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Kristy
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*privileged white cis woman. make sure to diversify your feed before following*

Gender | Swiftie | Curious Feminist
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My latest paper sheds some light on the process of formation of colonial subjecthood through epistemic violence in Palestine.

If you are interested, give it a read:
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Daily reminder that children are still dying in Gaza
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reposted by Kristy
The first in a new series of videos following young writers in Gaza.

Here, Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, Judgement Day, from her searingly powerful debut collection.

Please watch and share widely.

youtube.com/watch?v=mHunLNYShWI&feature=youtu.be
Batool Abu Akleen reads her poem, 'Judgement Day'
YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature
youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Read out loud every single one of them. Every single out of 18457 names. History, past and future slaughtered again and again. And remember you are not innocent, you are not distant. You killed them too. We all did. And we continue to do.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Another abhorrent attack on gender equality and queer rights in name of ethics and Christian values.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption
Critics are warning the change would make life more difficult for LGBT people.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The British tried this before. It was called the British Colonial Office back then. Just putting on it a fancier name now with a different Sir in charge. Nothing new here.
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Israel is pulling another lever in the machinery of its genocide.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestinians in West Bank stranded as Israel shuts only international crossing
Many have been unable to leave the territory since the Allenby Bridge crossing was shut indefinitely on Wednesday.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“I gave up my eldest son so he could feed his siblings, his father and his mother.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Killed seeking food - Jeremy Bowen on Abdullah's shooting and Gaza's lethal aid system
Inside Panorama and BBC Eye's investigation into hunger in Gaza and why so many are risking their lives for aid.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Kristy
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Absolutely appalling. But this was long in the making. Hateful rhetoric is not accidental, genocide is not accidental. And the elimination of Gaza, of Palestine is not a matter of 2 year. Listen to the oppressor, no matter how crazy they sound.

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Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash
Bezalel Smotrich, an ultranationalist who has been sanctioned by the UK and others, said he was in discussion with the US over the idea.
trib.al
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Important reminder that conflict in Gaza is not just a war. It’s a part of bigger genocidal settler-colonial regime.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC witnesses Israeli settlers' attack on Palestinian farm in West Bank
A BBC team was interviewing a Palestinian farmer when masked men charged towards them.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“The future’s bright
… Dazzling.” ✨✨
#TS12
August 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Reposted by Kristy
Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians
Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians
A mutual alliance between oppressed people has been revived with Israel’s full-scale invasion of Gaza
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“The clustering of similar injuries … suggests this is a targeting activity at particular body parts”
August 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reposted by Kristy
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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July 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by Kristy
In a deathblow to the ability to stop blatantly lawless and unconstitutional actions by the government, the Supreme Court just gutted the ability to get universal injunctions.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Reposted by Kristy
I spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison but when Israel bombed it I felt horror and fear | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
I spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison but when Israel bombed it I felt horror and fear | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Many held there are opponents of the repressive regime. Who is alive now? Who was killed? Were they just collateral damage, asks former hostage Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Kristy
This article is...quite wild. It suggests that the entire public premise for Israeli (and American) strikes on Iran is false, and a product of Netanyahu seeing a weakened Iran and deciding to strike (and interpreting murky intel in a very particular way to effectuate that).
Netanyahu decided on Iran war last year, then sought to recruit Trump
The Israeli prime minister had set in motion plans to attack Iran long before President Trump began efforts to resolve nuclear concerns through negotiations.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I thought I would go to see a movie to take my mind of the news.
Turned out that the only screening is a post-apocalyptic zombie horror.

Sticking with small men's shit for the day.
June 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reposted by Kristy
Israel's strikes on Iran mark the emergence of a "threshold war" - a new form of conflict where a nuclear power uses force to prevent an enemy from acquiring nuclear weapons. An international relations scholar explains the dangerous dynamic: buff.ly/mFpPrPk
By Farah N. Jan @upenn.edu
Iran-Israel ‘threshold war’ has rewritten nuclear escalation rules
Strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran may increase Tehran’s belief that attaining nuclear weapons is key to establishing a deterrence to regime change.
buff.ly
June 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM