#BoycottChevron Week of Action Sept 23-27, 2024 Join the #BoycottChevron Global Week of Action by organizing a protest at a Chevron gas station, refinery, or corporate office, and/or by launching a signature drive for the Boycott Chevron Pledge. bit.ly/signup

Join us at the launch of Wasafiri’s 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, on 28 September Museum of the Home 🎉 readings from contributors Malika Booker, Preti Taneja, and AnnieZaidi 💫 Limited tix; don’t miss this! wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

We are excited to share a new Policy Brief, "Long COVID, Episodic Disability and Labour Force Participation" published by the #LongCOVID and Episodic Disability Study Team and Habitus Consulting Collective! tinyurl.com/mw83je38 Help us share this important document!

Job feminist science and technology studies at Duke. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28397

BAAS Development Fund 💰 Scholars are invited to apply for grants of up to £2000 to support a range of activities in #AmericanStudies, including: • Conferences & events • Schools outreach • Diversity & inclusion initiatives • More! Apply here: tinyurl.com/devfundbaas

I’m hiring a postdoc for Summer 2025! Interested in researching LGBTQ+ youth mental health? Based in the Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab within a vibrant research community. Please share widely! Competitive salary ($72.5k) & benefits. More info & apply here: apply.interfolio.com/154523

It’s that time of year when I scour London Chinatown for moon cakes without egg yolks and smile cluelessly and pathetically when nice people try to help me in Mandarin or Cantonese 🍂 🥮 #MidAutumnFestival

Big news! I've received a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support early career scholars in the humanities who are doing - or interested in doing - archival research in trans studies. Details and application here: bit.ly/TransHistoryAp… Help me spread the word!

Brooklyn subway rider struck in head by stray NYPD bullet has brain damage: family Gregory Delpeche was on the way to the hospital job he has worked for more than 20 years when he was hit by a stray slug fired by an NYPD cop. trib.al/9xuEu7e

👉🏾A two-day symposium at Brown University on the life, ideas, and activism of Dr. Walter Rodney. Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice eventbrite.com/e/what-they-do…

20 yrs after she walked away from cinema, I tried—and failed—to find the elusive Maggie Cheung. So instead, I talked to Olivier Assayas, Greta Lee, Isaac Julien & more about her enduring legend In time for a major retro at BFI, my latest for GQ Magazine gq.com/story/maggie-c…

something about books getting smaller to save the planet while endless AI swallows glaciers whole to "summarize" emails

pdf of mother Jasbir K Puar’s Right to Maim below: transreads.org/wp-content/upl…

My essay “Afong Moy’s Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Early Asian American Archive” is out in American Contact (Penn Press)! #poc19 #c19amlit #litPOC Hybrid book launch on Oct 4 Harvard History of the Book Seminar @harvard Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Register: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/roundtab…

This is an excellent interview with Hopi tribal official Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, which includes discussion about the impacts AA, and Hancock's claims more broadly, have on Hopi and other Indigenous nations. "These false narratives affect living cultures."

Apply to UPenn's Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship! A prestigious program aimed at enhancing DEI. - 3 year postdoc - Salary of $66k + $2k increase each yr - Research/travel budget of $7k/year You'll need a Penn mentor to apply. Apps are due Oct. 18 postdocs.upenn.edu/provosts-fello…

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"We call on Northwestern to reject this new McCarthyism and to reinstate without condition our colleague, Dr. Steven Thrasher." As academics, journalists + health professionals we write to express solidarity w/ 🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻 and reject his appalling persecution by Northwestern.

Proud to sign this letter calling on Northwestern to reinstate 🍉 Dr. Thrasher still cares about Covid & Gaza🔻 and stop punishing students and faculty for protesting a genocide