@talibali.bsky.social
Californian | Pakistani | Leo Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies @UC Santa Cruz Editor, Zócalo Public Square (@zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social)
is it true it was a footlong with salami, onions, mustard? we need better reporting on this
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A little bit about my book, Insecurities of Expulsion, in my new essay in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social! And get out and vote! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/mamdani-miss...
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Stockton hip-hop is an "in-between place" in the shadow of hyphy, writes "hip-hop midwife" Tama L. Brisbane. But it's growing its own sound. zps.la/4nVGzXQ
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How should the U.S. remember its history of slavery?
Americans asked themselves when Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation burned down in May, and again when Trump said museums focus too much on “how bad slavery was.”
Historian Perry L. Carter has words:
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Always read Robin D.G. Kelley: "We need to create a new university. And we will never change anything unless we are organized," and, how? in the style of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, "putting...body and...future on the line"
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#losangeles #literature
Los Angeles’ Literary Public Square
In 1964, gay couple Pat and Lou drive their white Thunderbird convertible from St. Louis to the San Francisco Bay Area. The rest is queer history.
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social on the "invisible engine" of his work.
(Thanks for writing.)
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/giving-my-ga...
me trynna be cute when the world keeps serving trash
11.07.2025 08:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0on immigration.
some history, analysis, and personal stories
recent from @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social
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for the beautiful, flaming ones
“the naming of trees” by eric gamalinda
💜jacaranda season in los angeles💜
may gray kinda day
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@beyonce’s chitlin’ circuit tour told a personal, familial, and national story through visuals (american iconography galore!) and those songs
07.05.2025 20:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
went to the association of asian american studies (AAAS) annual conf in boston, and all i took were these photos
22.04.2025 05:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the new snow white has had its share of political controversy. in this essay, film critic elena smolina shows the parallels—and divergence—with russia’s late alexei navalny:
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Hey @bsky.app! We’re Zócalo Public Square. We may be new around this part of the internet, but we’ve been hosting events and publishing ideas-driven journalism for 22 years. Everything we do is free and everyone’s welcome. Give us a follow and subscribe to our newsletter! zps.la/newsletter
09.04.2025 19:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
new IRMA THOMAS (like THEE soul queen) album dropping ! with this galactic band. this jam right here !! 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
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04.04.2025 20:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After 100,000 Armenians fled Artsakh, many are resettling in L.A. and making symbols of their homeland part of the urban landscape: their national dish; a buzzing WhatsApp group; the Republic of Artsakh Square; vanity plates (“ARTSKH”):
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/keeping-arts...
oh, these headlines aren’t pranks. how foolish of me
01.04.2025 22:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stanley added: “You’ve got to just band together and say an attack on one university is an attack on all universities. And maybe you lose that fight, but you’re certainly going to lose this one if you give up before you fight.
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Cheers to our unmistakable softness.
22.11.2024 00:20 — 👍 338 🔁 62 💬 10 📌 7the homophobes are coming for your vhs tape cleaner
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at least there is a new fiona apple song (vis a vis the ‘80s-formed scots, the waterboys, whose new album is about … dennis hopper).
what a short, full song. needed her alchemy of rage today.
“letter from an unknown girlfriend”:
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A week ago, @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social hosted "What Alliances Do We Need in Perilous Times?" Two panels: one on rebuilding L.A., the other on protecting ourselves from Trump's new world order.
Read my recap and/or watch the full conversation on YT.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-allianc...
"To the children of L.A. who are scared, who are grieving, who don’t know what tomorrow looks like—I see you. I was you."
–Nijah Narcisse of NOLA, who was in 3rd grade when Hurricane Katrina hit. For @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social's "Letters to L.A."
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UC will ban campuses from requiring faculty job applicants to submit “diversity statements,” as DEI programs are under fire by the Trump administration.
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An ode to our city. This week, we're sharing a collection of pieces from the past 14 years, all dedicated to Los Angeles.
In "Los Angeles, City of Poets," Sesshu Foster gathers his fellow poets to muse on the city they love. lareviewofbooks.org/article/los-...
