We're not asking for you to shoot them like you shoot us. We're asking you to NOT shoot us like you don't shoot them.

Joshua was further arrested under NSL today. WITHOUT legal representative this morning, he was taken to Laichikok Reception center to take statement. It is not known yet when and where this investigation will lead him to. Joshua has now returned to ShekPik Prison. (Apple Daily)

This is Adam. He was 13. I have a 13 year old son. Cops pulled their guns on me several times when I was a teenager. I made it out. Adam did not. What about my son? #Abolition #AdamToledo

I can’t watch the video of Adam Toledo being killed by Chicago police. I don’t want to hashtag his name. This is a national emergency, President Donald J. Trump, and will require more than training. This is not “public safety.” This is institutionalized violence against Black and brown people.

It's been two years since two #HongKong universities became the battleground for prodemocracy movement. My co-authored article looks at the protest-control dialectics in higher education. #L tandfonline.com/eprint/3NWETXW…

Two years ago I wrote to Nicole Hemmer and Brian Rosenwald, editors at madebyhistory, about how this op-ed problematically reproduced a Beijing party line about Taiwan without providing any historical perspective from Taiwan itself and asked about a rebuttal. They never replied. 1/4

This spring, I wrote three articles on China centered around the question: what are the challenges and opportunities in building an international socialist movement with Chinese and Chinese diaspora communities?🧵

Verge: Studies in Global Asias is accepting panel proposals for 2023 AAS and AAAS conferences! The submission deadline is July 11, 2022 for AAS and August 12, 2022 for AAAS. Please submit via: forms.gle/y7ESDoriErn8M3…. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

This article makes a number of major, false assertions about Taiwanese history. The lack of research and ignorance of Taiwan society and history is shocking for a publication that claims "academic rigor." A thread: 1/

What does Taiwan want? Does the Tsai administration want Pelosi to visit? Does she consent to her trip and the possible risks that come with it? We need Taiwan's perspectives as part of the story, otherwise Taiwan is just a chess piece with no agency in this contentious moment.

My new article at Current History: Taiwanese identity emerged as an insurgent gesture under Japanese colonialism, endured forcible silencing under postwar authoritarian rule, and then propelled Taiwan’s democratization. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

2 Jobs at Pomona College GWS: One TT / One VAP. Emphasis on Black and/or Indigenous queer-feminist-trans studies with social science training a plus! Full description and application here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22242

Our freedom & justice can never come at the expense of our Indigenous and Black brothers & sisters. The world we imagine & fight for-one built on decolonial and abolitionists foundations-has no place for anti-Indigenous & anti-Black hatred. Los Angeles Times Col. Gustavo Arellano USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences

Yesterday, prompted by a deadly fire in a locked-down high-rise building in Urumqi, Xinjiang, protests against Covid-19 pandemic restrictions erupted across China. To put these events into context, here is a thread of articles on different aspects of the pandemic in China. 1/

Monterey Park continues to grapple with the shooting deaths of 11 people attacked at the Star Dance studio on Saturday. Tonight, a crowd of 100’s lay flowers and burned incense at a growing memorial outside the studio.

New: Pomona *faculty* vote 64% - 28% in favor of divestment from companies complicit in Israeli government human rights violations. Among the first university faculties to do so. Resolution asks school to begin with 11 firms including Barclays, Chevron, Elbit Systems, and more.

Back in 2006 when Israel was trying to destroy Lebanon, the anthropologist Lara Deeb wrote an essay called “‘Hizbullah Strongholds’ and Civilian Life’, an excerpt from which could be written today, nearly 20 years later.