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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langealexandra.bsky.social
Yale has a "Domestic Revolutions and Feminist Cities" Symposium in April with many women who I'm always quoting! Dolores Hayden, Eva Kail, and more. www.architecture.yale.edu/calendar/231...
February 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
dubravka.bsky.social
more lola olufemi appreciation - 'this is a temporal landscape' is an incredible project of activating archives of liberatory struggles thisisatemporallandscape.vercel.app
February 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
The exhibit " #Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" has 12 sections.

This is from the DISGUISE section. #BlackSky

Wiliam and Ellen Craft escaped enslavement in Georgia by dressing fair-skinned Ellen as a white, upper-class "gentleman,"" with her husband William posing as her Black male servant.
Short Description: Photos of the book written about William and Ellen Craft's escape from slavery by "cross-dressing" (word Museum uses) Museum Text" As recounted n their 1860 memoir shown here, Wiliam and Ellen Craft escaped enslavement in Georgia by dressing fair-skinned Ellen as a white, upper-class "gentleman,"" with her husband William posing as her Black male servant. "| went to diferent parts of the town, at odd times, and purchased things piece by piece,' Wlilliam writes, describing how his wife, a seamstress, also modified garments. Pioneering Black historian and abolitionist William Still included images of the Crafts in "gender appropriate" attire following their final escape to England in his seminal 1872 chronicle The Underground Rail Road, also on display. In addition to gender, dandiacal dress could disguise class and social status, an especially dangerous prospect for enslaved Black men. William's decision to purchase a high- quality (if secondhand) dandyish white beaver top hat similar to the one here- almost ieopardtized the couple's light by upsetting white observers' sense of racial and sartorial propriety, with one exclaiming, "It always makes me itch all over, from head to toe, to get hold of every d-d nigger I see dressed like a white man."
September 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
dubravka.bsky.social
“ but they also don’t understand what Trek is really about. […]which is about humanity bettering itself through cooperating with each other, reckoning with hard philosophical questions and imagining a socialist-inspired socioeconomic system – where everyone’s needs are taken care of.”
February 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM
dubravka.bsky.social
so grateful that on a grey day on this 100th day of January I have been restored by the energy and enthusiasm of a brilliant conversation/tutorial with a phenomenal phd student Dalia Amelal reminding me why in the first place I wanted to be an educator
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
dubravka.bsky.social
brilliant book i keep recommending hajarpress.squarespace.com/books/experi... lola builds on (british) Black radical tradition liberating imaginations
February 5, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
"I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing. I think I will spend my life trying to rectify this." - Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise | LIBRARYSTACK∎
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February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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guymannesabbott.bsky.social
‘Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine, by Marwan Barghouti, will be published by Penguin on 5 November this year, the publisher has told the Guardian.’
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison
Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine is a collection of writings by the Palestinian political leader, who has been held in Israeli prisons since 2002
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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eraldo.bsky.social
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Robin D. G. Kelley - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 02/04/2026 · 1h 10m
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February 5, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Reading Frantz Fanon

Join us for the first session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social

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Reading Frantz Fanon with Geo Maher Week 1
Week 1 Readings: CLR James, “From Du Bois to Fanon” Black Skin, White Masks, Introduction Study Questions: Who was Frantz Fanon, and is it even possible to say? Where and when do we locate him? How…
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February 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
dubravka.bsky.social
some good news today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site
None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
About activism, June Jordan said, “You do something, rather than nothing… You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change. You admit the limitations of individual perspectives. You trust somebody else. You do not turn away.”
February 2, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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leftistwonk.bsky.social
It's probably not a good "reform" if your opponents adopt it before you even pass the bill
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d
Kristi Noem: “Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis.”
Noem: I just spoke with @RealTomHoman @ICEDirector @CBPCommissioner. Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis. As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country. The most transparent administration in American history-thank you @POTUS Trump. Make America Safe Again 1:24 PM • 2/2/26 • 101K Views
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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vijayiyer.bsky.social
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February 2, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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February 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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simulatedchollas.bsky.social
An excerpt from @harshawalia.bsky.social’s Border and Rule:
Nicholas De Genova probes, "If there were no borders, there would be no migration-only mobility." Most ironic, the migration crisis is declared a new crisis with Western countries positioned as its victims, even though for four centuries nearly eighty million Europeans became settler-colonists across the Americas and Oceania, while four million indentured laborers from Asia were scattered across the globe and the transatlantic slave trade kidnapped and enslaved fifteen million Africans. Colonialism, genocide, slavery, and indenture-ship are not only conveniently erased as continuities of violence in current invocations of a migration crisis, but are also the very conditions of possibility for the West's preciously guarded imperial sovereignty. Borders are not fixed or static lines; they are productive regimes concurrently generated by and producing social relations of dominance. In addition to migration being a consequence of empire, capitalism, climate catastrophe, and oppressive hierarchies, contemporary migration is itself a mode of global governance, capital accumulation, and gendered racial class formation. Radhika Mongia writes, "The very development of the nation-state occurred, in part, to control mobility
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
dubravka.bsky.social
Blacks’ Myths meet Pat Thomas - The Mythstory School was published quietly at Luke Stewart‘s bandcamp. two different generations of those who rehearse liberation in musical communion coming together 💜https://lukestewart.bandcamp.com/album/the-mythstory-school
The Mythstory School, by Blacks' Myths meets Pat Thomas
6 track album
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January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Incarcerated artist Keith LaMar reflects on an iconic painting by Faith Ringgold. www.moma.org/magazine/art...
The Story Doesn’t Have to End | Magazine | MoMA
Incarcerated artist Keith LaMar reflects on an iconic painting by Faith Ringgold.
www.moma.org
January 31, 2026 at 7:56 PM