Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

Looking forward to the Author Meets Readers for Silicon Valley Imperialism today at the #AAG2025 at 12:50 at 330A Level 3 Huntington Place w @muybarra.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, Ananya Roy, and Magie Ramirez @dukepress.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social

#aag2025 this is for you!

In Detroit for the first time ever for #aag25 ! A reminder, geographers: the exhibit closes THURSDAY at TWELVE-THIRTY so come see these beautiful, award-winning @dukepress.bsky.social books today or tomorrow!!

#Oscars vibes

All this craven ass-kissing in corporate media for someone who's perhaps the least popular and most divisive president in modern history. Their coverage -- presenting Trump as an unstoppable force riding a huge mandate -- is just bizarre. Almost seems like they're trying to convince themselves.

Stunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/busines...

I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead. The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them. Never forget. Free Palestine!!!

Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing

One month to submit to the special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly edited by me, @jiyapandya.bsky.social and Kim Fernandes fowarding a peripheral crip critique of dominant paradigms in disability studies. Learn more at peripheralcripcritique.com or reach out [email protected]

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

The TSA has confiscated peanut butter from me, patted down my one-year old's diaper, scanned my son's hands for explosive residue, and generally wasted hours of my life. Broke: Abolish ICE Woke: abolish TSA

Last month former MLA executive council members sent a letter to the current EC expressing concern about the decision to block a Delegate Assembly vote on a pro-Palestine resolution. Now another 13 former EC-ers have signed on. Read the full letter & list: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...

i think i better understand hunter thompson's burning contempt for richard nixon and the political movement that enabled him every single day

Today is the official publication date for my book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations & the Aesthetics of Violence! I‘m so proud of it and so thankful for everyone (too many to name here) who helped along the way, especially the amazing team at @dukepress.bsky.social Thank you! 🥳🙏 Link below:

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

A world-historical failure

Eight years ago today, Aleppo fell to the Syrian regime. A little over 3 weeks ago, the city was liberated, including by fighters who had been expelled as children. I spoke to a couple of them www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

If Mary and Joseph tried that shit today they’d need special permission to go from Nazareth to Bethlehem and then Herod would catch them at the Rafah crossing during the Flight Into Egypt

Colleges are not required to respond to protests with crackdowns the way that NYU, Yale and so many others have. This is a choice--and a terrible one.

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

This is great work. Another way to say these businesses are “erasing progress” is that they are re-segregating. The latter more pointedly gets at what’s at stake.

My colleagues in @nytguildtech.bsky.social donated what remains of their strike fund to the striking workers in Pittsburgh - a whopping $114K. That’s what solidarity is www.unionprogress.com/2024/12/19/s...

tis the season to watch kate bush dance like a fabulous coked up christmas bat

Yes who could possibly solve this thorny conundrum

The American Association of University Professors described the PNG orders as tantamount to suspension and “part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Zaslav must see prison for his crimes

Don't know why folks keep pretending Trump succeeds due to "luck" instead of corruption or that Dems lose due to ignorance instead of complicity. The actual dynamic is abuser/enabler -- and it's been that way for a long time. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-p...

It's negligence at this level that MAGA capitalizes on to convince people that the problem is not capitalism but "government bureaucrats." Their "alternative" is fake: deregulation so capitalists can act with greater impunity Organizing a real, meaningful alternative is how we defeat MAGA.

BTW the Montana government retaliated against the young people who brought this lawsuit by attempting to subject them to wildly unnecessary and intrusive psychiatric examinations. The court emphatically blocked that move in today's decision, too. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

slow motion coup. a 50/50 swing state that elected 3 dem governors in a row that instead gets permanent, unaccountable GOP control. Now stealing election boards to rig future races. Tyranny.

Butler et al.: "At a moment when academic freedom is being seriously undermined ... and a new authoritarianism is taking hold, we look to our professional organizations to act not from the fears that increasingly pervade US academia, but from the courage our members will need to continue our work."

Absolutely not to be missed!!!

"We write to make sense of the world and ourselves in it, even, or especially, when that world seems to have no place for us in it at all. We write against writing. We write not as a turn from action, but as an incitement to movement."

So,I, a 70 year old professor with cancer who has taught here for 30 years, have been banned from university buildings indefinitely—they really value the faculty, hey? I am apparently a dire security risk! Who knows what I might write in a bathroom wall!

Here’s the AAUP statement on the insane full metal jacket crackdown on peaceful protestors asking for investment transparency and divestment from genocide in Gaza yesterday. I am one of the faculty members who was labeled persona non grata (PNG), banned from university buildings.

So honored to receive this! Not to mention ultra ultra chuffed. I’ll spare y’all a full list of all the ways this brings me joy 🤩

Oh my GOD. What a giant. My favorite poem of hers:

A powerful artist and activist. Just everything about this woman and her poetry was good and clean and straight truth. She pushed us. She’d cut you and then smile to show that she’d done it with love. Rest in Peace and Power Nikki Giovanni.

“As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment.” hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...