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  • Reportback: Triangle Queers Bash Back

    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 read more.

  • 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 read more.

  • Notes on Lawfare

    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 read more.

  • 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

    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 read more.

  • This year, they will call us terrorists more, again, and louder.

    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 read more.

  • Reportback: A Fig Tree Grows in Palestine, A Fig Tree Grows Here

    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 read more.

  • Endowment Managers Want You to Eat Shit and Die. 

    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 read more.

  • Amerika Needs to Mind Its Business

    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  read more.

  • No More Cop Cities & No More Family Policing: Durham County Commisioners Meeting – November 12

    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 read more.