A bit tardy, but here is my annual top five films of the year! I saw 27 films released in 2025 (so far), and my favorite was 1) One Battle After Another - A brilliant, biting satire with incredible performances. 2) Mountainhead, 3) Weapons, 4) Sinners, and probably 5) Ballad of a Small Player.
20.01.2026 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This nifty video by Berkeley News turned out really well!
news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/w...
“Okho” lol
08.08.2025 05:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It took about two years to make this video, from initial script to final animation by the amazing Rama Duwaji. The video shows the critical difference between expanding *access* to opportunity and *enlarging* opportunity itself, never illustrated before. youtu.be/qq40In0ooWA?...
06.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Honestly, I couldn’t be happier with how this interview turned out in the Berkeley News. Please check it out! news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/28/f...
30.07.2025 01:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Berkeley scholar wants everyone to understand what ‘structural racism’ really means
Stephen Menendian’s new book explains how a complex web of systems perpetuates racism — and proposes policies to right these wrongs. news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/28/f...
It’s very unusual these days, but I put together an extensive annotated bibliography of sources that I read in the development of this book. Check it out! belonging.berkeley.edu/structural-r...
30.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Same! Mine (with Whiplash and Spirited Away being the top 2 on mine):
26.06.2025 02:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As we put out illuminating material related to this over the next few weeks, I will share them in this thread, but in the meantime, please join our (free!) launch event on Monday. Sign up here: belonging.berkeley.edu/structural-r...
26.06.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
After 15 years of research, drafting, revision, citation & formatting work, submitting to publishers and working with editors, I am overwhelmed and excited to announce that my new book on structural racism is coming out Monday! belonging.berkeley.edu/structural-r...
26.06.2025 02:03 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Also, I love it when people predict events like this: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/o...
05.06.2025 22:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have never liked the idea of 🍿 in response to online drama. Schadenfreude has its place, but that often feels mean. I am resisting the urge right now for this Musk-Trump feud. This is highly entertaining.
05.06.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Why is Andor so good? Good lord.
23.04.2025 05:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There are still a few films I’d like to see from 2024, but my top 4 seems pretty set at this point: Conclave, Juror #2, Dune p2, and Hitman. The performances in Conclave had some of the best acting I’ve ever seen. Overall, it was a pretty good year. letterboxd.com/smenendian/l...
28.02.2025 21:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Expecting the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, but hoping for the Eagles.
09.02.2025 22:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I finished watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 tonight! I watched four seasons in four months. Winter is definitely the best time to binge TV. It was an amazing metaphor for Fukuyama’s end of history. Thinking about writing an essay on that point.
29.01.2025 06:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are coming :-)
22.11.2024 23:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in Belonging without Othering by john a. powell and Stephen Menendian? You can read an excerpt from the first chapter right now!
24.04.2024 17:20 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2Hi everyone! Good to be here. 👋
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