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Karĩmi / wa Ngamĩro
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✨ cultural worker | archivist | zine-lover
📚 aspiring historian | herbalist-in-study
🗃️ curating at @blackocarchive.bsky.social
💌 newsletter at wangamiro.substack.com

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Hey there! I'm karĩmi (she/they) I'm a kenyan-"american" cultural worker, archivist, and zine-lover born and based in so-called orange county, california.

My work centers on themes of Blackness, place, liberation, history, and solidarity. I'll be using this post to link some of my work ✨
I'm fundraising on behalf of a housing insecure Black asylum seeker in my community. They are seeking support with legal fees, housing deposit, and moving costs.

Anything helps! Please share widely as this is a urgent request.

Venmo: @wangamiro
Casapp: $wangamiro
April 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Holding a fundraiser for a local abolitionist mutual aid collective, Abolition Now OC, that provides support to folks released from jails in orange county, california.

Shop link: wangamiro.bigcartel.com

If you would like to donate directly, you can do so on venmo: @/abolitionnowoc
March 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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We must all speak out against this and stand in solidarity with Momodou Taal!

Never back down. Never be quiet. Keep fighting 🖤🫡🇵🇸
March 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey there! I'm karĩmi (she/they) I'm a kenyan-"american" cultural worker, archivist, and zine-lover born and based in so-called orange county, california.

My work centers on themes of Blackness, place, liberation, history, and solidarity. I'll be using this post to link some of my work ✨
March 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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For more than a year, my colleague Justin Scheck and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.
East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia (Gift Article)
East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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GEO announces that North Lake is being reopened as an ICE detention center. I know the facility well; I reported in it plenty during COVID
The GEO Group Announces Contract for Company-Owned 1,800-Bed North Lake Facility in Michigan
The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) (“GEO” or the “Company”) announced today that the Company has entered into a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enfor...
www.businesswire.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not
March 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM