Happy 15 years of 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹! Trans, gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the prison industrial complex, and been at the heart of the resistance to state tyranny. Happy Pride 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥

Chatham Co. residents in NC have valid reasons to be concerned re: Enbridge's proposed nat gas pipeline: In Tennessee, the company damaged wetlands & streams, encroached on private property + feds issued a stop-work order on one segment of its Ridgeline project insideclimatenews.org/news/2506202...

With the General Assembly's override of @ncgovernor.bsky.social's veto of the so-called "Border Protection Act," @aclunc.bsky.social and El Pueblo are hosting a virtual town hall on June 30 to discuss what the bill will mean for North Carolinians. Learn more here: www.mobilize.us/aclunc/event...

“‘A premise from the outset was that CMI's job was to invent a future where the fossil fuel industries have not disappeared,’ the renewal document said. ‘This is still our job’."

Many have heard of the Battle of Little Bighorn — which happened 150 years ago today — but few know about the women who fought to defend their people. https://bit.ly/3StHjZB

This issue of Qui Parle is REPLETE (check out especially the essay by Anonymous, which made me have to rethink some things for my methods class probably)--and it might pair well with the Somerville book...

As we await a #SCOTUS decision in Trump v Barbara, check out "Naturalization" by Siobhan B. Somerville, an alternative history, showing how #naturalization has long been at the core of the US settler colonial project. Read the introduction now for free. buff.ly/JkdVpNU

Four of my very best colleagues right here, doing important work with care--go get it!

Update: Naomi Dix and Club ERA have filed a lawsuit against Meta (@indyweek.bsky.social)

"... educational questions survive only as shadows cast by financial projections." 🔥

1/ Etta Baker (March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina. #WomanToday

So NC Republicans had a convicted child predator in a leadership position Among other things, the pedo was a fundraiser for the R candidate for NC Supreme Court, Sarah Stevens Stevens claims she didn't know him – but the fundraiser for her was at his house www.heraldsun.com/news/politic...

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

People! I’m so excited! I am sharing here for free, from behind our Patreon paywall, me covering Reconstruction 101: youtu.be/16mULG5XyX8?...

The NC state legislature had a field day destroying the rights of and taking away benefits from our state's most vulnerable people. AGAIN. There's no bottom to how low they will go. Anyway, if you aren't in a group that's organizing around this, get on it! ASAP! @siembranc.bsky.social for starters

Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, according to a new UN inquiry. The report says more than 20,000 children were killed between October 2023 and October 2025. Israel rejected the findings.

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

FYI to zoom users the latest update rolled out YET ANOTHER AI agent that defaulted to opt-in, so you need to go to your web settings to turn it off, and you will probably also need to turn off the AI features you have already turned off 16 times because they reverted to on.

“it’s the everything thing” they said “use it or you’ll be left behind” they said

Police have only escalated killings people since the Uprising. We said “abolish” or “defund” Dems responded by increasing police budgets dramatically across the country and this is what we get.

Exclu: Nearly a dozen senators are calling on Trump & RFK Jr. to remove a federal website that directs pregnant people to unregulated anti-abortion centers. “Moms.gov is not about promoting women’s health. It is an attempt to use HHS resources to further strip women of their rights and privacy.”

This was an excellent webinar considering the challenges for LGBTQ+ researchers/those working on LGBTQ+ topics of doing impact and public engagement work in an increasingly queerphobic cultural context. This recent article has been published by the research team: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm offering this class starting next Wednesday, July 1st: roundtable.org/live-courses...

Critical fabulation requires an intimate knowledge of what is in and what is not in the archives. It means having a deep engagement with scholarship. It is not about making up fictitious histories. I am so tired of people failing to understand that. Lorde, hilfe.

People keep acting like the fascists care about "crime." THEY DO NOT. They care about domination & fear. They will fearmonger re: "crimes" committed by out groups while cheering on the "crimes" committed by "their people" Meanwhile liberals keep bleating on about hypocrisy when hierarchy matters.

There are people still on X. That blows my mind. In the year of our lord 2026, there are people posting on the nazi/sex trafficker/child sex’abuse material website because they think it’s helping their business or their brand or their journalism. It’s ridiculous. It’s embarrassing.

THIS WEEKEND: Come out to Saxapahaw and enjoy Cuban composer and jazz pianist Irving Aday and his band Cuban Joy on 6/27 at Saturdays in Saxapahaw! FREE to attend, market opens at 5pm, music at 6pm! Food trucks, farmers, artisans, local beer and excellent LIVE music! bit.ly/IrivingAdayJ...

When I assign a research paper, it's not because I want an essay I can use to evaluate the student ex post. It's because I want the student to have the experience of going through the process of all of the above steps, perhaps iteratively, that is necessary to write a good research paper.

Hi- good sources from left perspectives on Sudan? Putting together an anti imperialism zine - thank you

I'm glad to see more attention coming to Scott Burton's legacy thanks to the NYC AIDS Memorial project by Oscar Tuazon www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w... but also putting this out there for more context on his queer public practice, AIDS, performance, sculpture, etc: davidgetsy.com/-scottburton

What happens when a teacher removes tech from the classroom? In one @educationmn.bsky.social classroom, students had improved focus, a deeper connection, and improved learning. What's better? More than 95% of students said the tech-free classroom experience was a success.

Wow if you are lucky enough to be able to attend this, it's also a benefit! What a lineup. Please report back in long narrative prose or poetry.

time for this again

🚨New data: In the 8 months after H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by 4+ million (-10%) nationwide. In just the 13 states with available data, 800,000+ fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Here’s a link the Ta-Nehisi’s latest w/o a paywall. READ IT. archive.md/SSLbJ

BREAKING: The Supreme Court leaves in place a ruling that severely limits enforcement of Voting Rights Act protections for voters with a disability or an inability to read or write in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

My forthcoming "Geocritical Cosmopolitanism" is now up on Google Books, where the first 25 pages or so are available for preview! books.google.com/books?id=xQz...

it was a total pleasure to celebrate KJ’s new book alongside Ianna. Listen - and teach Nothing Wanting!

I think we would be better off with clean water and affordable electricity than a Google that scans information and summarizes for us.

A gift link www.culturedmag.com/article/2026...

Since it's pride month, I'm going to share some interviews that were done last year with some of the Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer folks that were featured at @crushcolonialism.bsky.social's Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride

Ahmed needs our support to eat. Please join me in making this goal. I was able to give 50. Every dollar helps.

House Bill 958 is meant to add more obstacles for voters trying to cast their ballot, and fewer restraints on the power-hungry politicians looking to keep those ballots from being counted. #ncpol #votingrights #news https://progressncaction.org/2026/06/new-power-grab-same-resilience/

NEW: In May, an autonomous group of organizers called for people to gather in northern Arizona at the foot of Wii'i Gdwiisa, or Red Butte. There, they shared insight and knowledge about the revitalized uranium industry in the region and why they're demanding it be stopped. Full story at our website.

“Physicians’ own ability to spot pre-cancerous growths during colonoscopies declined after they had grown accustomed to using an artificial-intelligence tool to help with the task” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Listening to this incredible Max Roach record today. Abbey Lincoln brings everything to the vocals.

For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...