🔥The Abusable Past is collaborating with the Pedagogy Lan and Center for Feminist Futures to publish original art and lesson plans that question and critique the deployment of executive power. Check out the call for submissions and two sample lesson plans up at the Abusable Past now !! 👇🏽

It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1

From a digital or analog collage, photo, drawing, blackout poem, video, or anything else, select artworks will be incorporated into openly licensed teaching materials. See more info about Executive Dis/Order at abusablepast.org/call-for-sub.... More questions can be directed to [email protected].

Check out the latest episode of the AAUP Presents special series, "Academic Freedom on the Line." In this episode, host Vineeta Singh speak with a coalition of student leaders actively organizing against state-level DEI bans in Texas and Kentucky. Listen and subscribe: www.aaup.org/news/our-pod...

Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...

Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia. macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...

personally I would just skip the whole "your economic opinions boil down to which countries you stan" deal and go for the whole "because of capitalism I could have bananas every day" sort of rhetorical strategy. but I suppose you should take my Third World ass opinions with a grain of salt

Recordings of the "The Anti-Zioinst Idea: History, Theory, & Politics" are now available www.theantizionistidea.com/recordings

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My six favourite European Mr Men character names... 6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso 5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel 4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing 3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo 2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs 1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump

Was looking for scholars engaged in postcolonial history on @bsky.app Please add others and yourself go.bsky.app/CXWu64P

The Incarcerated Modern by @golnarnikpour.bsky.social traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today. www.sup.org/books/title/...

Check out a new interview with activist Kipp Dawson AND explore a piece from Jessie Ramey and Catherine Evans on Dawson's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. The Radical History Review article is free to view for a limited time. abusablepast.org/challenging-...

🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories. Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me. Papers are due 15 Aug 2024. Please share!!

Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale Applications now Open americanstudies.yale.edu/news/henry-r... The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) invites applications for the 2024/25 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian & Indigenous Studies.

Today, on Columbia's first day, we remember our fallen colleagues in Gaza 🇵🇸

This is very good. Quotes Aimé Césaire, no less. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/o...

who was taught by June Jordan? I am trying to compile a list of her students—especially, but not only, those who have gone on to teach writing or art, and those who are still writing poetry.

What better day than Haitian Independence Day to remind y’all that there is one more week to submit abstracts for the Radical Histories of Decolonization issue of Radical History Review! 🇭🇹🇵🇸 #thestrugglecontinues cc: @golnarnikpour.bsky.social @sepoy.bsky.social

New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...

Omg I have been shouting about this scam tongue-tie-lactation industrial complex and how it preys on the anxieties of new mothers and insurance loopholes to every person I know for the last three years, this is why I wear a tinfoil hat www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/h...

Post-doc in policing and carceral studies at U of Minnesota, connected to a Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives on the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement, 2024/25 Applications due: 1/15/24 Details: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/359...

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EVENT 11/30: On alternative visions and radical solidarities stretching from Palestine and Iraq to South Asia and Bosnia! With @abubanda.bsky.social Esmat ElHalaby and Zainab Saleh

The Israeli Bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in 1956 (and After) pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-...

In "Stay Black and Die," I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture from the 19th century to the contemporary moment. Read a free sample now! www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...

Good morning and solidarity to the Duke students responsible for this

when buzzfeed news folded i was worried no one would let me be insane on the internet again but slate let me use the term "scum-shot" in the first hundred words of this so yes, i DO believe in life after love. slate.com/news-and-pol...

New essay on "Marx, Critique, & Abolition: Higher Education as Infrastructure"!! I co-wrote this with @abbieboggs.bsky.social, Nick Mitchell, & Zach Schwartz-Weinstein. We put the Marxist tradition in conversation with abolitionist approaches to higher education. www.academia.edu/108991210/Ma...

I wrote a short piece for @thefunambulist.bsky.social about the genocidal threshold: the point at which quotidian state violence conceivably becomes capital G “Genocide” crime vs. the acceptable genocidal outcomes of nation-state policy thefunambulist.net/magazine/red...

Duke University Faculty for Justice published a statement on Palestine today. Consider signing in solidarity if you have any relation to Duke (faculty, students, admin, alumni, or staff like me). “It is imperative to reject injustices committed in our name.” medium.com/@dukefaculty...

Duke Faculty for Justice release statement on Palestine 🍉 medium.com/@dukefaculty...

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

Some critical reads rn: Darryl Li on the Sinai solution in the early occupation period and its continued relevance t.ly/Ke0F_ Esmat Elhalaby on Gaza & historical through lines t.ly/ckLYX Neve Gordon on foreboding developments in the West Bank t.ly/HwjAW

Join us to discuss "Radical Failure and World-Building in Abolitionist Organizing" with Alexis Shotwell, Kevin Walby, Leah Montange, Meghan McDowell, Nick Montgomery, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard & me Sat., 11/4, 8:00-9:40am EST Hybrid: Zoom reg. @ cutt.ly/radicalfailure  & in-person at ASA in Montreal

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The late scholar-activist Eqbal Ahmad on Palestine.

“How do you break a siege? How do you escape from prison? How do you get back your land?” New at PB: Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social) on the history of Palestine, settler-colonial violence, and poetry under siege:  www.publicbooks.org/our-siege-is...

Our Siege Is Long www.publicbooks.org/our-siege-is... I wrote this

New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...