#InternationalWomen'sDay
Poem published in 'To Lay Sun Into A Forest', Sidhe Press.
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#InternationalWomen'sDay
Poem published in 'To Lay Sun Into A Forest', Sidhe Press.
I have just submitted this book. Delivered on my birthday to renew my commitment to intellectual integrity. It positions the Genocide in Gaza as an applied linguistics issue, while revisiting the disciplineβs commitment to investigating the role of language in real world problems.
Responding to Gaza
How do I respond? How do I sustain a response? How do I prepare a response that is possible, sayable, pronouncable and breathtakingly responsive? How do I speak with my academic confident tonality when it's time for cries?
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Colonial morality has always assumed the inferiority of feelings described as 'irrational'. To feel requires a specific kind of reasonβone rich in social knowledge and vocabulary of social critique. To feel is to be more than rational. To feel more fully is to be human.
Absolutely..
Some articles are hard to write. Others are almost impossible to publish. This article combined both challenges.
With gratitude to our editor and reviewers for their solidarity and intellectual integrity.
Article open access: unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/EA...
we need a new ethics paradigm outside the coloniality of ethics that uses ethics to do unethical things. We need true anticolinial scholars and educators committed to intellectual integrity
This poem by @khawlabadwan.bsky.social took my breath away.
We see this displaced concern all over the place. Turning away from the true violation and invoking the name of false risk, false protection.
βWe shall protect them.
And we shall keep them
unseen.β
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Reflections on research ethics during a livestreamed genocide..
Unseen.
Based on real events..
Reflections on decoloniality as a buzzword in academia
From decolonise this and decolonise that to decolonial thought Plus..
How can we, then, move forward with this wounded world?
The short answer is through imagining and demanding a future that is at odds with this fascist, necropolitical present.
What if we insist on a vision for education that attends to the serious work of human presencing in a world in pain? What if pedagogical poetics becomes the reminder of intellectual integrity, with humility and vulnerability in pursuit of new-ness? How might we exist for one another, then?
βFour of my children just evaporated,β Badran said, holding back tears. βI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?β
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Genocide destroys language just as it destroys life and land. It kills thinking and transformational thought. This destruction is everywhere. But the human spirit has to find a way- as it always does.
What now?
Hospicing Gaza ( ΨΊΨ²Ψ© ) - A piece we should never have had to write. Scholarship when every hope is gone and out of the failure of our disciplines
We invite you to read our piece again
@khawlabadwan.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Our article is now fully published in volume 25 (6) and open access after online publication early in 2026
It was the most read paper in the journal in 2025 @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
βThey wanted to build a pier
For aid, they said
For ease of access, they said
They wanted to build a pier
Made of the rubble of our homes
Mixed with blood, limbs and bones
They wanted to build a pier
β¦.β
We invite you again to this urgent yet daunting work which introduces a scholarship of heartbreak through stunned languaging.
The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication.
A beginning, a trouble.
A call, a response.
A rethinking
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
When words are said, ignored and absented, they demand to be said again and again for as long as the night lasts.
On language in times of immense suffering...
The language issue at the heart of Gaza is where thought that has failed and academic disciplines and organisations that have been unable to articulate the evidence of their own eyes will be and is being remade. Out of Ashlaa.
Gaza is a language issue at heart. A key issue for the reluctant discipline of Applied Linguistics whose broken premise is about the use and abuse of language in the 'real world'.
Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak
Look again..
It's the age of p.e.a.c.e.
Just wait..
This cannot be a new year..
yet
On this day we remember
where the story began
In Palestine
PALESTINE
that is the world
and through her
we continue to see the world
"It's good news to refuse things are they are"
Behold the angry sky
Let the reckoning be
Please quote.. It's the time for heartbreak.
Dear Sarah, the photo is from my book with Alison Phipps called Keep Telling of Gaza, pinned on my profile here.
The lines of the post are from Palestine36 film videos on Instagram on 10 December
"On the 77th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights We remember the years before the rights were named, and the people who are still denied them"
#Gaza #Palestine #HumanRightsDay