Send a message to ASA executive leadership that we demand member democracy. The ASA must allow members a vote on the S4P resolution. Sign the pledge: Tinyurl.com/BoycottASA2026 Read more about how to join the ASA meeting boycott: sociologistsforpalestime.org/faqs

Join me, @prof-deleon.bsky.social, @hebagowayed.bsky.social, and Roi Livne on behalf of @soc4pal.bsky.social tomorrow (𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳) for a discussion of the ASA boycott campaign.

Spectre editor @grundrza.bsky.social writing for American Journal of Sociology. Link in thread 👇🏽

Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...

Dreams do come true. I reviewed Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage in Spectre. My thanks to editors @grundrza.bsky.social and Camila Valle.

On May 27, join us for an interactive session, where attendees will have the opportunity to engage S4P organizers directly on issues including boycott logistics, tactics and strategy, and support of junior scholars. Let’s show ASA what democracy looks like! TINYURL.COM/5RTW5EKX

Are you upset about the actions of the ASA leadership? Do you want a more democratic ASA, but are unsure of what to do? Support S4P's call to boycott the ASA registration fees and hotel block this August!

www.projectcensored.org/violation-ca... @nolanhigdon.bsky.social and Spectre boardmember @grundrza.bsky.social talking to Mickey Huff and @eleanorg.bsky.social at @projectcensored.bsky.social .

Tuesday!

Tomorrow (4/14)! @grundrza.bsky.social @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Register 👇🏽 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I’ll be moderating this panel for the @asanews.bsky.social’s Global and Transnational Section a week from tomorrow, featuring geographer Yousuf Al-Bulushi, anthropologist Sami Hermez, historians Tithi Bhattacharya and Margaret Power, and sociologist @michaelrmuniz.bsky.social

An important reminder: The proposed resolution is NOT a boycott of individual Israeli academics. Per our FAQs, it does not target individual academics, nor does it prevent academics working at Israeli institutions from attending the ASA's annual meeting."

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Thanks to all our authors from March! (Nazanin Shahrokni, Justin Reed, @lesja.bsky.social , Brandon Webb, Matthew Penney, Manuel Casique Herrera, and Cinzia Arruzza). Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

I wonder what these people think reading is

S4P rejects ASA leadership's authoritarian decision to bypass its own procedures & membership engagement re: our BDS resolution. If the resolution is not considered via existing procedures we will BOYCOTT the 2026 meeting. SIGN ON TO JOIN US: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the @asanews.bsky.social as illegitimate. On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's @miamiherald.com:

Wildest to me about FL removing sociology from gen ed is their rationale: citing a Guardian article, Chancellor Rodrigues claims faculty are willfully subverting the law. But no one quoted makes that claim. Did he really only read the headline, which wasn't written by faculty in any case?

New open access article (w/ Marcel Paret) in the 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: “𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗼𝘆: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲–𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.” We revisit Burawoy’s 1970s and 80s work on southern Africa to intervene in contemporary debates on racial capitalism and Du Bois.

New open access article (w/ Marcel Paret) in the 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺: “𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗼𝘆: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲–𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.” We revisit Burawoy’s 1970s and 80s work on southern Africa to intervene in contemporary debates on racial capitalism and Du Bois.

Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Spectre's Zachary Levenson ( @grundrza.bsky.social ) quoted extensively in Brianna Holt's piece on anti-censorship resistance in higher ed. @theguardian.com

“Levenson pointed to Chile under … Pinochet in the 1970s and ‘80s as one example of where a government … started by banning certain textbooks, then gradually replaced them with state-approved versions and required their use.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"antisemitism and other forms of discrimination" lol even under these circumstances they can't quite bring themselves to say words like "racism" and "misogyny" out loud. when you're definitely beating the allegations

INBOX: The Florida Federation of College Republicans has disbanded and requested the deactivation of the University of Florida chapter of College Republicans, after "members engaged in a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and value, including a recent antisemitic gesture."

Sociologists for Palestine have asked members to send us the letters they have written to @asanews.bsky.social. We are sharing them here as evidence of how unpopular this decision is with the ASA membership. Please amplify this thread & any letters that resonate with your position.

Imagine selecting this as the theme this year and then doing this

We are appalled at this undemocratic action. More on collective response coming soon. In the meantime, follow us for updates. If you sent ASA a response tag us & we'll amplify. If you prefer to remain anonymous, send it to us on our email (in bio) & we'll share it here. Together we will win 🇵🇸

So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping. Well do I have news for you.

Good to see the Harper crowd going crazy over this. The Atlantic and NYT are blowing up over this, right…. right?

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.” My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

Really excited to run Nazanin in @journalspectre.bsky.social

This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in

"Defund the police" only lacks specificity to liberals who chanted it as a slogan in 2020 but didn't really mean it

More anticipatory compliance at Florida State. Kudos to @annaposbergh.bsky.social for choosing professional ethics over thinly veiled bigotry

FL’s state legislature is currently working to pass SB 1296, which would require a majority of workers in a bargaining unit — not a majority of voters, but majority of workers— to vote yes. Imagine if FL’s state elections proceeded this way. Not a single member of the senate would win a seat!

New piece in @insidehighered.com on Florida’s attempt to impose a state-created syllabus and state-censored textbook on sociology classes at public colleges and universities

New piece in @insidehighered.com on Florida’s attempt to impose a state-created syllabus and state-censored textbook on sociology classes at public colleges and universities

The webinar we organized through @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social on Florida mandating censored, state-created textbooks on sociology faculty is now available for viewing – featuring folks from around the state, as well as former @asanews.bsky.social presidents Ruth Milkman and Aldon Morris

This is an important round-up of Red States' going after higher education from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social featuring my recent interview with @grundrza.bsky.social on censorship in Florida.