You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs?

Re-sharing @ronakkapadia.bsky.social post, which hits queer & trans* studies, medical humanities, disability justice & abolitionist thought, among others cc @edrabinski.bsky.social @alexanderchee.bsky.social @noethematt.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social - pls reshare

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!

"Surviving the Long Wars" takes on new, surreal, ridiculous, epic, infuriating, humiliating, heart-wrenching, and nervous-system-destroying meanings by the minute.

It feels so absolutely silly to be working on a book project about expanding infrastructures of breathable life in a moment when the most powerful demonic forces on the planet are trying to destroy life-sustaining infrastructure everywhere you look… bleak, exhausting, ridiculous times.

Should I get critical feedback from writer friends on a grant proposal I've been feverishly working on for the past week, or just turn it in way ahead of schedule to be over and done with it? A memoir.

Academic pals: looking for inspo and seeking examples of your favorite "second monographs"? In grad school, mine was always Saidiya Hartman's LOSE YOUR MOTHER for its style and substance swerving away from traditional expectations toward creative non-fiction and something more. What are your faves?

Sunday thotsicle: the impending strategic defeats of US/Israel in Iran/West Asia may lead to the accelerated crumbling of US empire, but not without further pain/misery for people around the Global South as well as minoritized people in the imperial core.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

This #LongCOVIDAwarenessMonth, we’re excited to announce that our new oral history website is live! Featuring 100+ hours of interviews of people living with #LongCOVID. We’re building a living history of Long COVID, and bringing voices from the margins to the center. ListeningForTheLongHaul.org

You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs?

If you filter your water in your home, but not your indoor air, you’re doing it wrong. Humans drink about 2 to 3 L of water a day but they breathe in about 11,000 L of air! Ventilate and filtrate, folks. You’re welcome.

We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline. No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!

We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline. No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

How do we get every (yt) liberal a CRASH course in abolition, state violence, counter/insurgencies, settler colonialism, disability justice, & racial capitalism??0? Like June 2020-style study & collectivism? BC the political regression is painful. We gotta retool for the remainder of this decade.

I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such.

I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.

Shaming rarely works on most people, so I will simply say: follow the facts, both scientific and economic, for they tell the same story: The pandemic is far from over. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading; COVID-19 is still disabling millions today. It's never too late to align one's conduct with reality.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Image from outside the Broadview, Illinois ICE detention center, taken September 26.

Briefly returning to Bluesky for a quick rant about how the concept of "dying alone" is stupid and unhelpful.

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

"The cause of death was an infection."

I’m heartbroken at the loss of Leslie & for YB who he loved deeply & fiercely. For seven years, I had the privilege of knowing him—his mind, his humor, his boundless creativity, & unflinching political clarity. The world is immeasurably poorer without his voice. All gfm will cover funeral & expenses

This month marks the one-year publication anniversary of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS. A labor of love in the commons. Grateful to see this 1st book review in @asapjournal.bsky.social; give it a read and buy a copy of the book for the holidays (linked in the comments): asapjournal.com/review/revie...

This month marks the one-year publication anniversary of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS. A labor of love in the commons. Grateful to see this 1st book review in @asapjournal.bsky.social; give it a read and buy a copy of the book for the holidays (linked in the comments): asapjournal.com/review/revie...

today's unprecedented foreign terror designation of Antifa has resulted in exactly zero (0) cable news segments 👍

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

I reached a deal with the burglar. He gets to keep all of my possessions that he can carry and I get to call the police one hour after he leaves.

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

CAN IT NOT BE icy AND ICEy at the same time, please? #theweather

If you are able, please help The Sick Times do vital journalism on the pandemic that's being ignored elsewhere.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

We are all Jamaal Bowman

I’m gutted by this decision. So many excellent editors and writers impacted. My column, Disability Visibility is no more as well. Many thanks to Allegra for giving me this amazing opportunity www.teenvogue.com/contributor/...

People often push the disabled to take risks with our health. They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse We care. Our baselines mean everything to us. Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting. You don’t get it until you get it.

Best reader 2 report I've ever gotten!: "The ms. practices what it theorizes, building an affective & sensorial register around suffocation, stagnation, & collective respiration. The prose formally enacts the conditions it names, esp in its attention to tempo, repetition, & refusal of closure."

6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things. @dukepress.bsky.social

Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...

I teach from it regularly! Go get it!

Also, I just learned that my book and all @dukepress.bsky.social books are currently 50% off with code FALL25 until Nov 8th! www.dukeupress.edu/fall-2025-on...

Just want to remind everyone of this award-winning book and its importance...

6 years ago, Insurgent Aesthetics came into the world 💙🛩️📚 I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has lifted this work. The communities formed around these ideas mean the world to me, even as I feel undone by the book’s continued relevance to the criminal disorder of things. @dukepress.bsky.social