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“the law conceptually and persistently renders certain bodies and space-times untranslatable and illegible through Euro-modern law. To be seen by the law, one has to abandon one’s unique humanity and move toward masculine Euro-modernity”

starting the year with snatch form, 100lbs 🏋🏽‍♂️

“But the question that you had, and everyone has, is, can you beat face recognition? And the answer is yes, and the easiest way is with a Covid mask. You see ICE operatives wearing face coverings and sunglasses. At some point there's not enough information to do face recognition.”

Gazing like a border joeledmartinez.com/2025/12/29/g...

There is a free pdf version available at library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_a...

“primary difficulty in addressing 3rd-order epistemic oppression is the work required to ever acknowledge its existence/ It’s like experiencing the impossible as possible & correspondingly viewing the limits of one’s epistemological systems that designate the possible as impossible” -Kristie Dotson

“Collectively Americans preferred a simpler national tale: Fascism was ‘over there’ America was the bulwark of democracy ‘over here.’ This is one way forgetting works/ when it comes to history of homegrown fascism, & local resistance to it, few communities have made efforts to preserve this history”

i’ll give into you

“When a crowd forms, when teargas fills the streets, it makes the kidnappings impossible to ignore. Our neighbors, loved ones, and community members deserve for their disappearance to be met with forceful resistance. When in doubt, escalate.”

✍🏽 I’ve been thinking about “The Psychology of Becoming a Border”, how people themselves *become* borders This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”

This was one of the mental choices I had to make before becoming a community organizer over a decade ago because I recognized it would've compromised me and my work. And yes, there was a great deal of grief involved but that's usually the requirement for resolution.

Illegality, liminality, the margins etc is actually where true self-determination can be found and forged, in my opinion

releasing recognition and returning to illegality’s lessons has been/is a process, but personally v freeing recognition truly is a mental straitjacket

“Bourgeois coldness ❄️ is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, like AC. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning 🔥”

“Since the future is alienated and freedom cannot operate within the dimension of the future, it will be ... an operation of pure destruction. Since the positive is obtained through oppression, freedom will be pure negativity.” -Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics

“Western secular ethnocentrism in which the West became the We to the ethnos of all other peoples, who all became The Other The fundamental split between We & Other began in 16th century when world-market economy was first established, & a world economic system, global in reach, became a reality”

“Colonialism established capitalism’s ‘connected diversity’, which is to say, think global, act local.”

in due time we'll finally see there's barely time for us to breathe

What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan! @udadisi.bsky.social @samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social #geosky @darajapress.bsky.social

Some fantastic work by the "Austin Clippies" has resulted in a new tool that lets organizers sign up for email alerts when councils nearby have surveillance technology like #Flock on the agenda! 🏆 👉 alpr.watch 👈 Quick overview from Louis Rossmann... #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

“Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon ... in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

"To map abundance is not a luxury, but an urgent insistence on life. Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2 - Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"

“technological escalation has led to the emergence of computational capitalism in our times/ As the world becomes a huge data emporium, tomorrow's technologies of racialization will be more and more generated and instituted through data, calculation and computation”

The research done on "racial identity" or "race relations" by classic/popular/up-and-coming social psychologists is mostly racecraft, and it's been an uphill fight trying to get them to see that. I remember after one of my talks, one asked me "so you're calling us all racializers?" Well, yes.

Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.

“to attend to something is to care for… if you understand the attention economy as an economy that's based on the capture and exploitation of attention, it's really also an economy that's based on the capture and attention of human desire, which is the capture of care” — Dr. Rohit Revi

345lbs getting more manageable 🏋🏽‍♂️

“when we start to understand that a lot of these people working in law enforcement in the military are government workers, it means we bring into focus more how the economy is actually organized and what role the state plays in its organization, and what are the big functions of government jobs”

“insecure fascism organizes conditions under which crisis becomes likely, then retrofits those crises into proof of its own necessity places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”

"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…” - Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit

finally watched the Selena documentary 💗 love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter

i couldn't believe what the water had told me that man and plant had used to talk man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk

“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”

still get scared of the weight 🏋🏽‍♂️

if you don't go outside, well nothing's gonna happen

I am from Chicago. Friends are regularly telling us how abhorrent ICE/CBP tactics are and that it’s obvious their goal is to make everyone afraid. I’m proud of Chicagoans for standing up to them every day.

“I see a lot of students in Black Studies really bringing disciplines to bear on having to be accountable to Black Studies in a way that I think is really important really great to see them carving their own lanes & developing a language of engagement that is specific to their desires & concerns”

"the sixties’ movements were really the first opening phase of the dynamic in which the series of “isms” (initiated by the black antiapartheid struggle for civil rights, women’s rights/feminism, indigenous & other of-color rights, gay & lesbian rights) erupted to challenge Man’s episteme, its truth"

"Turn. The. Volume. Up."

s i é n t a t e

“Mexico, the only country where he held a passport. It was a place that, to him, had ‘always felt like both a wound and a possibility’” ditto, the thought of return has only grown sweeter love seeing us refuse illegalization, flex our agency, to build a life on our own terms

“Is Black history American history — or does it offer a challenge to the very idea of the U.S. and the way it’s been constructed? invitation to allow students to think bigger —not just stop at the nationalism that textbooks promote, but investigate areas of Black history that point beyond borders”

🥁 ahora, los tambores 🥁

“High wealth owners hide behind high income earners. High income earners do pay higher taxes, but wealthy are not necessarily ppl w high taxable income/ have low tax liabilities by avoiding taxes, borrowing against assets (only taxed if sold instead), & inherited wealth not subject to income taxes”

“Data & information science have been & continue to be resistant to theories like libidinal economy/critical race theory, bc they are resistant to things which are not of them/ don’t want to engage with question of how they benefit from certain structures, how to fix the problems they’ve created”

“What does it mean to find a way when the essential coordinates are unknown? Is human existence itself an open question – are we only a platform or threshold for other forms of creaturely life?”

300lbs 🏋🏽‍♂️