Adriennne Rich’s poem ‘Rape’ remains as haunting and relevant as ever.

Excellent analysis by @kristoftiteca.bsky.social on the new peace deal between DRC and Rwanda negotiated by the US. “Peace is not a real estate transaction.”

Sharpe’s voice will stay with me for a long time @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes finds beauty despite living under brutal and violent regimes of anti-blackness. What an achievement. Read it.

Now more than ever we need to read bell hooks’ timeless book. And implement it. And throw it in university leaders’ faces and never forget the power we have as educators. ✊🏾

My heart is in Bukavu. 30 years of cycles of violence. Courage and strength to the people of Bukavu ❤️

The wretched of the earth ready to wreck the earth

Scorched earth tactics. Billions of dollars spent to completely destroy land and infrastructure. But the people will never be defeated. #FreePalestine

At least she waited until the puzzle was almost finished.

My piece, published earlier this year, on sexual violence in the #DRC conflict, the silences and erasures that stem from the rape-as-weapon-of-war framework and the importance of situating this within histories of conflict, dispossession and colonial violence. abusablepast.org/the-weapon-o...

The extraordinary beginning of Judy Atkinson’s Trauma Trails on the transgenerational effects of trauma in Indigenous Australia. Goosebumps.

Summer reading pile! Fiction/non-fiction.

Hello bluesky!