Resonance, or sympathetic vibration: a Black feminist ethic for Palestine

This article advocates for the role of deep, careful, and strategic listening within a broader media context of silencing critical discourse on Palestine, especially within higher education. Institutions of higher education, despite coveted claims to intellectual freedom and scholarly inquiry, effectively reproduce the very mechanisms of misinformation, censorship, and ideological control that scholars of media and communication purport to critique. Drawing from personal experience teaching in the field of communication studies, and calling for a form of understanding that is globally resonant, the author insists that there are intentional ways in which a listening practice can be cultivated in service of anti-colonial ambitions and towards an abolitionist imaginary.