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Reportback: Triangle Queers Bash Back
Reportback: Triangle Queers Bash Back Screening 2025 — Stonewall was an Intifada Reportback On June 9th, 2025 queers gathered in Durham, NC for “Stonewall was an Intifada” to bring in Pride Month with a liberatory bang. This event, hosted by Triangle Queers Bash Back (TQBB) with assistance from Jummah 4 All, included film snippets (created a year prior by TQBB) that highlighted queer organizing in amerikkka from the Stonewall rebellion to the late 90’s, a post-screening discussion to learn from this history, and fundraising for Congo, Sudan, and Palestine. In 2024, TQBB came together to do something about the Pride… read more.
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OP ED: Failed Asian American Literature Hire Exemplifies Racism in the English Department [REDACTED VERSION]
OP ED: Failed Asian American Literature Hire Exemplifies Racism in the English Department [REDACTED VERSION] by Christina Huang and friends at Students for Asian American Studies Author’s Note: This opinion piece below has been sitting on my computer for the past 3 months. And every time I would come across it, I would be left extremely frustrated. For the last three months, I tried to get this published on numerous Chapel Hill/Carrboro platforms and despite providing numerous versions of this op ed to adjust for critiques, all of them were rejected. From being told we don’t cover “minute University issues”… read more.
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Notes on Lawfare
Notes on Lawfare by dagwood for comrades’ consideration I. The Gist Lawfare – state counterinsurgency through the legal system; a system’s use of the legal system in order to disorganize/demobilize a movement against itself Lawfare explanation courtesy of Wikipedia What are the impacts of lawfare? Ultimately, these tactics serve the overarching strategy: blackhole resources to reroute movement efforts towards confronting the legal system rather than organizing towards the movement’s goals. These tactics make for effective counterinsurgency strategy. Literally, a courtroom is this guy transmogrified into a physical room and the bailiff is an energy vampire and the judge is an… read more.
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Reportback: Rally for Leqa’a Kordia & Mahmoud Khalil: ICE & DHS Off Our Campus
Reportback: Rally for Leqa’a Kordia & Mahmoud Khalil: ICE & DHS Off Our Campus a rally for leqa’a kordia & mahmoud khalil. held @ unc 3/19/25 at south building. The speeches below have been lightly edited for clarity. To get involved with the represented organizations, please scroll to the bottom of the article for information on how to get involved. How do we defeat fascism? GET LOUDER. by spare tire, a representative of UNC SJP Thank you all for being here today in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil, Leqa’a Kordia, Dr. Rasha Alawiyeh, and all political prisoners unjustly taken hostage, held… read more.
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This year, they will call us terrorists more, again, and louder.
This year, they will call us terrorists more, again, and louder. by dagwood and friends The coordinated Zionist campaign to quash the Palestine solidarity movement (an anti-imperialist, anti-apartheid, anti-genocide movement) will escalate this year through the tactic of designating Palestine solidarity activists, groups, and networks as terrorist. Through this designation, the state will extend itself carte blanche power to discredit, repress, imprison, and destroy the Palestine solidarity movement. This move will be waged rhetorically, discursively, politically, and legally. This year, they will call us terrorists. — ‘Terrorist’ Lawfare Now, this is by no means novel. It is the same playbook… read more.
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Reportback: A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here
Reportback: A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here The below speech was edited for clarity. Introductory speech Welcome everyone! Thank you so much for coming to celebrate the opening of A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here in the Alumni Sculpture Garden. This project grew out of a special topics class last semester, Art as Social Action: On Guantanamo, Statelessness, Art, and Liberation. In this class, we explored social practice strategies while simultaneously investigating one physical site and the critical social, political, and aesthetic questions it raises: Guantánamo Bay Detention Center. In… read more.
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Endowment Managers Want You to Eat Shit and Die.
Endowment Managers Want You to Eat Shit and Die. by dagwood crabtree Let me explain. UNC-Chapel Hill’s endowment, like those of universities across the country, is a set of financial assets that the University invests, using the returns to meet operational needs of sorts (building renovations, scholarships, programming). The endowment is, frankly speaking, repulsively immense at over $11 billion. (You should be repulsed alongside me given the salaries of workers at the university, the chronic food insecurity across campus, and economic precarity across the town of Chapel Hill.). The endowment claims to be “privately managed” by UNC Management Company (UNCMC).… read more.
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Amerika Needs to Mind Its Business
Amerika Needs to Mind Its Business By DAM America—and all western powers—have always caused more harm than good whenever they get involved in the policy creation or “aid” of other countries, particularly those in the Global South. The Congo has been a country of interest to the western world for many years, dating as far back as 1885 when King Leopold II treated the country as his personal playground. Under his rule, 10 million Congolese died as the land and its people were brutally exploited. Naturally, the world has forgotten these crimes and their lasting impacts. As Congo gained independence,… read more.
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No More Cop Cities & No More Family Policing: Durham County Commisioners Meeting – November 12
No More Cop Cities & No More Family Policing: Durham County Commissioners Meeting – November 12 By Jupiter N. Mars & Funky Fairy The Durham County Commissioners meeting two nights ago was a shitshow. Community members showed out after a post went up on Instagram from Durham Beyond Policing, Triangle Stop Cop City, Charlotte Stop Cop City, and Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub. The post pointed out that a proposal was on the agenda to give 16 million dollars to building a police training center in Durham. The beginning of the meeting was filled with awards and appointments. Durham County… read more.
