Bahareh Alaei (she/her)
Writing instructor and postconflict rhetorics researcher. Mid mom. Re-reading Martyr by Kaveh Akbar. Tenured at a mid-size HSI (community college), and slowest progressing Clemson RCID grad student. CSULB M.A. and UCB B.A. alumna.
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- People detained or deported by ICE for participating in pro-Palestinian protests: • Rumeysa Ozturk • Mahmoud Khalil  • Yunseo Chung • Badar Khan Suri  • Momodou Taal • Leqaa Kordia • Ranjani Srinivasan • Alireza Doroudi  • Dr. Rasha Alawieh This list will grow. Why are so many "allies"🦗
- Reposted by Bahareh Alaei (she/her)👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
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- Reposted by Bahareh Alaei (she/her)Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for. “During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
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- Pt 10 Small steps still take you places. My dad, an attorney back home, served as a social worker until he passed away. My nearly 80-year old mom still teaches non-credit ESL classes. And I'm still trying to create small communities where people can find slivers of joy, dance, and feel safe.
- Pt 9 After nearly a year, our asylum case was accepted, and we landed in a 1-bedroom apartment in So-Cal. Our once thriving home had shrunk to a much smaller and quieter existence. But we learned to stretch meals, to spend long days at the beach, and to create communities where we could feel safe.
- Reposted by Bahareh Alaei (she/her)This is excellent
