Natasha Patel

I'm furious on behalf of everyone who was brutalized by ICE today in Chicago. My GOD, this is completely horrible.

I've been in meetings most of today and I just checked messages and see that comrades & friends were part of the people they brutalized today.

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

"A district profile states he was born to immigrant parents from Guyana and grew up in Brooklyn, New York."

Several times this year more than 100,000 people have been out in the streets in particular cities to protest this regime and the NYT & MSM barely covered those protests. I wonder why [I don't actually so no need to respond].

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

Title: The study of culture, law, and crisis Author: Matthew Clair, Stanford University Date: July 2025 Abstract: This paper reviews cultural sociological approaches to the study of law and how they may be applied to future research on law-related social crises. As the world faces myriad social crises, such as rising authoritarianism and police violence, the study of culture and the law has become an even more urgent intellectual and practical endeavor. Over the last decade, five concepts have dominated the cultural study of law: rules, norms, frames, cultural capital, and legal consciousness. While past research has provided generative insight, future research would benefit from more precise considerations of rules and norms in this unsettled moment. Moreover, future research could leverage the five cultural concepts to sharpen understandings of inequality and social control in understudied legal organizations, along understudied axes of social stratification, and with respect to the infusion of new technologies into the legal system. Acknowledgments: Thank you to Asad L. Asad, Sarah Brayne, and Barbara Kiviat for comments on an earlier version of this paper.

Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others

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Fellows Program — Emotion and Society Lab The program aims to provide writing and professional support to young scholars working on emotions through private professional workshops and a monthly works-in-progress series.

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Participating in the Emotion and Society Lab hosted by Myisha Cherry and Francisco Gallegos was one of my favorite graduate student experiences. The cohort, our discussions, & the feedback reminded me how meaningful intellectual life can be. The lab now invites grad students to apply for 2025-26!

'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

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Thank you!

@sadfrancisco.bsky.social I would like to teach one of your podcast episodes from February! Do you by chance have transcripts of your podcast? Or is there a way I could email you all directly to ask? Thanks!

oh god

This is absolutely fantastic.

It would be really awesome if we could have a small Cedric Robinson conference for people working primarily on theory building with his ideas. Just throwing it out there!

“That Could Have Been Me”: The People Derek Chauvin Choked Before George Floyd They describe an officer quick to use force and callous about their pain.

Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”

Friend and colleague, @bodegagyroao.bsky.social made this fantastic poster for Friday's talk. I hope this talk is just the beginning. Feel free to DM me for zoom link or see you in person!

ah right! just followed you back. Thanks for expressing interest. I also look forward to any feedback or comments you might have for me.

The lecture will share information collected from his archive and reconstruct the dense arguments he makes about charisma. In the discussion of Robinson, I invite the audience to think about how his critique can be fruitfully applied to current political conditions.

The lecture will cover ideas from his review of Michael Polyani's Personal Knowledge (1968), his writing on Malcolm X as a Charismatic Leader (1972), and his dissertation "Leadership: a Mythic Paradigm" (1975) which was later published as The Terms of Order (1980).

50 years since Cedric Robinson walked the halls of Stanford Political Science | Political Science

I finally finished reading the entirety of "Leadership: A Mythic Paradigm" -- just in time for this presentation on Friday. Please DM me if you want to access a zoom link otherwise hope to see you in person. New summary of the talk below: 🧵

congratulations! - thank you for putting out this political theory. the section on mass incarceration and public care is particularly helpful for me.

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I love and appreciate this. I try to describe the feeling of drawing from nothing even though there's more to do -- more I will/want to do! These words are so relatable to so many I imagine and it's nice to be in company.

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In this talk, Osorio "calls on Indigenous movements to refuse narrow frameworks of sovereignty offered by imperial legal systems and instead cultivate practices of care, refuge, and solidarity as the foundations of a global decolonial future."

I have been working over the last 8 months to bring Jamaica Osorio, esteemed scholar & kanaka maoli activist, to speak at Stanford. Osorio's timely and powerful lecture is entitled, "E Mau ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation." Please join us in person or on zoom! (RSVP below)

Thank you, David.

I often think about comparing crafts in life. What does it mean to sculpt a theory? What does it look like for a theory to emerge through paint? This is some of that exploration.

These are sketches from migraine days that lasted weeks in the beginning of this year. Capturing the feeling of the brain/mind as an image of the overall body, pushes me to see brain-related distress differently. I love her; she still hangs out on this Walter Rodney book :)

We love you, Chase. ❤️