nosso sindicato de estudantes de pós-graduação hoje foi pra rua pedir que a administração da universidade negocie com a gente ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 vem pra mesa, The University of Chicago! #GSUwalkout UChicago GSU - UE⚡

The Graduate Students United walk out today was one of largest campus demonstrations in recent years. chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/1…

Amazing rally today at the UChicago GSU - UE⚡ walkout—seemed like it could have been over 600 people! Loved the banners too. I wonder how long they’ll stay up?

This is so incredibly shameful. Seeking asylum is not a crime. Shooting tear gas at asylum seekers lacks a basic level of humanity. This is your government. This is our government. Do not look away.

The brilliant jo aurelio giardini has put together this super useful bibliography of texts by members of the Black Panther Party!

The brilliant Micol Bez and I are organizing a panel at the June 2022 meeting of the ACLA on "Misunderstandings and Future Misuses of Phenomenological Method"—send your phenomenologically-inclined abstracts our way! acla.org/lifeworld-soci…

I’m sorry, some urgent work just came across my desk, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

“Linklater’s scores trace out possible movements from where she is. These movements are anchored through practice to an ancestral tradition; they live in the displaced present of the colonial past.” Bellamy Mitchell on Tanya L. Linklater’s Slow Scrape chicagoreview.org/tanya-lukin-li…

On Thursday, I get to introduce Divya Victor @sugaronthegash and Aaron Cohick Colorado College who will discuss their collaboration on the artist’s book edition of CURB (a crucial, potent text) which you can visit in Special Collections The University of Chicago thanks to André Wenzel!

im at the old world dying, im at the new world struggling to be born, im at the combination old world dying new world struggling to be born

Preserving the South Shore Nature Sanctuary is not just about “saving the trees,” though it is also that. It is about protecting low-income Black residents’ equal access to nature and all of the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that such access provides. #SouthSideParks

INTERVIEWER: explain this gap in your resume WHITMAN: I was writing Leaves of Grass INTERVIEWER: I mean after 1855 WHITMAN: writing Leaves of Grass (1856) INTERVIEWER: ok but *after* WHITMAN: Leaves of Grass (1860) INTERVIEWER: let me guess... WHITMAN: then I was a sexy nurse

Conspicuously absent from this list of top refugee hosting countries are the countries that complain a lot about refugees x.com/conradhackett/…

James Baldwin. Wrote a kids’ book. In the seventies. Now get ready. Duke University Press is reissuing it next summer. mhpbooks.com/james-baldwins…

Personally, I think Cat Person went viral for three reasons. First of all, it's a witty, insightful, unpretentious short story. Second, it addressed a taboo issue that felt timely: a type of terrible sex that isn't rape, but is tied to sexism.

Despite state officials’ quick denial that the closing of 31 Alabama DMVs has nothing to do with race, it is a fact that the closures – mostly in poor, majority black counties – disproportionately hurts Black voters. Period. x.com/AriBerman/stat…

Writers, scholars and artists give their thoughts and experience on cultural boycott as a tool for change bit.ly/2BUHsZq

Write a poem using all 7 of these words x.com/sciencemarchdc…

My sober folks, it’s okay to leave the family event if there’s more alcohol than you’re comfortable with. I guarantee the people there love you and your sobriety more than they do this holiday. Take a cookie. Tell everyone you love them. Go.