She's not on here, but Gabrielle Oliveira is an amazing person and her amazing book about immigrant children and families just won the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Outstanding Book Award!!!!!! This makes my day!!!!
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Rejection is normal! So when you get rejected, keep going. It sometimes takes several tries for your work to find the right intellectual home.
"We are, if nothing else, a rather contrarian people, and few things would strike a deeper chord than thugs trying to terrorize voters into abstaining."
This made my day.
The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill
Yes. Yes, it does.
Thank YOU for writing the book!
More of this please! Love to see authors promoting other authors. Thank you, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social and @kawulf.bsky.social for sharing about your books. I can't wait to read them both.
Anna and I share the same publicist 😃 (the author herself) and I know how important but also how tough it is to keep momentum going.
This is such important history, and such an expert author and great writer-- please do keep sharing, and **recommending to your libraries**!
I'm so sorry, Clint. Sending love as you protect your children through this awfulness.
A black and white photo of a young woman with short curly hair, smiling with her lips closed. She has a white collared shirt.
This beauty – Dr. Nelly Szabo Ullman, my hero, my grandmother – died on Friday morning at age 100.
I miss her and I always will.
May her memory be a blessing.
A parenting milestone: just called my kid's high school to excuse her absence for participating in the student-organized "ICE OUT Walkout" today in solidarity with Minneapolis.
Shoutout to schools like hers where protesting is an allowable absence.
"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay
Thank you so much!
Thank you for doing this! I'd like to be added to the Sociology Starter packs. Appreciate it!
I keep re-watching this and hoping I'll have the courage and clarity this woman does as she refuses to show her ID and repeats "This is my home. I belong here."
Yes. I see this a lot. It can make it tricky to have honest conversations about sharing the labor because men feel good about being there more than their own dads...even though so many of us women are carrying a heavier load than ever at home.
Exactly. And it's similar to what I write about in my book about sanctuary as a practice enacted by immigrant women, for immigrant women. Which is exactly why the possibilities of sanctuary are so often overlooked – as a society we don't recognize the labor women do with and for each other.
Also. The process was not straightforward. Critical – but ultimately very useful! – reviews, a shifting political context that impacted, well, everything about the book, and sometimes, just feeling really stuck. So if you are in any of those phases, sending lots and lots of love & empathy!
Update! My book, Holding onto Home: Immigrant Women and the Promise of Sanctuary, was approved (with no further revisions, hallelujah!) by @ucpress.bsky.social. It'll be out in late 2026.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who got me to this moment.
Yes. Not all resistance is visible. A lot of acts of care are hidden, and powerful, ways to push back against human rights abuses and authoritarianism. Excited to read this series. Thanks for doing the work @talkingpointsmemo.com
While over at ICE, they kidnap mothers who just gave birth, tearing them away from their babies.
The contrast is astounding, if not surprising.
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Absolutely. And the less visible harms of immigration policy – family separation, exclusion from necessary resources, denial of due process, no pathway to citizenship for undocumented Americans – are also tools of terror. Teachers, not to mention students, shouldn't have to deal with those either.
Hurray! Good luck!
Just bumping this up...
A graphic with a colorful gradient background. Text reads: "Boston honors Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today, we remember the lives of our trans friends and neighbors lost to acts of anti-transgender violence." Mayor Wu's signature is at the bottom of the graphic.
On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.
This open-access article by @abregoleisy.bsky.social and Lucia León is an incredibly useful overview of how immigration policies shape families' lives. Great reference for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists – everyone, really.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
OOOOHHHH this might be my favorite one of all 😂
Thank you! I will reach out!
Anyone else wish we could put parenting skills on our CVs/resumes? I am an extraordinary negotiator of tense, high-stakes moments, emotional co-regulator of multiple people simultaneously, and complex systems manager. And that's just what happens before 8:00 am, every day.
