Five years ago, TODAY "Oppression, Knowledge, and the Built Environment" by Glenda Laws (1994) marked the beginning of my transformative journey, shaping my critical understanding of social justice in urban planning. #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning

Last year, I compiled a bibliography on the politics and ethics of care. I consulted after compiling it with Dr. Ethel Dr. Ethel Tungohan and Dr. Joan Tronto, so this bibliography does not yet reflect their suggestions. BUT it's a first step. drive.google.com/file/d/1SYcto-…

1/9 Making sense of "inequality as processes" and "inequality as categories" is essential for social research. Let's chat!

Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities buff.ly/30Oa5ob I am proud of all my work, but this journal article coauthored with @KateParizeau holds a very special place in my heart. It's also #Free2DownloadAndRead

Urban Planning is a project of Settler Colonialism. They function one in the same. We as Planners need to actively denounce g3nocide. It is a violent extreme of gentrification, but they're one in the same.

When it comes to social ills, political correctness only treats the symptoms, and with some serious side effects: queermajority.com/essays-all/the…

Too many academics think mapping is an objective science.

I really hope academics start theorizing the ways in which Kendrick Lamar spatializes resistance and collective solidarity. #ResistanceRoots #blackfuture

There’s a new-ish trend of converting churches to houses. I’m not really a fan—haven’t seen one that works. But…I think we have a contender🤔

New #OpenAccess critical commentary by Jason Hackworth and @DocDantzler: Racial capitalism in urban studies: From spaces of #victimisation to spaces of benefit ow.ly/wsPX50SMoWm #urbanisation #beneficiaries

My "Race & Ethnicity" undergrads were curious why many of their white peers talked about race courses so unfavorably So we collected some data... #SocAF compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/so…

There’s nothing worst than a corporation doing a TikTok trend

Despite the damage the #Olympics do to cities and all that sportswashing nonsense, watching Snoop Dogg at the Olympics gives me life #Priorities

The deal is done. The Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to stop the Conservatives and their plans to cut. But the NDP can. Big corporations and CEOs have had their governments. It's the people's time.

The tactics landlords use to try to suppress tenant organizing may change, but the most effective response will always remain: more organizing. Direct collective action is what works: that’s why they’re trying so desperately to shut it down.

Some people assume racism is an ongoing ever-changing system while others assume racism reflects isolated events. These different assumptions are foundational to how scholars do research and how people understand racial inequality.

every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going

What if I told you that there is no such thing as "neighborhood effects." Instead, there are federal, state, county level "neighborhood disinvestment effects."

‘Kensington Market is a state of mind’: How the city hopes to save the area’s unique character from a ‘Disneyfied’ future thestar.com/news/gta/kensi… by Ben Cohen via Toronto Star

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