VICTORY!! BROWN COMMITS TO DIVESTMENT VOTE! Brown administration has conceded to students’ demand that the Corporation vote on divestment after years of tireless pressure from the student body, 61 student arrests, an eight day hunger strike and seven days of encampment

As a Stanford faculty member, I find students’ courageous stand against genocide animates the mission the university claims: “…educating students for lives of leadership and contribution with integrity”. The university should be in awe of them. I know I am.

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

There are no universities left in Gaza.

One of the many reasons our folks on college & university campuses are protesting.

What is happening to Palestine is genocide, ecocide, & scholasticide.

Every single university in Gaza destroyed and yet we’re told that the students protesting this genocide are the monsters.

Qué en paz descanse la extraordinaria directora chicana y mexicana Lourdes Portillo (1944-2024), una valiosísima artista. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lourdes_P…

The Miriam Jiménez Román Fellowship supports post-doctoral candidates and junior scholars whose research advances the study of Afro-Latinx communities in the U.S. #afrolatinx

Apply by 4/30: latinxproject.nyu.edu/miriam-jimenez…

The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at UChicagoPress.

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

in the rules based international order there are two separate yet equally important groups: good states that can bomb embassies with impunity and bad states we'll never forgive seizing our embassy 44 years ago merely because we overthrew their democratically elected government

Please see below for information about the upcoming conference Signification, Circulation, Emanations.

The two-day conference will take place later this month on April 26–27, 2024, 8:45am–5pm CDT (GMT-5:00). The conference is in-person and broadcast online through Zoom.

'A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing'

14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates have been moved up in priority on the transplant list after a biased race-correction factor was eliminated.

apnews.com/article/kidney…

If you are an AERA member, please consider signing and sharing this Petition for Justice in Palestine.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1GCG4O…

ICYMI, last week in Contexts Magazine, I published a piece about my time working in NYC fine dining for the legendary chef David Bouley.

It's gotten more attention than anything I've written recently.
contexts.org/blog/the-class…

my dept at Manchester Metropolitan Uni is advertising for a Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice. Challenging raciolinguistic ideologies in education is part of the job advert.

Come and work with me and my brilliant colleagues doing critical language work! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

So excited for this work to be out in the world 🎉

We're entering month six of US-sponsored genocide in Gaza, and our universities are still speaking in platitudes about 'the crisis in the Middle East.' We live in a deeply anti-intellectual society and our academic institutions are tragically no exception.

Honored and excited for the dialogue this summer!