Mimi Kirk

@msmimikirk

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Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2010
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  1. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    I love Philly with all my heart but we gotta nuke the whole city

    If you see this 6-eyed sand spider that is highly venomous, please let the Philadelphia insectarium know. The spider, along with 7,000 other creepy-crawlies, have gone missing.
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    Sep 5

    "in this moment when being a good citizen conflicts with being a good parent, I think that most white parents choose to be good parents, when, sometimes at the very least, they should choose to be good citizens."

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  3. Sep 5

    Fascinating research on France’s fashion industry: ‘The biggest goal of neoliberalism is the individualization of structural domination’

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    Sep 4

    The administration is not merely working to gut humanitarian infrastructure, but to alter how refugeehood is understood and handled |

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    Sep 3

    Hot off the press. Our newest piece about the arrival of Uberworld.

    In the future heralded by Silicon Valley, cars will fly and labor will be disposable. But none of this is inevitable. It’s a political choice—that we can still reject
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    Sep 2

    A recent piece that I wrote with an excellent historian of the Gulf where we trace a political economy of urbanism

    New Early View article by and : "The Forever Frontier of Urbanism: Historicizing Persian Gulf Cities" /
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  7. Sep 2

    ‘ in the US is not merely a matter of personal opinion or private bias but has become a political phenomenon to be exploited by our politicians’ — essential read from

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    Sep 1

    New ACLU report: Millions of students in the U.S. attend schools staffed with police officers but no counselor, social worker, or nurse.

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    Aug 29

    I can confirm this is accurate

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    Aug 31

    . has no humanity.

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    Aug 29

    here’s what ted cruz and beto o’rourke were doing to unwind during roughly the same period

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  12. Aug 29

    . examines for how a US law limits the quality of satellite imagery in -, circumscribing research & the documentation of Israeli human rights violations:

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  13. Aug 27

    "To me, CRA came across as a movie about Chinese hegemony and neo-colonial domination more than about 'Asians' anywhere." Thought-provoking post from :

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    Aug 27

    Desmond Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi: “If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.”

    "Aung San Suu Kyi, has not used her de facto position as Head of Government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding" atrocities against the Rohingya--UN Fact-Finding Mission.
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    Aug 26

    Folks, this is nothing to be proud of. This is a moment that shocked and angered many Arab Americans for its racism. Please stop elevating and normalizing anti-Arab racism.

    WATCH: McCain shuts down supporter who pushed racist conspiracy theory about Obama during 2008 campaign
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    Aug 25

    Frequently cemeteries of enslaved people and African Americans were on the city edges, and not as protected as churchyards. This made them easier marks for grave-robbers.

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  17. Aug 24

    "Canadian aid...has shifted the task of fixing poverty onto the shoulders of Palestinian entrepreneurs, while ignoring that Palestinian poverty is structurally created.." Important piece from , Nadia Abu-Zahra, & Ruby Dagher:

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  18. Aug 24

    I wrote about the depiction of in 'Crazy Rich Asians' w/help from the key insights of , &

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    Aug 23

    In 1913, the white South African government stripped black people of the right to own land outside a few plots set aside for them. 105 years later, weighs in-on the side of the white farmers who still own most of the land in this African country.

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    Aug 23

    boom.

    GET ON TO THE NORTHERN LINE to see this sick abolitionist ad-hack
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