Very proud of this collective and the work they are doing in the field of Geography
18.12.2024 19:05 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@jsegneri.bsky.social
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Very proud of this collective and the work they are doing in the field of Geography
18.12.2024 19:05 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Queering Feminist Geography Collective News! We just had our first co-authored paper accepted for publication in Gender, Place, and Culture! 18 authors wrote "Queering Feminist Geography 3: Calling all allies and accomplices!" Coming soon!
18.12.2024 15:12 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1During and since the campus encampments that happened this past spring, I developed a syllabus project regarding Palestine. It serves as a resource for educators who want to teach about the ongoing oppression and genocide in Palestine. DM me if you would like to participate in the project.
22.11.2024 21:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This weekend, I am presenting at the National Organizing Conference where my sessions are on Occupying Public Space and The Right To Housing
28.07.2024 14:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The lawmakers at the Iowa statehouse are laying out the very things we need to entangle from the oppressive system we live under while making up certain terms (aka trans ideology).
This kind of geography of oppression needs to be resisted from the bottom-up
βIf you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
- Aboriginal rights activists during the 1970s
Organizing at your workplace can be risky. However, through collective action can lower that risk when others are involved in making changing at the workplace.
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This past Saturday, I was on a panel where I addressed lead exposure in Milwaukee's water service lines and how Black and Brown communities are the most affected due to the legacy of redlining in the city.
06.02.2024 13:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I want to congratulate @annebonds.bsky.social and Derek Handley on receiving a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for their continued work on researching racial covenants in #Milwaukee through their Mapping Racism project. This is so awesome!
29.01.2024 15:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Great Lakes typically have an ice coverage of 55% during the winter months, causing at least half of their surfaces to freeze. As of yesterday, they had a combined ice cover of just 0.2%. Lake Superior 0.5%, Lake Michigan 0%, Lake Huron 0%, Lake Erie 0%, Lake Ontario 0%
08.01.2024 16:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0OPE Worker Center's statement on Regentsβ vote to reject harmful deal with Legislature. #Wisconsin
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Join me today as I provide my reflection of 25 years of organizing and activism at 12pm ET/9am PT at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.
17.11.2023 15:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This Friday, I will be giving my reflection of my 25 years of organizing, activism, and electoral action at the North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies.
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Change Life! Change Society!
11.11.2023 18:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From Turtle Island to Palestine, colonization is still a crime
From Turtle Island to Paleatine, colonization is still a crime.
09.11.2023 23:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Myself, and others, are being recognized this Saturday in Springfield, IL at the 10th Anniversary Celebration at the Abraham Lincoln UU Congregation in Springfield, IL for the founding of the Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois, UUANI.
02.11.2023 15:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Conducting the second session of tenant organizing training this afternoon st the Davenport Public Library through Quad Cities DSA housing justice work group
#housing #justice #QuadCities #tenantpower
An apartment building stood on this now empty lot in Davenport, Iowa. The landlord, Andrew Wold, and the city of Davenport allowed the structural integrity of the building to eventually collapse that displaced and perished tenants that resided here. Tenant power is needed to end tragedies like this.
28.10.2023 16:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Register for the launch of our 2023 issue, COUNTER/CARTOGRAPHIES! (bit.ly/46M5PY3). 11/3 at 9am Pacific on zoom. Join the editors, contributors, creative geographers & curious folks as we challenge & reimagine dominant mappings & narratives of space, place & landscape!
27.10.2023 22:04 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." Arundhati Roy
#letherspeak #ArundhatiRoy
Here is what segregated roads look like in this region. What do segregated roads look like in yours?
#geography #urban #Transportation
Check out this PBS documentary, which has Anne Bonds and Derek Handley discussing racial covenants
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