Elizabeth Ault

Reuters photo of Zohran Mamdani onstage, with his mom looking up at him lovingly and squeezing his cheek.

Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

Silicon Valley Imperialism book cover featuring a burning house and a red monster. Illustration by Alex Horghidan

Looking forward to the Author Meets Readers for Silicon Valley Imperialism today at the #AAG2025 at 12:50 at 330A Level 3 Huntington Place w @muybarra.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @liviu-chelcea.bsky.social, Ananya Roy, and Magie Ramirez @dukepress.bsky.social @challengeineq.bsky.social

#aag2025 this is for you!

In Detroit for the first time ever for #aag25 ! A reminder, geographers: the exhibit closes THURSDAY at TWELVE-THIRTY so come see these beautiful, award-winning @dukepress.bsky.social books today or tomorrow!!

#Oscars vibes

All this craven ass-kissing in corporate media for someone who's perhaps the least popular and most divisive president in modern history.

Their coverage -- presenting Trump as an unstoppable force riding a huge mandate -- is just bizarre. Almost seems like they're trying to convince themselves.

Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...

Stunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️
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I hope that the ceasefire deal truly means an end to the vicious, murderous bombardment of Palestine and I also know that there are not enough ceasefire deals to cover the dead.

The United States supplied the weapons and Israel used them.

Never forget.

Free Palestine!!!

Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing

One month to submit to the special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly edited by me, @jiyapandya.bsky.social and Kim Fernandes fowarding a peripheral crip critique of dominant paradigms in disability studies. Learn more at peripheralcripcritique.com or reach out peripheralcripcritique@gmail.com

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

The TSA has confiscated peanut butter from me, patted down my one-year old's diaper, scanned my son's hands for explosive residue, and generally wasted hours of my life.

Broke: Abolish ICE
Woke: abolish TSA

MLA and BDS 2: Letter from former members of the MLA Executive Council to Current Executive Council on Blocking the Debate Lake Michigan from MLA Hotel on January 6, 2019 Background headnote is here .  December 17, 2024   Dear Members of the Executive Council of ...

Last month former MLA executive council members sent a letter to the current EC expressing concern about the decision to block a Delegate Assembly vote on a pro-Palestine resolution.

Now another 13 former EC-ers have signed on. Read the full letter & list: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...

i think i better understand hunter thompson's burning contempt for richard nixon and the political movement that enabled him every single day

Today is the official publication date for my book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations & the Aesthetics of Violence! I‘m so proud of it and so thankful for everyone (too many to name here) who helped along the way, especially the amazing team at @dukepress.bsky.social Thank you! 🥳🙏 Link below:

I spent most of my adult life watching schools say they can't expel professors for sexually assaulting and harassing students and colleagues only to see how quickly they react over social media posts against genocide

McDonald's is the latest company to roll back diversity goals The company rolled out a series of diversity initiatives in 2021 after a spate of sexual harrassment lawsuits and a lawsuit alleging discrimination by a group of Black former owners of McDonald’s fran...

Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement."
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🥳Congratulations, Perry! A little miracle indeed. So thrilled this special book is out in the world!!

A world-historical failure

Expelled from Aleppo as children, these fighters returned as its liberators Al Jazeera speaks to Syrian opposition fighters who came back to liberate their homes and pursue their dreams.

Eight years ago today, Aleppo fell to the Syrian regime. A little over 3 weeks ago, the city was liberated, including by fighters who had been expelled as children.

I spoke to a couple of them

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

If Mary and Joseph tried that shit today they’d need special permission to go from Nazareth to Bethlehem and then Herod would catch them at the Rafah crossing during the Flight Into Egypt

Colleges are not required to respond to protests with crackdowns the way that NYU, Yale and so many others have. This is a choice--and a terrible one.

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

This is great work.

Another way to say these businesses are “erasing progress” is that they are re-segregating. The latter more pointedly gets at what’s at stake.

'Stunned by the solidarity': New York Times tech workers make 'shocking' $114,000 donation to Post-Gazette strikers, just in time for the holidays - Pittsburgh Union Progress It was shortly after 6 p.m. on Dec. 12 when Zack Tanner, president of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, posted a cryptic message on the striking union’s Slack channel imploring everyone to attend the...

My colleagues in @nytguildtech.bsky.social donated what remains of their strike fund to the striking workers in Pittsburgh - a whopping $114K. That’s what solidarity is www.unionprogress.com/2024/12/19/s...