Reposted by gentaOlga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026MIGJENI translated from Albanian by Genta Nishku Reading Turkoslavia exchanges.uiowa.edu/nishku-migjeni 042
genta @genta.bsky.social · 04/11/2025🪶"È morto un ricco. Qui giace uno pieno di soldi: è morto il più ricco del camposanto. Pensa un po' che fregatura per lui! Beato il poveraccio che pochi hanno saputo che è morto. Scrivono: è morto uno, avanti un altro!"🪶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7A0...youtube.comDiscussione sulla morte e sulla vita (da "Uccellacci e uccellini" di Pasolini, 1966)YouTube video by Memorie Cinematografiche 000
genta @genta.bsky.social · 26/10/2025i simply watched an old acquaintance's insta story where he desperately screamed at people to vote for cuomo and save nyc from communism and then noticed he blocked me 😂😂😂 good to know it's not just boomers who are scared. 000
genta @genta.bsky.social · 24/10/2025people coming out as white house lovers, weird af man. "sign of a larger problem" sure, buddy, but I can think of a few other more significant signs... 000
Reposted by gentaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:thehandbasket.coICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home. 12475533216
Reposted by gentaMaya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔 On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.” truthout.org/articles/a-m...truthout.orgA Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-GracyJanet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”… 0635265
genta @genta.bsky.social · 11/10/2025one of the most unhinged people i knew in grad school is on a flotilla 🤔 😅 000
genta @genta.bsky.social · 30/09/2025the insular community of the same old "critics" always talking about the same old writers. boring! 020
Reposted by gentaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this 6376952280
Reposted by gentaBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...youtube.comSen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun ViolenceYouTube video by New York Daily News 2623072639
Reposted by gentaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/09/2025#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526... 112340
Reposted by gentaWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 17/09/2025this is the only way for people to connect under conditions of a total internet blackout. please give. 03946
Reposted by gentaArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 15/09/2025🚨IF YOU HAVE READ & ENJOYED Husam Maarouf's work on ArabLit (or elsewhere), please support this campaign. chuffed.org/project/1492... 🧵 of Husam's work follows. 134
genta @genta.bsky.social · 08/09/2025inventory @ the end of my first residency: three new friends, endless tea, all assumptions confirmed, inspiration only in unexpected places, new forms of anxiety, greater commitment to mocking the wealthy, 1 of 3 gifted joints, still unsmoked, a plot, no writers block, & protecting silence 000
Reposted by gentaGround Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 07/09/2025“Holocaust museum attacked for opposition to genocide” is fully through the looking glass 221169
genta @genta.bsky.social · 04/09/2025who's up for a road trip to Ventotene, one of europe's most interesting places...? the-past.com/review/trave...the-past.comVentotene: A prison that was a university | The PastA free and united Europe is the necessary premise to the strengthening of modern civilisation… The Ventotene Manifesto (1941). 110
Reposted by gentaWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 04/09/2025update on T Hoxha, who is on day 25 of her hunger strike (follow @prisoners4palestine for more) "The Sodexo phone lines and voicemails were overwhelmed with calls from supporters of T Hoxha and we successfully disrupted their work and got our message across." HOWEVER: Her final demand to be given 11412
Reposted by gentaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025paraphrasing @russ41.bsky.social, the score is currently Fascists: 0 Sandwiches: 7 gotta firm up our run defense to keep things going our way 112318
Reposted by gentaWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Today is Day 24 of T. Hoxha's hunger strike. The prison has still not met her demand to reinstate her library job. Casey Goonan has not eaten for 8 days and refuses to eat until her demands are met. We are running out of time for our comrades: tinyurl.com/FreeTHoxhatinyurl.com 11716
Reposted by gentaWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 01/09/2025“The family said that the prison healthcare team only started measuring her ketone and blood sugar levels on 25 August, finding that her ketone levels, which indicate blood acidity, were high and blood sugar low.” Activists are demanding hospitalization. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...middleeasteye.netFamily of Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike say her health is deterioratingT Hoxha, 29, launched her strike as lawyers report tightening restrictions on members of the group in wake of ban 01313
Reposted by gentaWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 31/08/2025time is running out. please act 11411
genta @genta.bsky.social · 30/08/2025hmm been out of the submitting game for a while so funny reminder, seems everyone always *almost* loves the stories i wrote in DC last year, but not quite enough. they must sense the desperation and depression and are put off l o l 😅 000
Reposted by gentaWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 27/08/2025EMERGENCY!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 US political prisoner Casey Goonan on hunger strike in solidarity with PAL Action UK prisoner T.Hoxha!!!!! Call to action below 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔 23931
genta @genta.bsky.social · 25/08/2025i am going to explore every room and every creepy corner of this gilded age mansion, or i won't be able to rest.. 010
Reposted by gentaBlacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Open Access for this new exited collection Beyond Sanctuary. Please read and circulate. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.comBeyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in MotionThe contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state powe 21818
genta @genta.bsky.social · 17/08/2025couldn't start writing without making this collage, my soul is liberated now 010
genta @genta.bsky.social · 16/08/2025words to describe the first 2 weeks of my first writing residency:woods, bats, ticks, mosquitos, americans, horses, oaks, artificial lakes, opulence on the way out, illusion of isolation, private property, 2 communist 4 this, afternoon stillness,grief, grief, promotion (self), friends, bats, stories 010
Reposted by gentaWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/08/2025#OtD 16 Aug 1894 20-year-old Italian anarchist and baker Sante Geronimo Caserio was guillotined in Lyon, France, where he had assassinated the president of France two months before. "Courage, cousins — long live anarchism!" were his final words stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1258... 08315
Reposted by gentatamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I need to see this film. “‘TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing’ took decades to finish, but is coming at the right time… With lots of strife in the world, many need an example of how to effectively organize. Cade Bambara’s life provides that.” variety.com/2025/film/re...variety.com‘TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing’ Review: A Riveting Documentary That Reveals the Person Behind the IconFilmmaker Louis Massiah pays captivating homage to the literary and political star without hagiographic reverence. 0349
Reposted by gentaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025CUNY professor Jeffrey Lax, one of the subjects of this story, is freaking out about it on X and is furious at Jacqueline for reporting on what he’s been up to. He even tagged the head of the DOJ task force to combat antisemitism. 461112306
Reposted by gentaArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Beneath the Howl of Hunger "And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain." - Alaa Alqaisiarablit.orgBeneath the Howl of Hunger"And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain." - Alaa Alqaisi 1139
Reposted by gentaNicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember. 5037241203
Reposted by gentaZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 19/07/2025#tdih 1881, Atlanta washerwomen’s strike for higher pay, respect, & autonomy over their work. Listen to historian Tera Hunter on #SeizingFreedom (by @kidadaewilliams.com) about this Reconstruction era labor activism ⬇️. Learn from their organizing strategies. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/at...zinnedproject.orgJuly 19, 1881: Atlanta Washerwomen's StrikeBlack women in Atlanta who washed clothes for a living organized an effective Reconstruction era strike — with clear demands, strategic timing, and door-to-door canvassing. 05924