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What Empire Cannot Erase
#Persian #Poetry and #Civilization.

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April 19, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT (find your local time)
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We are watching, once again, what empire does: not only to bodies, but to the long memory of a people; to the libraries and sacred sites; to art, language, and the ruins that hold the oldest threads of human spiritual inquiry.

We are thinking of the civilization that gave us Rumi, Hafez, Omar Khayyam, Forough Farrokhzad — mystics and rebels and lovers of paradox who understood something about the human soul that we are still, centuries later, trying to catch up to.

This gathering is an invitation to come together: to read poetry aloud, to hear from #Iranian voices, to sit with grief and beauty together rather than alone.

We will work with #political and #moral vocabulary shaped by Iranian thinkers such as Ali Shariati, who wrote against domination, spiritual emptiness, and the violence of imposed power.

We will make space for what doesn’t fit into headlines or talking points—the complexity of empire, the difference between a government and its people, the #authoritarian forces at work not only abroad but here at home. We also gather with the political inheritance of those who taught generations to resist domination and spiritual emptiness, including Ali Shariati.

Watch Omid’s #TeachIn on “What you need to know about Iran”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZrnBY2wWc

#Educational #Iran #MiddleEast #POCVoices #IranianDiaspora #IranianVoices #LearnMore #Cultural #EthnicCommunities #GlobalSouth #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #Oppression #Freedom #Imperialism #Colonialism #Humanities #SocialScience #CulturalIdentity #geopolitics #Globalization #ForeignPolicy #ForeignAffairs #Sovereignty

You can't play a race card on me either, when you choose to personal side with bigots with a proven bad track record for bigotry. GTFO with that crap with me.

#SitWithBigots #Enablers #Ableists #POCVoices #DecolonizeYourMind #Misogynists

You can be #antiracist & still not be OK with #whitewashed #POC who choose to work for #government & are #Zionazis.
If I based everything on race alone - I'd never have confronted Asian sellout politicians nor chose to go no contact with several whitewashed, capitalist jerks in my own family.
Only fools will keep volunteering to defend any politician.

#AsianMastodon #POCVoices #politics #FuckTheWhitewashed #DecolonizeYourMind

Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.

The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.

I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.

#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate

Later this week.
I'll talk about my feelings about how most folks are socially conditioned to quickly judge loud, angry POC women but not conditioned to understand why a lot of us are done with being mistreated/disbelieved/treated lesser than because we don't stay calm/polite when we experience ongoing abuses & rarely are supported during our worst experiences. Most folks (fellow POC are included) are socially conditioned to refrain from judging the polite in public white person, who abuses their white privilege & stays calm, after being shady & abusive.

All of this shitass, social programming is fucking ass backwards. It sets up a perpetual system of putting polite talking, calm, perpetrators, over not polite talking, not calm, victims.

#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #DecolonizeYourMind