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Aricka Foreman
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Author|Artist|Community Weaver. She|They.
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If you’re in the disability justice world, you should be following the new @blackdisabilityins.bsky.social account. So many good things ahead and you’re gonna wanna be in the loop!
February 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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60 Minutes's story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective. In the process, it justified war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/60-minutes-program-on-leban…
’60 Minutes’ program on Lebanon pager attack was nothing more than Israeli propaganda
60 Minutes’s story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective. In the process, it...
mondoweiss.net
January 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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ED of @nilc.org Kica Matos on The Atlantic’s immigration screed “With their scolding and posturing these self-described “pragmatists” are—perhaps unwittingly—mimicking the far-right’s well-worn playbook of scapegoating marginalized people to evade responsibility” www.commondreams.org/opinion/dems...
The Dems Won’t Win by Abandoning Immigrant Rights | Common Dreams
With their scolding and posturing, self-described “pragmatists” are mimicking the far-right’s well-worn playbook of scapegoating marginalized people to evade responsibility for charting a visionary pa...
www.commondreams.org
January 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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New Year's Revolution poster spotted in Sydney
December 31, 2023 at 2:40 AM
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2024 was a historically difficult year for transgender people, but it was not without its victories. I list over 60 victories for transgender people this year.

There is a case for hope, and the fight for transgender rights is not without wins.

Subscribe to support my journalism.
Victories For Trans People In 2024
2024 was a historically difficult year for transgender people, but there were some major victories. I list the biggest ones here.
www.erininthemorning.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
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January 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I am begging people to read Combahee River Collective Statement before “identity politics” goes the way of “woke”

www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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"Sleep (or a lack thereof) indexes scales of.. antiblackness. [Fletcher] considers the mirrored boundaries between wakefulness/sleep and life/death... By analyzing insomnia, slumber, fever dreams and nightmares.. [to] locate the bounds of Black consciousness and freedom."
- Marcelle-Anne Fletcher
Blue Dreams, Black Sleep: TOPIA: Vol 46
Dionne Brand’s meditative and narrative rule-breaking book, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, reveals the ways in which the incredible effortfulness of living, dreaming and sleeping is not only proof of a shared condition of Blackness but also of an antiblack world. Sleep (or a lack thereof) indexes scales of and relations to antiblackness. In this paper, I consider the mirrored boundaries between wakefulness/sleep and life/death, probing their psycho-existential and ontological infrastructures. I argue that these states of being are tethered, however tenuously, to each other and in doing so, clarify the stakes of the ostensibly quotidian and mundane. By analyzing insomnia, slumber, fever dreams and nightmares, the text reveals the literal and metaphorical coordinates that locate the bounds of Black consciousness and freedom. Black sleep becomes a kind of freedom, insofar as it offers reprieve that is only possible when the dreamwork is forgotten or psychically registered as nothing at all.
utppublishing.com
October 30, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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The stories of Haitians who have come here through legal immigration channels are fascinating because there are so many white collar, highly-educated Haitians who managed to get out because they had the resources to do so that their less-fortune countrymen do not have.

Now they are at risk again.
November 19, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation.

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...
Light in Gaza
Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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Dammit, @haymarketbooks.bsky.social last day sale at NWSA, you got me good
November 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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We were able to raise over $8000 for families in Gaza with the Sameer Project. But there’s a still a push to get their Refaat Camp to £100K by Sunday. Please donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1133...
November 16, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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“America’s liberal democracy has always harbored fascism as its whip, noose, truncheon taser, rifle—wielded to motivate the South to embrace its liberalism, even as it maintains Blackness as capital.”

✍🏾: Yours Truly

Read more at scalawagmagazine.org/2024/11/elec...
November 15, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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As a Black person in America - news that the IOF just bombed a barbershop in Gaza on a Saturday is devastating- like these Zionists actually hate us - schools, hospitals, mosques… ok. the barbershop?! On a Saturday ?!
November 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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I have a new piece in @truthout.bsky.social reflecting on the election, the rightward lurch on immigration, lessons from years of fighting mass deportation and detention, and how we can prepare for the coming onslaught. truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump 2.0 Poses an Even Bigger Threat to Migrants. Here’s How We Fight Back.
Let’s take concrete action to protect the millions of US residents facing the threat of Trump’s deportation crosshairs.
truthout.org
November 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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Police in #Vancouver, #Canada, carried out a violent raid and arrest of an activist and founder of Samidoun, a group that works to support political prisoners in #Palestine. The group was recently labeled a terrorist group by several countries. vancouversun.com/news/police-...
Police search east Vancouver home of Samidoun founder Charlotte Kates
Vancouver police said they arrested and released someone related to hate crime investigation but didn't say whom.
vancouversun.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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My piece about the need to rethink our approach to direct action and protest under a second Trump administration, reprinted in @truthout.bsky.social.
How Must We Reorient Our Movements Under a Second Trump Administration?
It is crucial that we rethink our approach to direct action in a potentially authoritarian, dictatorial context.
truthout.org
November 15, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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just so we’re clear: it’s free palestine over here too. 🇵🇸
November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Get into it. Something to start your own freedom schools 💫
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 15, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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An apt meme making rounds
July 12, 2024 at 7:32 PM