Same here! And yes, I do exist in real life. Always glad to meet others in the immigrant rights sphere, especially fellow Southeast Asians :) Will keep in touch!

Thanks @bailproject.org for the interview! Cash bail does not just fuel injustice and compromise public safety. It also enables widespread financial extraction that harms families and communities and intensifies inequality. #LegalPlunder cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social

Looking to advance interdisciplinary research in the social sciences? Palgrave has the book series for you! 📢 Call for Proposals: Advancing Methods for Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences Find out more here: go.nature.com/43RYQgU #SocialScience #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Palgrave

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Administrative Burden’s Mass Political Effects: How the Administration of Medicaid and Elections Shapes Mass Voter Turnout - https://cup.org/4iNmHV5 - Meredith Dost #FirstView

I'm begging everyone making gufaw surface level comments about disability accommodations to read about universal design.

"it is essential [to] build solidarity with people engaged in direct confrontations with state carceral and economic power. To take creative collective action. From this place of solidarity, writing and scholarship may emerge that expands our capacity to understand, confront, and overcome fascism."

“I am / not ready to hatch. Teach me / to harden in the air” — Dominique Ahkong (@domkeykong.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Pirene’s Fountain Volume 18, Issue 26, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been overreacting by telling people I’m not pursuing a full-time tenure-track academic job in part bc I need a job where people around me are mentally and physically prepared and willing to protect me, but then stuff like the OU debacle happens and… yeah

Because it's not about the rubric. People are splitting hairs over the finer details of rubric instructions when they are missing what this is really about, a blatant attempt to purge trans people out of public life. bsky.app/profile/scgr...

This stunt had nothing to do with the Bible, it was entirely about pushing the envelope to see how easy it would be to get a public university to fire an instructor for not living according to Christian nationalist beliefs. Turns out it was really easy.

Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

It’s hard to overstate how precarious things are for academic workers, especially trans people. This instructor had no option available to them that would have allowed her to keep her job, do it with integrity, and avoid the violence that comes with being fascism’s villain of the week.

My article is out in the world now! I explore what happens when families pass down stories about national belonging and how nostalgia constructs imagined belonging for LGBTQ+ immigrants :) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FM4VV...

another queer and trans literary landmark. get yourself a copy of this killer print anthology, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is kind of a big deal

If you're wondering why there are so few trans professors, it's because their institutions are throwing the precious few of us that make it into higher ed under the bus.

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.

Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.

In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️

In case you missed it: There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

Working paper alert 📢 Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... I was very fortunate to be part of this impactful research on the science of protest. This is one of those projects where the sum truly feels greater than its parts.

We are proud to announce we have hired @thefreeradical.org and @davidforbes.bsky.social as our first staff journalists! As a worker-run newsroom, we set wages collectively based on our funds. Currently, we have about six months of funding. Help us plan our future with a recurring donation today!

Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department. www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...

LISTEN: California community colleges rely on this funding for programs such as support for students pursuing science degrees and dual enrollment for high school students taking college classes.

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

I got my author copies!!!!! Let the Moon Wobble is officially out in less than a month! You can pre-order signed & personalized copies from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/ang... 🌝

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!  

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap40

At @priec.bsky.social this morning — @fulyafelicity.bsky.social presenting on the ways that authoritarian regimes engage their diasporas and how those emigrants respond (or don’t!)

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

Most of the sheriffs signing up are in red states or from Republican-led areas of blue states, like Nassau County in New York. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

New from me: At the anti-ICE demonstrations in June, CHP and LASD fired 9,600 projectiles and chemical munitions at protesters. Tear gas, flash bangs, rubber bullets, and more! Read moreL www.joeyscott.xyz/anti-ice-dem...

And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication. Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!

In most countries, people who want to help refugees can't do so legally. My new piece explores how the idea of private sponsorship empowers citizens to channel their humanitarian motivations, and why that can make refugee admissions more sustainable. alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/why-dont-y...

please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals

So many important takeaways in this new report about jails and mass deportation from @prisonpolicy.org @jkangbrown.bsky.social 1) the scope of immigrants incarcerated *for immigration* is much higher than what is reported by ICE www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/jail...

As feds ramp up immigration enforcement in D.C., police allow more cooperation via @washingtonpost.com

Local jails–mostly run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of ICE's rampant criminalization of immigration.

California Highway Patrol also has access to Flock license plate readers outside Home Depot and Lowes.

We’ve also seen non-US cars and cars w/ dealership frames (e.g. a Subaru; a Ford Expedition with a local dealership frame) used by ICE/BP. Someone who knows more than me about this please help me understand — are these all just rentals? Or deliberately procured to obscure that it’s DHS on the road?

DOJ dropped a hot new definition of a sanctuary city/state, and I wrote up a little review. open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

New issue from #Identities! Special Issue: The Exclusion and Political Engagement of Ethnic Minorities in Deliberative and Representative Democracy, plus a symposium on The Asian Gang Revisited: Changing Muslim Masculinities www.tandfonline.com/...#Identities! @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form. archivespublishing.com/2025/07/31/c...

This may be my favorite solo-authored piece ever, using found poetry, word clouds and narrative to contribute to a portrait of two #AsianAmerican teachers and their experiences with racialization prior to and through the COVID-19 pandemic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

At $600 million per year for 5,000 detainees, the Everglades detention facility would cost a whopping $328.77 per bed per day. ICE's 2025 budget request read: "Average adult bed cost per day is $187.48 for FY 2023." reason.com/2025/07/09/l...

For context the government of the United States is illegally sending 8 people to a place where they are likely to be tortured or killed on the 4th of July

hey actually it doesn’t matter if someone has a criminal conviction! fundamentally, they’re still a person and should therefore have their rights recognized and upheld!! hope this helps!!!!!!