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Amelia Crowther retweeted
we can build institutions with explicit political lines. we must. otherwise we’ll keep projecting our politics on to identity-based sites of neocolonial reproduction only to be “let down” by them. clarify your politics, and build something meaningful we can count on. it’s urgent.
Amelia Crowther retweeted
Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners? @alex_tretbar & @deutschbitte ask in a new op-ed. Recent winners of PEN America’s Prison Writing Awards are missing a total of $925 in payments—a small fortune in prison.
prismreports.org/2024/04/17/…
Amelia Crowther retweeted
“This poem was written while looking for work, swimming in the vocabularies of potential utility to employers and overseers.”
—Jordan Kapono Nakamura
#AboutThisPoem
poets.org/poem/interview-0
Amelia Crowther retweeted
something insidious about white people sharing that X’s poetry offers solace “in times like these” or is “what the world needs” — i’m not sure you should be able to self-soothe w a poem during genocide...for starters, i think you should be clear: what times? like what?
Amelia Crowther retweeted
I (+others) risked my career to organize against Google's development of AI weapons. We won. Our arguments were evidenced and clear and made Google (temporarily) cancel the contract.
But being right is not a strategy. And I've been sickly sitting w this.
theguardian.com/world/2023/d…
Amelia Crowther retweeted
I really love Jenny George’s poetry
ALT Tin Bucket BY JENNY GEORGE The world is not simple. Anyone will tell you. But have you ever washed a person’s hair over a tin bucket, gently twisting the rope of it to wring the water out? At the end of everything, dancers just use air as their material. A voice keeps singing even without an instrument. You make your fingers into a comb.
Amelia Crowther retweeted
since morning i hear a beloved voice saying ::::now is a good time to remember what gives u strength:::: we are building power even as they terrorize. i'm ashamed & determined. sharpened by fury. sharpened by love. we keep finding ways to each other. more vast than they fathom.
Amelia Crowther retweeted
Amelia Crowther retweeted
There is no Palestinian victim who will ever be pure enough to be publicly and universally decried as one. If they made dark jokes, they called for atrocities. If they refused to engage in bad faith arguments, they supported terrorism. If they were infants, they aren’t mentioned.
Amelia Crowther retweeted
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
Amelia Crowther retweeted
today!
Amelia Crowther retweeted
no such thing as a theoretical revolutionary. your intellectual alignment/grappling don’t make you radical. what material impact are you having on your neighbors? how are you and the people in your locale working toward the destabilization of imperialism?
Amelia Crowther retweeted
i wrote something about writing, “craft”, and what i think palestine requires of those who write in english from the imperial core in this hour of genocide. i hope that it might be useful
Fargo Tbakhi (@YouKnowFargo) writes with a reflective essay on the role and duty of writing amidst a genocide. How do hegemonic priorities dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for Gaza, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology?
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/no…
Amelia Crowther retweeted
updated engine, my tiny gamemaker for collage-based worlds 。 ﾟ☾ ﾟ。⋆
an experimental browser-based tool to collage together little looping narratives & stories with words, images, and sounds—publish to html, play on your phone
on itch 〰️ chi.itch.io/enginelol
