Alice Wong 王美華 on crip time and being an AAC user, brilliant as always.

“To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures.”

THIS.

The Los Angeles Times asked me to contribute an essay on the occasion of my new book coming out (in 2 weeks yikes!) and so I thought out loud about what it means to depict Iranian-America when you are that other kind of Iranian-American latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Congressman Jeffries voted to send $14 billion in weapons funding to Israel last month.

He's accepted over $1.3 million from the pro-war group AIPAC, who lobbied Congress earlier this month to support the invasion of Rafah.

Babies writhed in pain as their skin melted off before they were asphyxiated &,still, we must answer how Zionists feel. I appreciated joining PBS NewsHour & recognize the problem is not them, its a pervasive racial logic about the value of Palestinian life.

pbs.org/newshour/show/…

Robert De Niro campaigning for Joe Biden is a desperate attempt to use a celebrity to sway an election.

by Chuck Norris, Randy Quaid, and Kid Rock

PSA: it doesn’t make you any less professional to publicly oppose the slaughter of children

'We are giving them tylenol/ibuprofen for an arm that has been cut off'

This is so sad. May Allah bless her for her efforts.

Spain, Norway and Ireland Formalize Recognition of Palestinian State democracynow.org/2024/5/28/head…

It’s time, President Biden.

Netanyahu’s government has crossed your red line.

Immediate offensive weapons embargo now.

Thank you Congresswoman. This is the moral, legal, and Jewish position.

12 Members of Congress have condemned Israel's ongoing bombing of Rafah

2.2%

Sickening.

I need to hear the White House press secretary respond to the images of the decapitated baby who was also charred to death by the melted refugee tent camp she slept under. Muslim Americans demand a response. I need to hear it.

Sending so much love to all the neurospicy Black women this morning trying to navigate misogynoir and ableism at the same time. It's challenging. So challenging. We're here, though.

Because why look at the data when you can take white supremacist analyses at face value

This kind of shit is why I developed a term for the phenomenon of “white empiricism”

Literally ignoring data in favor of white supremacist vibes

This is funny because there are no full-time faculty in my department that are not white.

This is not just news, this is LITERALLY HAPPENING.. My friend in Gaza City says she cannot find anything to feed her infant, she says a large portion of her day is wasted just thinking how she can be creative to find alternatives to keep her baby alive, dear world!!!

Arnaud Bertrand 'Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry'
'Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources say'

by Harry Davies in Jerusalem
The Guardian Tue 28 May 2024