WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

I’m probably not the only one to be sad that my sister will no longer be a banana slug, but I’m super happy for her returning to her Alma mater, where she’ll be the dean of school of theater, film, and television: evcp.ucla.edu/announcement...

Playlist inspired by my feminist science studies seminar! First 17 are faves of the moment (guess mine) & last 11 inspired by course texts! tidal.com/playlist/8f9...

My first academic article just got reprinted as open access in the latest virtual issue of American Ethnologist, which includes works from Lila-Abu Lughod and Charles Briggs. It includes my deadname that I buried about a decade ago. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

And congratulations to Reighan Gillam, honorable mention for the New Directions Individual Prize for her work podcasting for New Books in Anthropology! #anthro #AAA24Tampa #GeneralAnthro #GAD_AAA

Since I’m skipping #AAA24 #anthropology meeting in Tampa, here’s another virtual congratulations to General Anthropology Divisions’s New Directions (group) Prize Co-Winner, the authors of the graphic novel King of Bangkok!!

I’m super happy that Maura Finkelstein won the 2024 General Anthropology Division New Directions Prize (Individual) for her work on Palestine! #AAA24 #TampaAAAPraxis

"The saddest part of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." —Isaac Asimov