Jecca Namakkal

🔥The Abusable Past is collaborating with the Pedagogy Lan and Center for Feminist Futures to publish original art and lesson plans that question and critique the deployment of executive power. Check out the call for submissions and two sample lesson plans up at the Abusable Past now !! 👇🏽

A slide with a red background and white text that reads “Luigi Mangione, Giuseppe Zangara, and the Forgotten History of Italian American Radicalism by Sonia C. Gomez” with a short description that reads “Tracing the long 20th century history of Italian American radicalism through Giuseppe Zangarw and Luigi Mangione, Gomez illuminates their connections through their twinned disillusionment with capitalism and political resistance borne from chronic pain.” Accompanied by a black-and-white collage from left to right Giuseppe Zangara in prisoner uniform, Luigi Mangione in prisoner uniform surrounded by police escorts, and a Giuseppe Zangara portrait with three other men and a looping white arrow behind to point at the body text.

A slide with a red background and a photograph from the Black Freedom Studies speaker series at Schomburg Center with four people seated on stage in the center with audience members in the foreground. The white text reads “State Violence and the Black Freedom Struggle by Lucien Baskin” and description “As part of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Lucien Baskin interviews Mary Frances Phillips, Françoise Hamlin, and Orisabmi Burton for an event on State Violence: Prisons, Police, Politics.”

A slide with a red background and a poster in red, gray, white, and black depicting a woman with her arms in chains breaking free surrounded by other revolutionary women and text reading “Hail To the Working and Struggling Women of the World.” The white text on the slide below reads “Radical Iranian Theory and Praxis Microsyllabus by Tagereh Aghdasifar, Arash Davari, Alexander Jabbari, Amira Jarmakani, and Goonar Nikpour” and a description reading “Spanning Iranian revolutions and revolutionary thought, carcerality, sociality, movement building, and the development of critical SWANA studies/Ethnic Studies, this micro syllabus facilitates engagement with radical Iranian thought instead of provincializing such work as area studies or even “counter-terrorism” studies.”

A slide with a red background and a color photograph depicting a line of NYPD amassing to crack down on the International Women’s Day Global Strike for Gaza standing along the shoulder of a city street as passerby walk in front of them. Below, white text reads “Policing Solidarity: Lessons from the Drug War by Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot” and a short summary ”By linking drug policing to the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in Turtle Island, Eisenberg-Guyot enumerates how the specific mechanisms and tactics of the drug war inform and reify U.S. settler-colonial, imperialist, and racial capitalist interests domestically and abroad.”

It would be an understatement to say 2025 so far has been difficult in the midst of political uncertainty and mounting assaults against our most vulnerable. Throughout this time, the Digital Collective has remained steadfast in our commitment to publish critical work and offers these pieces… /1

A slide with a white box and dark text reading “example” below an excerpt of the White House’s Executive Order “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities” accompanied by a poem titled “[record of transfer]”: instructions: remain solvent. comply with terms, as outlined in the policy, as amended without notice, as interpreted by the holder. where self-direction exceeds design, debt may be used to re-establish form: • debt to structure. • debt to discipline. • debt to contain. used to be, you could name what you owed and to whom. our instructions: remain solvent, stay still. please, submit your forms again to ensure proper processing.

A slide with a white box and dark text reading “example” above an excerpt of a White House Executive Order title amended to “Expanding Migrant *Carceral Quarantine at Imperial Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Racist Xenophobic Capacity” *a place where people are kept between life and death for an indefinite period (Paik 113). Below is an amended memorandum alongside learning goals for a lesson plan adapted from this artwork.

From a digital or analog collage, photo, drawing, blackout poem, video, or anything else, select artworks will be incorporated into openly licensed teaching materials. See more info about Executive Dis/Order at abusablepast.org/call-for-sub.... More questions can be directed to thepedlab@gmail.com.

Text: Students on the Line, Academic Freedom on the Line, a special series, AAUP Presents. Image of a crowd and icon of a podcast microphone. Color palette: yellow, red and white.

Check out the latest episode of the AAUP Presents special series, "Academic Freedom on the Line." In this episode, host Vineeta Singh speak with a coalition of student leaders actively organizing against state-level DEI bans in Texas and Kentucky. Listen and subscribe: www.aaup.org/news/our-pod...

Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale
on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...

Modern South Asia Workshop

Call for Papers for the Yale Modern South Asia Workshop, to be held June 7-8, 2025. Travel, accommodation, and meals will be provided to all selected candidates for the duration of the Workshop in South Asia.

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mo...

personally I would just skip the whole "your economic opinions boil down to which countries you stan" deal and go for the whole "because of capitalism I could have bananas every day" sort of rhetorical strategy. but I suppose you should take my Third World ass opinions with a grain of salt

Recordings of the "The Anti-Zioinst Idea: History, Theory, & Politics" are now available www.theantizionistidea.com/recordings

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A cover of Herr Dumpidump by Roger Hargreaves that says "Herr Dumpidump by Roger Hargreaves" and with an illustration of Herr Dumpidump looking especially dumpidumpish (forgive me but I can't stop repeating the word dumpidump... DUMPIDUMP!)

My six favourite European Mr Men character names...

6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso
5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel
4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing
3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo
2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs
1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump

Was looking for scholars engaged in postcolonial history on @bsky.app Please add others and yourself
go.bsky.app/CXWu64P

Red square featuring the book cover for The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran by GOLNAR NIKPOUR

The Incarcerated Modern by @golnarnikpour.bsky.social traces the transformation of Iran from a decentralized empire with few imprisoned persons at the turn of the twentieth century into a modern nation-state with over a quarter million prisoners today.

www.sup.org/books/title/...

Check out a new interview with activist Kipp Dawson AND explore a piece from Jessie Ramey and Catherine Evans on Dawson's papers at the University of Pittsburgh. The Radical History Review article is free to view for a limited time.

abusablepast.org/challenging-...

🗃️ So excited to post the call for papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on incarceration (broadly defined—eg prisons, asylums, penal colonies, detention camps etc) in French & francophone histories.
Co-edited by Sophie Fuggle and me.
Papers are due 15 Aug 2024.
Please share!!

Henry Roe Cloud photo

Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale
Applications now Open

americanstudies.yale.edu/news/henry-r...

The Yale Group for the Study of Native America (YGSNA) invites applications for the 2024/25 Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian & Indigenous Studies.

In my latest for @abusablepast.bsky.social, I draw comparisons between the Second Red Scare and the ongoing efforts to silence and smear pro-Palestine activism.

Check it out here: abusablepast.org/the-myth-of-...

University Faculty & Staff Killed in Gaza by Israel 10/7/23-1/7/24

Statement by Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia/Barnard/TC

Today, on Columbia's first day, we remember our fallen colleagues in Gaza 🇵🇸

Opinion | Art’s Colonial Legacy: ‘It Would Have Been Better Not to Have Needed Museums.’ In this short film, Congolese artworks voice poet and author Aimé Césaire’s words: “Colonization is thingification.”

This is very good. Quotes Aimé Césaire, no less. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/o...

who was taught by June Jordan? I am trying to compile a list of her students—especially, but not only, those who have gone on to teach writing or art, and those who are still writing poetry.

What better day than Haitian Independence Day to remind y’all that there is one more week to submit abstracts for the Radical Histories of Decolonization issue of Radical History Review! 🇭🇹🇵🇸 #thestrugglecontinues cc: @golnarnikpour.bsky.social @sepoy.bsky.social

New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...

Inside the Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues Dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed.

Omg I have been shouting about this scam tongue-tie-lactation industrial complex and how it preys on the anxieties of new mothers and insurance loopholes to every person I know for the last three years, this is why I wear a tinfoil hat

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/h...

Post-doc in policing and carceral studies at U of Minnesota, connected to a Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives on the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement, 2024/25

Applications due: 1/15/24
Details: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/359...

SR: "And yet, you say you feel the need togo right back to the beginning, to explain the whole history ofPalestine in order to unmake Sharon Churcher’s lie and show that..."

this is in fact genuinely popular Palestinian dress. Doesn’t thisneed to go back again and again over the same story becometiring? ES: It does, but you do it anyway. It is like trying to find the magi‐cal moment when everything starts, as in Midnight’s Children . Youknow midnight, and so you go back. But it is very hard to do thatbecause you have to work out everything and get past a lot of ques‐tions in the daily press about why Palestinians don’t just staywhere they are and stop causing trouble. That immediatelylaunches you into a tremendous harangue, as you explain to peo‐ple: ‘My mother was born in Nazareth, my father was born inJerusalem . . . ’ The interesting thing is that there seems to benothing in the world which sustains the story: unless you go ontelling it, it will just drop and disappear. SR: The need to be perpetually told.

Here is the bit that really struck me:

EVENT 11/30: On alternative visions and radical solidarities stretching from Palestine and Iraq to South Asia and Bosnia! With @abubanda.bsky.social Esmat ElHalaby and Zainab Saleh

The Israeli Bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in 1956 (and After) 1951 Survey of Israel map based on 1946 British Survey of Palestine Map. Via Palestine Open Maps . In his 1979 study of the Gaza Strip, th...

The Israeli Bombing of Al-Shifa Hospital in 1956 (and After) pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-...