so about the relationship between the state and capital

Don't let the liberals squash this moment like they have every recent anti-carceral movement by turning "Abolish ICE" into "Defund ICE" into "ICE needs better training" resulting in rehabilitation PR and ultimately increased funding for "reforms." It's "Abolish ICE" loud and clear, no qualifiers.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Taught my first week of classes and just submitted my tenure dossier. I would now like to sleep for 12 hours.

It's not lost on me that an intended side effect of doing this is putting children of color behind in their educations.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

🌲 Evergreen reminder that some organizing conversations are best had in-person, and definitely not on social media, especially Facebook, and especially discussions of specific tactics 💕

So MLA just gives platforms to Zionists who wrote about how the pro-Palestine movement is anti-Semitic, huh? Cool, cool. Anyway, some of us are gonna talk about BDS stuff in a roundtable at 12. I'll probably just yell & sound irritable but I am sure my colleagues will have very smart things to say.

"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope...is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." -Walter Benjamin Remember this is typical IDF behavior in Palestine, and that white folks made desecrating the bodies of lynching victims a ritual

A local rapid response group I work with is desperately trying to raise $5K tonight to get immediate legal representation for a group member who is facing deportation. It is crucial that these funds be raised by tomorrow. These are organizers I trust. Venmo for donations: @geebees5818

What you're seeing in that video of ICE murdering a woman in broad daylight (I'm not sharing it) is a tactic that the police have been using against Black people and their comrades for over a century. Down to the "it was self-defense b/c she was trying to run us over" script.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

We’ve seen this in Chicago. Now we’re seeing it across the country. ICE is a lawless secret police force and must be abolished. This is fucking horrific.

This is horrifying and reprehensible AND shit like this happens extremely often to trans lawyers, witnesses, and parties

I'm feeling very powerless knowing that there is no anti-imperialist movement or even opposition party in the US with the teeth necessary to stop this. But still we organize and we fight. Because those of us in the Imperial Core have no right to despair or to fold our hands in resignation.

They really said "we're gonna bomb Venezuela for oil" and went ahead and did it. It's Bush-Cheney without the performance. Just straight up, bald-faced evil. Repeating til I'm blue in the face that the US is the Evil Empire we should all root against. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela.

Here's to a more robust politics of collective refusal in 2026 ✊

Since finishing grad school and taking my first contingent 4/4 teaching job, December has consistently been my biggest writing time. It's nearly impossible for me to find time to write during the semester, so it happens during "breaks," and Dec/Jan has become my most productive research season.

Reason number 437 that Newsome sucks, actually. The only thing going for him is that he's a straight white man running as a Democrat who can do a decent "Tough Guy" performance on social media. He is the definition of all style and no substance but his style is literally just white masculinity.

I sighed. "I really do have trouble not being able to figure out if what you've painted is about to be day or night." Ruth rolled toward me [...] "It's not going to be day or night, Jess. It's always going to be that moment of infinite possibility that connects them." -Stone Butch Blues, ch 24

When I was a grad student and struggled to articulate the distinction between feminist theory and queer theory, i thought it was a failure of mine. Now as Director of a Gender & Women's Studies program even more immersed in the field, I lean into that "struggle" as itself being the point.

Everything about this entire saga is and has been incredibly infuriating, and also very triggering. I was removed from a teaching position b/c right-wingers didn't like my social media posts back in 2020. The landscape is worse now. www.koco.com/article/sama...

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Hands Off Venezuela

While I appreciate outrage at Dems voting for a bill that codifies anti-trans proposals, I want to emphasize this is the NDAA, which passes every year b/c the US has a bipartisan commitment to military violence & imperialism. The trans liberation movement must be anti-imperialist we are to succeed.

How fucking DARE these mfers instrumentalize the shooting to justify ongoing genocide. This is why every event of antisemitic violence is so knotted for a lot of us. I want to mourn but I have no time to do so b/c I immediately have to fight the Zionist weaponozation of Jewish grief. It's maddening.

ICE is evil. ICE is organized kidnapping. Fuck ICE. Yeet this entire organization into the sun, never to be reformed or rebuilt again.

Grading while stuffing rage and fear about mass shootings into a compartmentalized box at the back of my brain

Anniversary photo at work 🥰

Today is the 1-yr anniversary of my book's publication date! *Abolition Time* was released by @uminnpress.bsky.social on Dec 10, 2024 ✨ If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal! Also: (1/3)

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

Fresh haircut. My partner said "it's giving Alison Bechdel character I'd expect to see in profile in a Dykes to Watch Out For panel," which made my day

I love how the media just decided to memory-hole the vast, administrator & state-directed, violent suppression of student, faculty, and staff speech about genocide because it simply does not fit with the ingrained narrative of higher education as a woke indoctrination factory.

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Rural New Mexico is beautiful

“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”

Toasting towards the end of imperialism and all forms of colonialism, from Turtle Island to Palestine.

This year's American Studies Association conference was a joy! My first ASA was 2015, and ten years later I was a respondent on an "Author Meets Critics" session on my first book! I am so deeply thankful for my colleagues' thoughtful engagement, and energized by the ASA conference as a whole!

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The American Studies Association Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico was fantastic. I participated in an ”Author Meets Critics” session for @jessagoldberg.bsky.social book “Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice.“ What a gift to be in conversation with such brilliant scholars.

And autism was never something to be so terrified of that you avoid vaccines for preventable childhood diseases that could disable or kill you and others The inherent ableism of this strain of anti-vaccinationism has always been acute

If you're at the American Studies Association conference, this is at 9:45 this morning!

Start of a 17-hour travel day to Puerto Rico -- see you soon, ASA! (Hollar if you're there!) #2025ASA #ASA2025

The police and ICE are on the same side, guys. Organize and call your neighbors, not agents of the state.

A student said I look "gothic" today. I was going for anarcho-socialist ❤️🖤😂

SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends! Thurs Nov 20th 9:45 to 11:15 AM Convention Center Ballroom A Salon A