I am so hyped about City Design in Conversation vol.2 MINORPLANING – the practices of designing the city that support the liberation and emancpation of those who live and struggle in cities. 2 December 1 PM GMT, online On Spatial Literacy with Iva Čukić www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-desig...

"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51 Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives" "Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WOW! Do jump all over The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum, shaped by Christina Sharpe ofc, feat. Glenn Coulthard, Madeleine Thien, Canisia Lubrin & Immanuel Wilkins. Just brilliant; the world as a different, possible, homely place. Watch/listen >c18m: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Ethnic cleansing is now the official political position of the British and German center-right.

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Simply unbelievable. And to think about what was coming in his honor in the near future . . . 🥺😔 There are no words but this was my offering, once. For @markanthonyneal.bsky.social: www.newblackmaninexile.net/2014/12/the-...

New Celebrate People's History poster in the shop by UK artist Rachael House! "Sisters Uncut" was an ntersectional feminist British direct action group opposed to cuts to UK govt. services for domestic violence victims. justseeds.org/product/sist...

“But I want to be a kind of reader as I write. That means not knowing what’s up ahead.” – Renee Gladman, My Lesbian Novel

A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Israeli airstrikes are targeting Gaza City’s last high-rise towers - among the only structures still able to shelter thousands of displaced families. Most are surrounded by tent areas, making strikes deadly for those inside and around them.

The Palestine Book Forum in the new issue of Postmodern Culture, edited by Rashmi Varma, is now freely available, with short pieces on Ghassan Kanafani, Adania Shibli, Saree Makdisi, Haidar Eid and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

This is the replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces

"Let’s not sit inside our sorrows, let’s not describe things to death. My orientation is activism. Other than that it’s like a kind of vanity or a decadence." - June Jordan

Drawing on oral testimony, archival records and fieldwork, my colleagues at FA developed novel methods for the reconstruction of historical landscapes to make visible the long-term environmental degradation experienced in Namibia since German colonisation. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

"We are invited to consider [NYC's proposed skyscraper jails] as good neighbors, sites of life opportunity . . . anything but facilities for human caging." Jarrod Shanahan & Zhandarka Kurti reveal how NYC jail boosters abuse decarceral talking points. w/ @haymarketbooks.org

To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship. New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

#OtD 20 Jul 1925 Frantz Fanon, revolutionary psychiatrist and pioneering anti-colonial theorist was born in Martinique. He served in the Free French Army, experiencing racism and joined the Algerian independence movement. Learn more in this biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

“If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols.” www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...

The “big beautiful bill” has $160bn in new anti-immigrant measures including $8bn for ICE personnel, $15bn for deportations and $45bn to build detention facilities. Current total ICE budget is ~$8bn. They want to scale up this terror to an unimaginable level. www.wola.org/analysis/160...

my wonderful department @cumediastudies.bsky.social is thinking ahead to fall 2026 and we would love your help getting the word out about our MA and PhD programs! Boulder remains a relatively safe place & students can join any of our labs/centers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

if you are in london join us this week for a 3 day Take Back the Land Symposium where we will be exploring the role of architecture in taking back and working with communities in struggle. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-back-...

happy birthday to the brilliant and beautiful and kind Sylvia Wynter!

nourishing and phenomenal Fred Moten / Brandon Lopez with Pat Thomas at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social tonight 💜💜💜

If you'll be in London next week, come chat about the (proposed) idea of "archival inquiry" at Mayday Rooms ! Hoping to bring together concepts & practices of "co-research" in relation to both archival labours and methods of historical research: maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 12-month Lectureship in Human Geography (esp. urban and political geography) @rhulgeography.bsky.social. Salary: £49,325 p.a. Application deadline: 2 May 2025. Starting date: c. 1 September 2025. Details: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

“When I post about the Bund, Zionists often remind me that many of their members were gassed in Auschwitz. They sometimes wish me the same. This makes me think of fascism’s first form of forgetting. Before fascism erases the other, it must purify the self” thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

There is no shortage of evidence of Israel's killing frenzy. Where there is a desperate shortage is in the West's reserves of basic ethics - as evidenced from its nonchalance in the face of an Israel keen to advertise its genocidal prowess www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

In the US politics is right wing or far right wing, and it's the same in the UK. Labour doing more wrong, bad, Tory things here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Lead poisoning is the longest running childhood epidemic in American history. Yet far from responding with concern, public awareness has lapsed, repeatedly," Thomas Beller wrote in 2019. Worth a read today, as the government agencies designed to protect public health are recklessly dismantled.

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

"If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned." – Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

It also reveals that that part of Zone 1 was wetland forest, w an amazing range of post-glacial species recorded. The anomaly was within founding Roman infra but is now a low canopy zone on a heat-island. Reforestation is required & is perfectly feasible as the Heygate Legacy Forest demonstrates🌳🌲

An essay about my mom in @msmagazine.com — excerpted from a new book that is in part a history of her work. #BlackSky #BookSky msmagazine.com/2025/03/19/m...

Exactly this. Anyone who thinks Bibi commits these atrocities for ideological reasons doesn’t understand Bibi. He’s been indicted and 10/7 happened just as he was trying to push through VERY unpopular judicial coup/reforms (people protesting in every city in massive numbers for 9 mos leading up +

I'll be in conversation with Laleh Khalili at the LRB bookshop on Thursday 1 May, talking about her new book 'Extractive Capitalism'. Tickets available here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/laleh-khal... @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @lrbbookshop.bsky.social

this piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social is great for many reason, including that it links to those amazing CIA recruitment videos where “a cisgender millennial, who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder" finds the courage to destroy villages across the world

This scene lives rent-free in my head lately.

Sesame Street really tells the story of America: - Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children - Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country - Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts - Unionization leads to mass layoffs What a country!

I'm delighted to say we have moved my Professorial Inaugural Lecture this coming Monday to a larger room, so more places are now available! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...

"Returning can be a solitary condition, but survival is collective" heartbreakingly beautiful text by habibti Sahar Qawasmi in the new issue of @thefunambulist.bsky.social focused on Palestinian return.

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Deeply disappointed to find that the EPA’s Environmental Justice Screen tool (EJ Screen) is gone. EJScreen identified areas with environmental factors that may be harmful to vulnerable populations - such as lead paint prevalence, air pollution etc. it was a great resource for early site research

@gillespeterson.bsky.social thank you for playing Gabi and Arsen - yugoslav best! they sang about all different things they could have become if they hadn't met :)

reading about camps for unfocused set up by New Orleans in the lead up to the superb owl makes me think of the star trek deep space 9 legendary episode Past Tense nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

we continue with the City Design in Conversation series with "on the Right to the City and social reproductio" with Helen Brewer and Riccardo Badano on what it means to place the migrant workers who keep cities going at the centre of urban planning. #minorplanning www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...