NEW POD 🎧: Cuba is spiraling into a humanitarian crisis. Trump has kept the Caribbean in his crosshairs, kidnapped the Venezuelan president & executed >140 people in boat strikes — what does he want with Cuba? W/ @mjbusta.bsky.social & @andrespertierra.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Karen THEE Tongson (Dodgers superfan) and I started this World Series postmortem as a series of text messages, and then Instagram stories, and then it blew up into this twelve thousand word monstrosity.
It's got delight, disgust, drama, and Drake. PLS AND TY YOU READ:
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The Dean “also clarified that faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material or include it on assignments or exam questions.”
And they call this an education?
From a Taiwanese diasporic perspective, Leona Chen (taiwaneseamerican.org) brilliantly mobilizes co-conjuration as a cultural practice:
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Thinking across time and space, Chen refuses what Yoneyama calls "the perniciousness of disconnected knowledge." 3/3
Shameful and outrageous
Cover of TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 14, Number 2. The design features a sepia-toned historical photograph of a group of men holding dolls, framed by a pink and orange gradient border with large white text reading 14:2.
"Orphaned Images," a special issue of the open access journal Trans Asia Photography (14:2) edited by Sabeena Gadihoke, is now available. Read the full issue paywall free: buff.ly/6m8IuAm
Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization by Nikita Dhawan. The cover is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them. The side of their desk reads “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.” The title is written in the upper left in white, with the word ‘Enlightenment’ in yellow. The subtitle is lower and to the right. The author’s name is in the bottom right.
In "Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans," Nikita Dhawan makes the case for rescuing the best aspects of the Enlightenment in order to further the critical project of decolonization. #PostcolonialStudies #Decoloniality Read the intro now! buff.ly/2Lh0u9E
Congratulations to Kimberly!!
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“This is a continuation of the occupation, if not a continuation of the war by other means.”
Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇
“No other work demonstrates the critical relevance of psychoanalysis to justice more powerfully than David L. Eng’s Reparations and the Human.... A book anyone seeking a way beyond the nomos of the post-Enlightenment planet must read.” - Lisa Yoneyama
Cover of "Nuclear Ghosts" special issue of the journal APOCALYPTICA. Dark background featuring a blurred image of plant life and dust/particles, giving the effect of nuclear winter. Orange and white text.
It's out!
Thrilled to have an article in this special issue of APOCALYPTICA on "Nuclear Ghosts" with contributions from Gabriele Schwab, Lisa Yoneyama, @jessicahurley.bsky.social, Annelise Roberts +++ & an intro from Karen Barad.
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“The Columbia settlement is a disaster for higher education, an act of cowardice by the leadership of Columbia & bullying & weaponization of antisemitism for nefarious purposes by the Trump administration.”
— Todd Wolfson, President of the AAUP
Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.
Yes I did! Was great to see you in Kyoto!
Scorched earths at Hiroshima City MOCA
