@ruha9@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

“Amid the genocide, the image of displaced people in Gaza City seeking books speaks volumes. An undefeated people—knowledge seekers, even as they face the risk of being killed or shattered into pieces while reading, or simply while choosing the book they want to read. Photo by journalist Amal Habib.”

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

Your homework. https://inthesetimes.com/article/toni-morrison-peril-racism-fascism-liberation-black-women-writers

In These Times

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 24mo ago

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-new-artificial-intelligentsia

Los Angeles Review of Books

The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books

In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 31mo ago

“THE REALITY ON THE GROUND IS INFINITELY WORSE THAN THE WORST VIDEOS AND PHOTOS WE’RE SEEING IN THE WEST.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/6/gaza_update

Democracy Now!

What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa

We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. “What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society,” says Abulhawa. “What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that.”

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 33mo ago

Right on time, unboxing the new year!📕Get yours here: https://bit.ly/imagination_manifesto

Bookshop.org

Imagination: A Manifesto

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

Hi friends, please join us for Phoenix of Gaza: From Freedom Dreams to Falasteen Futures🐦‍🔥 Dec 5-6, 2024: bit.ly/PhoenixOfGaza.

*Art by Imad Abu Shtayyah + Delali Agawu

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 40mo ago

Thank you Amsterdam friends for another lovely visit! Lots to digest from the @publicspaces@social.publicspaces.net conference… seeing the Keti Koti (“chain is broken”) posters celebrating emancipation day in Suriname all over town reminded me that public space, digital or otherwise, is never neutral.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 24mo ago

“In my two decades of working at this institution, I have never seen so many different people afraid to speak… you can see the whole suite of repressive tactics that are making people expressing support for Palestinians scared to speak up.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/rupamarya/p/to-voice-the-unspeakable?r=3lznt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

open.substack.com

To Voice the Unspeakable

On the Fall Equinox 2024, I was out on leave with pay from my faculty position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) because of my support for the liberation of Palestinians who are suffering genocide.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 32mo ago

IMAGINATION Pub Day!🎉Beaming love & appreciation to one half of the duo that incited my earliest imagination! Be sure to tag me when your copy arrives: https://bit.ly/imagination_manifesto

*no AI was armed in the staging of this foto

Bookshop.org

Imagination: A Manifesto

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 31mo ago

For those who missed the conversation at New York Public Library, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/live/PUsHPZpdz4E?feature=shared

Ruha Benjamin with Rujeko Hockley: Imagination | LIVE from NYPL

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9@mastodon.social

· 35mo ago

It took a few months but we’ve come up with a fabulous new jacket, art by Creative Soul Photography @csphoto_atl. HUGE thanks to those who already preordered! https://bit.ly/imagination_manifesto

Bookshop.org

Imagination: A Manifesto

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of

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