Rebecca Glade

Oh wow, you said hot takes, but I did not expect this...

I have a Sudanese friend who commented that when he went to Egypt for the first time, he felt like he had entered a movie or musalsal because he associated Egyptian dialect so heavily with tv 🤣

This is absolutely true. It also intersects with the enshittification of social media-during the 2018/19 revolution in Sudan, people could see how many people were on the street even when other media refused to cover it. Now we think it isn't there because we don't see our community going out online

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Today at tv time, my nephew earnestly asked his parents if he could watch "the show with a gargoyle and dragon, and they're both good, and they're both friends." Turns out this show does not (yet) exist. TV producers, you have your task. We're waiting.

The article's author wants the AHA "to defend the interests of the profession."

I concur, but those interests aren't only or predominantly professors' paychecks and comfort levels. Rather's, the profession's interests center our ethical obligations to society, as historians.

1000 days ago we woke up to my then 3 year old asking me if I could turn that horrible sound (of gunshots and explosions) off, because it’s scary. My heart goes out to everyone, especially those parenting while surviving this war in Sudan and elsewhere. May it all end inshallah. Everywhere.

Image of a train in a sea of revolutionaries waving Sudanese flags. Protestors fill the image, including many standing on top of the train.

Tomorrow marks the 7th anniversary of Sudan's December revolution, before it was superseded by another war that separated and scattered millions of people across countless countries and worlds. Will slowly be posting readings on the uprising here, focusing first on those by Sudanese 🧵

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real

Both are true

Those interested should submit to the journal! Our CfP for next year's issue is still active until December 19th.

The Makerere Historical Journal was established in 1975 and ran from 1975-77 then from 1988-91. We are now publishing again with support from Makerere University Press and their excellent production team.

The revival issue of the Makerere Historical Journal is out! It has been an honor working with the rest of the editorial team to publish this issue and revive a historic East African journal.

Sudan’s People Are Rebuilding Their Capital Without Government Help U.S. aid has evaporated. Government promises remain unfulfilled. But Khartoum's residents are making their neighborhoods livable again, with or without institutional backing.

This article profiles how impressive Khartoum residents are in rebuilding their homes together, as a community. I'm struck by the injustice of it though
nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Education Denied: How War and Inequality Have Weaponised Education Access Against the Next Generation - أتر The war is systemically eliminating pathways for education, normalising a future where learning becomes a privilege of the few. Education in Sudan has been not only an essential service but a means of...

I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine.

"in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."

Sudan needs support and funding for food aid among many things. But the country will not be "saved" by foreigners. Communities are surviving now because of the heroic work of ERRs and Sudanese civil society. Miliband's interview is ghoulish.

The transitional government "did not get the backing it needed" because the int'l community demanded austerity, not security sector reform, yet somehow that's not mentioned. Then fudging about genocide in Darfur (explain 2023 Geneina to me without the term), and demanding support for INGOs. Gross.

The Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World Is Going Mostly Ignored And things are only going to get worse as U.S. aid lags.

What an embarrassing interview. Choosing to interview a British NGO director rather than someone specialized in Sudan. THEN editing out almost all mention of the revolution, popular demands for civilian government, and ERRs and Sudanese mutual aid. Bad choices by Harris, and bad framing by Miliband

Education Denied: How War and Inequality Have Weaponised Education Access Against the Next Generation - أتر The war is systemically eliminating pathways for education, normalising a future where learning becomes a privilege of the few. Education in Sudan has been not only an essential service but a means of...

I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine.

"in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."

Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.

Thank you so much Nisrin for writing this excellent essay! I've learned a lot from it.

Talk about disgraceful. It's also remarkable how completely this sort of discussion ignores that this is counterrevolutionary war-you don't have to endorse SAF to decry the RSF.

This. I've found that there's often a downside to strict policies in high achieving environments, even on things that are important. Students who you need to be firm with don't necessarily respond better to harsher policies, but the students who are rule followers end up getting VERY stressed.

Some people really make me wish their liberation was not bound up with mine. But like, you deserve to be free, but I wish you would stop being a turd.

During each of the previous assaults on Gaza, Sudanese women brought their gold - their only asset and means for security - to send aid to the people of Palestine. Do not dishonor my people by using Sudan's suffering as a zionist shield.

Some forms of automation are useful. Others aren't. All should be understood as tools with limits, advantages, and disadvantages.

One thing that gets lost is that people have called things "AI" for a long while, and in many ways, all it means is "automation." Translation via machine learning can be really useful-and it also functions differently than LLMs.

and she seems very very upset...

Obviously it won't come to that extreme in the US with cutting SNAP benefits. But I wouldn't be surprised if poor people made homeless end up taking up poorly paid jobs that they otherwise would have passed on due to poor working conditions or insufficient pay for commute, etc