Thank you to the brilliant folks at the Avery Review for hosting this piece of writing, and in such incredible company, for this issue. #averyreview

The Avery Review | The Things I Keep

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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

7 HOURS LEFT, PLEASE SHARE! In the morning I'm sending a small batch of funds to this displacement camp, but the team wants to maximize what they can include in food baskets for these 15 families ASAP. HOW BOLD CAN WE BE TONIGHT? Even $1 sustains LIFE. Last check 263/900 chuffed.org/project/save...

Save Devastated Families in Jabalia, Gaza

Although the war has ended, the suffering has not. In fact, it has worsened with the continued siege and the reclosure of border crossings. In Jabalia, northern Gaza, several families who have lost…

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Please help if you can by supporting this fund for Ruaa. Anything helps - and it’s a genuinely worthy cause!

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Support has slowed down so much for Ruaa - please keep it going tinyurl.com/328bvcd4

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Anise K. Strong@anisekstrong.bsky.social · last yr.

The scorn heaped on "Underwater Basket Weaving" was based on college courses in experiential indigenous anthropology. Reeds are traditionally softened underwater to make them flexible for bending into baskets. It's a more useful skill for most than memorizing the 3 orders of ancient Greek columns.

recurse 4 a late planet [lush] by Nolan Oswald Dennis. / Working diagram (2025-ongoing). // "In South Africa today the rehabilitation of Apartheid is being pursued under the guise of white indigeneity." thefunambulist.net/magazine/bla...

Please give what you can -

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Support is slowing down but we MUST sustain hope, energy, creativity, and attention to keep Palestinians alive. 🌹 Our giving circle supports our friends & their families in Gz, plus a mutual aid project. 🚨 Every dollar helps them get food + water. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

Help people survive. Help people survive. Help people survive. Please give what you can -

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Feeling helpless? Take that feeling and put it to work. We made it easy for folks to materially help numerous families survive: 🌿 Contribute for 7+ families: tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi... 🌿 Print flyers for your library, event, beyond: tinyurl.com/HGC-Shareables

Another worthy, worthy fund to support. Please consider donating to Nya and her family -

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Nya is working hard to sustain her family in an increasingly dangerous area. Her elderly parents need medications & the kids in her family often go hungry. This family is one of 7 our new giving circle is supporting. 338/650 on our goal by the weekend. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...

IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

Please give if you can, folks. Any little bit helps.

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Hi friends. Can you do me a small favor. My friend Mohamed is going through it and he can’t share his campaign right now—and only 3 of us do so regularly. His family is currently eating spoiled flour. Can we get 200 to help alleviate this even a little?

“Is science equally the surveillance satellite and the COVID vaccine?…We must also consider who is investing in scientists, in their thousands, protesting for protections of Western science.” averyreview.com/issues/71/ou...

The Avery Review | Outlaw Geology at the End of the World

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Stop what you’re doing and go read the latest issue of The Avery Review - with incredible pieces by Gabriella Demczuk, Sanie Irsay, Sydney Rose Maubert, Mohamad Nahleh, @divyampersaud.com, and Faris Shomali. Online here:

The Avery Review | home

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wrote about how trump is going to annihilate the field of architecture for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Real Estate Is the Key to Trump’s Worldview

His policies and behavior may often baffle, but he is a developer at heart.

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Another important and vetted and important fund to support here. Please take a few minutes and support Mohamed and his family!

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

This family is facing an emergency in غaza, but WE can help🚨 Please read the latest update from Mohamed. This bullet barely missed him. Their needs are intense—but that doesn’t mean we are powerless. Match, double, or half my $14. Let’s help them live. bit.ly/Help-Mohamed

Delighted to welcome these brilliant critics for M.Arch Thesis Reviews at Carleton Architecture next week; welcome Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dan Ling, Aliki Economides, Stephen Beites, Bz Zhang, Mohamad Nahleh, Karen Kubey, Louis-Charles Lasnier and McLain Clutter!

She kissed the ground and she liked iiiiiiiiiiiiit 🎶

Please support this project - small amounts, whatever you can manage!

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Help remove waste endangering disabled families in tents 👋🏾 with YOU, this team is going to fuel a garbage truck for this urgent public health need. The goal is 700 (on Chuffed, 2700) and at last check we’re about 1/2 the way there. Every bit helps:

Canadian Association of University Teachers on U.S. travel -

What amazed me while reporting this was that ACSA felt the best course of action was to gather design education's foremost social justice advocates on an editorial board & then antagonize them by blowing up a JAE issue on the top social justice issue of our time www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

A fight with the Journal of Architectural Education over academic freedom has put the ACSA in crisis

Last month ACSA canceled the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) themed on Palestine and fired its interim executive editor. The action resulted in the resignation of all 2...

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I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

More context from @zachmortice.bsky.social on ACSA’s decision to censor the Journal of Architectural Education’s Palestine issue (+ then some). Re: institutional capitulations, performative repair + ivory tower knee-bending; do give this a read; it’s an important moment in our discipline.

A fight with the Journal of Architectural Education over academic freedom has put the ACSA in crisis

Last month ACSA canceled the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) themed on Palestine and fired its interim executive editor. The action resulted in the resignation of all 2...

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this is the most important story in architecture right now

Billy Fleming@joobilly.bsky.social · last yr.

I'd encourage anyone connected to architecture and design or higher ed to read and share this truly ridiculous story. @shannonmattern.bsky.social @anjulierao.bsky.social @katewagner.bsky.social @dianabudds.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

A short interlude for the upstairs and downstairs apartments.

Grateful to Scroope Journal (from the School of Architecture at Cambridge) + editors Nick Frayne & Jerry Chow for the invitation to contribute to volume 33: Disenclosure; and to world a little around writing as a spatial practice. Honored to be in this company and to have a print copy in hand. ♥️

Another vetted and important project. For those of you today and tomorrow thinking is boosting sadaqah on the days of Eid - this is a great place to start - ♥️

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

💜 today please support this mutual aid initiative directly helping 20 families in tents in Jabalia plus people being displaced to the area. Current need is cash distribution to enable families to purchase what they need as prices skyrocket & needs grow more complex chuffed.org/project/save...

Completely batshit that Harvard has *removed* Cemal Kafadar as head of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies & so shitty to malign one of the great scholars of Ottoman history as antisemitic because the CMES dared to offer programming on ITS AREA OF FOCUS www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Yes, it’s the bad place, but there is good to do, and good that we can do. Please contribute to this fund if you can; even if a little.

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · last yr.

Please share 👋🏾 my sister & I push a stagnant survival fund every 2 days. Our friend Mohamed is desperate for help as his family has recently been displaced. WE can help secure them food & replace essential supplies they had to leave behind. Chip in:

"What does it mean, in the midst of our genocide, for Palestinians to make freedom by making place? Might it be not simply to revive (transform?) what is dead, but also to inhabit what is alive? Gilmore’s reminder to “make freedom by making place” is a tactical as well as imaginative proposition."

taking over while someone tries to heal is love. please step up