Sumaya
@sumayakassim.bsky.social
writer of fiction and essays, prose editor at Middleground Magazine, the museum will not be decolonised! Hauntology, horror and heritage... she/her
This is finally out! An essay about whiteness as religion and museums as temples of whiteness... I've been thinking through this for years, very grateful for the space to express these ideas. Whiteness is not simply psychological, but a way of being. Saying this with Palestine on my mind.
December 11, 2023 at 10:34 PM
This is finally out! An essay about whiteness as religion and museums as temples of whiteness... I've been thinking through this for years, very grateful for the space to express these ideas. Whiteness is not simply psychological, but a way of being. Saying this with Palestine on my mind.
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I cannot begin to summarise this astounding piece of work by @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on the racial, colonial & imperial qualities at the core of the US Constitution.
It's 150 pages long, it has 985 footnotes. It should be a book. You can read it free here: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
It's 150 pages long, it has 985 footnotes. It should be a book. You can read it free here: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
harvardlawreview.org
November 17, 2023 at 10:20 AM
I cannot begin to summarise this astounding piece of work by @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on the racial, colonial & imperial qualities at the core of the US Constitution.
It's 150 pages long, it has 985 footnotes. It should be a book. You can read it free here: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
It's 150 pages long, it has 985 footnotes. It should be a book. You can read it free here: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
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“As scholars of South Asia, we are strongly obliged to note the longstanding affinities between Zionism, Hindutva, and US empire that are further heightened through military interdependence.”
Scholars of South Asia in Solidarity with Palestine
We, the undersigned scholars working on South Asia, grieve the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives. We come together to condemn the ongoing genocide in Palestine unequivocally. As we write this, Pal...
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October 30, 2023 at 5:30 PM
“As scholars of South Asia, we are strongly obliged to note the longstanding affinities between Zionism, Hindutva, and US empire that are further heightened through military interdependence.”
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Dia Batal, "Playing on the beach is a dangerous course" -- each embroidered panel lists the name of a Palestinian child killed by Israel on Gaza beaches in 2014.
October 29, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Dia Batal, "Playing on the beach is a dangerous course" -- each embroidered panel lists the name of a Palestinian child killed by Israel on Gaza beaches in 2014.
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Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.
October 28, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Half a million people in London right now. Jewish activists in New York last night. Polls in both countries overwhelmingly support a ceasefire in Gaza. Cannot imagine this level of support even five years ago. Whatever happens, the Palestinians are no longer alone.
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this is absolutely remarkable, organized by @jvp.bsky.social
they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW
they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW
October 27, 2023 at 10:36 PM
this is absolutely remarkable, organized by @jvp.bsky.social
they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW
they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW
There is no decolonisation of institutions in a world that is so brutally in the grip of colonial conquest and capitalist extraction
What's your most cancellable hot museum take?
October 28, 2023 at 6:14 AM
There is no decolonisation of institutions in a world that is so brutally in the grip of colonial conquest and capitalist extraction
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Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
October 27, 2023 at 10:16 PM
Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.
How many more apocalypses will we witness? How many more will they create to serve their fantasies of power and conquest? When will colonialism end?
October 27, 2023 at 7:35 PM
How many more apocalypses will we witness? How many more will they create to serve their fantasies of power and conquest? When will colonialism end?
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As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.
October 23, 2023 at 8:53 AM
As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.
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Please join us for an online fundraiser:
🔴 Poets for Palestine
⚫️ Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK
🟢 raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians
Please share widely and donate if you’re able 🇵🇸
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-for-...
🔴 Poets for Palestine
⚫️ Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK
🟢 raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians
Please share widely and donate if you’re able 🇵🇸
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-for-...
October 21, 2023 at 10:22 AM
Please join us for an online fundraiser:
🔴 Poets for Palestine
⚫️ Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK
🟢 raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians
Please share widely and donate if you’re able 🇵🇸
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-for-...
🔴 Poets for Palestine
⚫️ Mon 30 Oct 7pm UK
🟢 raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians
Please share widely and donate if you’re able 🇵🇸
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-for-...
With everything that's happening, the loss of the other place as a functioning platform where people across the world could document and share state violence and abuses is clear. We can't underestimate the importance of social media. This is, unfortunately for many, a perception war.
October 21, 2023 at 6:52 AM
With everything that's happening, the loss of the other place as a functioning platform where people across the world could document and share state violence and abuses is clear. We can't underestimate the importance of social media. This is, unfortunately for many, a perception war.
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Holding this quote close to my heart while I grieve and call my reps again and again making my flaccid little Jewish pleas to cease the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
October 14, 2023 at 11:50 PM
Holding this quote close to my heart while I grieve and call my reps again and again making my flaccid little Jewish pleas to cease the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Borders are inherently anti-human and inhumane.
October 13, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Borders are inherently anti-human and inhumane.
so tempted to write a "I'm not actually dead" article from the perspective of Literary Fiction herself... "all rumours about my demise are greatly exaggerated. I'm just wearing different clothes and avoiding the limelight."
“Literary fiction” is dead. What even was it? I wrote about its short life (created in the 1980s!), conditions of possibility, & rapid decline into obsolescence for The Nation. A taste of my book, Big Fiction www.thenation.com/article/cult...
What Was Literary Fiction?
The strangely short history of a publishing niche.
www.thenation.com
October 10, 2023 at 2:45 PM
so tempted to write a "I'm not actually dead" article from the perspective of Literary Fiction herself... "all rumours about my demise are greatly exaggerated. I'm just wearing different clothes and avoiding the limelight."
I am absolutely terrified for the Palestinians trapped in the open air prison created by their colonisers. To think that the Israeli government can call Palestinians "human animals" and still be defended... there is no justice until Palestine is free
October 9, 2023 at 2:32 PM
I am absolutely terrified for the Palestinians trapped in the open air prison created by their colonisers. To think that the Israeli government can call Palestinians "human animals" and still be defended... there is no justice until Palestine is free
Watcjing Dune and it's terrible that villains are always coded as disabled. That's another thing The Matrix got right, where the villain/s look like a basic politician starter pack
October 2, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Watcjing Dune and it's terrible that villains are always coded as disabled. That's another thing The Matrix got right, where the villain/s look like a basic politician starter pack
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🏺📜 Really honoured to be interviewed as part of Mummy Stories’ new series, “The Bridge”, talking a bit about repatriation and human remains in museums: www.mummystories.com/single-post/...
Meet Alex Fitzpatrick on The Bridge
Bridging the gap in the conversation on human remains in museums.
www.mummystories.com
September 28, 2023 at 9:10 AM
🏺📜 Really honoured to be interviewed as part of Mummy Stories’ new series, “The Bridge”, talking a bit about repatriation and human remains in museums: www.mummystories.com/single-post/...
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It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org
Anti-Colonial Research Library
Welcome to the Anti-Colonial Research Library This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube…
anticolonialresearchlibrary.org
September 25, 2023 at 8:12 AM
It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org
this year I embargoed myself from publishing essays and stories and the result has been 100000s of words written because getting short pieces into publishable shape can be incredibly time and energy consuming. just had to do without the dopamine hit of getting stuff out there! #AmWriting #Writing
September 24, 2023 at 11:28 AM
this year I embargoed myself from publishing essays and stories and the result has been 100000s of words written because getting short pieces into publishable shape can be incredibly time and energy consuming. just had to do without the dopamine hit of getting stuff out there! #AmWriting #Writing
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tomorrow the fourth of four essays about teaching and practicing poetry will be here:
bewilderment.substack.com
and next Sunday, back to walking. Every Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Irish time, one essay. Pictures, poems, rooms, walking, looking, being together. If you enjoy what you read, please pass it on.
bewilderment.substack.com
and next Sunday, back to walking. Every Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Irish time, one essay. Pictures, poems, rooms, walking, looking, being together. If you enjoy what you read, please pass it on.
Bewilderment | Éireann Lorsung | Substack
100+ subscribers. a way to enter the day as much as the work. Click to read Bewilderment, by Éireann Lorsung, a Substack publication.
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September 23, 2023 at 7:27 PM
tomorrow the fourth of four essays about teaching and practicing poetry will be here:
bewilderment.substack.com
and next Sunday, back to walking. Every Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Irish time, one essay. Pictures, poems, rooms, walking, looking, being together. If you enjoy what you read, please pass it on.
bewilderment.substack.com
and next Sunday, back to walking. Every Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Irish time, one essay. Pictures, poems, rooms, walking, looking, being together. If you enjoy what you read, please pass it on.
Just got back from seeing #JoeHisaishi at #Wembley and it was breathtaking - made me cry a lot. The concert was due to happen years ago but was delayed due to covid. It felt like the concert was dedicated to the those we've lost and the beauty of life despite its transience...
September 21, 2023 at 9:41 PM
Just got back from seeing #JoeHisaishi at #Wembley and it was breathtaking - made me cry a lot. The concert was due to happen years ago but was delayed due to covid. It felt like the concert was dedicated to the those we've lost and the beauty of life despite its transience...
I have a chapter forthcoming in Routledge's Decolonizing Art History, ed. by Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, & Charlene Villaseñor Black <3 It's called 'Museum are Temples of Whiteness' and details my thoughts about what human remains and sacred objects in museums really signify
September 20, 2023 at 11:40 AM
I have a chapter forthcoming in Routledge's Decolonizing Art History, ed. by Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martín, & Charlene Villaseñor Black <3 It's called 'Museum are Temples of Whiteness' and details my thoughts about what human remains and sacred objects in museums really signify