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LIVE NOW!

Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry 🇵🇸

Join @intifadabatata.bsky.social , @noorhindi.bsky.social and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.

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Heaven Looks Like Us: An Evening of Palestinian Poetry
Join editors and contributors to the new Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us for a virtual reading in commemoration of Nakba Day.--------------...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Issue #2 of “The Siren” is a satirical reflection on the first 100 days of MAGA: malicious mass firings, big-headed Broligarchs, despicable deportations, dodgy DOGE, and whacked-out attacks on so-called wokeness.
100 Days of MAGA Broligarchy
“The Siren” is back for a second issue. Read up and rise up!
hyperallergic.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams needs to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition that asks NYC Mayor Adams to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide after last year's federal indictment that stated that days before the 2022 Remembrance a Turkish official sought assurances that Adams would refrain from making any statements about it.
Sign the Petition
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Must Unequivocally Recognize the Armenian Genocide
chng.it
April 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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More than 1,800 academics, including art historians and art professors, have committed to boycotting Columbia University in an open letter denouncing the school’s compliance with Trump administration crackdowns on pro-Palestinian dissent.
Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
hyperallergic.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"And by world, / I mean the / U.S., which to itself is the world. / But is not the world. Except to a father / whose house is dynamited in Palestine."

From "Sipping Silence," one of five new poems by Jen Siraganian for We Are More.

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March 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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AWP 2025 is here! Don’t miss IALA’s exciting panels and booth with Anamot Press! Starting tomorrow, make sure to stop by to say hello, grab some goodies, and connect with our literary community. 📚

Learn more & register for our offsite event here: bit.ly/4bZtQy7
March 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Huge thanks to @poetrydaily.bsky.social!!!! Still in shock.
March 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
And for more reasons to speak up and act now...

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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"Like many American twenty-two-year-olds, I thought I could save the world."

ICYMI - - - > 🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "Once I Thought I Could Save People" by Jen Siraganian
Once I Thought I Could Save People
A literary magazine named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.
buff.ly
January 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.
 
In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour. 

Let's steal those ideas.
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM