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Ozayr Saloojee
@ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social
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Architecture faculty (contested terrains; spatial politics and design Justice) at Carleton U (Ottawa) + African Studies + Center for the Study of Islam. Sometimes I draw & write. I like cats and ferries.
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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.
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7 HOURS LEFT, PLEASE SHARE! In the morning I'm sending a small batch of funds to this displacement camp, but the team wants to maximize what they can include in food baskets for these 15 families ASAP. HOW BOLD CAN WE BE TONIGHT?

Even $1 sustains LIFE. Last check 263/900 chuffed.org/project/save...
Save Devastated Families in Jabalia, Gaza
Although the war has ended, the suffering has not. In fact, it has worsened with the continued siege and the reclosure of border crossings. In Jabalia, northern Gaza, several families who have lost…
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Please help if you can by supporting this fund for Ruaa. Anything helps - and it’s a genuinely worthy cause!
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Afrikaners “name themselves natives, a word they deployed as a slur for us, in the hope that they might adopt, in the act of naming, our relations to the land and all that it entails. The demand for a white ethnostate requires our dispossession again…” - Nolan Oswald Dennis in The Funambulist #59
Another reference (if of interest to those tracking this) is the issue we did some time ago at the Journal of Architectural Education (before our parent organization censored our Palestine issue, fired our executive editor and our board resigned): Deserts. www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl... 🌵
Deserts
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cc: Architecture
The scorn heaped on "Underwater Basket Weaving" was based on college courses in experiential indigenous anthropology. Reeds are traditionally softened underwater to make them flexible for bending into baskets. It's a more useful skill for most than memorizing the 3 orders of ancient Greek columns.
The other issue is when those electives ARE core reqs, students are often presented with a number of options to fulfill it without much regard for what the student is supposed to learn: an Art and Culture core req could be anything from Music 101 to Art History to Underwater Basket Weaving.
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recurse 4 a late planet [lush] by Nolan Oswald Dennis. / Working diagram (2025-ongoing).

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"In South Africa today the rehabilitation of Apartheid is being pursued under the guise of white indigeneity."

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Please give what you can -
Support is slowing down but we MUST sustain hope, energy, creativity, and attention to keep Palestinians alive.

🌹 Our giving circle supports our friends & their families in Gz, plus a mutual aid project.

🚨 Every dollar helps them get food + water. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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Help people survive. Help people survive. Help people survive. Please give what you can -
Another worthy, worthy fund to support. Please consider donating to Nya and her family -
Nya is working hard to sustain her family in an increasingly dangerous area. Her elderly parents need medications & the kids in her family often go hungry.

This family is one of 7 our new giving circle is supporting. 338/650 on our goal by the weekend. tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCi...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
tinyurl.com
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IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise
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Please give if you can, folks. Any little bit helps.
Hi friends. Can you do me a small favor. My friend Mohamed is going through it and he can’t share his campaign right now—and only 3 of us do so regularly.

His family is currently eating spoiled flour. Can we get 200 to help alleviate this even a little?
Help Mohammed's family bear the heavy burdens of life in Gaza
We write to you with hearts filled with sorrow and despair. I am Mohammed, writing on behalf of my family from our tent, where we shiver in the bitter cold of winter after our home was destroyed…
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“Is science equally the surveillance satellite and the COVID vaccine?…We must also consider who is investing in scientists, in their thousands, protesting for protections of Western science.”

averyreview.com/issues/71/ou...
The Avery Review | Outlaw Geology at the End of the World
The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.
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@divyampersaud.com’s text : “Outlaw Geography at the End of the World,” is phenomenal too; a fantastic meditation on ideological and intellectual obfuscations snd an how to take, after Nâzim Hikmet, “to take living seriously.”
Mohamad Nahleh is an incredible writer and thinker - and his piece, titled “Purging a Wretched Empire,” is heart-crushing, unapologetic, tender, brutal and beautiful. It’s a must read.
Stop what you’re doing and go read the latest issue of The Avery Review - with incredible pieces by Gabriella Demczuk, Sanie Irsay, Sydney Rose Maubert, Mohamad Nahleh, @divyampersaud.com, and Faris Shomali. Online here:
The Avery Review | home
The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.
averyreview.com
Another important and vetted and important fund to support here. Please take a few minutes and support Mohamed and his family!
This family is facing an emergency in غaza, but WE can help🚨

Please read the latest update from Mohamed. This bullet barely missed him. Their needs are intense—but that doesn’t mean we are powerless.

Match, double, or half my $14. Let’s help them live. bit.ly/Help-Mohamed
Delighted to welcome these brilliant critics for M.Arch Thesis Reviews at Carleton Architecture next week; welcome Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dan Ling, Aliki Economides, Stephen Beites, Bz Zhang, Mohamad Nahleh, Karen Kubey, Louis-Charles Lasnier and McLain Clutter!
She kissed the ground and she liked iiiiiiiiiiiiit 🎶
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"...the question remains whether Africa can chart its own course through the cosmos, informed by the rich histories of scientific knowledge and celestial relation born out of the continent, or whether its space endeavors will reproduce familiar patterns of extraction and control."
Off-Earth - Thandi Loewenson - Celestial Settler Frontiers
In the collection of National Archives in Harare, a curious series of documents detail accounts of historical astronomical discoveries, celestial phenomena, meteor showers, and alien encounters across...
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Please support this project - small amounts, whatever you can manage!
Help remove waste endangering disabled families in tents 👋🏾 with YOU, this team is going to fuel a garbage truck for this urgent public health need.

The goal is 700 (on Chuffed, 2700) and at last check we’re about 1/2 the way there. Every bit helps:
Save Devastated Families in Jabalia, Gaza
Although the war has ended, the suffering has not. In fact, it has worsened with the continued siege and the reclosure of border crossings. In Jabalia, northern Gaza, several families who have lost…
chuffed.org