As tomorrow I'll be around the Craft Festival Bovey Tracey collecting graphic stories from craftspeople and craft lovers, it seems a good moment to finally launch my 'Sustainability in the Making' website, a work-in-progress online space (still in its infancy) where everyone can follow my research progress in real time, & find resources and links to the amazing initiatives and people I am encountering along the way.
A ban on having exotic animals as pet would actually be the best to honour these 'magnificent' animals.
I don't think the owner was necessarily bad. However, if you are a pet owner, of any animal, not just exotic ones, the least you can do if you go away for holidays is having someone coming to check for your pets.
"We call upon our colleagues in the homeland and internationally to support our steadfast attempts to defend and preserve our universities for the sake of the future of our people, and our ability to remain on our Palestinian land in Gaza. We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again."
@immibis@academicchatter Western politicians love Israel, it is their favourite pet project that keeps the fantasies of colonisation and tech dystopia alive, so I have absolutely no faith in them. But as a scholar, the silence of universities that pride themselves over DEI and decolonisation, speaks volume about how empty all those words are, when acting on them means upsetting (white supremacist) funders.
#Gaza, one drawing at a time, by Palestinian artist Maisara Baroud
"Drawing has become the special way to help me overcome death for a bit. Drawing, for me, is the way to break the blockade and in this way cancel and challenge the borders and the barriers placed by the occupation.
It is also the only way to announce: “I am still alive.”"
"Pozo attributes the deaths to a “synergy” of factors, including high heat, drought, forest fires and logging that deprives the monkeys of water, shade and the fruit they eat."