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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

@hebagowayed.bsky.social

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Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2h

Airports standing against fascism better than many of our universities.

democracynow
23 hours ago
Airports refuse to play Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for
TSA delays

With picture of noem looking off in distance smiling

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

Stolen from on these very college campuses and I guarantee there are signatories to this letter that have preformed no action in support of them. And that’s their students on their own campus

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

I’m staying with a friend now who is part of a mainstream institution— in one day messages promising to assassinate her and imagining her flaying.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 4h

I’m glad Bray is getting support of colleagues and I don’t begrudge anyone leaving, I’d do all I can to keep my family safe.

I do want to emphasize tho that doxing & death threats have become normal for minoritized activists who get little support from colleagues as they stay & continue to fight.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h

lol i did text my partner “we could live here!” So guilty as charged 😂

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you so much - that's so kind. I'm being well taken care of by friends i'm staying with. And yes it's a wild time!

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h

Ok so I'll caveat with the fact that I don't go to bars often and am mostly getting a cocktail with dinner but I expect to pay over 20. Often around $22.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h

hiiii

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h

wowowow so good

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

Like what the fuck did you think they were texting? Did you think they endorse violence out loud and are nice in private to one-another? Of course they joke about gas chambers and rape and mass murder.

Are you here with us as bombs are being dropped from the sky on two million Palestinians?

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

I'm so pissed about the outrage re: young GOP messaging each other lols about rape and gas chambers and "watermelon people" & Jewish people.

Like they're saying this shit in BILLS. That anyone who aborts a child should be KILLED. THERE ARE MASKED GUNMEN ON OUR STREETS KIDNAPPING.

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

The most remote pub in Britain has cancelled a Harry Potter-themed Halloween party after it was hit with a backlash over JK Rowling’s gender-critical views ⬇️

Harry Potter Halloween party cancelled after JK Rowling backlash

www.thetimes.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

I had coffee at my friends place but I’ll report back tomorrow

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

Wow and here I was thinking we were friends

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16h

I’m in Chicago and no joke the prices are like 2012 New York. Also the existence of art spaces. Mamdani needs to bring back the 12 dollar cocktail.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

Book 2 is done done except for corrections to the second pass pages. It's gonna be repaginated and then indexed and then I can't make any changes that affect pagination 🥲

This means ... I'm back at it with Book 3!!!!!!

The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic is in principle 2/3s done 👽

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

It was awful four hours delayed — but i jsut took my headphones off now. Putting them back on lol

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

She’s a biomedical engineering student at West Point I just learned which makes it make sense

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

“We have Eli Lilly and Koch and a lot of good stuff here” my row mate on the plane, tells my other row mate. With no hint of irony.

Get me the fuck off this flight.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

People all over this country had their children taken from them, sent to be reeducated — their land taken, their language taken, their food erased. Their wealth stolen and then lent to them as debt. And we speak like it’s far but it’s happening again and again and now.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

On this day Columbus Day as we watch the release of Palestinian hostages whose families aren’t even allowed to express joy at their freedom, I am haunted by the fact that people, for centuries, have lived under the authority of stupid, vile oppressors. That is actually the history of our world.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 1d

As a human, as a mother, this story made me physically ill.

And that the ORR which just a few years ago was a vehicle to refuge and asylum is complicit in this kidnapping is so gross.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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