We cannot accept this kind of censorship if we understand the role of a university as it should be: a space for respectful and open discussion in which to learn from one another; especially in critical times as the ones we’re living in.

Follow link to watch the lecture online.

As an ‘homage’ to the ETH’s comment, the talk is entitled 'When the Walls Tighten on You: On Palestinian Impossibility to Distance from Architecture’s Violence.'

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Register here: thefunambulist.net/editorials/eth…

We will send you a Zoom link two hours prior to the lecture.

📢 New York wolves: Join us at our 50th anniversary gala at the Harvard Club on May 9!

Ft. a cocktail reception, dinner, and a literary program with Natalie Diaz, Carmen Maria Machado, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, Danez Smith, and more.

Tix here:
graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/50thAnniversar…

Been a dark week at UT, but received a little sunshine this morning. Gonna toast this little book tonight.

nadaísta Jotamario Arbeláez 1964

The application is open to work with me or one of my excellent colleagues at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project, in a cohort of 6 writers working with a mentor to finish a book! To date, 12+ books from BPers are published or forthcoming on major presses. 🔥lighthousewriters.org/adult/book-pro…

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'Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event,' the physician said in the letter.
Doctor at IDF field hospital for detained Gazans: 'We are all complicit in breaking law' haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The Willcox Playa in southern AZ is a remnant of a Pleistocene era lake. In winter thousands of Sandhill cranes migrate here. Monsoons bring leopard frogs & tiger beetles. Max Power, a Canadian corporation, hopes to mine the playa for lithium. Exploratory drilling has begun.

Yá’át’ééh everyone, we are extremely excited to announce Natalie Diaz coming to the Library to do a Reading and Visit! Join us at 12 pm on Friday April 12th!

The next few weeks are a dream come true:
—April 1-5: Yiłta! Book Drop on the Rez w/ NDN Girls Book Club
—April 8-9: Navajo Tech’s Shił Nahólne’: Literary Arts & Oral Stories Symposium w/ Sherwin Bitsui ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ kinsale drake ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ & so many others
—Navajo Nation Library hosts Natalie Diaz!

I love these people and their abundant, rigorous hearts and imaginations. Gracias The Rockefeller Foundation for this constellation of love and excellence. Darrick Hamilton @OURDEAN!

Israel’s automated warfare has turned our murder into a sadistic video game. This is systematic. Beyond what IHL imagined. No one is safe.

This drone strikes 4 unarmed men walking to see their demolished home in Khan Younis, then continues to hunt 2 of the men who survived #Gaza

'In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy' but they are 'a central pillar of Israel's regime of oppression against Palestinians,' says Maya Wind, author of 'Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.'

Yesterday, Israeli forces killed 400 starving Palestinians in Gaza City waiting for food aid. This is the third Israeli lethal attack on starving Palestinians waiting for food aid in two weeks. This is just the last two weeks.

middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-…

#Gaza #Genocide #Nakba

My essay in The New Yorker about Ramadan, Gaza, and sacrifice in a time of so much suffering. 🌙❤️newyorker.com/news/essay/fas…

I am sick with these wonders:

UPDATE: At least 21 Palestinian children have starved to death in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health.