"We continue to call on UC to divest from all of its Blackstone holdings, currently valued at over $7 billion, & in its stead chart a new course that expands truly affordable housing for all Californians." Unions & housing advocates' letter to UC Regents: bit.ly/3mTxmVB

RT if you think our kids deserve quality schools and public school workers deserve a better living wage. 😌🫶

Fantastic paper on the 'hot cheeto girl' from Michelle Gomez Parra for girlhood studies collective ✨ right now. Thinking about the discursive construction of hot cheeto girls in Los Angeles and how Latina/Chicana girls and young women from the region dis/associate with the label and subjectivity.

Open letter from prominent scholars asking Rutgers University president Holloway to rescind "the threat to use the power of injunction to punish, fine, & arrest workers taking job actions..." drive.google.com/file/d/1qDit6K…

Crucial analysis here as well as crucial call to action. Organize and agitate on your campus and system-wide!

Solidarity from the UC Santa Cruz Faculty Association to the Rutgers workers going on strike tomorrow! From coast to coast, unions are fighting for public higher education that meets the needs of students, workers, and communities.

We're demanding UC raise the minimum wage to $25/hr for ALL UC workers + 5% for 3299 members already at $25/hr. Join OUR FIGHT for $25/5% TOMORROW at an action at your local campus or med center! Check our IG stories (afscme_3299) for locations & more information.

Spring is springing and University of California workers are demanding $25/5%! Chancellors + CEOs got a raise, we should get one too!

All who teach University of California deals every day with the student mental health crisis. We aren't trained to deal with it and it generates a huge amount of additional work for us. Structural problems need structural solutions not wellness programs University Council - AFT @uaw2865 UPTE-CWA 9119 UC Faculty Assoc.

UM docking a full month of pay (before the month is over!) from striking grads. please please consider donating to the strike fund.

The editors of #Childhood - including our members Spyros Spyrou, Karl Hanson & Tatek Abebe - are convening two webinars to celebrate the journal's 30th anniversary. Among the speakers: our members Jessica Taft, @afua_imoh, Marek Tesar & Nicola Ansell. Links below 1/3

Youth of color are not just imagining but building a world where #NoOneIsDisposable. This movement is for and by youth. If you support our demands, share this message! ✊🏿 #EarthDay2023

Thinking through the growing use of the term "activism" in the children's rights/participation sector with Claire O'Kane was so generative. We identify dangers of overuse and argue for a clear definition rooted in collectivity, challenging expectations, and transforming power.

The Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas is hiring a Research Program and Operations Manager. Come work with me to develop and expand the work of this amazing center! recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01568

Michelle’s work on gender, sexuality, and mobility experiences of low-income Latina mothers and daughters is truly groundbreaking. I learn so much when reading her scholarship and am thrilled that SWS is recognizing her with this award.

We're hiring! Apply to be part of our team and help us advance multi-disciplinary, cross-border research and programming that brings together Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American Studies. Review of applications begins Monday 7/24. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01568

It's Publication Day for Nice Is Not Enough! ucpress.edu/book/978052027…

Lots of folks are winding down their #ASA2023 but ASA Children & Youth is just getting started! There are some great papers on childhood and youth being shared today, starting with the roundtables at 8am in 103B. Hope to see some of you there.

Are you a newer organizer (less than 3 yrs) who has read Let This Radicalize You? Would you like to be part of a learning cohort based on the book? NYC Tw*tterati and I will meet virtually with participants Tuesdays Oct 17 - Dec 5 from 6:30 to 8:30pm EST. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

📣 Publication Alert! Launching this vital read ahead of the UN Midpoint Moment, from the With and For Girls Collective & by young feminists - the beating heart of the Generation Equality Forum. It's now to move more & better resources! READ ON🔥 🔗bit.ly/3sWqsSn