Look what came in yhe mail today, Regina Mills ! So excited to have your book in our University of Texas Press #latinx series La Profe

I was wondering something similar re: UW–Madison. The protests and encampments have been peaceful and community-building; it's the police that brought violence this morning.

“There is no outside. This is the wisdom of Zen Buddhism and mycology and geological time and Indigenous traditions the world over: there is no outside. The tiny cracks in the skin of my hands are red-grimed with Sunita’s blood.”
—Pete Kasey

Very, very happy to share that my essay ‘Sunita’ won the Porter House Review nonfiction Editor’s Prize, judged by ahem ahem Elisa Gabbert (!!) and is now up for you to read:

porterhousereview.org/articles/sunit…

“But as long as we all reject violence, we have opportunities to listen and to learn from one another.”
#highered #socialjustice

#neleg

At a pro-Palestinian event at the Union on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus. There’s maybe 120ish people listening to speakers right now, and maybe an equal number just kind of milling about. Event is scheduled to go to 7 pm tonight.

“Ceasefire now!” “Huskers divest!” About 50 people here by the student union at the beginning of a day of protest—coverage will be forthcoming from ICT

More to the point. It is irrelevant to psychologize people who have the correct view: that US universities should not be providing financial support to a country that has killed upwards of 30,000 people, half of them children, and destroyed 12 universities in the last 7 months.

The winner of the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize is 'Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir' (The Ohio State University Press) by Thomas C. Gannon UNL Department of English Ethnic Studies #UNL
unl.edu/plains/bookpri…

The faculty say university statutes require consultation with them before the police are allowed on campus - and no such consultation has taken place

In which tents & encampments have been forbidden.

#UNL unl.edu/chancellor/a-m…

Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature…”
—Paul Auster

Doesn’t seem like a total accident that the NYPD raids on students at Columbia and CCNY are happening at the same time that Rafah is under brutal siege

“Imagine if we valorized the labor and knowledge of care…”
—Alina Stefanescu