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Really good interview!
Very excited to share that my latest article, co-authored with Dr. Brittany Davis and Dr. Aida Guhlincozzi (University of Missouri), “Take me home country roads”: The limits of sanctuary on the American road trip, is published in Western Geography!
wdcag.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/wg...
I'm happy to see this paper out! This paper is about hope. Its about what social movements teach us and how to see their work as expressions of counter-media. They help us see a world and future worth fighting for.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GAN7W...
At AAG Detroit in 2025, Dr. LaToya Eaves was in dialogue with Drs. Katherine McKittrick, Willie Jamaal Wright, and Kevin Grove about the pathbreaking book, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.
@spacedemands.bsky.social @blackgeographies.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social
New Dig covering the US attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro. An expansive conversation analyzing Trump’s imperialist project and assessing Chavismo and its oppositions from Chávez through Maduro with Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, and Yoletty Bracho. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/vene...
One hundred thousand people a year and y'all using past tense when you talk about Covid now jfc
Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.
new article! how might the emergence of the 'new' carbon economy be disrupted, shifted in favor of communities rather than serving as another round of capitalist accumulation?
thanks to @landpolicy.bsky.social for supporting this work!
here's a link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
SNAP assistance makes Page One in Boston ..
.. Chattanooga ..
.. Palm Beach ..
.. Asbury Park, NJ.
“We are parts of different communities, we have different tolerances for risk, we have different responsibilities. So it doesn’t look like one thing, but I think we have a responsibility to be engaged and present and working towards making the lives of our neighbors and our friends and our families, our students slightly better ... It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way.” — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
"It’s important to figure out how to weave ourselves into the ecosystems that we are a part of in a way that doesn’t destroy ourselves and in a way that doesn’t destroy the other living things that we are in network with." truthout.org/audio/resist...
AI rebrands humanistic skills like writing, drawing, creativity, which have all been *thoroughly feminized,* as hard and macho, letting bros who fear nothing more than the whiff of femininity and feminization access creativity without the stench of girliness
Gutting scientific research at EPA means less protection for our air, water, and health. The consequences of this decision will be felt for generations. Deeply concerning. Unreal!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
$30B in new funds to hire 10,000 new ICE agents, $45B to expand detention centers, and no one stopping them from denying due process, trafficking and detaining people indefinitely…
Trump built a domestic army to keep himself in power indefinitely.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-coup...
During my time as a PhD student at UIUC, there were multiple incidents of right-wingers leaving racist flyers all over campus, including images of people being dropped from helicopters (ref to Pinochet's "death flights"). At one point, a group of them swarmed me w/ cameras to try to "gotcha" me.
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:
www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
Headshot of Ruth Wilson Gilmore with text "Listen Now!"
For July 4th, the Los Angeles Review of Books dove into the archives to bring a timely episode with Ruth Wilson Gilmore. She joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to talk about her new collection, “Abolition Geography.” Listen to the episode: buff.ly/USk0SLL
#AbolitionGeography #GeoSky #Geographers
The ultimate goal of Generative “AI” in almost all capacities is to remove agency and accountability entirely. Shift blame from people to machines, ignoring the machines are made and deployed by people.
Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
June 6th update:
A slight uptick this week. This is probably the lowest it'll be nationally for a few months, as XFG and "Nimbus" are forecasted to drive a summer wave.
🔸167,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 201 currently infected
🔸~1 in 502 are reasonably infectious
‘the school will reduce its staff by about 5% over the next year & reduce its faculty by about 25% to 30% over the next two years, including part-time faculty who have not been renewed. The personnel decisions will affect non-tenure track faculty, pre-tenure faculty, & adjunct faculty.’
I'm repeatedly struck that all the scenarios the critical data studies / algorithmic bias / smart cities scholars warned us about over the past 10-15 years are now manifesting simultaneously
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."
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This conversation between @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social is right on time.
I always appreciate that you can find the podcast and the transcript at the link, and use whatever works best for you
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Decolonial worlding is a place-based endeavor. @irivera.bsky.social & Eagle trace the un/making of settler imaginaries in Denver, CO, and how the Native community refuses otherwise. (Re)Mapping Native Denver shows how #Indigenous #geographies are expressed through #mapping practices. buff.ly/RfSZG6r
NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS
5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”
Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
Intervention — “533 Geographers Call for Action on Transphobic Developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC” antipodeonline.org/2025/05/06/5...
Aziz Rana's book, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" is one of the most important books on the constitution for leftists, progressives, and anyone who is pro-democracy.
In a fantastic 4 part series, @danieldenvir.bsky.social goes deep on the ideas.
