two of the archival images we'll be showing at our BKPL event tonight - v excited to finally do powerpoint at a lit reading

rsvp here - bklynlibrary.org/calendar/lisa-…

I'm a CUNY City College of NY alum and former faculty demanding that Félix V. Matos Rodríguez call on the DA to drop all charges against CGSE protesters and refuse to participate in prosecution. Shame on you for prosecuting your students instead of divesting from genocide! #dropCUNYcharges

The NC Senate Judiciary have passed HB237 NC mask ban with amendment making it illegal to wear a mask for health and safety reasons. Next it goes to Senate Rules

When I say 'the archive' is a graveyard, a mausoleum of hunter's trophies...

'Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution... brilliantly evoking what it feels like to live in today’s world: a burning that’s somehow slow and swift all at once' - thank you kayla kumari upadhyaya for this insightful review of Memory Piece!
autostraddle.com/memory-piece-u…

have been trying to figure out how Alice Munro does her magic for almost 30 years

in the meantime the rest of CUNY is literally in shambles. elevators broken for years at a time, rats, mold, water damage, poor ventilation. and yet the BoT can allocate *millions* of dollars for urgent expenses when it comes to policing students!

this is also very MEMORY PIECE (h/t sulu):
'When contractors were working on the Family Fare grocery store in Midland, they found a woman living inside the rooftop sign.. she had a mini desk, flooring, a pantry of food and a houseplant'
ourmidland.com/news/police_an…

No despair. We keep working.

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Calls for Asian American solidarity w/ Palestine that center geography ('Palestine is in Asia') or history ('Asian Americans opposed the Vietnam war') often obscure the fact that the same imperialism responsible for the genocide in Gaza also divides and occupies Asia. A 🧵...

how's that 'pushing Biden left' thing going

🎧 New Ep: Eunice Wong performs Lisa Ko’s novel about a decades-long friendship between 3 Asian American women. Host Jo Reed, Kendra D. Winchester discuss what Kendra calls one of the must-listens of the year. Penguin Random House Audio 🎧 📚 bit.ly/AFMpodcast

Collective punishment is always the authoritarian endgame. From RICO for #StopCopCity (slate.com/news-and-polit…)—based on gang takedowns—(theappeal.org/the-appeal-pod…) to punishing organizers for any protesters' acts (truthout.org/articles/scotu…) to 'outsider' panic justifying mass arrest.

book of the day!

.Lisa Ko’s Memory Piece takes us on a road trip through time with three lifelong friends over the past four decades, and the events that shaped the book's dystopian landscape four decades in the future. Watch tonight at 8 PM ET to hear Ko discuss her highly anticipated book.

NYPD driving a fucking tank battalion up Broadway but the real terrorist is a kryptonite faghettaboudit bike lock