Alisse Waterston

Letter from the president EASA President Hayal Akarsu addresses the membership

Please read this important and powerful letter by Hayal Akarsu the eloquent, committed president of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).Letter from the president easaonline.org/newsletter/8...

16.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is what grassroots organizing looks like! How the working class people fight back as a class. Watch the Unión del Barrio in action in this clip; ‘A City Fights Back: How LA Defends Itself From ICE’.

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24.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

‘Why Wouldn't You?' - a short film created by the DCU Irish Refugee Integration Network and Sanctuary. It gives voice to the lived experiences of forcibly displaced people in Ireland and honours the everyday acts of welcome and justice happening across communities.

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18.09.2025 00:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Improvising Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Anthropological Perspectives,” new open-access article published in the Swedish Journal of Anthropology/ kritisk etnografi uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

09.04.2025 06:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Public School Strong: Defend Against the Trump Administration’s Attacks Public education is under attack. From attempts to defund public schools through voucher scams, to efforts aimed at censoring educators and whitewashing history, the Trump Administration and its allie...

Signed and Joined: publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/petitions/pu...

23.02.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

5051: National Day of Protest - Feb 17, #NotMyPresidentsDay · Mobilize National Day of Protest Feb 5 was just the begining. Now we continue that momentum with a #NotMyPresidentsDay protest of the Trump-Musk coup. 50 protests, 50 states, one movement. Demand that Congre...

Going. The least I can do. www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

13.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

12.02.2025 12:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A small group working together to protect our public schools. Please see our "Know the Facts" with a QR code to "The Struggle for our Public Schools and Against the Charter Threat" report. See also our press release. Our story reflects the wider threats we all face. #SaveOurPublicSchools

04.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I can't tell you how much this means to me. I, too, am feeling a sense of despair but know we must keep breathing and engaging the struggle for justice and equity and against all the violences before us.

04.02.2025 21:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much!!

03.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This: a wonderful late breaking session at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference. Featuring Dr. Marvin Dunn who embraces Praxis and shows a way to stand up to the forces of silencing in Florida. Thursday, November 21, 2:39-4pm at the Tampa Convention Center, Room 121.

19.11.2024 01:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meth02: Liberating ethnographic representations: creative experimentation, fragmentation and the freedom to unwrite Ethnography strains under rigid words, losing life's flow. This panel explores “unwriting,” fragments, and creative methods to free narratives from form. Followed by the workshop "Meander, Spiral, Exp...

My first post here:
So excited for this panel and workshop with @fionamur.bsky.social and Maruska Svasek! Calling on anthropologists working on creative experimentation to consider proposing a paper for this panel (deadline 17 December). In Scotland!! June 2025!! nomadit.co.uk/conference/s...

17.11.2024 12:06 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0