once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking

Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!

He did a whole two minute ad highlighting the life of Sylvia Rivera! That was backed by a banger of a track from Sophie, noting the murder of Martha P Johnson. Never mind not running away he embraced NYC trans folks. AND WON! youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch

Lots of time and effort has gone into the Independent Water Commission, which reports tomorrow. Unfortunately, it's a largely wasted exercise, because the government insisted that renationalisation of the water companies was outside its terms of reference: ie, it was not allowed to consider it.🧵

More than 100 arrested across UK at #protests related to Palestine Action. #Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the #Terrorism Act 2000 | www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it. Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.

Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +

trans exclusionary feminism is fascist feminism

UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed. www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...

Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades The decision has all the hallmarks of TERF Island - and For Women Scotland seem to think that aligning themselves with famed misogynist Laurence Fox is a victory? www.thecanary.co/editorial/20...

100 children killed or injured every day. That’s the equivalent of 2 buses per day, a whole school per week. How is this in anyone’s interests except those of the forces of fascism?

Great weekend read by @benehrenreich.bsky.social on the bi-partisan support for the genocide in Palestine helping open the door for outright fascism - and some of the parallels to Weimar #Brecht www.thenation.com/article/poli...

🚨 DOCKWORKERS IN SOLIDARITY – ORGANISING LESSONS FROM WORKERS TAKING ACTION FOR PALESTINE 🚨 Speakers from @SDU_Sverige, @CGT_France, @ILWU & more. 🔗 Register now: zoom.us/webinar/regi... #WorkersInPalestine #UnionSolidarity

Very glad our VC is taking a robust stance. Don't imagine that what is happening to US higher education can't happen here as well. Either the whole sector takes a united stand now or the right-wing culture warriors will try to pick us off individually.

🚨Research talk🚨 On Wed 12th March at 4pm in Manchester, the Politics Research Group and the MJMCE are hosting @idanewid.bsky.social for a talk on "A place where freedom means something": James Baldwin's global maroon geographies. Come along if you're in the area, of DM me for info to join online!

2. Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal by @idanewid.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/r... 🧵

Quite dear! I’ll try and make it to this exhibition from mid-March to June, Paris Noir at Centre Pompidou. www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme...

What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

In Princeton this weekend to talk about Sápmi and colonial racial capitalism in the European high north uchv.princeton.edu/events/racia...

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

I'm bad at advertising but here is why I was immersed in all things Moby-Dick last year, please consider preordering #BookSky rep.club/products/mar...

In today’s episode, we speak with @reproutopia.bsky.social about the history of “fascist feminisms” and what this history can tell us about the current state of US politics on.soundcloud.com/oYVdM4KMrz1m...

Fantastic (long-overdue, imho) interview on history of psychiatry and "mental health" industrial complex, etc etc etc with brilliant and effervescent @daniellecarr.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social - thank you @danieldenvir.bsky.social

Join us in Istanbul for this workshop in June. Organised by Ezgi Guner and the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network (ARE). More info here: easaonline.org/networks/are...

I have a new review out now in @antipodeonline.bsky.social of @michelelancione.bsky.social 's excellent work, For a Liberatory Politics of Home. There is much to think with in this book and it's one I'll be coming back to for a long time. antipodeonline.org/2025/01/09/f...

A lot is really discouraging about the rise of fascism in the US. I feel particularly distressed at how difficult and unlikely a popular front between liberals and the left is, largely as a result of the horrible turn of liberalism this last year. 1/19 🧵

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...

for marx & hall nerds, an excellent discussion of hall’s marxism that includes recordings of hall’s extrapolations, denvir & denning's interpretations, & nuances hall's methodology, stakes, & what he meant by 'complex unity structured in dominance'

Some stunning writing in this one

Okay, everyone, get this in your calendars.... Glen Coulthard, "Indigenous-Palestinian Solidarity and the Political Economy of Oil" Birmingham Race Impact Group Cafe, 6PM, Friday, 24 January 2025 Register now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indigenous...

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

C.L.R. James, interviewed by Stuart Hall, introduction by Phoebe Braithwaite - complete unaired BBC interview from 1976, in The New York Review www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... requires subscription or free registration to read just this piece

As the year comes to a close, we've gathered the 24 essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.

Thumbs up to the excellent Francesca Guarino, who passed her PhD VIVA @sheffielduni.bsky.social with minor corrections! Francesca's work was supervised by Ryan Powell and myself & examined by @idanewid.bsky.social and Richard Phillips. Well done, Francesca!