Amazing victory. "A federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment."

Applications for the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarships for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences are now open. Please help spread the word. www.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-...

In this paper by @aycacu.bsky.social on moral judgment and genocide in Palestine, Arendt and Scott are brought into dialogue to confront the ethics of responsibility, complicity, and redress in our present. Read the full article here ⬇️

[TMR 53 OUT OF OUR MINDS] @aycacu.bsky.social’s short story “The Intersection”: a meeting, a collision, and the tension of caring “too much.” 🔗 bit.ly/the-intersect... #TheMarkazReview #TMR53 #OutOfOurMinds #Fiction

I wrote an essay, "A Manifest Evil? On Palestine, Judgement, and Justice" for the Journal of Genocide Studies.. Thanks to Dirk Moses for editing the roundtable on Gaza and Genocide Studies where it appears. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NYC, this is happening today, 5 pm. No registration required.

“The law is ridiculous.”

My short story, "The Intersection," is now published by the one and only @markaz-review.bsky.social. The entire issue, OUT OF OUR MINDS, looks fascinating. themarkaz.org/the-intersec...

🖋️ Featuring: @warghetti.bsky.social, @joelleabirached.bsky.social, @jordanelgrably.bsky.social, Sara Shamma, @bookfabulous.bsky.social, Malu Halasa, Mohammad Rabie, Real Bakhit, Dina Shehata, Safa Elnaili, Robert Bociaga, @aycacu.bsky.social, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social, and Farah Ahamed.

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

I'll be delivering the 2025 Social Sciences Annual Lecture at @uniwestminster.bsky.social on Sept 15. If you would like to attend but are not affiliated with the university, please kindly drop me a note and I'll see what I can do. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-manifest... @lsehumanrights.bsky.social

“Hosting” ethnic cleansing in camps @thetimes.com

My latest for the LRB is on the insights of David Graeber's 'baseline communism', and 'dialling to the left'. As @aycacu.bsky.social puts it, Graeber was an anthropologist of human possibilities. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📖New publication: @aycacu.bsky.social's chapter "David Graeber's Contributions to Anthropology: The Anthropology of Human Possibilities" is out now in French. 🔗https://presses.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9782729714734/penser-et-agir-avec-david-graeber

Out now in French, with a chapter from me on #DavidGraeber's Anthrology of Human Possibilities. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

This is a brilliant essay by Kevin Okoth for the London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk on Achille Mbembe's work. I am delighted to be cited thoughtfully in this critical engagement. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

University of Pennsylvania Press @pennpress.bsky.social has selected my book, For the Love of Humanity, as one of their 20 favourite books. This means that the book is available now at a 75% discount. www.pennpress.org/franklins-fa... @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social

London School of Economics NOW #LSEDivest #FreePalestine

Here is the video recording of the recent lecture by Professor Kristin Ross at @lsehumanrights.bsky.social and @lsesociology.bsky.social, titled "The Ecological Face of the Commune Form," based on her recent book, The Commune Form, published by @versobooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnYQ...

Dear all, I am trying to migrate from X to BluSky--would appreciate your help in building a community on this platform. Broad interests: politics, law, social movements, social and political theory.

Keep rolling over for billionaire bullies Harvard! Excellent strategy to destroy what is left of university from a leading academic institution.

Another scandalous case of authoritarian Staatsräson violating basic rights, and copying Trump: “What we’re seeing here is straight out of the far right’s playbook. Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.”

Everyone who speaks up makes it safer for others to do so. Everyone who stays silent makes it more dangerous for those who do speak up. The time is now folks. “Thousands protest after Tufts grad student arrested by ICE, transferred out of state” www.boston.com?post_type=po...

Incredible scenes from #Istanbul tonight where thousands of students are marching towards Şişli to protest against Erdogan.

I gave an interview on recent developments in Turkey Begins at 28 min: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de....

"More than 1,100 people have been arrested as tens of thousands have taken to the streets to protest the arrest of Ekrem İmamoglu on corruption charges decried as politically motivated." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

In Turkey, as elsewhere, people have the right to protest on the streets. Stop the police brutality. Stop the detention of journalists, students, protestors. #SOLIDARITY www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Açıkçası iki gündür tanık olduğumuz eylemlerin daha çok öğrenciler kısmını önemsiyorum, denetlenmeyen asansörlerde ölen, hayatı terk eden, artı yarım ekmeğe para ödetilen, sosyal yaşama dair hiçbir şeyleri kalmayan genç bedenler, kurban değiliz diyorlar, bunları düşününce işte gözyaşlarım pıt.

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote. Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime. This is historic.

Judith Butler on Trump's Executive Order 14168, titled ‘Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’. @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Deadline is soon. Please apply. LSE Fellow in Human Rights and Politics jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

Pleasure to be in conversation today with Nivi Manchanda (QMUL) and Abeera Khan (SOAS) about Alexander Stoffel (QMUL)'s new book, Eros and Empire Join us in London or online, 5:30 pm GMT eventbrite.co.uk/e/eros-and-e... @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

What if international law is working exactly how it's supposed to? (Caveat: it's not 'supoosed' to work any way, it's a social phenomenon the problems of which are not *primarily* 'design' or 'intent', but origin, form, and embeddness in social relations. But that doesn't sound as catchy)

The new McCarthyism proceeds apace. To be clearer than the NYT headline: a Palestinian legal scholar was accused by a shady substack publication that uses AI of being a terrorist & Yale immediately suspended her with no investigation into veracity or due process of any kind. Fun times!!!

i keep reading statements from democrats saying they find mahmoud khaleil's views to be abhorrent and despicable before going on to say that he should nonetheless be given due process. but no one has been able to demonstrate what khaleil's views are beyond the admin's assertions. except for cnn:

Head-spinning discussion with Kristin Ross on the commune form tonight at the LSE. Thanks to all friends, comrades, students and more who participated. La lucha sigue. @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social

🌎 Join us tonight at 6:30pm for "The Ecological Face of the Commune Form". Hear from Professor Kristin Ross and @aycacu.bsky.social on ecology and communal living. 📍 In person at LSE Lecture Theatre or register to join us online. 🔗 buff.ly/41fKZ36 #LSESociology #LSEHumanRights

"I was never under any illusions about the US...But I didn’t think it was this insane." Read @hurwitz.bsky.social's as-told-to interview with a British Gambian student at Cornell, who last year was temporarily suspended after protesting an event that featured weapons manufacturers tied to Israel.

This is happening tomorrow at 6.30pm! 'The Ecological Face of the Commune Form' Public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) hosted by the one and only Dr Ayça Çubukçu (@aycacu.bsky.social). In person and online – come along! LSE Centre Building Lecture Theatre: lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

First Bluesky post, must bring attention to the public lecture by Kristin Ross Wed 12 March. Good moment to recall: there is critical mass dedicated to solidarity and postcapitalist praxis. The series is brilliantly curated by the tireless @aycacu.bsky.social register www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

US federal agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia encampment for Palestine, seek to revoke his green card. #Shame on Columbia administration for its unquestioning obedience to government agents.

Sad to hear that Kingston University is closing the CRMEP. In solidarity... For other redundancies at UK universities: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

🎉We are excited to share that the first Subscribe to Open issue of Humanity has now been published online and will be Open Access in perpetuity: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53496 Please celebrate with us by reading these incredible articles in Issue 15.3! 🎊

"The Ecological Face of the Commune Form," public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) at the London School of Economics on March 12, 6:30 pm. In person and online--all invited! @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social Register: lse.ac.uk/sociology/even

🔥 Last few tickets! Next month join us for the UK launch of 'Eros and Empire' with author @stoffelalex.bsky.social and @aycacu.bsky.social (LSE), Nivi Manchanda (QMUL) and Abeera Khan (SOAS). 📅 14 March, 17:30-19:00 📍 The Old Library, Garrod Building, @qmul.ac.uk 🎟️ Register at the link

In Chicago for the ISA this weekend? Here is our roundtable on Empire and Radical International Thought. All invited. @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lanatatour.bsky.social