Salar Mohandesi's article has singularly challenged me to consider questions about anti-imperialist organizing on the issue of US-lead imperialist projects in Palestine and Iran. I really recommend reading the whole essay.
Anywho, there's no better time than now to put your ideas out there and invite other people to do things with you. Might as well try. You don't have to know everything before starting. You can just start.
I feel overwhelmed with all of the communications with people, but I will definitely let her know I appreciate her work once I've had a chance to finish reading the piece. Thanks so much for sharing this! I've literally been waiting years to read something like this lol
YES!! I've been wanting to read something like this for years. The focus on the 'girl-child' and the focus on the 'mother' are two annoying fetishes of neoliberal development in india.
Submissions for this year's Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, for writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, are open!
The prize honors my sister, who died tragically in 2020 after many years in & out of incarceration.
Please help us spread the word.❤️
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We're all sending the same $100 among each other as the rich get unimaginably richer by the hour.
Cool to have some support for my research from my professional association! :)
Thank you for sharing about my work! I'm grateful for the support to keep writing about Kaho'olawe. I look forward to connecting with and learning from more scholars thinking about sovereignty.
I love Rhiannon Giddens!! She is so inspiring, knowledgeable and her music is beautiful.
thanks for the shout out, Caleb! Looking forward to being in community with more likeminded scholars, activists, dreamers <3
ahh thanks for your support, Caleb! I appreciate you.
ahh I did not know they posted this! thanks for sharing!
I know this isn't a serious graphic, but also funny to think there's no variation in dreams amongst 1.5 billion people in India. 😂 It helps diaspora parents when they say 'we all do things the same way, and that way is whatever I say it is.'
I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.
I love teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. My students are really something special!
beautiful!
2) the stories of what has worked for people to flourish and experience more equality
Thank you to the Critical Carceral Studies Collective for inviting Alec and for all his good work.
Today, @equalityalec.bsky.social reminded us that we need to tell the stories of people's experiences as a way to battle copaganda. Two types of stories Alec emphasized include: 1) the story of reformist reforms and how they don’t work ...
I’ll be speaking at Stanford today at 5pm: Civil Rights Lawyering and Propaganda in a Time of Authoritarianism. If you know anyone in the bay area, please invite them. There’s also a zoom option: events.stanford.edu/event/civil-...
As an introduction, the students also looked at the website of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area. muwekma.org/index.html
The first session of "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College was fantastic. We talked about the political value of the land acknowledgement, read and analyzed Menlo College's land acknowledgement, and started the beginnings of analyzing terms like 'colonization' and 'stewardship.'
That is so rough!! I just got my third rejection on a paper I've been trying to publish for two years now. I'm like whyyy do I do this 😂
Thanks for your encouragement! The sun came out today, and my energy is different 😅. Still, staying grateful for these moments, and acknowledging I don't want to take them for granted.
Tomorrow, I start teaching "Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics" at Menlo College. I'm sharing my syllabus with the hopes of also getting feedback from those who are nurturing the field of Native Studies! Also, check out our amazing course poster 😄
I'm very aware that my time in academia may be over when I graduate in June. For now, I'm extremely thrilled to be teaching and writing. My first meetings of the quarter with students were SO beautiful.
ahh I love to hear of your teaching practices and ideas. I am realizing how difficult it is to realize beautiful teaching. phew.
Looking forward to reading it!!
Thank you!!
