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Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, professor at NYU. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed and The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of the American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Laura Flanders on the challenge of bottom up organizing and building in daunting times.
08.01.2026 16:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tonight @maddow.bsky.social celebrated American resistance to govt brutality in the civil rights mvmt & protest of Japanese internment. What about protests agnst US support for genocide in Gaza? Legacy media ignore or misreport this genocide and demonize protestors. You will soon be ashamed.
02.12.2025 03:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tonight you celebrated the resistance tradition in the Us of protest against government oppressionβciting the civil rights mvmt and protest against Japanese internment. What about protest against govt support for genocide in Gaza? Your consistent omission enables genocide. History will judge you.
02.12.2025 03:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0So excited to be included in this fantastic issue! β€οΈπππΉ
08.11.2025 00:17 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm extremely proud of this excellent issue 4 from pinko. Thank you to @reproutopia.bsky.social, @riislover667.bsky.social. @lisaduggan.bsky.social, and everyone else who contributed such phenomenal pieces. Please pre order and circulate!
08.11.2025 00:13 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0Going back in timeβ¦. First photo found in the Barnard archives, Iβm probably about 30, at a conference. Why do I look like Iβm in a Catholic school uniform? Second age 16, clearly SO happy to be in high school in Richmond, VA. Third age 12, again with the authentic Catholic school girl look!
11.10.2025 02:29 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Justin Vivian Bond last night singing the holy profane music of Marianne Faithfull at St Annβs Church.
26.09.2025 14:33 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Retired from NYU, teaching at Barnard 2025-2026. From the frying pan into the fire repression wise! But I have great students & colleagues in WGSS. Here is the BCRW receptionβme with my brilliant former grad student, Barnard Prof Manijeh Moradian! And BCRW director in fab shoesβRebecca Jordan-Young.
14.09.2025 05:02 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This connection between the Kirk shooter and Nick Fuentesβ Groypers is all over the internet, but not reported in legacy media where pundits still posit either political incoherence or left radicalization.
14.09.2025 04:59 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ps-Why does Pedro Pascal have such generally bad taste in film roles? Heβs such a super charmer off camera (and as everyone one who knows me knows, I have kind of an unnatural obsession with him) but he picks the worst roles (except Oberyn Martel in GOT).
14.06.2025 02:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I saw Materialist tonight with highish expectations because Celine Songβs 1st film, Past Lives, was so beautiful. But this movie is utter crap, sentimental, cringey dialogue, terrible pacing.
But I also started watching Huluβs Under the Bridge with lowish expectations. And OMG Lily Gladstone!!!! β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
Previous essays in "Reflections on Authoritarian Times," a current series on the Critical Times blog, available here: ctjournal.org/category/aut...
03.06.2025 23:33 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Authoritarianism ... exploits the non-universal experience of social rights and recodifies it into an anti-democratic radicalism."
NEW from VerΓ³nica Gago (@veronicagago.bsky.social) in Critical Times: ctjournal.org/2025/06/03/n...
πΈ: Analia Cid
NYU students walk out on presidentβs speech during Yankee Stadium commencement π΅πΈ
15.05.2025 18:51 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Todayβ¦. π΅πΈπ
15.05.2025 03:21 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This morning!
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Not a great photo but a great performanceβ(Justin) Vivian Bond at Joeβs Pub last night, doing covers of Mary Gauthier, kd lang and Two
Nice Girls.. Lots of fabulously inane banter. A very queer way to survive this apocalypse.
Online discussion of Zionist hate mail! With people who have received a LOT of it!
10.05.2025 17:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I want to get back to this state of ecstasy, in Utah with Kathryn Bond Stockton and Shelley White just a few years agoβ¦..
09.05.2025 14:21 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Time to repost!
09.05.2025 14:20 β π 45 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Dinner with friends. The best survival strategy!
09.05.2025 14:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is an amazing piece by JiaTokentino that captures the disorientation of the political present better than anything Iβve read yet
09.05.2025 13:39 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
π°π·Hot off the press! Issue #19 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. April 22, 2025.
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/04/22/a...
The war on higher ed is being met by a βlinked-arm undergroundβ as I discovered when educators convened to share info (& protest!) For more on Trumpβs carceral/colonial crack-down on critical thinking, check out this weekβs episode w. Maria Hinojosa & @chenjerai.bsky.social on @lauraflanders.org
22.04.2025 19:59 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Photo Booth Salt Lake City! With Kathryn Stockton and Shelley White.
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