Z Samudzi
@zsamudzi.bsky.social
visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
An unmasked man sat next to me (masked) and said “are you feeling okay or just preventing illness?” To which I replied “I feel fine but what difference does it make if you’re not wearing a mask?” He said he’d throw one on if I said I was unwell (he didn’t have one), this rationale is lost on me.
If they also push harder for these mask bans…
J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · last yr.First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Galleanisti is back and so is the attendant sub-whiteness of the 19th/early 20th century Italian in the U.S.!
Clarkisha Kent@clarkishakent.blacksky.app · last yr.Girl!!! The sketches coming out of that courtroom say it ALL
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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I was writing abt Israel’s pariah statecraft during Nigerian Civil War in its support for the Federal Republic *and* Biafra. After its alienation of African & the Middle Eastern states after the 6-Day War — Biafra War began a month after Israel attacked Egypt — it pivoted towards apartheid regimes.
On one hand, I saw this coming because our neoliberal president is desperate to get out from under US/EU sanctions and attract foreign capital and Israel is very busy remaking inroads in Africa. On the other, the Israeli state after our land and minerals is beyond. www.zbcnews.co.zw/zim-and-isra...
Zim and Israel forge new path for collaboration in tourism and agriculture - ZBC NEWS
Story by Peter Chivhima ZIMBABWE and Israel are set to embark on a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of tourism and agriculture. During the launch of the Zim-Is...
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Join us for this webinar with Hannah Al-Taher and Anna Younes about the suppression of Palestine both in Germany and within German Studies It’s this Sunday March 2nd @ 9am PST/12pm EST/6pm CET/8pm AST You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An only logical application of Zionism’s zero-sum rationale: that any presence of Palestinians anywhere — in our scholarship, on a map, in our cookbooks, in Palestine or it diasporic geographies — is an altogether negation of Israeli existence.
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last yr.I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
Anyway, inb4 I’m further accused of stigmatizing drug use, I have no problems with ketamine. And, when you have a culture of diabolically ambitious and cruel people as in today’s Silicon Valley, the relationship to psychoactives and their probably desired self-knowing outcomes aren’t gonna be great.
There’s an affective thing in talking to elders when they’re being honest: they’ll tell you the worst story you’ve ever heard and they’ll be morose and reflective, and moments later laughing about something else. And it’s a rollercoaster of fullness that usefully frames traumatic history.
I absolutely agree with this. The casual cruelty of the bored and comfortable should be discussed more often.
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last yr.I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.
replicating racial-Malthusian inequities, gives that system fuel and reinforces the myth that gathering more money and more things is a form of freedom-making.
capitalism is therefore often depersonalized: that is, we often (not everyone of course!) blame “capitalism” without thinking through the who of capitalism. this is because it’s presented to us as a magical nobody, a divine (biocentric, in fact) socio-spatial structure.
one of the many important things I learned from Sylvia Wynter is that capitalism (specifically dispossession by accumulation) is a belief system (not just, say, a social-economic system). it is deified and worshipped. dig this: it’s a religion, faith, theology. we follow it.
Who doesn’t get death threats? White supremacists sent emails to my new department head in 2022 saying they’d shit in my skull because I said I’d dance on the royal family’s graves, and I’m a nobody.
Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 2y agoGillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
Thinking about Afrikaners (smh) but actually thinking about the white American insistence on framing the post-colonial white settler as perpetually imperiled in stark opposition to their material and political economic conditions/realities. The foundational anxiety of the settler international.
For my horror & monstrosity class, I’m teaching about gender: the murders of trans youths, bathroom panics and anti-“gender ideology” discourses revolving around trans femininity as a kind of primordial monstrous feminine, and Davey Davis reading conversion therapy films into body-snatching horror 😮💨
Our freedom is not for sale. The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere. groundup.org.za/article/dona... We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity. #SouthAfricaIsNotForSale
Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives
But we must not allow peddlers of hate to undermine our fragile constitutional democracy
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Ok so let’s dig into the theology: When they’re facing the Zulus @ the Battle of Blood River, the Voortrekkers took a covenant — in return for God’s help in their victory, them & their descendants would keep the day as holy as the Sabbath. They won: God helped 460 Voortrekkers defeat 25,000 Zulus.
Rachel (loves LA, always will)@rachelpowers.myatproto.social · 2y agoHi Zoe!!! So good to see you here!!! Just saw the recent State Dept statement about the US now protecting the “God-given rights” of the Afrikaans… The implications of that language…
This “Trump saves the Afrikaners” saga is wild. So Trump made that EO in which he commits to “the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination,” and Afriforum — an Afrikaner rights group — is like no thanks, we aren’t refugees and we aren’t leaving lmfao
It’s the Carnegie Commission of investigating the “Poor White Question” all over again. The Carnegie Corporation funded an inquiry into the condition of poor whites, ie rural Afrikaners who’d been dispossessed by the 2nd Boer War — the recommended economic upliftment was a blueprint for apartheid.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump has ordered federal agencies to prioritise humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa. You know, that poor, victimised minority. America - the new home of Apartheid.
Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia have inhabited a crucial part of the white ethnonationalist political imaginary for decades. Dylann Roof was born 14 years after Rhodesia’s collapse, yet still wore its flag — and the Union of SA’s — on his lapel.
Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · 2y agothey're getting real comfortable over on Elon Musk's X they should all be so open also, check out that follow
Not excited for the Supreme Court part of these constitutional challenges forestalled, for the time being, by lower courts.
Ari Drennen@aridrennen.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
the mystification is important point. the mythical "unqualified black person" who took a job or a spot at an elite college exists in the cultural landscape as a literal scapegoat for a sense a personal inadequacy or anxieties about status. it's not that you're not good enough, it's the blacks.
“DEI” being another way of not having to talk about anti-blackness is pretty infuriating. So many opportunities to properly engage this linguistic obfuscation when the right went after “critical race theory,” “woke,” and “affirmative action,” but nope not really.
Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 2y agoStop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
Reminiscent of how police quickly recognized the photograph could create public records and reproductions of criminal types — the state is disposed to immediately seize any means of visualizing and reproducing our likenesses to produce biometric data for its nasty carceral ends.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.
Ah yes, the very finished matter of colonial amnesia that is no longer a problem and has no political or material implications on anything at all anywhere in the world (including, per my original post, the literal state sovereignty of Greenland).
PreverbalBanana@fakegreatdane.bsky.social · 2y agoKing Christian 7 abolished slave trade in 1792 and all use of Danish ships for that purpose was abandoned by 1803. The Danish colonies were made up of St. Thomas,. St. Croix and St. John. A total of 136 sqm. Without minimizing this, I believe there are bigger issues.
The one thing I hope comes out of Trump’s bullshit about Greenland is that I hope it sparks a conversation about Danish colonialism (inc. its participation in the transatlantic slave trade, primarily in the Caribbean) and the Greenlandic independence movement.
