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“We, as members of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, condemn in the strongest possible terms the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the ongoing settler colonial elimination targeting Palestinians.” @NAISA__ naisa.org/about/council-…

I wrote a thing: cornellsun.com/2024/05/14/byr…

Octavia Butler’s novel of dystopian realism, *Parable of the Sower*, is set in 2024. The novel is set in our now — and it’s a prescient reminder that the future is in our hands.

#JuneTeenth Learn about our latest report on the status of #freedmen citizens in the Cherokee Nation here loom.ly/4UxjH7Y #Equality

Every Fourth of July I think about what colonial militias did to Cherokees in the summer of 1776. They waited until it was too late in the growing season for our corn to be replanted, invaded Cherokee towns and burnt our crops to the ground. So that we would starve. #July4

July 4 is not a celebration but evidence of dispossession. #landback and #FreePalestine

Lots of amazing folks have just started new faculty jobs, and it's prompted me to reflect on the last 5 years of my TT experience. So here are 15 lessons I wish I'd learned earlier as an academic:

"I’m not a member of any organized political party…. I’m a Democrat." -Cherokee humorist Will Rogers

JOB OPPORTUNITY: The Dept. of Literature at UCSD invites applications for an Asst. Prof. of Transborder Literature and Culture, with a specialty in Mexico-US border literatures and cultures with the ability to teach in Spanish and English courses. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03724

Remarkable quote from Cherokee writer Ruth Muskrat Bronson in her 1944 book “Indians Are People Too”! Something something coconut tree etc

If you want to watch me talk with my hands about my book, nyupress.org/9781479829392/… (30% off with code NYUAU30), this is what you've been waiting for.

Friends, Glorious Bodies is out today, and I could not be prouder of it. I hope you’ll take a look, if trans history and theology is the kind of thing you’re into. Thank you to everyone who made it possible. This book is for you.

Post affirmative action, the already abysmal numbers of Native students at some elite colleges have plummeted even further. At Harvard, Native enrollment fell by half. At Princeton it fell from less than 1% to 0.1% of admitted students from the class of 2027 to the class of 2028.

My latest & zaniest article about Renaissance travel writing, The Merchant of Venice, & Shakespeare's possible thinking about early modern China is out today in Multicultural Shakespeare! Available via open access: czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/artic…

yale-herald.com/2024/09/22/a-m… i've been profiled

The highest peak in the Smokies will now be known by its Cherokee name: ᎫᏬᎯ (ku-wo-hee). The name change was approved by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.

Thrilled to be hosting Tianhu Hao, Distinguished Prof of English Renaissance lit & Dir. of the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Zhejiang University. Join us for Tianhu's lunchtime talk on "Journey to the West & Matteo Ricci's Journey to the East" - this Wed Oct 2 at Synecdoche, Pookie!

If you are not a 2spirit person and you are just learning about QL Driskill…I wanna ask that you please think before posting jokes about the situation. Some things to consider, not because I care about pretendians but bc I care about harm to real 2spirit people:

Waiting until after the election to maybe, possibly limit arms shipments to Israel is cowardice. I agree that our democracy is under threat from fascism. I also believe that defeating fascism (this election and beyond) requires brave leadership. This isn it.