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1. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the
Middle East Needs aSexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

'To the girls of the Middle East and North
Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free'

Starting my day and sending love and solidarity to you all 💜✊🏽❤️

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Introduce yourself with
A book: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women & Girls (Mona Eltahawy)
A film: The Princess Bride
An album: Coconut Telegraph (@jimmybuffett)
A TV show: The West Wing

Yeah, I can’t rewatch this enough. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎

New from Yale students:
At least 45 arrested.
Admin offered meeting with 2 Yale trustees if encampment disbanded. Students rejected, since Yale wasn't offering new info on investments.
“Our University is complicit in the destruction of every university in Gaza,” 1 arrestee said.

After more than 100 students from Barnard College and Columbia University were arrested at an encampment calling for the school to divest from Israel amid the country's deadly assault on Gaza, similar encampments have begun across the United States.

In Gaza, I studied at two universities and worked at a third. Professors who taught me have been killed, colleagues have been murdered, and the campuses where I studied and worked lay mostly in ruins. The entire academic system has been obliterated by Israel's bombs. Yet, here,

Kids getting killed in Gaza gets less media attention than kids in America protesting the slaughter. How much propaganda does it take to convince people that students protesting a genocide are the villains instead of the adults committing one?

2/ every day for nearly 7 months I’ve watched Palestinian children being killed, mothers unable to deliver healthy newborns while keeping themselves safe, mothers experiencing miscarriages due to no medical attention and support. It has been so difficult.

I am 3 and a half months from expecting my first child. I cannot explain the complexities of emotion that have overcome me: I am going to bring in new Palestinian life while I watch a newborn baby being saved after his mother was killed. To commit an act of resistance while 1/

New statement from Columbia student protestors:
'We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us…Our members have been misidentified by a politically motivated mob.'

'We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry…'

Friends, please keep shining a light on Columbia & Yale and the criminalization of students there. But where is the outrage when this happens at @cuny & Brooklyn College-when working class students of color are criminalized instead of Ivy League students?thenation.com/article/societ…

BREAKING: NYU students with NYU PALESTINE SOLIDARITY COALITION have launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

Per media release, the encampment is *also* calling on their school to divest from Israel & to end its Tel Aviv satellite campus.

Security scrambled to stop the students, but failed.