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US: Tufts University student detained for pro-Palestine views transferred to Louisiana

4 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Syma Mohammed |Tiana Reid

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national on a student visa, is currently being held in detention in Louisiana, according to her lawyer, despite a judge ordering her not to be removed from the state, Middle East Eye can reveal. Masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents approached and physically restrained the Tufts University doctoral student on the street in Massachusetts on Wednesday before taking her into custody for “pro-Palestine” views.
Columbia faculty sidestep Palestine as they protest against Trump's assault on academic freedom

4 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa |Tiana Reid

It was a cold and wet day in New York City. The slow and persistent rain soaked to the bone. At the entrance of Columbia University on 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, around 50-60 faculty members stood calmly in a coop of steel barricades on the sidewalk.
Mahmoud Khalil protests expose universities as enforcers of imperial power

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Tiana Reid

The president of the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers, Grant Miner, was expelled from Columbia University on Thursday. His punishment is part of a systematic crackdown on Palestine solidarity activists that includes arrests, expulsions, detentions, "self-deportation", and degree revocations.
Tiana Reid: “Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel”

1 month ago | yalereview.org | Tiana Reid

Tiana Reid In a 2004 essay, literary critic Hortense Spillers writes about Zora Neale Hurston in multiples.
Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestinian Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

2 months ago | momus.ca | Tiana Reid

What’s left of art in Toronto? Since November 2023, four curators no longer hold their positions at contemporary art institutions in Toronto. Anishinaabe curator Wanda Nanibush’s “departure,” as the Globe and Mail put it, from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) that month was followed several weeks later by the resignation of Inuk curator Taqralik Partridge from the same institution. Their exits left the AGO with neither an Indigenous curator nor a specialist in Indigenous art.
Disposability, Divestment, and Action: The Palestine Solidarity Movement and the State of Art in Toronto

2 months ago | momus.ca | Tiana Reid

What was the problem? I didn’t know and nobody told me and whatcould I do or say, anyway? Yes, I did know it was the money I earned as a poet thatpaidfor the bombs and the planes and the tanksthat they used to massacre your family—June Jordan, “Apologies to All the People in Lebanon”What’s left of art in Toronto? Since November 2023, four curators no longer hold their positions at contemporary art institutions in Toronto.
The Weeknd: Party Update

2 months ago | crfashionbook.com | Tiana Reid

REVISIT THE WEEKND'SCR FASHION BOOK COVER FROM SPRING/SUMMER 2020.
How Can Synthetic Images Render Blackness?

Jan 9, 2025 | aperture.org | Tiana Reid

In today’s humanities classrooms, the gravest anxiety stems not from the relentless corporatization of universities, or even the end of the English major, but rather from students’ nefarious use of artificial intelligence. The kids are liars, cheaters, and dumber than ever, my professorial colleagues shout, if not in so many words. AI is often polarizing: all good or all bad.
BOMB Magazine | Cesar Padilla By Costa Beavin Pappas

Sep 30, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Costa B. Pappas |Tiana Reid

When it comes to queer coming-of-age stories, often the prose is intertwined with the juxtaposition of desire—a physical desire and an equal desire to keep one’s attraction a secret. But when I stumbled across the diary of Sean DeLear, I was instantly captivated by how a teenager’s voice could be so unclouded by fear, but rather celebrate the very desires and experiences that frighten even adults.
The Extravagant Enigma of Jeremy O. Harris

Sep 18, 2024 | thenation.com | Tiana Reid

The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Slave Play. Not a Movie does not exactly shy away from its critiques, but it focuses on the polarizing elements.