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I am hosting this FREE workshop to help us navigate this current moment with our little ones. Please invite your comrades, community, and kin. We are not helpless and we are in an intergenerational struggle. Kids deserve to know what's happening and to build skills for another world. ASL & NOTE TAKER PRESENT -------------------- A digital illustration featuring a decrepit and abandoned police station building. The windows are boarded up and plants have began to grow over the structure. In the background are blue skies, in the foreground are two children with brown skin and curly hair running in a field of grass and flying a kite. Text on the image reads as follows: Liberation for Littles, a FREE workshop for navigating rising fascism with our kids. Free virtual session, registration required, Tuesday May 12, 7:00 p.m. EST /free

Soft belly gyal. Merch for Mutual Aid is back baby! This time we're raising funds for language interpretation at community workshops & mobility/disability aids for Sudanese refugees. raniawrites.com/merch ----- Image Description A digital illustration off a fat brown skinned black woman wearing lingerie. She has long dark hair and is covered in tattoos. There are decorative wreaths of leaves drawn around her. Text on the image reads: screw the return of skinny, we're getting fatter and more evil.

an old offering because we owe each other something _________ THE ANATOMY OF AN APOLOGY Consent Receiving an apology requires a degree of emotional labour that those we have harmed do not owe us. Checking in around boundaries and willingness to receive an apology (note: receive, not accept). Transgressing boundaries and disregarding the consent of the person(s) can cause further harm. Respecting someone’s choice not to engage in the apology demonstrates that we value their healing over our comfort. Acknowledgement This happened/ bearing witness - this is particularly critical in the context of a world that gaslights individuals & communities, questioning the validity and extent of their experiences of oppression. This context minimizes and frames interpersonal harm, violence, and marginalization as fragmented incidents, rather than part of a system that facilitates & amplifies injustice in the lives of some, for the benefit of others. Emotional Uptake Creating space for folks to feel their feelings, without being policed on the appropriateness, validity, duration and intensity of their emotional response. Actively working against the notion that there is a singular “rational, reasonable or acceptable” emotional response. Tone policing is often used in oppressive structures to derail accountability and blame those who have been harmed. Single stories & stereotypes shape our responses to the emotional reactions of particular individuals and communities. Centre the Hurt It’s not about our feelings of guilt, but about the feelings and needs of those we have harmed. Those we’ve harmed shouldn’t have to support us during an apology, nor should they have to coach us, or cheer for us or reassure us. Our apologies should focus on the experiences, perspectives and needs of the person(s) we’re apologizing to. Accountability Taking ownership of our actions, naming and understanding them and changing the identified problematic behaviors, patterns, thoughts and words. Not providing irrelevant context/ justification to minimize the impact of our actions. Be mindful of minimizing, projecting, shifting blame or itemizing/listing instances or occasions where y

Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) CXXI Feature Poet Bio: Rania El Mugammar is a Sudanese artist, abolitionist, community organizer, and social justice educator based in Tkaronto (Treaty 13). Rania's artistic and community work is deeply rooted in Black liberation, decolonization, transformative justice and repair. She is a published writer, award winning organizer, reproductive justice advocate, speaker, arts educator, and multidisciplinary performer. To hear Rania read and/or to read a poem on our open mic, join us and bring friends. There is no pressure to read poetry. Join us for inspiration and community. Time: Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Place: Living Room, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 2M7 Open Mic Sign-up: 6:30 PM EST at the venue Open Mic duration: 3 minutes (Please rehearse and time yourself) Show: 7-10 PM EST Admission: $10-20 Sliding Scale Cash at the door There is an ATM machine at the venue #poetry, #diversity #courage #SpokenWord #OpenMic #Toronto #Canada #FreedomOfSpeech #solidarity, #community #multicultural #multilingual #poets #join #SpreadTheWord #books #PoetryLovers #booklovers #Toronto #Sudan #abolitionist #BlackLiberation #organizer #published #advocate #speaker #educator Photo: Marko Kovacevic Link to the event on Facebook: /share/1CraqGASjT/

Quick without googling what's the capital of Sudan? the Congo? Can you point to either on a map? Who colonized these places? what languages are spoken there? what foreign proxies are involved? what individuals, organizations & collectives are organizing on the ground? ------ Image Description A photograph of acacia trees in a grassland. A screenshot of a BlueSky post by @rania.writes reads: People are really sprinkling "and Sudan and Congo" onto the ends of their political speeches & social media posts like garnish. Please spare us the after thought and do the political education it takes to be a good comrade to our communities. We can see that we are an afterthought.

I don't know what to make of it, but I hate it here. ----- A screenshot of a long Facebook text post by Rania El Mugammar pasted over a photograph of a field of poppies. The text reads: We're watching people who are not Palestinian build massive platforms off their Palestine "content". Debating, making reaction/trend videos & uploading constant hot takes. How many "me making Israeli food" videos of someone stirring an empty plate do we need? All while actual Palestinians plead with us not to skip their videos so their actually empty pots don't go unseen. The conversation about Palestine is definitely all our business but when I see these same accounts, with massive followings built off the genocide, speaking over & debating Palestinians (at home & in the diaspora), I wonder where the care is, for people who are literally grieving their whole bloodline. This doesn't mean Palestinians can't be misguided but the culture of debate & ridicule is so salient in the "political influencer" sphere. As Black people, we know this all too well, everytime our communities are being terrorized, some "ally" builds a career on our graves.

I was born to be a hater tbh. --- Video Description A video of Rania, she's a brown skin black woman with big curly hair. She is filmed from the waist up and is talking directly to the camera while gesturing with her hands. She has long nails and beaded earrings.

Abolition is not reformist, not pacifist & not passive. No revolution calls for gentle unraveling. Fire on all the enemies of justice. ---- Image Description A digital illustration featuring three raised Fists with long painted nails. There is one fist with dark brown skin, 1/5 with lighter brown skin, and one fist with lighter brown skin and vitiligo. Leave surround the illustration and text above in a banner reads "Abolition" smaller text below the illustration reads " but you can still catch these hands"

If accountability means punishment, people will protect themselves. Many of us were taught: Follow the rules. Don’t talk back. Don’t question authority. And if you did? Punishment. So what did we learn? Not accountability. Not responsibility. Not repair. We learned: Don’t get caught. When accountability is framed as adversarial — winner and loser — survival becomes deception. Hypervigilance becomes protection. Lying becomes strategy. And then we call it a personality problem. In this session at How We Respond: Therapy, Crisis & Collective Care, Rania invites us to look closely at what we teach young people about power, compliance, and justice — and how those early lessons echo into adulthood. If accountability feels impossible in our culture, this is part of why. The summit is fully virtual, with a live collective debrief on May 22. Early bird pricing ends April 30. If you’re a therapist thinking about crisis, power, and what collective care actually requires, join us. Register through the link in our bio. #ReflectingOnJustice #TherapistsInPractice #CollectiveCare #Accountability #JusticeInTherapy

Cops are NOT workers! resharing this video I made last year especially in light of the parasite Bez*s mobilizing cops to arrest & brutalize our comrade @chris.smalls_

It's always mfs who try nothing at all, that tell us that nothing can be done Image Descriptions ID 1 A photograph of a large baobab tree. A screenshot of a BlueSky post by raniawrites pasted on top reads: I've said "just cause you're new to the struggle, doesn't mean the struggle is new" precisely because it's an antidote against the nihilistic attitude of many (white) people new to movements & political education. We know what our ancestors won & what it cost them & it's a balm for our despair too. ID 2 A photograph of a large weeping willow. A screenshot of a BlueSky post by raniawrites pasted on top reads: Our struggle for freedom is interdependent & intergenerational, it takes more than one lifetime. As we sit in the shade of a tree that our ancestors planted, we sow seeds for a garden we will not live to see in bloom. ID 3 A digital illustration of two people a younger person with light brown skin, short hair, coveralls and piercings. An older person with dark skin, long grey single braids and is wearing a dress, they have their hand on the young person's shoulder. A banner is positioned at the bottom of the image, featuring the words: just cause you're new to the struggle, doesn't mean the struggle is new.

More than that it's all that we can make good in the space between us. Hang in there, you can't let Bez*s outlive you. ---- Image Description A photograph of a field of cosmos in bloom. A screenshot of a BlueSky post by raniawrites pasted on top reads: Nothing makes me cling to life harder than these racists saying "go kys". I mean why would I when my mere existence is ruining your day? I am dedicated to being a hater & I'll outlive these fascists out of sheer spite, inshallah.