Popping in to spread Eid greetings. May we experience the mercy of peace and gentleness and care for fragile lives and our fragile planet. May Palestinians be free to live and to heal.

I'll take this one.

The idea that affirmative action or diversity, equity & inclusion policies equal lower standards is something that a lot of people believe.

Instead of citing what 'I believe' like Elon did, let's use facts & a something I like to called 'math'

A thread.

Practicing Anthropology is now accessible! We are adding alt text for all visuals and videos and the T&F platform allows for reading from the doc. So relieved and proud of these changes to increase accessibility and engagement in these important ways!

I will be forever proud of this. Thank you Duke University Press and #SouthAtlanticQuarterly ♥️

Hi friends, I was looking forward to connecting at @SXSW tmrw, but I’m pulling out after learning about the unacceptable deep links the festival has to weapons manufacturers and the US military who at this very moment are enabling the genocide of Palestinians.

The politics of social reproduction tomorrow! brandeis.edu/womens-gender-…

It's a busy week and capitalism has me running from place to place, but really, all of this is a distraction from the ceasefire that needs to come for Gaza.

When I was in the West Bank settlers attacked olive pickers, saying they were Hamas agents. IDF soldiers used the same pretext to stop the harvest. One soldier told me picking olives was a “political act.” A thread on things I saw while reporting for The New Yorker:

“What are the symmetries & asymmetries between the intellectual traditions of the #Anglophone #Dutch #Francophone #Hispanophone #Caribbean ?” @vanessayperez Ryan Cecil Jobson
Join us in conversation to explore #Keywords & concepts of the region - RSVP: tinyurl.com/sxcimarron

It’s finally here! More than a decade in the making, Strangers No Longer: Latino Faith and Belonging in 20th Century Wisconsin is hot off the presses!

press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087…

Illinois Press

One week until we welcome THE John Carlos to campus Emory University. Looking forward to the dynamic conversation with the iconic activist/athlete.

There is still limited seating available for the conversation. You can register at this link.

eventbrite.com/e/pellom-mcdan…

In today's newletter from that rag, the NYT, they claim that kids are less likely to spread COVID. This is pure BS. ama-assn.org/delivering-car…

📌(1/2)Join our series in Queer and Trans Futures on Feb 20, 4-5:30pm, at Emory Student Center, Multi-Purpose Room 2! We are honored to have Dr. Kevin Quashie to present his talk, “Lucille Clifton and Black Feminist Object Lessons”! 🗣️

I thought Fastlane was the most anti-intuitive grant submission interface I had ever worked with.... but now I have seen grantsDOTgov and wow.

This kind of language was why I really wanted to write our stochastic parrots paper. Just boasting about size as if that should be good for its own sake. Hey I built a giant thing thats bigger than yours. I’ll continue to make it bigger at any cost, and that will save humanity.

Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society
hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statem…

Support Professor Ghassan Hage Against Vile and Vicious Smear Campaign - Sign the Petition! (thanks to Yasmin Gunaratnam for sharing) chng.it/DdPSxFvj via Change.org UK

Today would have been Rosa Parks' 111th birthday. Of the many facets left out of the ways we understand her activism and honor her legacy is her deep understanding of global human rights, anti-colonialism and her persistent critique of US foreign policy. A short thread: