Matiangai Sirleaf

The national racial gaslighting is at an all time high. I thought they had reached their peak already, but they are aspiring to higher heights.

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Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

I am still so moved by your remarks. Thank you for blazing the path. Your work is truly inspirational. It is awesome to see the seeds you planted with On the Courthouse Lawn bearing fruit.

Also this morning the Maryland Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission held a hearing at the Reginald Lewis museum in Baltimore. Lovely to reconnect with old friends & colleagues & to meet new friends committed to the work of true repair.

The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hold a public hearing in Maryland on April 4th and 5th, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to bring awareness to Maryland's history of racial violence and to foster reconciliation in the present. HEARING DETAILS When: Friday, April 4, 2025 and Saturday, April 5, 2025 Time (in person and streaming): 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Where: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Reparations as Justice: Economic, Legal, and Social Pathways to Repair. Photographs from right to left: moderator Comissioner Dr. Nicholas Creary. Panelists: Dr. William Darity, Prof. Joel Edward Goza, Dreisen Heath, Prof. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Prof. Matiangai Sirleaf

Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416...

Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.

Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.

As someone who’s always been critical of Pax Americana, I’m nevertheless terrified by how swiftly it is ending. A thoughtful essay (and great reading list!) by the brilliant @matiangai.bsky.social is a guide on how to keep dreaming (and working) in this moment. www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.

Tour de force by @matiangai.bsky.social now up on @justsecurity.org “The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.” www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.

Pax Americana and the rules-based international order have always been built on flawed foundations, writes @matiangai.bsky.social

“The world worth fighting for is a radically transformed one.”

www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n...

Flyer announcing Towards Transformation in Global Public Health Panel on Feb. 27th with pictures and titles of the four panelists and moderator: from right to left Roberta Andraghetti, Technical Officer World Health Organization, Roojin Habibi, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Ottawa, Fifa Rahman, Principal Consultant, Mathari, Clare Wenham, Associate Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science, Matiangai Sirleaf, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Picture in MD Carey Law stairwell in front of symbols of justice from right to left: Connor Lemma, EiC Maryland Journal of International Law (MJIL), Professor Habibi, Professor Sirleaf, Professor Wenham, Halla McDermon, Symposium Editor, MJIL, Dr. Rahman

Panelist seated at table from right to left: Professor Habibi, Dr. Rahman, Professor Wenham, Professor Sirleaf

Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿
youtu.be/pS80uVTSEmU

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

#AddToBlackEduSky

Image of the globe as a virus with the bottom two-thirds of people in the Global South falling off or barely hanging on, while the top third of people in the Global North stand on gold waiting in line to get vaccinated. Image of Matiangai Sirleaf, her institutional affiliation and title of talk White Health as Global Health.

Image of Matiangai Sirleaf and Seye Abimbola

ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?...

We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege,
racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White
supremacy & saviorism
shape global health then and now.

Happening today a convo at 4 PM EST on zones of sacrifice and how power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze + White supremacy & saviorism shape global health.

Register:

umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

White Health and International Law - Center for Global Engagement Matiangai Sirleaf, professor at both the Carey School of Law and the School of Medicine, and Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's Sc...

Join @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on White Health & International Law Wed. 12/4 at 4:00PM EST.

This is not a drill calling all #globalhealth #internationallaw #racialjustice #publichealth #academicsky
#blackademics

Hybrid event register:
umaryland.campusgroups.com/Global/rsvp_...

Selective prosecution convo missing the reality of over policing of people singled out routinely based on class, race, addiction, housing insecurity etc... Where are their pardons? What of the efforts to break the millions ensnared in this unjust legal system? When will enough be enough for them?

A must read. I centered class discussion around this essay post-election and been sharing it in group chats. Leaning on Toni Morrison and June Jordan heavy in these times.

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

War and Displacement in Sudan In April 2023, violence broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in a power struggle between Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti...

Finally for my latest piece for the Arab Center, I wrote about the perils of understanding the crisis of displacement in Sudan solely as a "humanitarian" tragedy rather than a politically manufactured horror of racial capitalism that values profit over human lives.

arabcenterdc.org/resource/war...

Thanks! Also am #addtoBlacksky as well. Much appreciated

🙋🏿‍♀️ me please and thanks 🤎

🙋🏿‍♀️ me three please. I just joined.

Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf).

I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law.

I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine.

Views are mine 👇🏿

Thanks for the welcome! Am still figuring this platform out and appreciate the love.