📢Gathering for Gaza Monologues
📍 Somewhere in the Komaba Campus of the University of #Tokyo
Every week in May, the sessions will be held. The voices read by participants will be amplified as anonymous from speakers set up at a distance.
Please come to jump in and join us🇵🇸
I don't know why (probably because I just watched the White House Correspondents' Dinner 2024 Monologue) but while editing this photo, I can only think about Colin Jost.
Author Michael Harris says that life in 2024 is too much — a deluge of stimulus. He examines why that's the case in this essay for Montecristo, and heads to a Tokyo listening bar in an effort to still the noise and rediscover the practice of sustained attention. "Needle touches vinyl, and a grief-stricken Nina Simone sings, 'Ne me quitte pas'," he writes. "To hear that beacon of a voice and to be moved, and yet to refrain from any critique or review, is our goal. For once to hold back our vulgar additions."
“We are a group of students at the University of #Tokyo who have gathered in solidarity with Palestine to oppose the genocide by the Israeli government. We have started a Palestine Solidarity Encampment and formed an organization to manage its operation.”