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arseli dokumaci
@arseli.bsky.social
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Disability, chronic illness, ecology, performance, climate crisis and waste. Researcher, microactivist and gardener. Author of Activist Affordances (DukeUP, 2023) Director, Access in the Making Lab. accessinthemaking.ca
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shuujiiijima.bsky.social
@arseli.bsky.social I forgot to check Gregory Baateson Book Prize 2024. Wonderful news, I should mention it 6 months ago.
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Naisargi Davé Awarded the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize
The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the largest section of the American Anthropological Ass...
https://culanth.org/about/about-the-society/announcements/naisargi-davé-awarded-the-2024-gregory-bateson-book-prize
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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scmstudies.bsky.social
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
arseli.bsky.social
Dec 7! sawyerseminarafterlives.rutgers.edu/race-liberat...
Race, Liberation, and Palestine: A Conversation with Noura Erakat, Nick Estes, and Marc Lamont Hill ...
sawyerseminarafterlives.rutgers.edu
November 21, 2023 at 5:42 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Congratulations to @arseli.bsky.social, whose book "Activist Affordances" won the NWSA Alison Piepmeier Prize and to Kemi Adeyemi, whose book "Feels Right" was a co-winner of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize.
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Cover of Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi. Cover has picture of people dancing in the background. Transparent circles of pink, blue, and turqoise fall over the picture along the left side. Bold white title in top right with pink and blue line under each word. Bold white subtitle in center-right and author name in pink bottom right. Both texts are tilted. Cover of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci. The top half of the cover is black with white text, and the bottom is a photo of a hand holding a spoon in an improvised grip, with a blurred background of a torso in a striped shirt.
November 16, 2023 at 2:44 PM
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“We are being killed here, please do something."

Text from one of our MSF nurses from Al-Shifa hospital basement this morning. He and his family were sheltering there from the incessant bombing.
November 11, 2023 at 3:32 PM
arseli.bsky.social
MUST WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRaF...

"Indigenous solidarity with Palestine w/ Uahikea Maile and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson"
Indigenous solidarity with Palestine w/ Uahikea Maile and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
*Editor's note: We had some technical difficulties and lost significant portions of this episode, one of which Nick re-recorded afterward. Apologies for the ...
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November 13, 2023 at 3:45 AM
arseli.bsky.social
Live - Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnz...
Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel
Fred Moten will join live to talk about Palestine, decolonization, settler colonialism, and the nation-state of Israel. Fred Moten is a cultural theorist, po...
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October 28, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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edyong209.bsky.social
Phenomenal, wrenching essay by Hala Alyan.
Opinion | Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy?
The task of the Palestinian is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it.
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2023 at 5:06 PM
arseli.bsky.social
POSTPONED! ("Activist Affordances" Virtual book launch). "In sorrow and fury and after extensive conversation, we have decided to postpone our discussion of Arseli’s book. The time is not right. [1]
a black and white text that reads: "POSTPONED! "In sorrow and fury and after extensive conversation, we have decided to postpone our discussion of Arseli’s book. The time is not right. We do not wish to celebrate Activist Affordances as massive disablement, debility and death-making take place in Gaza. uncomfortable talking about the book, as places are being actively decimated and reduced to rubble, affordances are being eradicated, and entire livelihoods are erased out of existence. The situation in Gaza and the broader occupied Palestine is beyond shrinkage. In the face of genocidal violence, this event can wait. We look forward to a conversation at a future date. (Please follow the email updates from the Center for Disability Studies). (A note from Arseli and Michele) A black and white text that has NYU logo on top and Center for Disability Studies. The rest of the text that follows read: "Virtual Book Launch Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds, author Arseli Dokumaci with Michele Friedner Friday October 27th, 4-5:30 pm ET on Zoom"
October 25, 2023 at 5:11 PM
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dessdim.bsky.social
The reading list by @versobooks.bsky.social provides a number of titles, two of the eBooks, The Palestine Laboratory and Ten Myths about Israel, are free to download

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Free Palestine: A Verso Reading List
Israel has declared a “complete siege” on Gaza and launched hundreds of strikes, following an eruption of unrest in the region over the weekend. The following books offer a history of the conf...
www.versobooks.com
October 21, 2023 at 8:15 AM
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ppkzd.bsky.social
“They came into the village and destroyed houses and sheep pens, beat an 85-year-old man, scared our children. Slowly our lives became unlivable.”
‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank terr...
Herders report violence driving them from their homes in accelerating, aggressive and highly effective campaign
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2023 at 8:27 AM
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danaelkurd.bsky.social
What's happening in Gaza will happen in the west bank. If the world won't react, this becomes a precedent
www.democracynow.org/2023/10/19/m...
Annexation, Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide: Mustafa Barghouti Decries Israel’s Deadly Campaign in Gaz...
As the death toll in Gaza nears 3,800 from two weeks of Israeli aerial bombardment, we go to the occupied West Bank to speak with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. “With the passage of each minute, more Palest...
www.democracynow.org
October 20, 2023 at 6:37 PM
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matthuber.bsky.social
So anyway Universities should be fully publicly funded. on.ft.com/3S6c0S7
US universities lose millions as donors pull funding over Hamas stance
Tensions rise on campus over freedom of speech and academic leaders’ public responsibilities
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October 20, 2023 at 10:06 AM
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lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Le Fabrique stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair:
October 18, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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lisahajjar.bsky.social
Scholars of Palestine issue an open letter to media organizations.
sites.google.com/view/scholar...
October 16, 2023 at 8:06 PM
arseli.bsky.social
History of settler state's brutal attacks repeating itself again and again and again with total impunity. (The two pages are taken from Jasbir Puar's "Right to Maim", pages 128-9.)
A photo from the book "Right to Maim" (pg. 127) that reads: "A catalogue of suffering: It is yet unclear what the carnage in Gaza rom the summer of 2014 will be known as, remembered as, or named. And it may remain unclear for quite some time. The tally is in (though ever-evolving) after fifty-one days of Operation Protective Edge. The United Nations reported that 2,131 Palestinians were killed during Israel's offensive, including 501 children; 70 percent were under the age of twelve. A total of 244 schools were shelled, and another was used as a military base by Israeli soldiers. The Ministry of Health In Gaza recorded 10,918 people injured, including 3,312 children and 2,210 women." The photo of the next page (128) continues: "The Palestinian human rights organization Al Mezan documented at least 10,589 houses were damaged or destroyed, and of which 2,715 were completely flattened. (later reports state 18,000homes were destroyed, including high-rise apartment buildings). Eight hospitals (resulting in six being taken out of service) forty-six NGOs, fifty fishing boats, 161 mosques, and 244 were also hit. In September 2014, 80 percent of Gazan families had no means to feed themselves and were completely dependent on aid. Amnesty international reported that at least thirteen health facilities and eighty-four schools were forced to close. Doctors without borders had difficulty reaching populations that needed assistance given the severity of bombing, fuel shortages that grounded more than half of the ambulences, and depletion of supplies. A number of hospitals were damaged, contravening the Geneva Convention, which considers civilian hospitals to be protected during w
October 17, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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tuckeve.bsky.social
A ceasefire. Then ending the occupation. A long peace. The lands and the people regenerate.

The ceasefire now. The rest of this, in our lifetimes.

In the lifetimes of the old people who were young 75 years ago. In the lifetimes of the young people who have grown up under relentless violence.
October 17, 2023 at 8:05 AM
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A Textbook Case of Genocide @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

"Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed. Perpetrators of genocide usually do not express their intentions so clearly, though there are exceptions."

Raz Segal, asso. prof of Holocaust & genocide studies @ SU
A Textbook Case of Genocide
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
jewishcurrents.org
October 15, 2023 at 6:17 PM
arseli.bsky.social
decolonizepalestine.com
Home | Decolonize Palestine
Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.
decolonizepalestine.com
October 14, 2023 at 9:57 PM
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Israel’s Tools of Occupation Are Tested on Palestine and Exported Globally
“This will only grow and worsen,” says author Antony Loewenstein.
truthout.org
October 14, 2023 at 9:33 PM
arseli.bsky.social
www.democracynow.org/2023/10/13/n...
Noura Erakat: Western Leaders & Media Are Justifying Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”
The unfolding crisis in Gaza, where relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 1,500 people since Saturday, is “a humanitarian catastrophe,” says Palestinian American human rights attorne...
www.democracynow.org
October 14, 2023 at 9:32 PM
arseli.bsky.social
Reading for Palestine ❤️. Thank you Maktaba Bookstore.
two books side by side, one is titled "The Palestine Laboratory" by Antony Loewenstein and the other is titled "Palestine as Metaphor" by Mahmoud Darwish.
October 14, 2023 at 9:31 PM