Roberta

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

Howard University students launched a solidarity encampment, DC and campus police threaten arrests. It's a direct attack on peaceful protest and student power. Howard students demand justice— they’re calling on community to mobilize and defend the encampment. Show up. Speak out. Stand with them.

Images with alt text added bc I actually care about other people enough to copy and paste some goddamn text instead of spending more time telling people I don’t have time than it would have taken to just rewrite the stuff

Seeing The Encampments on a day when so many students are getting their visas revoked reminds me that schools have long been a site of oppression and despair, but learning and educating are tools of liberation. We have bring learning and educating back to the people.

UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.

Just saw a screening of The Encampments with some fellow comrades at The Beacon in Seattle. The co-owner shared that they’ll continue to show screenings for as long as there’s interest. thebeacon.film/calendar/mov...

We want to make sure that you know about -- and share -- some more safe direct help resources available on Scarleteen and elsewhere, as well as some content on our site that might now or soon be particularly relevant to you if you live in the United States. (1/9)

We’ve always been searching elsewhere and otherwise, but now it feels a little more frantic.

Trump wants education to become indoctrination, and the Democratic Party isn’t fighting back. But we can.

major slay

Include disabled people in your resistance planning. In many ways we’re built for resistance, as we have to find creative and sustainable ways to survive every single day. This is the time for intersectionality and community care. We need to work together and save one another.

Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with. www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...

This is critical bc a lot of folks are gonna start wanting to take action (finally)

this is a post about poop, you’ve been warned Real friends check in on each other’s poops. It’s a true indicator of how things are going. Back to our regularly scheduled programming…

Glimmers of joy under the weight of it all

My friends and I working on a whole ass class activity around chisme. How it’s culturally sustaining, a way to protect ourselves, and a form of solidarity. It’s not anything new but we will be engaging in the spilling of the tea.

The opposite of diversity is segregation. The opposite of equity is hoarding resources. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion. We need to name that these are segregationists who are excluding to hoard resources.

I wrote a poem about the ones who hold us: open.substack.com/pub/robertal...

Showing up this way is one way to show support. I've also made this for my students so they can move from fear & rage to actions. I will keep adding to it but wanted to share with you all. Clearly inspired by @prisonculture.bsky.social @miamingus.bsky.social & others! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Something I’m sitting with from @jessehagopian.bsky.social’s town hall on his book Teach Truth last night: “if we all spit they would drown”

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Mutual aid is not just a disaster response, it’s a way of caring for one another, building stronger communities, and preparing for whatever life may throw at us next. It’s a labor of love—and a way of life. I put together a reading list (and words of advice) for LitHub: lithub.com/we-only-have...

I wrote about MLK, Hmong indebtedness, and critical love on monday, when I was feeling some type of way (angry) open.substack.com/pub/robertal...

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Proposal is submitted! Laptop is put away! Time to read something that isn’t required and make some cool shit.