NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow Jenessa Abrams reviewed Miranda July’s 'All Fours' for Los Angeles Review of Books: buff.ly/4byzzK3

'The birth canal splits open and we alone are left with the task of stitching ourselves back together.' Jenessa Abrams on motherhood, pregnancy, and straddling of two states of being in Miranda July's latest novel, 'All Fours.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi…

This brilliant essay stitches together so much: desire + birth trauma + menopause + pregnancy loss. A wonderful example of how bringing in the personal can make a piece of criticism of feel all the more vital.

.Jenessa Abrams reads Miranda July's latest novel: ''All Fours' can read as the exploration and subsequent explosion of this inquiry: 'Who gets to be a child? Whose life gets to be filled with desire—with reinvention—with wonder?'' lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi…

What does this mean? Who does this mean? What are their names? Even in death, do they not have names?

The longest occupation of a federal building was by Disabled people in 1977. It forced the Carter administration to put regulations around #504, which cleared the path for the #ADA . Newsrooms in general have 0 concept of disability history so opinions are formed on feelings

It should be much bigger news that Dartmouth’s Chair of Jewish Studies has been banned from campus for trying to defend her students.

Many of these protesters are Jewish.

Many of these faculty members are Jewish.

Calling these protesters antisemitic is putting them in danger.

'This generation of youth have spent their entire lives in fear of having guns pointed at them in schools; what a disgrace for America that is now their own schools that are pointing the guns at them.'

--Josh Paul, former Director, US Department of State (resigned in protest)

the university i work for has sent in an occupying army to violently remove the students i teach. the most powerful police force in the world deployed against nonviolent protesting students.

the reporters on WKCR sound so scared. they’re so young.

They didn’t rename the hall after a combatant, or an anti-Zionist, or an anti-Israeli…. They named it after the five year old who died alone and terrified, because Israel killed her family and the paramedics trying to reach her. Powerful witness and beautiful resistance

In a country where children go hungry, people die unhoused and libraries are only open part time, this is where our resources go

.WKCR-FM NY just reported that police used tear gas inside Hamilton Hall and that an unconscious person is lying on the ground just outside

Happy Passover from the Jews of NYC.

FREE PALESTINE

MASS EXODUS FROM ZIONISM: As the Senate votes to send an additional $14.1 billion in weapons to Israel, thousands of US Jews are shutting down the streets of New York City in an emergency Passover seder insisting the Senate Majority Leader stop arming the Israeli government.

There's a powerful Jewish presence among pro-Palestinian protestors on campuses, yet mainstream media keeps erasing their voices and presence. Power to these students for imagining a world of co-existence through solidarity, love, and care, showing its seeds in their praxis.

Keep thinking of the doctors at Al Shifa who were executed after refusing to abandon their patients.

I will be thinking about the 4,000 embryos lost in the IVF center in Gaza for the rest of my life.
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