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sophia / صوفيا

@brownisthecolor.bsky.social
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prof @ UCSC. Black study, translational + transnational blackness, disaster, diaspora, Palestine. Fond of toast. Often bruised. she/they.

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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
no idea what time it is anywhere but I’m joining this Architecture and Repair in Palestine discussion in Oslo tomorrow afternoon, details in the attached flyer
Architecture of Repair in Palestine flyer, 28 November 2025, 18-20:30 PM, Litteraturhuset (Room Nedjma) Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Okay #ASA2025 (or #2025ASA ?) I only JOKINGLY booed when Moustafa called Egypt “umm al dunya” [mother of the world] because I ASSUMED YOU WOULD ALL BE CLAPPING and no one would hear me. THAT WAS MY BAD YOLO BUT I AM HALF EGYPTIAN SO I GET TO BOO US
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
look who made it to Oakland! outside Jerusalem coffee house , of course
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran breaks a weird streak in American politics, in that he is the child of a foreign-born radical professor but has not become a centrist
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Photo: loser ICE/DHS brownshirt shoots a pepper-ball point blank into a local clergyman’s face as protestors blockade the coast guard entrance in Alameda (where the feds are currently staging to invade the Bay Area) with peepee in his big boy pants
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA—But He Should Push Harder." Great that Mamdani's holding FIFA accountable for fleecing fans. But cheaper tix won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van. My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Call Out FIFA. But He Doesn't Go Far Enough.
Mamdani is right to hold FIFA accountable for fleecing its fans. But cheaper prices won’t matter if you end up in the back of an unmarked van.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I am screaming
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Aycin Kantoglu, Turkish citizen kidnapped by the IOF while at sea in the Sumud Flotilla, when Ben-Gvir was declaring all the flotilla participants as ‘terrorists’: “Shut your mouth, you genocidal filth.”
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
They turned Gaza into a death camp and call it a kindness.
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Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Enormous victory for @aaup.org in aaup v Rubio www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge rules Trump policy to deport students over pro-Palestinian views is unconstitutional
Judge ruled that non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I am trying to finish something like a book manuscript for my workshop in December while navigating the survivor’s guilt all diaspora Palestinians live with amid nearly 2 years of genocide…. Alan Dershowitz getting banned from every pierogi shop in Martha’s Vineyard is basically what keeps me going
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
bruh I know folks in Vietnam have to be cackling over USians blasting “Hanoi Hannah” (Trịnh Thị Ngọ, may she RIP) recordings at US military personnel occupying cities IN the US bc I surely am
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“But we don’t abandon hope. We keep going. We believe.”
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
But if I set my account to private what would my racist colleagues email my chair or dean to complain about
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
lmfao that it’s jimmy kimmel of all people. not exactly a boundary pusher.
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
i cannot comprehend what this means
picture of gazans gathering for food aid. text superimposed written: 680,000 Dead. Based on all the data collected, the death toll in gaza is at least 680,000 and 380,000 are infants under five years of age. on september 3, 2025, Dr. Gideon Polya and Professor richard Hill calculated the total death toll for gaza since october 7.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share widely and encourage colleagues to give generously 🇵🇸 leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...
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The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization
The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in...
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: being racist & advocating for mass shootings
a description of the shooting

Kirk talked about gun violence moments before he was shot, video shows

Warning: This post contains graphic descriptions of the shooting some readers may find distressing.
In videos circulating on social media of the event, Charlie Kirk can be seen sitting in a white gazebo addressing a crowd gathered at an event at Utah Valley University.

The tent features the words "The American Comeback Tour" - the name of his current speaking tour.

In one video, an audience member can be heard asking Kirk about mass shootings in America:
"Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?"

Holding a microphone, Kirk responds: "Counting or not counting gang violence?"

A loud gunshot is heard and Kirk appears to jolt backwards in his seat. Blood can be seen on his neck.

People in the crowd scream and start running from the area.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
700 days of gencide in gaza I don't know but all I can say is I'm going to lose my mind
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
mondoweiss.net/2025/09/cuny...
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CUNY students win landmark legal case demanding the school disclose investments linked to Gaza genocide
In a landmark victory for student activists, the Supreme Court of New York ruled that CUNY must disclose the school’s financial portfolio, specifically contracts with businesses connected to the genoc...
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now? utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
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Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)
Paris on September 1, 2016     By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
What a far-too-late, absolutely bare minimum resolution. Its only concession is that Israel has met the LEGAL threshold for genocide. And as @zsamudzi.bsky.social has asserted, “That genocide is a crime is probably the least important thing about it.”
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Even a stopped clock, amirite
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Why all this? Why does this never end? Why????
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
the truck driving around Westminster magistrates court last month displaying: “MORE BLACKS MORE DOGS MORE IRISH MO CHARA” — I need more of that right now
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Palestinians being starved by Israel and the US and Egypt (etc etc) in search of the little food left in the soup kitchens and donation centres are forced first to queue and then to fight. They are starving our people to force our people to fight one another for survival.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
ziad rahbani 💔
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
ALWAYS give to Sameer Project. They're in Gaza, they're Palestinian, and they provide with dignity and respect. Gazans often say that it's generally best to donate to individual fundraisers, that prominent orgs are nowhere to be seen in Gaza!--Except the Sameer Project which is consistently active.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Children so hungry and dehydrated they cannot even cry.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Israeli citizens living in abundance just half an hour’s drive away are mostly reacting to the disaster with indifference, denial or worse, continuing to justify nearly seven hundred days of unprecedented warfare as an appropriate response to Hamas’s assault” The state of Israel is irredeemable.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
should I link my canary mission page as my personal website in my faculty bio? not gonna lie , their intern def picked my flyest photos
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Every diaspora Palestinian I know has been living with survivor’s guilt for 655 days. Guilt & shame for every glass of water, every bite of food, every shower, every daily annoyance, every moment of joy, every booboo we can kiss better, every sleep in our own beds. Our people are being slaughtered.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I’m guessing that Infantino video in which he says Trump was trying to steal the club World Cup trophy is entirely AI but DAMN what a dream it would be for anyone at FIFA not to be a fucking corrupt fuckboi for dictator money
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
sabbatical life: walking my car in the backyard. vroom vroom.
grey tabby cat in a pink harness with skull & crossbones leash rolling around in the dirt by a cactus grey tabby cat in a pink harness with skull & crossbones leash looking fly
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Listen up to the movement lawyers defending ethnic studies in CA and so many of the UC students, staff, and faculty under attack by Zionist orgs (including our own Regents)! The People V. UC: Thomas Harvey and Mark Kleiman www.buzzsprout.com/2470045/epis...
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Episode 2: The People V. UC: Thomas Harvey and Mark Kleiman - The Lower Frequencies
Episode 2:  The People v. the UC: Thomas Harvey and Mark KleimanIn the first of a series on “The People v. The UC,” The Lower Frequencies welcomes movement lawyers Thomas Harvey and Mark Kleiman ...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our universities have been only too happy to break international law by cultivating partnerships w/ Israeli institutions during a genocide. Well, now it’s time to form genuine partnerships with Gaza’s 3 universities. Unless all that talk about institutional neutrality was a lie.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
absolutely gagged how Zionists keep telling on themselves… they’re hella mad at the new *superman* movie bc there’s an apparently white-majority country oppressing an adjacent non-white-majority country and they just assume it’s an analogy for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. lmfaooooo
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Hey @socialismconference.org attendees- you’re going to spot a book entitled the Israeli Black Panthers in the book exhibit, but please be forewarned it does not engage any existing writing or scholarship on the IBPs, and the author at a previous book talk celebrated the Naksa.
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Socialism 2025
Socialism 2025 is a conference featuring dozens of panels, lectures, and workshops organized by groups from all over the country.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I’m giving a talk on Monday contextualizing the current famine in Sudan by looking at the history of US Aid policy in Sudan and the privatization of the agricultural sector from the 1980s to the present. You can register for free at BIT.LY/ELAMINLECTURE
Image of myself (wearing a black bandana and earrings) on a black grey and yellow poster. The title of the talk “the Politics of Hunger in Sudan” is right underneath the picture. The other text reads with Nisrin Elamin. June 30th @12 pm est virtual. Register at: BIT.LY/ELAMINLECTURE followed by my bio and above a description of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar for the interdisciplinary study of Blackness and Muslimness.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Fuckin screeeaaaaaming: the BBC refused to air Kneecap’s Glastonbury set bc they were worried some anti-genocide shit would go down but the punk band Bob Vylan straight up led their entire audience in a “death death to the IDF” chant that was broadcast live on iplayer 🤣🤣
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
so proud 🥹🥹
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