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After many months, I wrote a brief introduction to disability justice, and how love has been central to how celebrating and dreaming disabled futures will save us. Please read it here! And many thanks to @gutsmagazine and @notvanishing gutsmagazine.ca/being-disabl…
Nisha 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus retweeted
To every student and young person who stood up on university campuses against what are now officially deemed war crimes: you are heroes and your persecutors are trash.
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the united states is holding the entire world hostage so israel can keep on killing
#BREAKING
United States VETOES Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the release of all hostages
RESULT
In Favor: 14
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 0
ALT Security Council members vote on the draft resolution on the crisis in the Gaza Strip. 20 November 2024
ALT Security Council members vote on the draft resolution on the crisis in the Gaza Strip. 20 November 2024
Nisha 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus retweeted
Hours ago, AOC voted for a resolution designed to conflate criticism of Israel and Zionism, on one hand, with anti-Semitism on the other. No one believes your act anymore, @AOC. You're on the side of the genocidaires.
Thank you @SenSanders for leading this effort to block further offensive weapons to the Israeli government and to every one of these 18 Senators for affirming that the United States must uphold its own laws and commitments to international human rights.
you can say no. you can say, this is not enough. you can say, I don't care that AI is everywhere, that there are those that think it is inevitable. it isn't. you are bankrupting the future, you are bankrupting my students and peers, when you should be fighting. I get it now
I'm the one on the ground teaching students who are frequently stunted by their reliance on AI, who lack literacy, who could look to us published writers for leadership and guidance and still be taught the value of protecting our own voices
AI is being shoved into everything. sure. but acting like we have no choice but to let it, and that we should take our dues and our royalties for it, is defeatist and morally unjust to be okay with it. first publishing gatekeeps us, and now only the published get the reparations
take your land acknowledgements out of your website if you don't mean them. I am ashamed to be a member of an organization that will tell us writers are underpaid and then turn around and throw us under the bus because there's 'no use' fighting environmentally exploitative tech
@twuc should be ashamed. we should not be accepted short-term scraps in favour of lasting, long-term harm. forget how AI systems use water as a coolant for these machines, in a country where water is stolen and controlled, and how this is environmentally devastating
so the writers' union of canada wants to support the use of letting AI be trained on our writing now that writers are being offered royalties. this is unacceptable and humiliating. AI is exploitative and writers should have a fucking backbone in preventing their own obsolescence
Nisha 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus retweeted
Reading is structurally inaccessible, NOT a “privilege.” Privilege discourse is not a helpful framework for understanding how urgent the social need for increased literacy is vs. inaccessibility for disabled and marginalized people. Either way, literacy is an URGENT social issue
Nisha 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus retweeted
As a reminder: guilty people shouldn’t be executed either.
Nisha 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus retweeted
Cornell just became the first university of the spring semester to suspend a student for pro-Palestine organizing. They’re intentionally targeting an international student & one of the most visible advocates for divestment on our campus—the Cornell community won’t tolerate this.
Nisha 🏳️🌈 Poet Laureate Emeritus retweeted
god, "mass clearance" is just about as close as you can fly to the sun on euphemisms for ethnic cleansing. these fucking ghouls.
Benjamin Netanyahu considering mass clearance of northern Gaza theguardian.com/world/2024/s…
