Black History Month!

Check out this special feature that I co-edited with brilliant @nahir.bsky.social: Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” | PMLA | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4anHgVM .

Today, I told my students that as a resident Puerto Rican (and expert), we would watch Benito's Bowl and go over it with a critical lens, and that I would answer all their questions. We watched the show. They took notes, and they did most of the talking--mentioning all the things they noticed. 1/

Teaching 1001 Nights, I pointed out to my students that it is one of the most radically feminist texts of that time period I also ask why every semester I get 1 - 3 essays saying 1001 nights is sexist, but I don't get similar essays about Gilgamesh or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I got silence

AMEN. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

It was completely spontaneous in my part. Zero regrets 🤣

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In a discussion of the relationship btw Gilgamesh and Enkidu: Me: They meet by fighting each other, and their relationship turns to one of deep love. What is the modern equivalent? Oh, I know. Have you heard of Heated Rivalry? Students: screamed, laughed, went red ... in unison!

“I don’t need to love a field that fails to love me. I don’t need white supremacy to tell me my worth.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

Recognizing the Stranger demands that our path to liberation never forgets the human condition, the art we create, and the place of Palestine in our collective struggle. Isabella Hammad is an award winning British-Palestinian author. Her other books include Enter the Ghost and The Parisians

The next book in our "MfP Recommended Read" series is Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative" (Black Cat 2024). Recognizing the Stranger argues for the world of literature as a venue for thinking through the political fights of our time.

The next book in our recommended reads is Colonizing Palestine by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury which shows how, in the decades before the Nakba of 1948, Zionists settlements, including "left-wing kibbutzim," were integral to the slow displacement of Palestinians.

This year I was lucky enough to get to choose to do mostly things that aligned with my beliefs and values. I’m grateful, because the year was a doozy in all other ways. Here are a few I’m most proud of:

The white backlash that is materially devastating democracy, marginalized people, and the planet is all b/c of symbolic gains. As Juliet Hooker writes, white grievance leads to real grief for the rest of us (but also for themselves in the end, because there is only one world).

“As I sat I my chateau in France and spent twenty minutes writing for one of the premier magazines in the world, where I have highly remunerated lifetime employment, I thought about the people being mean to me online and wondered … is this discrimination? I think it is.”

Also: glass and china can shatter in your hand just as badly as they shatter on the floor, but the floor doesn't have to go to the ER. Since a friend's permanent injury reflexively catching a teacup, I have been trying to train myself NOT to catch things I drop doing dishes (still working on it).

I have a Quinceañere!

#MedievalSky #AcademicSky

Palestine's history has evolved alongside the many peoples who lived in, moved through, and visited Palestine.

The next book in our "MfP Recommended Read" series is Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. This fast-paced history moves from the bronze age to the present to demonstrate that Palestine has always existed.

The 1st book in our "Recommended Read" series is Edward W. Said's The Question of Palestine. Written in 1979 and often considered a part of a trilogy alongside Orientalism and Covering Islam, it was one of the first major books to introduce the historical context of Zionism (1/3)

Let's build pressure AND community. Let's start with stickers! Make your own Free Palestine stickers, stick them everywhere, give them out, show the people around you that they're not alone in caring. www.youtube.com/shorts/0QNtR... welcometonanas.com/how-to-make-...

We've been asking the MAA to divest since 2024. Their response was to strip power from the advocacy committee, create extensive policies to control their advocacy and change their rules so that they "only consider requests" from current members and leadership of peer professional societies.

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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

“Gaza is home because our memories are etched into every street, & Gazans are the heartbeat of the city.” Gaza once held our stories. Now we carry its memories, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi vows. “[We will] breathe new life into her again.”

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

This amazing artist is being forced to pay $32000 to the state of CA for putting her art out on display and making people happy. She's selling stickers and posters to pay this bogus charge. Get yourself some happy stickers and support this amazing artist! ko-fi.com/ctshrm

Indonesia is denying Israeli athletes entrance visas, which will prevent them from keeping in the world gymnastics championships. This is what real solidarity against genocide looks like. apnews.com/article/indo...

Just in case someone missed this detail: Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

I have a google sheets document with 590 songs that was compiled by a teacher for learning Spanish Music is the easiest way for me to learn a language especially Spanish.

Check it out!

Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Learn more about the writers from the Speculative Detective Agency and help us support the artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative. The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... Please share widely

This looks great!! Pay authors and artists! Read stories! Solve/Do Crimes!

This looks fantastic!

Please support this amazing project! The Speculative Detective Agency invites artists to imagine the borders of the factual and the imaginative. The kickstarter is to pay the artists. And you get the book in the process! www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... Please share widely

Trump wants the Department of Defense to go back to its old name the “Department of War.” Did you know that beginning in 1789, the Secretary of War managed all tribal relations and in 1822 established the Bureau of Indian Affairs within the War Department.

Just give Alexandra Petrie a Pulitzer already. "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow."

I am literally begging anyone who does any kind of journalism to spend an hour in an eviction courtroom every week for a month. Please. The eviction crisis in this country is downplayed at best and ignored at worst. It's racialized state violence that hearkens back to the worst of Jim Crow,

Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable scope and scale with ICE planning to double its detention capacity by the end of this year to detain nearly 110,000 people. Texas alone will have the capacity to detain at least 37,000 people.

I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary. Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide. globalnews.ca/video/113458...

"Medieval studies need instead to move politically to a place of radicality, one that would, unlike liberalism, align itself coherently with the work of dismantling the violent and unjust structures in which we think, work, and live." Brilliant piece by Seeta Chaganti for Arthuriana's The So What!

Liberal Zionists can't read the room, can they? Of course there are medievalists involved... As their colleagues (us!) call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, they're more than happy to be platformed by them. You can't "both-sides" your way out of a genocide.

Please help a Black trans comrade who has been targeted and fined for Pro-Palestine speech chuffed.org/project/1455...

Yup: www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...