I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print. Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it. Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

As we gear up for the academic year, we're looking back at the 2025 capstone research projects supported by @challengeineq.bsky.social. We're endlessly impressed by the research questions our grad students take on & develop. Read the full reports👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/student-rese...

📖Just out from @dukepress.bsky.social>> Thinking across the U.S. and Europe BEYOND SANCTUARY critically examines liberal democratic policies of sanctuary and asylum and foregrounds migrant movements, those that demand a world beyond borders>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/08/20/b...

Joel Montano (@challengeineq.bsky.social) shares best practices for following capital through land, how to connect firms to individuals, and how to map out real estate empires. 🏠📊

🕊️Rest in Power Benito Flores

Brilliant organizers & artists make for brilliant discussions. Shoutouts to #UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales & @jaisuazo.bsky.social for bringing light💫 to struggle @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. The "(Dis)placement" 📽️series continues thru August>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

📽️Looking forward to this on Friday, July 18 @ 7:30pm 👇

REMINDER: This Sunday @ 7pm>> "Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From LA to DC" feat. #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limon Corrales. Proud to co-sponsor this @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social film series, "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." cinema.ucla.edu/events/fluct...

If you missed this fascinating talk organized by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social, tune in at your convenience👇 Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.

📻Interview w/@challengeineq.bsky.social researcher, Alex Ferrer>> Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along with interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

Thx to @reporterliz.bsky.social for this coverage. Meaningful relationships w/communities on the frontlines of struggle along w/public scholarship are key to abolishing structures of inequality. Full report co-published w/Venice Justice Committee👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home” Jul 13–Aug 17 The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts. Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social

I got (a photo) published in an academic publication. A picture I took on my Olympus XA2 film camera during a bike ride accompanies a wonderful piece about LA and Palestine. @challengeineq.bsky.social pub Insurgent Ground can be found here: escholarship.org/uc/item/6mf8...

"If some ppl prefer living in rundown RVs to the sorts of housing pgms offered, if any are offered to begin with, then govt officials ought to critically question the efficacy of their pgms rather than...destroying residents' vehicles & leaving them on the streets.” lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ucla...

REPORT RELEASE: "Keep Moving" by the Venice Justice Committee & co-published by the Institute. Developed in collaboration w/organizers, community members w/lived experience of vehicle residency & university-based researchers. Report+virtual launch👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

Earlier this month we celebrated our phenomenal 2025 cohort of #UCLA Activists-in-Residence: Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, Kaya Dantzler, @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limón Corrales! "Turning the university inside out,” they shared invaluable community-rooted knowledge & pedagogy with our campus.

"Through her leadership, CSW not only expanded its institutional impact, but also reaffirmed its commitments to being a refuge for research in social justice and community collaboration." Congrats to our colleague, comrade, and friend, Prof. Grace Hong🔥 csw.ucla.edu/2025/06/11/a...

👇Read this thread and then go read @rahimk.bsky.social's newest publication, "Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing." We've added it to our summer reading list 📚

Can't pay, won't pay.

Excited to partner with @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social on the upcoming film series "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." Join us for opening night on July 13th with #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social, Lupita Limon Corrales & filmmaker Diego Robles>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

"Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again." The Institute's own graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, reveals striking findings with unprecedented data from the #TenantPowerToolkit.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

What an honor it was to have @naomiaklein.bsky.social give the Institute's Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. "Climate justice is not a luxury policy for better days. It is how we fight fascism." View her full lecture here>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

So excited for this!! Naomi Klein at @challengeineq.bsky.social

Hot off the press🔥"Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property"📚An edited volume of collective scholarship from Freedom School 2024, which brought together a phenomenal group rooted in movements and engaged in organizing knowledge towards liberation. challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

As authorities in Oregon displace over 100 vehicle residents and provide no alternative place to go, all in the name of environmental management, it is worth revisiting Institute fellow Sam Lutzker and Deike Peters' call for "multispecies justice" >> metropolitics.org/A-Crisis-of-...

We couldn't be more proud to support work by The Rent Brigade, a group of dedicated scholars & organizers who are exposing the LLCs, trusts, and investment vehicles that are rent gouging folks across LA County, alongside the epic failure of enforcement. Read this➡️ www.rentbrigade.org/report-april...

📣Postdoc opportunity! The selected candidate will develop the research, "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of the incomparable Professor @raquelrolnik.bsky.social 👇

🔥Badass is right! UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales of @latenantsunion.bsky.social made a presentation to a group of tenants, and what became the Mohawk Street Tenants Association grew from there. Read more about this badass group of individuals who are changing policy citywide 👇

Grateful to have @movelbforward.bsky.social Exec Director @jaisuazo.bsky.social as our 2025 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence. Speaking to #UCLA students on the topic of community organizing: "How we organize is based on relationships - relationships are the bedrock of how we approach any social issue."

📣New article out now by Institute graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, thanks to data generated by the #TenantPowerToolkit, a legal mutual aid collaborative of @debtcollective.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to hearing from @challengeineq.bsky.social comrade and #UnequalCities researcher, Professor Gautam Bhan, on April 16th👇

🎊Kick off the weekend in Chicago & join the National Public Housing Museum for its grand opening, April 4-6. Thrilled to announce selections from the "Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition are on view inside the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes: nphm.org/event/grand-...

The National Public Housing Museum opens Friday. While many Chicagoans are familiar with the disinvestment, decaying buildings and gang violence associated with the projects, the museum aims to paint a fuller picture of the history of public housing. www.wbez.org/arts-culture...

C'mon out this Saturday, March 29 to celebrate the closing of the "TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition at Skid Row History Museum & Archive. Echo Park Mutual Aid & The Sidewalk Project will host a 🍲potluck + harm reduction teach-in that includes Narcan demo, wound care, and safe use⚕️

Looking forward to the Author Meets Readers for Silicon Valley Imperialism today at the #AAG2025 at 12:50 at 330A Level 3 Huntington Place w @muybarra.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, Ananya Roy, and Magie Ramirez @dukepress.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social

So excited for this book to be out in the world and also to have gotten to be a part of it.

Join us TONIGHT, Friday March 21, 7pm @ Skid Row History Museum & Archive for the final program in our series "The Liberatory Living Room," performed by members of the After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective. Can't make it? View the exhibition pgm: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/22/t...

🔥Hot off the press📚 Rae Baker & our own Alex Ferrer bring "...together activists, scholars & legal practitioners directly involved in tenant organizing to contextualize and catalogue the traction & tensions of the movement across 17 cities in 5 countries." fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/dispatc...

Join us @ Skid Row History Museum & Archive THIS FRIDAY, 7pm at the TENTS AND TENANTS exhibition. "The Liberatory Living Room" will be performed by the After Echo Park Lake Archive Collective + checkout video/pix from our Feb. 21 panel discussion>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/tenantsinthe...

TONIGHT✨Friday, March 14✨Join us at Skid Row History Museum & Archive @ 7pm where "Echoes Fill Our Spaces," a play written by William Sens, Jr., premiers in community. Learn more about Will and "Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake," currently on display>> www.lapovertydept.org/event/echoes...

Grateful now more than ever for what our #UCLA Activists-in-Residence contribute to our campus community - we have so much to learn from the vital work they lead. Learn more about each of them>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...

This Thursday>> DTLA ArtNight, a cultural gathering & art walk organized monthly on first Thursdays where galleries debut new exhibitions. Stop by Skid Row History Museum & Archive to view our exhibition: "Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake" challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/01/22/t...

How can we dethrone fossil capital and build a better world in an era of climate chaos? Tune into the #MCFBookClub conversation with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social to explore “WHAT IS THE STATE FOR?” Sign up here: CaseyGrants.org/State

Join local artists & organizers who put together an event this Saturday at the "Tents and Tenants" exhibition @ LA Poverty Dept to discuss the role of artists, cultural workers & harm reductionists in fighting displacement through mutual aid & community-led programs. www.facebook.com/lapovertydep...

We're proud to co-sponsor UCLA CSW's 35th Thinking Gender Conference which takes place on Friday, March 7th. Bringing together feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholars, artists, and organizers to reflect on labor solidarity and care -- register today➡️ www.ticketleap.events/tickets/csw-...

🔥Check out the latest from #UCLA Activist-in-Residence 2017 alum, Funmilola Fagbamila, whose theater project explores evolving narratives on gender -- fueled by the rise in digital media, set against the backdrop of a contemporary, neo-conservative sociopolitical landscape. youtu.be/fg2mb1kdiDw?...

Beautiful and important exhibition opened earlier this month sharing the history and stories from the forced displacement of the Echo Park Lake encampment. (A few of my photos are also featured.) If you’re in LA, consider visiting. Open through the end of March.

TONIGHT Feb. 21, 7pm>> TENTS AND TENANTS exhibition @ Skid Row History Museum & Archive>> Join us for "Tenants in the Streets," a discussion feat. Lupita Limón Corrales, Deshonay Dozier, Erin McElroy, Annie Powers & Pete White. And peep photos from our Feb. 1 opening>> www.flickr.com/photos/uclap...

Looking forward to joining @challengeineq.bsky.social and others in LA tomorrow to discuss Silicon Valley imperialism and all of its current manifestations. Come say hi if you’re in LA!