Being Apolitical Is Political Beloved 🇵🇸

Invitations from inside collective grief and study

Oct 23, 2023

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Image Description: Palestinians riding the blue sky in pink cars as part of an an amusement park ride outside Gaza City, March 26, 2006. Photo by: Anja Niedringhaus—AP

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I was born a Black woman
and now
I am become a Palestinian
against the relentless laughter of evil
there is less and less living room
and where are my loved ones?

It is time to make our way home.

— June Jordan, Moving Towards Home

Being apolitical is political, beloved. And anyone who has ever asked you to politely “leave politics out of it” most likely didn’t deeply care whether you lived or died or didn’t fully understand what’s at stake. I wish I was exaggerating.

My teaching practice was launched five years ago in Brooklyn, NY where I found myself teaching cohorts of black and brown students how to build software using languages and libraries like Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, etc. Languages and libraries that are terraforming how we relate to each other online and off. Almost everyday we would have side c…

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