Solidarity with IDF soldiers refusing to fight in the Israeli state's genocidal erasure of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Mutiny for Palestine Now.

Last June, the utopians of Newcastle gathered to join Rebecca Coleman from Bristol in a creative workshop on utopias. Read about the "messes" we made in this blog for the AHRC network on Utopia and Failure: failingbetter.sps.ed.ac.uk/blog/practic...

Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky

Americans, better start practicing your sieg heil salutes to Supreme Leader. It’s 1938 again. Btw, you fell over like a house of cards. Wasnt even a challenge for Trump. Afterwards you’ll all say you didn’t want it, not you, but now you’ll do absolutely nothing to stop it.

Great win for Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral primary. Important step forward for a Democratic Left, and for the Democratic Socialists of America. Solidarity from a 1970s DSA member

Once again, the US is on the dark side of world affairs--from Vietnam to Central America to Iraq and now Iran (this time is a genocidal alliance with Zionist Israel) imperialist power and war is chosen over justice and peace. Stop the bombing. Stop all support of Israel. Justice and peace now.

I’m not sharing this ironically. It shakes me to my bones right now.

Trump just attacked Iran. A few immediate reactions. First off, as a U.S citizen, I'm simply appalled by Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization in violation of law and the constitution. Just because it's not surprising doesn't make it any less dreadful. (1/n)

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

[19] Please visit my Etsy shop here: robbohan.etsy.com My Etsy store includes other original drawings, high resolution images, details & reviews. I arrange shipping via DHL from Ireland to the US to avoid US tariffs, let me know if you have any Questions!

The brilliance of Solnit ✨✨ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Canada also has universal pre-k and an average college tuition of $7.3k/year And in a progressive taxation system, the higher taxes help keep inequality broadly lower Okay - but Americans' higher take-home pay brings them more happiness, right? Nope... m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause. Reverse Discrimination. Welfare Queens. The whole thing survives on myths. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

About which I may write....one day....

Here's to the Otters of the Mulcair River in Limerick!

Read the letter, if you can. It's thoughtful, and thought out.

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

Essential for academic research enterprises, including in the specific sense that many graduate programs (eg the ones in my dept) simply couldn't exist without them

In my utopia and music projects I never got around to tackling a rock and popular music one. Springsteen is the man of the moment. Let him stand for all my rock'n'roll heroes, especially with his concluding number: Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom". open.spotify.com/album/1wWm7M...

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

Columbia faculty held our weekly vigil and we will continue until all our students are home.

Honestly, I'm shocked. Fantastic news and hopefully it gets expanded

Public pressure works! Keep it going.

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas. We’re always just one election away from this happening in Wisconsin as well. Every accusation from the far right authoritarian party is a confession.

[3] Click the link for details. Works shipped via registered post/international courier. Each order is specially packed & comes with a guide to hang it. An Irish Hare (2022) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan Buy here: robbohan.etsy.com/listing/4307...

Bruce Springsteen onstage last night in Manchester - “the America I love, the America I've written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration”.

Join us May 19 at the Shabazz Center to celebrate Malcolm X’s 100th birthday — a century since the birth of a revolutionary. His lessons on dignity, justice, and self-determination still sharpen our vision today. Honor the legacy. Carry the torch. ✊🏿

The UL Sanctuary Programme supports and promotes access to education for refugees & asylum seekers in Ireland Applications are now open to for the 2025/26 academic year Find out more information & apply online here: www.ul.ie/courses/univ... Deadline: 4pm, 31st May 2025 #StudyatUL

Some good news for a change: great to see renewed faith (in resource form) in UK community radio. www.gov.uk/government/n...

W suspended habeas corpus for "enemy combatants" after 9/11 and I feel like nobody remembers it? He moved people to offshore prisons and disappeared them without due process. W laid the foundation for our current president.

Four year postdoc in sf studies: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

World historical crime it is. Israel must not he allowed to do this, in Gaza and in the West Bank. Justice and freedom for Palestine.

And many Democratic Party leaders, often funded by Israel's US arm, AIPAC, are fully complicit with this genocidal action.

“They can do far more than hope to survive another day, regrowing missing limbs in some remote future. They have real power, here and now. But they need to move quickly, they need to move in solidarity, and they need to use the resources that they have, collectively, assembled.”

Our newest book, Bright Mirror - A Collection of Utopian Science Fiction, will be release on May 20th!! Stay tuned for the cover reveal!

Great to see utopian thought and practice in action!

This week we are featuring the work of students studying Old & Middle English Literature: Texts & Contexts who were challenged to create some #MedievalMemes and we are delighted to showcase the results. Who knew the Middle Ages could be so fun. More to follow! @ulenglish.bsky.social

I think he's also button pushing liberals by pretending he's making an argument that "protects women" when it's really just a back door to erode universal coverage and pit the "able bodied" against non, men against women, old against young, working vs. unemployed, on down the line. What a dick. 3/

Especially now 📻

Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

I mean being an American has always meant being party to genocide and illicit foreign wars and environmental destruction, but this new chapter is appalling in a fresh new way, and insanely destructive of the stability of the political and natural worlds.

POTUS is telegraphing open imperial invasion of sovereign nations. This isn’t new, but now they are realigning their imperialism onto their allies. There is a complicated reality here, of settler states at war, but more simply: the US is—at best—now a mafia state. Chickens need to roost.

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...

Join us this Wednesday for the launch of the RespectfUL Campus Campaign The event will feature talks on Ending Sexual Violence & Harassment, and Tackling Bullying & Harassment in the Workplace 📅 Wednesday 5th March 🕙10:00 to 16:15 📌Analog Devices Building www.ul.ie/respectful-u... #StudyatUL

The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/5tozgdyn