Toba Tek Kaur @litmasterg
English prof / Urdu scholar / Panjabi teacher, sometimes #AbolitionNow #FreeKashmir and #FreePalestine i read pigs are haraam in the book that's divine Joined May 2009-
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i'm never on here anymore, but in case some of you still are--i have a new article out in interventions on @rizwanahmed 's rap versions of "toba tek singh" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… DM me if you want the pdf but don't have institutional access :)
this is actually so funny
this is actually so funny
The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968:
The Columbia Spectator, New York, Tuesday, April 30, 1968: https://t.co/2GO9MwUdx7
I’m as guilty as anyone of thinking of my @Columbia undergraduates as “kids.” But here is what I’ve seen them do in the last two weeks: (1/10)
One of the most profoundly beautiful acts of solidarity I've seen: the indigenous guardians of the land that the @mcgillu occupies have given the students the right to setup their encampments on the land in fighting for a Palestine free from occupation and genocide❤️🔥
Ye ladkay mummy se chappal kha lete hai , biwi se kyu nahi ?
Never want to see Salman Rushdie and Ayad Akhtar trotted out as representatives again. They've made their bed.
Never want to see Salman Rushdie and Ayad Akhtar trotted out as representatives again. They've made their bed.
I'm haunted by a video I saw some time back of a very small child in Gaza, probably five or six years old, telling someone that she used to be beautiful, but now she's ugly. She touches her face and hair as she says this. The voice tells her of course she's beautiful, (1/)
i don’t know what the value of your relatively safe life is if you are not totally distraught by what we are being shown from gaza. i don’t understand what you live for at all… is it just to buy things? to try a restaurant you saw on tik tok?
I'm doing ecocriticism (telling a plant it's ugly)
A lot of people are stating they are “done” with Bisan and Motaz because they are anti-black. And it’s lead me to a serious of thoughts I’ve been having for a while.
“Moms don’t realize they are anxious or depressed. They think they’re failing.”
February: The deadline for this piece is December? Well then, no problem. December:
I am watching this right and Refaat says the following: "Of course we always fall into this trap of saying, 'she [Fadwa Tuqan] was arrested for just writing poetry!' We do this a lot, even us believers in literature...
I am watching this right and Refaat says the following: "Of course we always fall into this trap of saying, 'she [Fadwa Tuqan] was arrested for just writing poetry!' We do this a lot, even us believers in literature...
@sauvamemte Ali got arrested and drew so much fbi attention an activist group timed their robbery of the fbi offices to coincide with ali vs frazier. Which is how we discovered cointelpro.

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