Are the days of teaching Plato gone? 🤔 Tomorrow at 12pm ET, we're excited to host ex-Texas A&M prof Martin Peterson for our Resistance Salon Series - a conversation on philosophy in the age of censorship. Register - www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

"How can a serious R1 university censor Plato in a philosophy class?" Martin Peterson joins our Resistance Salon Series to discuss the controversy, the fallout, and academic freedom in the age of censorship. 📅 June 24 @ 12pm ET Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

Values creating a space for difficult ideas to be heard. Resistance Studies Series 🤝 Martin Peterson. The former Texas A&M professor joins us next week to discuss Plato, censorship, and ideas deemed too controversial to teach. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

Karen Attiah knows what it means to fight for ideas when institutions cave to pressure. Next week she talks with Martin Peterson, ex-Texas A&M prof told not to teach Plato on gender and sexual identity. 📅 June 26 @ 12pm ET Read + register 👇

This was a great lecture!!

Got a brain? Treat yourself with the courses with Karen and fantastic guests! Let's Go!

Great to see #USWNT goalkeeper Briana Scurry and Pelé represented at Washington DC's National Museum of African American History and Culture in the same space as Tommie Smith and John Carlos. @resistanceschool.bsky.social

Texas A&M banned philosopher and tenured Prof. Martin Peterson from teaching Plato under its “gender ideology” restrictions. He resigned. On June 24, I’ll be in conversation with Peterson about censorship, philosophy and why Plato scares Texas so much. www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

Hello Everyone! We are back and getting ready for Resistance Summer School 2026! We've got a flashy new website, some new summer salons in the works, and we will be teaching Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 and 102! www.resistancestudiesseries.com

My latest: The Washington Post fired me for talking about Race. This summer, I'm going to teach Race and Media anyway. Get in, y'all. We are going to Resistance Summer School '26. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Busy day today! I had a fantastic time speaking with @resistanceschool.bsky.social World Cup Class about @1930worldcup.bsky.social and the culture of soccer in 1920’s and 30’s USA. Then we released the teaser reel for this Soccer History Lives Here project: youtube.com/shorts/fA30c...

Last fall, I was fired by the Washington Post for discussing double standards when it comes to race and political violence. For @resistanceschool.bsky.social, I'll be teaching Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 and 102 beginning July 20th! www.resistancestudiesseries.com/courses

I'm still recovering from the highs of this panel. And so grateful for everyone who came out. Standing room only. We laughed. We cursed. We (*ahem* I ) nearly cried. For everyone who has supported me and @resistanceschool.bsky.social, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. More soon.

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This Wed, Dec. 3rd 6 pm EST at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social : Join me, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com, & @versharma.bsky.social formerly of @teenvogue.com -- as we discuss building power outside of institutions. RSVP: www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

Feeling generous this #GivingTuesday? Consider supporting Resistance Studies Series! Contributions help fund scholarships, pay guest lecturers a fair fee, support operations, and keep these courses accessible to learners around the world: www.resistancesummerschool.com/donate

Last class of @resistanceschool.bsky.social Race, Media, and International Affairs 102 today and the finale was SO good. If the phrase "meeting the moment" was a person, it would be Prof @karenattiah.bsky.social. What an absolute force she is.🔥 Forever grateful to have been part of this. #WeMove

Mood. I was asked in 2019 What I would say to Mohammed Bin Salman. I said it then and I’ll say it again— I hope the spirit of Jamal Khashoggi haunts MBS for the rest of his life. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

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New: I sat down with @aljazeera.com to talk about my firing from the Washington Post, being the last Black staff columnist left at the Post. And how I believe the right is not just engaging in “cancel culture”, but “annihilation culture”. Full video here: youtu.be/89qMGkK3LBc?...

Is it just us, or has every day this year felt like a bad Halloween experience: all tricks, no treats💀 We're trying to change that, serving nothing but treats of knowledge📚 If you'd like to treat us, every contribution helps build a freer, smarter future: www.resistancesummerschool.com/donate

I say amen sister as I read this Q&A with @karenattiah.bsky.social. “Objectivity, in my opinion, tends to all too often be a shield for ignoring information and perspectives that are inconvenient.” — Karen Attiah objectivejournalism.org/2025/10/qa-k...

@resistanceschool.bsky.social is an amazing follow and should be highly recommended to anyone choosing to be on the right side of history. 📚 #Resistance #Knowledge #Edcuation #Dialogue #Solidarity #Classroom #Community #Networking #Humanity #Truth #Commitment🫶🏻

@resistanceschool.bsky.social 102 tonight was a conversation between Jason Stanley and @karenattiah.bsky.social. Going to be thinking about this class for a long time. The tension between leaving and staying, institutions and how they’re compromised, the necessity of trust. The power of the public.

They canceled my work on race and media. So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead. Now we are teaching over 600 students. Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today. We move ✊🏾💪🏾

If you ever had an urge to take your anger in a positive direction, this is one way to do it and one of the better ones. You can what to do and how to do it/get started, from someone who is there right now and has paid a cost for it more than once.

This is late but you can attend @karenattiah.bsky.social class on race and media from the comfort of your own computer via her online offering. Great opportunity! Sign up for this semester has ended but keep it in mind for next time!! You can also support this work monetarily via the website as well

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the fall session of Race, Media and International Affairs, for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ! We still have spots left: www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Link to register still open 👀👀👀

It is clear that mainstream institutions and media organizations are running away from their mandates to talk about race, society and power. I decided to build @resistanceschool.bsky.social as a way to work around the cowardice and censorship. www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Sharpen those pencils! 🤓

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post. I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing. Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

This is part of the reason I started @resistanceschool.bsky.social .. not only to get around the political repression around teaching about race. But also to be free of AI colonization. We need to get back to the essence of learning together in groups. With other humans!

Proud to be represented by @katiephang.bsky.social !!!

Some news.

Yes! @resistanceschool.bsky.social funded over 40 scholarships for the first cohort, through people paying at the higher tiers and donations! People can contribute here: www.resistancesummerschool.com/donate

I'll teach for seven weeks about the intersection of race and mass media development. This is the course I taught at Columbia University before it was cancelled. The course includes guest lectures and chances to connect/network with brilliant minds! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

I learned so much in 101 and can’t wait for 102. So many different people with different sets of knowledge and experience of the world coming together. And the guests speakers! Sign up, join us, learn, resist.

The Washington Post Fired Karen Attiah, But They Only Elevated Her The Post fired Karen Attiah, its last Black opinion columnist, because she posted about America's history of coddling white violence. Well, she's got a few things to get off her chest. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The mighty @karenattiah.bsky.social joins THE LEFT HOOK at 4:15 pm ET. She was fired from the Washington Post for apparently offending the Great Leader and his MAGA cult for not appropriately praising Charlie Kirk...or something. Regardless, she ain't going out quietly. Thelefthook.substack.com

I can categorically say I was NOT fired from the Washington Post for characterizing Kirk’s views on Black women. I’ll share the real reasons. Post coming soon.

Gave me chills. This is amazing.

In the deserved uproar over Kimmel's suspension, don't forget WaPo & Bezos's gutless firing of the last Black columnist on their Opinions team. I've been following Karen since her bravery over Jamal Kashoggi's death and she walks the walk that so many of us are afraid to.

Happening now: @karenattiah.bsky.social in conversation with Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for over 100 days in a Louisiana immigration jail after being arrested without a warrant.