Juno Salazar Parreñas 🏳️‍🌈

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.

Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

Appointment of Celine Parreñas Shimizu as Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Dear Colleagues: I am delighted to announce the appointment of Celine Parreñas Shimizu as the next dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, effective July 1, 2025.

I’m probably not the only one to be sad that my sister will no longer be a banana slug, but I’m super happy for her returning to her Alma mater, where she’ll be the dean of school of theater, film, and television: evcp.ucla.edu/announcement...

Feminist STS playlist Listen to Feminist STS playlist on TIDAL

Playlist inspired by my feminist science studies seminar! First 17 are faves of the moment (guess mine) & last 11 inspired by course texts! tidal.com/playlist/8f9...

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

My first academic article just got reprinted as open access in the latest virtual issue of American Ethnologist, which includes works from Lila-Abu Lughod and Charles Briggs. It includes my deadname that I buried about a decade ago. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Professor Reighan Gillam holds a plaque for the New Directions Prize honorable mention from the General Anthropology Division

And congratulations to Reighan Gillam, honorable mention for the New Directions Individual Prize for her work podcasting for New Books in Anthropology! #anthro #AAA24Tampa #GeneralAnthro #GAD_AAA

Cover image of The King of Bangkok graphic novel

Since I’m skipping #AAA24 #anthropology meeting in Tampa, here’s another virtual congratulations to General Anthropology Divisions’s New Directions (group) Prize Co-Winner, the authors of the graphic novel King of Bangkok!!

I’m super happy that Maura Finkelstein won the 2024 General Anthropology Division New Directions Prize (Individual) for her work on Palestine! #AAA24 #TampaAAAPraxis

Thanks for reading it! 🫶🏽

"The saddest part of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
—Isaac Asimov