Columbia, I arrived in New York with a fellowship from you and a hundred and ten dollars borrowed from kind friends in Kolkata to study with Edward Said. It turns out you're still King's College, for empire, for apartheid, for police brutality against your brave students.

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oh man I was prepared for Ripley’s wig disguise to go really really badly, like a dead cat on his head — it was the most suspense I felt in the entire series

The head of the university of Cologne, Joybrato Mukherjee, has disinvited US philosopher Nancy Fraser from the upcoming Albertus Magnus Professorship for signing a statement titled 'Philosophy for Palestine'. Just everyday normality in Germany these days.

I genuinely think every subway cop should be handed a broom

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They cut public library hours and other city services so NYPD could play Candy Crush on their phones on the subway and catch $100,000 in fare evasion by spending $150 million in overtime (that’s a real number btw)

As we discuss how to keep cinemas sustainable and free from censorship of Palestinian voices, we're talking more and more about establishing autonomous, non-corporate spaces. Cinema For All has resources to support launching your own community cinema: cinemaforall.org.uk/bursaries-trai…

agree with all of this except the part about the conclusion that corrupt institutions inevitably fail — instead they do everything to consolidate and maintain their power. it takes active opposition, without and without, to make them fall. let’s get to work

A reddit post from someone who worked at Hot Docs explaining their perspective as to why ten programmers and the festival's artistic director announced their departures from the festival today.

“Surely there is little scope to barnacling activism to major film festivals, decadent as they are and dying as they might be. Perhaps we want to steal what we can from them. Perhaps power resides elsewhere.”

it happened -- someone put an emoji (a smiley face) in a letter of recommendation