I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.

I love teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. My students are really something special!

Today, @equalityalec.bsky.social reminded us that we need to tell the stories of people's experiences as a way to battle copaganda. Two types of stories Alec emphasized include: 1) the story of reformist reforms and how they don’t work ...

I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...

The first session of "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College was fantastic. We talked about the political value of the land acknowledgement, read and analyzed Menlo College's land acknowledgement, and started the beginnings of analyzing terms like 'colonization' and 'stewardship.'

Tomorrow, I start teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. I'm sharing my syllabus with the hopes of also getting feedback from those who are nurturing the field of Native Studies! Also, check out our amazing course poster 😄

I'm very aware that my time in academia may be over when I graduate in June. For now, I'm extremely thrilled to be teaching and writing. My first meetings of the quarter with students were SO beautiful.

John Berger had a powerful phrase: “Undefeated despair.” Acknowledge and respect your grief. But don’t give in to it. And help others keep afloat.

‘We’re drowning’: Gaza baby dies as storm floods tent encampments  www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

In today's class we discussed Ruthie Gilmore's 1998 piece, "Globalization and US Prison Growth from Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesianism Militarism." Over the last few weeks, students have explored the following question: "what explains the expansion of prisons between 1980 and 2000?"

On Thursday, I'll be teaching Ruthie Gilmore's essay "Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism" (1999). In this class, we are really covering how the US came to be the largest global incarcerator. We read Hinton first, and...

Tomorrow, I'll be teaching the first chapter of Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. It gives us a chance to revisit Du Bois's discussion of the politics surrounding the Freedmen's Bureau, the Sentencing Project's data visualizations on mass incarceration,...

Tomorrow, I will teach Naomi Murakawa's chapter, "Freedom From Fear" in her book, The First Civil Right. I use the chapter teach the operations of political parties and their significance in American governance in context for an Intro to U.S. politics course. I really like when academic writing has

Tomorrow, I am teaching chapter 6 of Iris Marion Young's *Justice and the Politics of Difference* in my Intro to American Politics course. Re-reading her political theory, again and again, has been the best teacher for me. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's class.

Tomorrow, I teach "Counter-Revolution of Property" from Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (Du Bois 1935). It's my first time reading this chapter and teaching this book. I hope it goes well!

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others osf.io/preprints/so...

Participating in the Emotion and Society Lab hosted by Myisha Cherry and Francisco Gallegos was one of my favorite graduate student experiences. The cohort, our discussions, & the feedback reminded me how meaningful intellectual life can be. The lab now invites grad students to apply for 2025-26!

This is absolutely fantastic.

It would be really awesome if we could have a small Cedric Robinson conference for people working primarily on theory building with his ideas. Just throwing it out there!

Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”

Friend and colleague, @bodegagyroao.bsky.social made this fantastic poster for Friday's talk. I hope this talk is just the beginning. Feel free to DM me for zoom link or see you in person!

I finally finished reading the entirety of "Leadership: A Mythic Paradigm" -- just in time for this presentation on Friday. Please DM me if you want to access a zoom link otherwise hope to see you in person. New summary of the talk below: 🧵

I have been working over the last 8 months to bring Jamaica Osorio, esteemed scholar & kanaka maoli activist, to speak at Stanford. Osorio's timely and powerful lecture is entitled, "E Mau ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation." Please join us in person or on zoom! (RSVP below)

Thank you, David.

I often think about comparing crafts in life. What does it mean to sculpt a theory? What does it look like for a theory to emerge through paint? This is some of that exploration.

These are sketches from migraine days that lasted weeks in the beginning of this year. Capturing the feeling of the brain/mind as an image of the overall body, pushes me to see brain-related distress differently. I love her; she still hangs out on this Walter Rodney book :)

We love you, Chase. ❤️

Sculpture allows us to see ourselves in still moments. It allows me to imagine myself in different emotional states. What I love about the activity of sculpting a form that resembles my body is the openness -- though I'll always complain about how mentally and physically taxing it is. <3