"Black women ...comprise 6 percent of the overall U.S. labor force and 12 percent of the federal labor force. But of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts."

Israeli forces have killed or wounded the equivalent of a classroom’s worth of children every day in Lebanon in the past two weeks of Israel’s escalation against the country, the UN’s children’s agency has reported.

A forum discussing Pamela Prickett's excellent book "Believing in South Central LA: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels" including Iddo Tavory, Rachel Rinaldo, @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and myself. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Leqaa Kordia has been released from ICE detention after a year under lockdown. The 33-year-old Palestinian woman and Columbia University student was arrested during Pro-Palestine protests on campus. Read her account of her time under lockdown: zeteo.com/p/leqaa-kord...

Leqaa Kordia IS FREE.

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

If you appreciate my stance on this please read Afghan, Iraqi, or Palestinian writers You can also preorder my book from any bookstore or order a signed and personalized copy from Loyalty Books in DC Not doing this event does mean lost sales (long term because this venue won’t ask me again)

As Rodney might have put it, what today is the responsibility of the intellectual?

Six years ago today, police killed Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid at her home. She wasn’t even the target of the investigation. Now the Trump DOJ is doing away with the rules meant to prevent another tragedy like hers. My latest for @us.theguardian.com.

It's my mom's birthday today. I might do a new thread but for now here's last year's.

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social: Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine by Rana Barakat uncpress.org/978146968030...

a piece shared with me from a Palestinian friend, written by her friend, A. Kayum Ahmed, about the month after Mahmoud Khalil's detention, when he knew he was next. Please read. africasacountry.com/2026/03/the-...

New in Big Data & Society 🗞️ Alejandra Regla-Vargas, AJ Alvero, and Hajar Yazdiha analyze anti-Asian hate and counter-hate on social media during COVID-19, showing how hate and resistance enact racial projects through shifting frames. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

New work with Alejandra Regla-Vargas and @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social!!

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Join us next Friday!!!

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

⚡️Coming soon: a special symposium on Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction at 90 organized by @alimeghji.bsky.social & Jose Itzigsohn! Early look at my piece here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out this new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History focused on "Immigration and Citizenship" edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

USC IS OUT! Let me tell y'all, the emergency meetings that got called yesterday and today... dailytrojan.com/2025/10/16/u...

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Speaking as someone with experience: stuff like this reveals both a) how pissed off sources are and b) who the respected reporters are among people who know their stuff, who may not be at the outlets you expect!!

📌 Join us online 10/21 to reflect on the legacy of Black Altadena and the devastating aftermath of the Eaton Fire: bit.ly/AltadenaVoicesWebinar Hosted by USC’s Black Studies Center & Equity Research Institute.

In the authoritarian playbook, rewriting collective memory is just this critical strategy for controlling the masses," Hajar Yazdiha..." #Pinks www.axios.com/2025/08/30/h...

"A CLASP study from 2018 found that children as young as 3 experienced behavioral changes–like frequent crying, separation anxiety, and sleep problems–due to the loss of a parent or the fear of losing a parent. www.clasp.org/publications...

There's a moment in the Trump regime's America 250 propaganda that takes a swipe at the 1619 Project as "revisionist history." Well, about that ...

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

If you are employed and feel bad for people losing their careers over politics you share with them, there is one thing and one thing only you can do to help them: FIND THEM WORK. Use EVERY lever of power you have to FIND THEM WORK. Don’t send them job apps, MAKE A JOB FOR THEM. That’s ALL they need

📢Hot off the presses by Profs @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social and Courtney Boen at Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social examining racialized affective politics in the wake of police violence: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Friends I’m running a 5K in Brooklyn on October 12 as a fundraiser for Gaza & UNRWA. If you can, join us or donate here! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Colloquium on Black and Indigenous Women's History 👇🏾

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

People are very down on the idea of racial justice because they can only see the progress that's already been made. Join us with @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social to explore how true reckoning transforms healing—not by ignoring the past, but by creating accountability we haven't yet tried. Tune in!

Y'all! Register for my workshop with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social coming up September 17! For fiction writers of all levels. All proceeds are going directly to support mutual aid in Gaza.

For grad students in Black Studies www.agatheringtogether.com/undiscipline...

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1uPA...

Thank you @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social for making the process of myth making transparent! This is a fantastic conversation on racism and American exceptionalism.

TOMORROW: We’re joined by @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the @USCDornsife college of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Tune in tomorrow!🎙

It is great to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won their lawsuit against the Trump administration.