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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

2 months

I'm deeply honoured, humbled, and elated that the contributions of Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka has been recognized with the 2024 Sussex International Theory prize!

Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT)

@SussexCAIT

2 months

CAIT is pleased to announce our 2024 Sussex International Theory Prize winner is Ajay Parasram for 'Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka'. @SussexGlobal @IRSussex @SussexUni @isanet @MYBISA

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

The historical record will show that on June 6 2024, rather than lift a finger to stop funding a genocide, @YorkUniversity and @mcgillu instead called riot cops to attack their own students for demanding action. A dark day for Canadian academia.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

The beautiful students of Kjipuktuk have joined the global student movement. We are proud and stand in solidarity. Free Palestine!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 months

The students are peacefully reclaiming the their campus. All Dal needs to do is divest and this is all over.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

10 months

Happy share that my first solo authored book and the product of more than a decade of work is officially out in the world TODAY!

Manchester University Press

@ManchesterUP

10 months

New in our Theory for a Global Age series! 'Pluriversal sovereignty and the state' taps into debates on decolonial methods in history, political science and sociology and offers an alternative reading of Sri Lankan and British imperial history. Read more:

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

The morning after the Tories were elected in NS with their hard position against rent control, people are being evicted.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

Wondering when all the Canadian universities are planning on removing their land acknowledgements from their signatures and strategic plans in light of the radio silence on the Israeli state's collective punishment of Palestinians? The hypocrisy speaks volumes.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

6 months

We did a good thing today, and the whole association stood with us

Lana Tatour

@Lana_Tatour

6 months

Breaking: International studies scholars interrupt presidential address to demand ISA endorse BDS. #ISA2024 @BDSatISA @isanet #gaza #BDS #BDSatISA

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

So much respect for the Mi'kmaq grassroots grandmothers, water protectors, and warriors who have been fighting this fight for so long! #LandBack #sovereignty #stopalton

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 months

Dal even destroyed the vigil of flowers laid for martyred Palestinian children. They tried to destroy the library, but students chased them away. None of this needed to happen. A shameful day on campus, buttressed only by the honour of these incredible students

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

It’s not that our children’s hospitals are so overrun that makes me feel like this country is failing, it’s the emotional unwillingness of political and health leadership and the general population to agree that basic things like masking could alleviate child suffering

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

So some random kid's parent can volunteer to "supervise" school, but a qualified teacher in a hijab or turban can't? #priorities

Quebec parents may be called in to supervise classrooms if teachers out sick with COVID-19 | CBC...

Volunteer parents could be asked to supervise Quebec classrooms if too many teachers fall sick with COVID-19, the province's Education Ministry says.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

My three year old just told me I wasn't very "professional" because I didn't give her a popsicle for breakfast!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

So much joy and care on display at the Kjipuktuk encampment, day 3!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

Another beautiful morning in the liberated zone, Kjipuktuk student encampment day 6. Loving the intersectional grounding of liberation on display

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 months

A letter from Kjipuktuk based faculty regarding the 180 degree turn leading to the unilateral dismantling of Al Zeitoun University student encampment.

Faculty members strongly condemn the forced removal of the Al Zeitoun University encampment

In the early hours of the morning on Monday, July 29, university security moved to destroy the camp that has peacefully used the space outside the Henry Hicks building at Dalhousie University for n…

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

The common denominator across recent murders of Black and Brown people is whiteness. White entitlement, white fragilities, structural white supremacy encoded in law and institutions. This isn't about guns or education, it's about structural white supremacy

'Canada is not immune,' leading Black voices say in response to Buffalo mass shooting | CBC News

Members of the Black community in Canada on Monday are warning this country is also vulnerable to hate crime as they react with shock and horror to Saturday's bloodshed in Buffalo that left 10 Black...

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Rest in Power, Lee Maracle. One of the most insightful voices I've ever learned from. Hearing her talk about hijacking literary festivals and occupying them with her work decades before Canada would talk about reconciliation remains a highlight.

Angela Sterritt 📘

@AngelaSterritt

3 years

Take a moment today to remember the boundaries that Lee Maracle pushed, & how she schooled many of us (including me) to be more compassionate in the world. I hope you have a book(s) of hers on your shelf to read today. A devastating loss. Please remember the barriers she broke.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

It's so ridiculous that with 31 percent support, Liberals could win up to 170 seats, but with 20 percent popular support, NDP could win as few as 26. #ProportionalRepresentation #Elxn44

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

Dal faculty call for ‘an end to the scholasticide in Palestine’ via @TwitCoast

Dal faculty call for ‘an end to the scholasticide in Palestine’

Prof says this comes amid ‘deafening silence’ by university to speak up

www.thecoast.ca

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

So awesome to find this gorgeous display at our local independent bookstore, Bookmark! ⁦ @fernpub ⁩ ⁦ @ElJonesPoet ⁩

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 years

Old tracks exposed on gottengen street. @MikeSavageHFX I think the past is calling for streetcars!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

I cut the grass when my kiddo is at daycare because otherwise she follows me around pleading for each weed, flower, clover because they are all beautiful and perfect and colourful. I love how she knows the world!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

Dr. @ElJonesPoet being unequivocally clear, wise, and inspiring while receiving an honorary doctorate at @AcadiaU today.

The Breach

@TheBreachMedia

4 months

While receiving an honorary degree from Acadia University today, @ElJonesPoet praised students across the country who are “standing against a genocide” in Gaza. “Over the past few months, we have been told that it is our words and not bombs that are harmful and violent.”

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

Stoked to be rolling out 3 new classes next academic year, and especially this second year level Development Class on Race and Development! Please recommend to the @DalhousieU students in your lives! #race #Development #Decolonization

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

@ElJonesPoet We should start collecting the names of the profs and administrators who practice this kind of censorship. Would love to publish their names but have to privilege student safety first. Documenting these jerks would be useful though.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

1/3 The right-wing occupation of #Ottawa is about white nationalism and white privilege as much as it is "against" mandates for "for" freedom. It doesn't matter if non-white people may be present. The @CPC_HQ is clearly ok with racism within their movement.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

my daughter sits on my lap as I'm typing furiously, saying "can I have a turn?" I ask her what she's typing and she answers "capitalism" with a focused look on her face. lol

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Just walked passed an elementary school that was blasting O Canada with all the little ones standing up at attention. First time I was made to stand for a national anthem I ran out the school and all the way home. Hard to believe we still subscribe to this kind of nationalism

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

6 months

Solidarity with the @NSTeachersUnion and wishing for a 100% strike mandate this evening! Schools work because you do, and if the gov't forces it, our kids will be walking the picket with their beloved teachers.🌈✊🩷

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

En route to the farmers market this morning, my 3 year pointed to Peace and Friendship Park and said, "Appa this is where you talk about capitalism with a megaphone!"

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

7 months

Hey Winnipeg friends, I'm descending upon your rad city to talk about this 👇on Thursday as part of the Sociology Visiting Lecturers Series. Come check it out if you're around!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

There must be a Congress of South and East Asian people in Cape Breton this weekend. Never seen so many of my peeps in the Maritimes before! One hero hiked the Skyline Trail in backless slippers! Good times in Unama'ki

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

9 months

Take note that right wing truckers could literally weaponize sound for weeks and months on end without any issue, but someone using a megaphone to chant Free Palestine is ticketed nearly 500 dollars. This is some dystopian bullshit in the national capital.

Joel Harden

@JoelHardenONDP

9 months

I love Ottawa, but I’m disappointed in my city today. Using a small megaphone to advocate for Palestinian human rights gets a $490 fine? This has to stop. #CeasefireNOW

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Hey pals, our Halifax Book Launch for Frequently Asked White Questions will be livestreamed on the @fernpub YouTube channel! In person @BusStopTheatre Nov. 8 at 7, or tune in virtually around 720 AST. Don't miss performances from @Iamgeneralkhan @ElJonesPoet and Chanel Friere!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Found a new parenting low - not just reheating tea, but combining discarded teas from earlier in the day and then reheating

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 years

This might be surprising to Canadians who consume a processed diet of right wing fearmongering, but to immigrants themselves, we have always known that we've never been "taking" other people's jobs and that we've always been contributing to the economy.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

@TimHoustonNS That’s a good position Mr Premier, and a noticeable difference from other Conservatives across the country. Please put this into policies where they matter the most. Kids are not parental property, trans rights are human rights

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

3/3 White nationalists are the big winners. Thousands of impressionable white people motivated by a vague sense of individual freedom are right now flirting with explicit white supremacy. We have always been structurally white supremicist state, it's an easy escalation.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

History is going to be extremely unkind to these villains who seek to criminalize even symbols of resistance to genocide. When the fuck will conservatives and their apologists ever stop trying to police what Muslim women can wear, anyway? This picture tells 1000 stories.

Kristin Rushowy

@krushowy

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MPP Sarah Jama being asked to leave to legislature for wearing keffiyeh #onpoli

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Didn't get to hear all of the NS leaders debate, but on healthcare and housing it was clear that @GaryBurrill had the only sensible arguments. @TimHoustonNS living in a duplex doesn't make you relatable - rent control does.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

What is it that universities think settler-colonialism means? How is it possible that after all this time, that it is still possible to think that settler-colonialism or colonialism at all is just something from the past? My 1st year students understand better than my superiors.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

2/3 The @OttawaPolice calling it "peaceful" reflects the ethic that public property y, not private property is being damaged. Individual property valued over public property. If the protestors weren't majority white, no way they would be called "peaceful" even if it were true.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

Respect to @SarahJama_ the one politician in Canada I've seen taking a public stance that names Apartheid and settler-colonialism. (If there are others, I'd love to see them issuing calls like this.)

Sarah Jama

@SarahJama_

1 year

I'm reflecting on my role as a politician who is participating in this settler colonial system, and I ask that all politicians do the same. #FreePalastine

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Congratulations @fazeelajiwa on this huge honour! Best damn editor I've ever known, all in for the win!

Editors Canada

@EditorsCanada

2 years

2022 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence Finalist: Fazeela Jiwa (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic (Fernwood Publishing) @fazeelajiwa @fernpub #TomFairleyAward

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Victory for the farmers! Direct action gets the goods! ✊🏾💓

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

My 5 year old asked me why there weren’t as many women vendors at the farmers market, and figured that men want more money than women. She then asked if we were colonizers and if we weren’t, how can we be sure that we aren’t. Patriarchal settler colonial capitalism b4 10am

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

Students standing strong ! Day 2

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Realizing my dream of being CBC famous! Come out to the library friends, should be a great time!

Fernwood Publishing

@fernpub

2 years

Hey, Halifax! @Mainstreethfx 's Jeff Douglas and authors of FREQUENTLY ASKED WHITE QUESTIONS, @A_Parasram & Alex Khasnabish, are coming together to talk about anti-racism & racial privilege! You're invited. Co-hosted with @hfxpublib + @BookmarkHalifax .

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

Absolutely immoral that Mainstream media @CTVAtlantic , @CityNewsHFX , @globalhalifax and @CBCNS continue to shirk their responsibility to cover these protests and demands for ceasefire. Fire producers & executives, and let journalists do their jobs. You will not be forgiven.

Rebecca Hartery

@rebeccahartery4

11 months

Once again no news at the 🇵🇸 Halifax march. @CBCNS @CTVAtlantic @globalhalifax @CityNewsHFX @TwitCoast how does it feel to have the public do your job? How does it feel to be silent on genocide? How does it feel to fail at disappearing Palestinian resistance and solidarity?

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Very good read from @NoLore . Invoking the EA should never have been necessary

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

"You're holding me like a Covid test" - my three year old struggling to get dressed

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

The passing of a giant. I remember the first time I ever read about the "decolonial option" and was gobsmacked at my anglophone ignorance in not learning about Dussel until well into my PhD. Rest in power Enrique Dussel.

Insurgent Decolonial Thought & Praxis

@De_Coloniality

11 months

Enrique Dussel, one of our greatest philosophers in Latin America, passed away last night. His contributions to decolonial and Marxist thought and philosophy of liberation will continue to inform our interrogations of colonialism, imperialism, & capitalism. Rest in Power.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

4 year old: You pretend to be a doctor. Ok? Me: interesting fact - I am a doctor! 4 year old: *eye roll and sigh* no Appa, I mean a real doctor that helps people.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Great conversation with @justicedanielh on @CBCUnreserved today, including concrete asks for non indigenous peeps to intervene and educate rather than just being upset about residential "schools"

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

Dal faculty union calls for suspension of academic ties from Israeli institutions | CBC News

The union representing faculty at Dalhousie University recently passed two motions at its annual general meeting related to the Israel-Hamas war. One motion calls for Dalhousie to suspend formal...

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Solidarity with my old local, CUPE 4600! I remember when I was last a member the stats were that 52 % of classes were being taught by Contract Instructors. I'd be surprised if that number has lowered over the last half decade.

Greg Macdougall

@GregEqEd

2 years

Carleton University contract instructors and teaching assistants on strike, major issues in tweet below. @cupe4600 #canlab #OttNews #OntEd #Strike

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

6 months

@AngelaSterritt I'm stoked that you're reading it! Curious for the answer but enjoying everyone's guesses! The Race Card is the chapter intended for the global majority of non white folx ❤️

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

@raniawrites It's gross to think that a white lady is making that kind of money off of essentially adapting hundreds of years of BIPOC activism and writing against structural white supremacy. As if we didn't always know it was bullshit!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

For all the University EDIA committees out there - I want you to know that your total silence on the Israeli state violence against Palestinians is really harming Arab students as well non-Arab students who care deeply about international law and justice

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 years

I hope that the UN General Assembly is watching Canada's war on the Wet'suwet'en, and deems Canada unfit to serve on the Security Council. #ShutCanadaDown

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

Seriously people, it's outrageous how shallow and gross the discourse is in Canada where people are still trying to advocate for "both sidesism" and comparing watermelon stickers to actual genocide.

Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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There is seriously something dystopian about this moment when Rafah is on fire being massacred and Palestinian healthcare is beyond overwhelmed after systematic and targeted sieges on hospitals. While medical institutions in Canada are still seriously talking about how

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

My conversation with @Mainstreethfx about AI, anti colonial research and teaching . Many thanks for the interest and opportunity! Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas: Students should avoid using AI for research, Dalhousie prof says

Students should avoid using AI for research, Dalhousie prof says | Mainstreet NS with Jeff Douglas...

A university professor says his biggest fear about the use of artificial intelligence on campuses isn't plagiarism — he's more worried about whose knowledge is being excluded or erased. Guest host...

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

Honestly people - suspending a doctor for this? In a country with a doctor shortage? What the fuck is wrong with this country?

Muhannad Ayyash

@AyyashMohannad

11 months

Every single Canadian should be completely outraged by this story. Dr. Thompson did not say anything racist or hateful, and was simply speaking from a humanitarian standpoint and stating facts. Suspending a doctor for this is reckless and totalitarian.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

@AyyashMohannad I tried having the most basic thing: "We condemn the bombing of universities" passed and even that was seen as too controversial. As a sector Canadian academia is profoundly disappointing

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

Found ⁦ @fazeelajiwa ⁩ while flipping through the latest issue of ⁦ @briarpatchmag ⁩ . Great reasons to sustain this fine piece of independent journalism!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Distraught that her parents were half paying attention to her while working, the little one draws by herself and when we come to see what she's doing, "I'm drawing capitalism stuff with my colleague."

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

Feeling strong at the student encampment!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

1.) hire and pay workers to do be cashiers rather than painting massive corporations like victims; 2.) the outrage at being surveilled is justified but also hilarious. Try shopping or travelling anywhere without white skin folks

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

So happy we have a book in this awesome catalogue, check them out!

Fernwood Publishing

@fernpub

2 years

Our fall catalogue is here! We'll be posting all week about each book but take a first look at it here:

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

8 months

Hey Canada - instead of advising Israel not to destroy Palestine, why not stop arming and excusing everything they are doing instead? Maybe Canadians would believe their politicians meant anything they said if they actually used their limited power with a shred of genuineness

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

9 months

Using the @CBCNews app, I scrolled 25 stories before I found the first story about Palestine. And it was about Uber Eats adding a Palestine category in Canada. This is worse than incompetence, it’s deliberately trying to shape public opinion in favour of Zionism.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

The idea that Islam is in any way foreign to India is categorically absurd, and only conceivable from an utterly colonized mind that treats British categories and modern/colonial boundaries as being ahistorically true.

Modi accused of ‘anti-Muslim hate speech’

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of hate speech targeting Muslims.

www.aljazeera.com

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

Noticed the news cycle is like, "runaway climate change" in one breath and "oil and gas boom/recovery" in the next? #cognitivedissonance

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 years

Directed Reading Seminar in Postcolonial Politics here in K'jipuktuk (Halifax) loving Insurgent Empire as an anchor point for thinking through the anti colonial politics happening across Turtle Island as we meet. @PriyamvadaGopal

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

After a great "bike-bus" ride in with the kids I turned the corner and saw a cyclist who had just been hit by a car outside my office. The kids at the elementary schools are often biking down this same road, and there's not even a bike-lane on Le Merchant. We need infrastructure

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

Taking a moment to document a new low for rushing to meet a deadline - squirreled away in an unfinished basement dungeon/office with no electricity, a headlamp, and a hurricane. #lee

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

How can a Supreme Court in 2024 decide to ignore Sami law and affirm corporate ownership over arctic Sami territory the size of Wales? The arrogance of colonial tunnel vision. #Landback

Norway's court rules against Indigenous control over northern territory | CBC News

In a narrow 6-5 decision, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the largely Indigenous community of Karasjok does not have collective property rights over a vast area in the country’s northernmost...

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

@GlobalDev_ISA @isanet Panel IR As If People Matter is unfolding now and SO nourishing for the mind and soul. @jonneke @vtavareso @OumarKBa @seenfromafar @huippumisukka @GinoVlavonou @megan_manion @drljshepherd

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 years

Currently listening to Omar Khadr and Ishmael Beah talk to each other about life after surviving war and it is incredible. So much wisdom and patience.

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@A_Parasram

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Sharing resources here for Faculty Unions trying to pass BDS motions. After two challenging but inspiring AGM meetings, we have definitively passed 3 motions and will now be working in good faith toward implementation. Colleagues reach out if we can help.

DFA Motions on Gaza, including BDS

I’m happy to share and enter into the public record that the Dalhousie Faculty Association has now passed all three motions my colleagues and I (many many more than who are listed as movers a…

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

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I have always tried to like the NDP folks committed to progressive policy. But that agenda never sees the light of day. What enrages me is that they COULD, if they wanted to, be a progressive party. That they CHOOSE not to, while throwing progressives under the bus, is the worst

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Talking the decline of society with ⁦ @NoLore ⁩ at ⁦ @CCPANS ⁩ and ⁦ @fernpub ⁩

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 years

So gratifying to hold this collaboration in my hands for the first time!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

10 months

@SunilSarwal What the fuck, man. Every time you think you've seen or heard it all, there's another layer of imperceivable dehumanization at play

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@A_Parasram

7 months

1/3 Just a quick note for all my prof friends - the little things like wearing a keffiyeh or a "Faculty 4 Palestine" poster on your door really makes a difference to the students who see it. I just had science students come by pretending to have questions about my department's

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Excited to be speaking on this panel "Interrogating Whiteness" this Thursday evening. It's online but not recorded, details below!

Panel Discussion on Interrogating Whiteness

Join us for a Panel Discussion and Conversations on Interrogating Whiteness

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

4 months

Happy to share the full text and video of my May 28 Convocation Address to the Faculty of Arts and Social Science class of 2024, Dalhousie University. 🇵🇸🎓🍉🎆

Convocation Address, Dal Faculty of Arts & Social Science May 28, 2024

I was honoured to be invited to address the graduating class of 2024, including bringing greetings from the student encampment of Al Zeitoun University on the Dalhousie quad. Below I post the text …

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

5 months

Settlers and settler colonialism is the absolute worst. Is it not a war crime to destroy food in a famine struck warzone?

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

5 months

BREAKING: A mob of Israeli settlers attack Jordanian trucks carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid on the way to the besieged Gaza Strip, unloading and destroying bags of wheat flour. This comes as most of the Gaza Strip plunges into starvation amidst the strict Israeli

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

11 months

@MassyBooks Much love and solidarity Massy! I look forward to visiting every time I’m in town

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Real treat talking with ⁦ @MainStreet ⁩ today about our new ⁦ @fernpub ⁩ book NS with Jeff Douglas: New book by N.S. authors addresses 'Frequently Asked White Questions'

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Thanks for such a soulful launch for Frequently Asked White Questions, Kjipuktuk!Hats off to @ElJonesPoet , Chanel Freire, and @Iamgeneralkhan for amazing performances and @fazeelajiwa @fernpub for outstanding hosting AND editing the book and audiobook!

For FAWQ's Sake: Halifax Book Launch

Book launch of Frequently Asked White Questions by Ajay Parasram and Alex Khasnabish.Featuring El Jones (poet), Chanel Freire (stand up) and General Khan (mu...

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

What does it mean about live in the pandemic that I'm more concerned about the 7 unmasked people on the transit car I'm on than the masked man neatly unpacking and repacking machetes?

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

OMG after about 8 months of botched email I only have 6 urgent and yet long overdue ones pinned to my inbox! The sabbatical light at the end of the tunnel is in sight!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

This will make your day immeasurably better

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

6 months

Check out the Talking Capitalism series from HIST 1501 last term! Big thanks to @DrJennaMarshall @Tilley101 @johnjamesmunro @RohanKalyan2 @SharriPlonski Isaac Saney, Alex Khasnabish, Nivi Manchanda, Chris Hurl and Castro the cat!

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

3 years

So much of this protest makes me think "wtf"

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As Ottawa police get closer to Wellington Street, protesters are building a snow wall (?) to slow the officers’ advance

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

2 years

Holy crap, Wayne Mason literally believes this is about pizza! How about we fire the councillor and keep the pizza?

Two Halifax corner stores say they will fight bylaw that would force them to close at 11 p.m. | CBC...

A proposed bylaw that would limit the hours of some convenience stores in Halifax aims to address late-night street noise, but has store owners worried for their livelihood.

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

1 year

Huge congratulations to Fazeela on this hard earned prize!

fazeela

@fazeelajiwa

1 year

This stunning book was a collaborative effort—all editing and publishing is—so congrats also goes to brilliant authors Alex Khasnabish+ @A_Parasram , designer Jess Korocil, copy editor Erin Seatter, and everyone @fernpub for their dedication to critical, beautiful, affordable books

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Ajay Parasram (he/his)

@A_Parasram

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This is great news for France, and for Europe. It shows that despite people’s frustrations, most people simply do not trust far right conservatives. I hope Canadian parties are studying this anti-right, pro-democracy collaboration very closely.

France gets hung parliament after voters reject far right, back leftists | CBC News

Despite earning the most votes, France's awkward leftist alliance is far from having an absolute majority in the National Assembly.

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