Thanks @aldasky.bsky.social. We are all indeed "Vienna-pilled", yet a reminder again of what a #capitalisteconomy like the United States but that also offers stronger #social protections can look like? #socialhousing

The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.

Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for your words of wisdom: “In giving to others, in working toward the liberation of all beings, we make the best version of ourselves, a version that cannot be made any other way, a gift we can receive only by giving.”

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

Excited for a conversation at #FullSpectrumLabs this week. Really looking to see how #RUNWAY – A Financial Innovation Firm, based in Oakland, CA is imagining " #capital as a tool that can #heal, #repair and #connect." www.runway.family/runway-overv...

I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print. Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it. Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

I’m delighted to be in conversation with one of the most exciting scholars in Asian American studies, Takeo Rivera, in Boston. We will be discussing my book To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, but I’m sure we’ll be talking about a lot of other things as well.

[1 of 2] @erinmcel.bsky.social's Silicon Valley Imperialism changed my #worldview recently...Quoting distinguished Associate Professor at UC berkeley, Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social and then articulating their own take on #publicspace users, who in our enjoyment of "artisanal picnics"...

Upheaval during urban renewal in West Oakland at the same time that property values rose in the FHA backed dev. in suburbs, @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social's The Pacific Circuit quotes Ms. Margaret Gordon: “You got to look how devastation for some gave opportunity to others. One was down, one was up.”

Happy to celebrate five years since @antipodeonline.bsky.social released "Geographies of Racial Capitalism w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore." If you haven't seen or considered it as a teaching or organizing tool: check it out 👇 antipodeonline.org/geographies-...

I am glad to be part of the open-access volume "Insurgent ground: land, housing, property" curated by the wonderful Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani & Annie Powers. The book emerges from a Freedom School held at UCLA in the Summer 2024. Download: challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

“Beyond Molotovs – Reclaiming Antifascist Futures” lu.ma/8ozahg5t Sudo Room 4799 Shattuck Avenue - Oakland Date(s) - 2025/05/09 7:30 pm - 11:45 pm ​“Beyond Molotovs – A visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies” will be presented and put into dialogue with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

City Lights and Gray Area present Reimagining Technopolitical Futures: Building Alternatives in the Present – A Workshop with Luis Felipe R. Murillo, Erin McElroy,and Paul Schweizer Sunday, May 11, 2025, Doors 12:45, Start Time 1:00 pm Gray Area, 2665 Mission St, SF grayarea.org

@geographers.bsky.social in Detroit was intellectually stimulating. Exchanged notes with several academics and practitioners on their brilliant work. Stories from Detroit, MI, Silicon Valley, CA, Naples, Italy, Bangalore, India, and many more in between and beyond. Many notable instances #AAG2025

New special issue on on Housing Movements & Racial Capitalism w/ @akirarodriguez.bsky.social & Margit Mayer in @politicsandspace.bsky.social & cute team editor photo in Berlin '22 Check out 5 great contributions!!👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

So excited for this book to be out in the world and also to have gotten to be a part of it.

@geographers.bsky.social in Detroit next week will clarify the theoretical underpinnings for my research and practice plus as always I am hopeful of seeking community. This year, I am presenting a paper titled “Charting/Recharting #decolonization based housing movements in Seattle and LA.” #AAG2025

Authoritarians around the world are threatening the inherent value of facts and art. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and I wrote about our belief in art that embraces facts. It’s why we’re hosting the Storyboard Residency this June. Read more @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/truth-power-...

Is it #PeopleBased or #PlaceBased Strategies? Impacted communities reside across cities and counties. Wouldn’t an initiative that addressed “deficits at the individual level” be all encompassing? #BontonFarms effort in Houston, TX refutes that argument. Choose wisely!

If you missed tonight’s town hall with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social on resisting the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts, you can watch the video here:

getting the band back together, because, well... 🤯

“Many people settle in places like Texas because housing is generally more affordable. But that affordability is a mirage: Their mortgage and insurance risks are being subsidized by everyone else,” write the finance professors Parinitha R. Sastry and Ishita Sen.

"The Eaton Fire hit near the center of this historic Black community, shattering homes and businesses that are more than financial investments but also cultural heritage." www.bet.com/article/7a2t...

In my upcoming book, I show that, beginning in the 1980s, framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness and addiction was politically engineered to obscure the socioeconomic roots of the crisis and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space. bsky.app/profile/bria...

I’ll offer more later in articles and interviews but these are some of the things I’m thinking about. I’ll be talking about this (and more!) on Thurs, Nov 21 with some of my favourite people to think with - join us! RSVP for the online event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social (8/8)