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Zakiyya Ismail

@zerebral

Freethinking/social justice/food sovereignty /alternative education/GMO/politics/homeschooling/unschooling/tennis

 South Africa
Joined May 2009
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Hot take: Students using chatgpt to cheat are just following the system’s logic to its natural conclusion, a system that treats learning as a series of hoops to jump through, not a path to becoming more fully oneself.
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YES! Finally
Gamers of Colour (@GamersOfColour) profile pictureGamers of Colour@GamersOfColour8 Dec 2020
Today we officially announce the existence of the Gamers of Colour community! This space is created with the intention of bringing together the people of colour in the gaming world and to create a community that supports itself through the wonderous world of gaming. #GOC
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@AfricanGaming17 Nov 2020
#ZeroTolerance #SAesports #EsportsZA #esports #FortniteZA #CODZA #ApexZA #R6ZA #WarzoneZA #PUBGza #RLza
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Whatever happens on Tues, never forget that #Trump was not the exception but the norm when it comes to #Iran. In 1953, Trump was 7 when Eisenhower overthrew the Iranian govt. Trump was in his 30s when Reagan tried to put down the Iranian Revolution by backing Saddam’s invasion.
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An opportunity to come together to discuss consent-based, self-directed education oriented toward radical social change. Save The Dates: December 2nd-6th, 2020 Organized By: @zerebral, @RadicalSelfie, & Kelly Limes Taylor growingminds.co.za/true-towa…
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Towards Radical Social Change: Unschooling and Parallel Education. And Earthwide Gathering. Come Co-Create with Us. #UnschoolingAsSocialChange #UnschoolingAsDecolonisation #TrueGathering2020 growingminds.co.za/true-towa…
TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change. 2 – 6 December 2020

TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change. 2 – 6 December 2020

Akilah S. Richards, Kelly Limes Taylor and I (Zakiyya Ismail) are currently planning an Earthwide gathering for those involved in unschooling, self-directed education and parallel education communi…

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Friendly reminder folks that Borat is an Anglo-Israeli guy who does what is essentially Islamophobic race baiting caricaturing an entire Muslim-majority country as subhuman cave dwellers whose entire lives orbit around their raging antisemitism
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Nok Culture _ The Nok kingdom existed from 900 BC until AD 200 in now Nigeria, Nok culture created a complex judicial system centuries before modern ones were invented. Using several classes of courts, they dealt with matters such as theft, murder, adultery, and family disputes.
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I vote for Cyrus The Great decade! Starting 2021? Who's with me?
Historians of Iran (@HistorianofIran) profile pictureHistorians of Iran@HistorianofIran26 Oct 2020
On Nowruz 1350 (1971/72), the Shah declared the new year “Cyrus the Great Year.” He said: “The best gift which we can certainly offer to this immortal hero at the beginning of such a year is the existence of a proud, progressive and prosperous Iran who, ~rs 1/20
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Right then... Hopefully, this time I'd get to listen to not Hassen Minhaj
Esports Central (@EsportsCentrlZA) profile pictureEsports Central@EsportsCentrlZA13 Oct 2020
So... about the #podcast... @KChicktay #esports #EsportsZA #SAesports
Pay careful attention to the xenophobic language that's being used to talk about people who are labelled as "foreign nationals", "aliens" etc. This rhetoric around "cleaning" SA is incredibly dangerous. Historically, such language has had catastrophic consequences.
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yasmina@jasminprix12 Oct 2020
green imperialism is anti-indigenous and anti-black and not going to save anyone
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The backdrop to this year’s event is a COVID-19 impacted world which has had devastating implications for African women - economically, socially and from a humanitarian perspective. #jointhecommunity #tedx #tedxlytteltonwomen #tedxwomen
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Raise, and relate to, the children in your lives in ways that completely obliterate and destroy all the ways that those priests and those nuns raised, and related to, children in those schools. Because that is what indigenous kinship really means.
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TheLemons@TheLemonsDidIt23 Sep 2020
If there's anything I wanna do in this world, it's to prove to my parents that they were wrong in doubting me and that gaming can be a career just like anything else.
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Mercer Carlin@Merlinworks15 Sep 2020
Received my copy in the mail this morning. Halfway through reading and cannot put it down. @RadicalSelfie has such an important message and the brilliant writing skills to get it out. Love her. Love her book! Order it from @PMPressOrg!
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Looks cool
The ZamZam Well (@ZamzamWell) profile pictureThe ZamZam Well@ZamzamWell22 Dec 2019
Hi we are The ZamZam Well. We are an online library and archive of feminist, de-colonial and intersectional contributions to Islamic thought and praxis authored and authorized by Muslims all over the world. Learn more: thezamzamwell.com
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