La Révolution française est l’adolescence de la révolution, aussi un adolescent l’incarna-t-il mieux que tout autre. - Cheikh Hamidou Kane, *L’aventure ambiguë* (1961, p. 146)

All repressive regimes loathe education, students, and educators. One more case of the infamous (euphemism alert) French police violently attacking school teachers. We can ofc remain silent but they are coming for everyone!

Jeudi/Thurs 15/10, je serai en dialogue avec Collectif Sud-A Brown Asiatique autour de mon essai Frontières queer. Venez! Librairie Monte en l’air, 2 Rue de la Mare, Paris. The Insta account lectureourundesordreabsolu has selected some citations from it on their post and provided a careful reading 🙏

I’m no longer on X. I follow the official protest account of Cockroach Janta Party on Insta.

One thing that strikes you with the concurrent protests in India & France is the elaborate deployment of state machinery (police/military/army personnel). Whilst France uses lethal weapons, Indian police controls w/ batons. Oh and Pakistani Gen Z sending love to their Indian friends is everything.

“Je suis docteure en philosophie, professeure, ce jeune homme ne va pas m’expliquer quelle est la mission d’un professeur.” Dear Elwan, if I may, please consider becoming my student in MA. We’ll read Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to understand *how* education can be emancipatory.

And pain and the capacity to feel it it have been linked to moral capacities in racialised populations. Which brings us full circle back to Sylvia Wynter as we ask who the human subject of human rights is; what claims we’re making on moral capacity and humanity when we claim machines feel pain.

How do post or de - colonial operate when the police remain fettered to the colonial continuum? Unflinchingly so. ‘De’ offered, among other aspects, a delinking from colonialism, and ‘post’ was a temporal hiatus as well as discontinuation of colonial ideology. Colonialism redux, everywhere.

le pouvoir ne supporte pas que le peuple s'approche de ses lieux de pouvoir... depuis Fév. 1934....

Check out the CfP for the 2027 Decolonial Conference! We invite proposal submissions to our theme "US Imperialism and Anti-Colonial Resistance." Proposals are due January 10, 2027. On Oct. 8-9 we will have the in-person conference in Los Angeles, and Oct. 2- 3 will be fully online.

Ah tiens ! Apparemment iels vont le chercher !

Paris 13th October — student protest, organised by several unis.

After 12 years of seeming invincibility, the Modi regime is showing cracks due to widespread youth protests. This is the story to watch!

In a video, we witness a French police officer (CRS) shove his baton in the rear of a high school boy. French police have a long history of sexual assault on Black and Maghrebian men. Césaire’s imperial boomerang is in full swing! Not a few of us have alerted to such enactments of violence before.

Donc, on est bien d'accord que la charge contre Thélyson Orélien n'était que purement et simplement raciste

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As student mobilisation intensifies, it’s crucial to understand what theorising them teaches us. Pitching this brilliant anthology for reference.

‘Systemic inequalities - problems so deep rooted’, yes. And they are racial inequalities. French banlieues are in an overwhelming majority populated by negatively racialised communities. It’s a positive sign that the world knows it and that the mobilisation has broad-base support from universities.