JOB ALERT: The Department of Sociology (U of T Sociology) is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Culture this Fall. Applications are due September 16, 2024. For more information, please review the job ad… jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

BC has outperformed Ontario in supplying housing while increasing tenant protections. One of the keys to their success is the willingness to create more subsidized housing, tighten STR rules, increase density and lease rather than sell G land. #Leadership

Capitalism is not socialism for the rich. Bailouts aren’t socialism for the rich. Government subsidies for corporations aren’t socialism for the rich. Socialism is an egalitarian economic system, not a set of privileges that benefit a tiny ruling class minority. I understand the

Summer nights in Toronto…

Washington University in St. Louis seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor to serve in the Department of African and African American Studies at its campus located in St. Louis, Missouri. apply.interfolio.com/151882

Great event on Green Social Housing. Emily Gallagher has a great bill to move forward on this.

On Thursday’s Toronto Star A1: More residents will lose their homes to Ontario Line construction: Calvi Leon raju mudhar report, 📸 Richard Lautens. Plus David Rider on safe consumption sites. Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂 on an Afghan scholar denied entry to Canada. And Rob Ferguson on CUPE’s vice-president

If politicians can text my cell phone asking for money I should be able to text them directly with policy suggestions.

Weekly reminder that the objective function of our health care system l, factually, is to maximize shareholder value.

Let’s get that rail on it and really see some changes

For those who celebrate!

BREAKING: In a terrifying and un-American moment, Donald Trump just reiterated his position that he will not defend our NATO allies should they be invaded by Russia. Retweet to make sure every American sees this and knows how dangerous Trump is.

From Los Angeles to Antwerp, the world's biggest ports are vital pawns in a new era of geopolitics and they're spending billions to keep up with demand trib.al/o2jMxbz

Pleased to share the text of my paper w/ fmr UMass Sociology student Aaron Foote in City & Community "Origins of the Flint Water Crisis: Uneven Development, Urban Political Ecology, and Racial Capitalism" featuring the work of Prentiss Dantzler academia.edu/123328569/Orig… via Academia

💫 On this #ThrowbackThursday, we revisit ‘Deconstructing the Racial Structure of Public Service through Critical Participatory Practices’ by Prentiss Dantzler & Kathleen. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ummm…🤔🧐🙄

I think the authors are holding the hammer. Structural racism is a ton of different mechanisms and practices that shape our societies and outcomes, particularly in the wake of Western colonialism. We are still learning how it works and evolves. We don’t all agree on how it works!

So I guess this is what the new editorial team and Theory and Society are publishing 🤬

Deadric T. Williams Prentiss Dantzler Anyone attempting to end the existing monopoly on race research will face fierce resistance. A big issue: some scholars fundamentally reject the idea that Black people can create conceptual knowledge and draw informed inferences from sources outside of the dominant paradigms.

When all you have is smoke and mirrors: In this essay I will (But fr please somebody publish my paper with Prentiss Dantzler and Junia Howell that critiques all [waves hand] this)