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The Beauty of the Gaza Encampment at Columbia The media has failed to show what I found there: community.

"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance."
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Going low with @libankerdc.bsky.social at @naas2025.bsky.social ⬇️
#NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025

I have received great feedback from friends and colleagues on this. Everyone at ILSA Conference 2024, students at the University of Augsburg, where I first developed this idea, Dave Gaertner, my mentor at UBC, where I wrote the first draft during rainy days in Vancouver. Many thanks to all of you.

From Colonial Terraforming towards a Planet-Based Solidarity: Indigenous Speculations between Planet Earth and Outer Space Terraforming has long been one of the most popular concepts in SF and space colonization discourses to think about the necessary territorial changes on other planets to make them livable for human lif...

I have an article out and I am quite happy with this one. I read Indigiqueer speculative short stories from "Love After the End" as refusals of colonial terraforming to pose the question: What would it mean to not extract from but truly encounter a planet?
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Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words.

Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…

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All day, every day.

87. Innsbruck Gender Lecture with Sophie Lewis and Friederike Beier 13.03.2025, 18:00, Hörsaal 5, GEIWI, Innrain 52e and ONLINE Imagine otherwise: Rethinking and reinventing care. Panel discussion with Sophie Lewis (independent researcher) and Friederike Beier (Otto S...

Looking forward to discussing ‘Rethinking and Reinventing Care’ with Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social on Thursday at the Innsbruck Gender Lecture 💜

Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.

Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?

I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

Universities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option. University presidents are staying quiet as Trump tries to destroy their institutions. It won't work.

"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep."
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DOGE Nation | Mark Krotov Like Critical Race Theory before it—but with a supercharged intensity, since each new campaign of right-wing hate has been more aggressive than the last—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has come to st...

"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUe

- Al Overview "Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.

There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies"

✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at

Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer

"Sanewashing" im US-Wahlkampf: Wie der seriöse Journalismus Trumps Irrsinn normalisiert Viele Medien stellen Donald Trump vernünftiger dar, als er ist. Kolumnist Johannes Franzen erklärt: Das liegt daran, dass sie sich an Regeln halten – und Trump nicht.

"So legt sich auf den realen Wahnsinn der Ereignisse eine dicke Schicht aus tonal beruhigender Berichterstattung."

Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'.

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maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control!

8 injured after Delta plane crashes, flips, catches fire at Toronto airport: officials | LIVE Emergency teams are responding after an incident involving a Delta Air Lines flight from Minnesota in Canada, airport officials said on X.

And all of this while another plane crashed upside down at Toronto airport. abc30.com/post/emergen...

Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond.

The Privatization of Hope - Boston Review Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.

The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.

Cover der neuen an.schläge-Ausgabe: Hope & Resistance – Was es jetzt für den feministischen Kampf braucht

Die neue Ausgabe der an.schläge ist da!
Diesmal im Schwerpunkt: Hope & Resistance!
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Musk and Trump Are Marching Us Into a ‘New Fascism’ Historians and German philosophers warn that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal government has all the hallmarks of fascism. What now?

The new fascism will "exploit the specific possibilities of data analysis and AI technology to eliminate the rule of law and replace it with a lean apparatus based on automation and preemption."
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Oh my god.

They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.

"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"

WOW.

In 1955 the founders of BAAS agreed that the independence of American Studies scholars was more important than any funding that the State Department could offer, and this is a principle that we are proud to maintain today. 6/7

'Black Lightning' creator Jenny Blake Isabella comes out as transgender at 73 “This is real. I'll have more to say soon,” wrote Jenny Blake Isabella.

It's never too late to be yourself. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –
 
#books #philsky

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