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    Mar 25

    Honored and so so excited to be one of the core faculty for this year's TASI along with , , and ! This year's theme is "Reparations: A Global German Affair"; the CFP is below and the app deadline is May 1st!

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  2. Apr 22

    "Singal defends himself as someone who merely disagrees with the ontological claims trans people make about themselves. But it’s fallacious to claim that he can’t be a bigot because he can maintain a respectful demeanor for the duration of an article."

    Journalist Jesse Singal has made a career out of “just asking questions” about gender dysphoria in youth. His arguments have proven appealing to reactionaries eager to demonize trans people, writes M.K. Anderson.
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  3. Apr 21

    "Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s mien is neither nostalgic nor romantic; the unassuming bandits of the film, their backs turned to the camera, are not heroes but avatars who, like the artists, are grasping for a grammar to make sense of a pattern of political promise and defeat."

    In the April issue of , I wrote about the art of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, their multimodal aesthetics and tenacity. Their exhibition, "May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth" opens at MoMA this Saturday, 4/23.
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    Apr 20

    Any system that would eradicate a group of children to spite itself is bankrupt. Most violent transphobia shares the root fear of our radical interdependence in the social systems of sex and gender. Minimum ethics is not trying to extinguish the other. Minimum.

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    Apr 20

    The gender and sex system we collectively but unevenly experience is clearly neither natural nor particularly desirable—or else it wouldn’t take an authoritarian police state to enforce it. If you have to legally compel gender, you start from a losing position.

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    Apr 20

    One thing the logical nonsense of banning “social transition” has me thinking about is the brazen cruelty of the pretension that only trans people have gender. “Social transition” is minimally useful shorthand for trans people. But everyone’s gender is social.

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    Apr 20

    ICE is skirting sanctuary laws by contracting with private data brokers, like LexisNexis & ThomsonReuters (two common academic library resource platforms). Universities that pride themselves on being sanctuary campuses need to be aware of this & fight back

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  8. Apr 20

    This crit of the racial frame (h/t !) of Ken Burns' new Franklin doc by is great! I appreciate how he describes the distorted inclusion of slavery as helping us towards the intended conclusion of Franklin's (as the US's) goodness

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    Apr 20

    Nearly 450 people died in the . The catastrophe underscored an overlooked reality in the fight against extreme weather: Protecting people is as much about tackling social issues as environmental ones. - ⁦ & ⁦⁩

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    Apr 20

    A very nice piece on our ( ) forthcoming TASI seminar. All interested Ph.D. candidates -- please apply (see link in the article)! UW History Professor Receives Grant for International Reparations in Germany Seminar

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  11. Apr 20

    Unsettling rationale

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  12. Apr 20

    Last night I was watching Chicago Fire with my folks. In one of the episodes, civilians got access to hand grenades and caused a couple of bad accidents and they were all like "how is it possible for deadly weapons to be on the streets?!" Well.

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    Apr 18

    If you are & need to take public transportation w/ no , you need to be in a well-fitted N95 mask. We’ve had luck w/ the 3M Aura in our family w/ very diff face shapes/sizes. Avail at HD, etc. The non-profit can help find a mask for you.

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  14. Apr 19

    A "COVID is over" summer + no more masks on airplanes? Can't wait to see how this ends for the Global South!

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  15. Apr 19

    Absolutely chilling how much, yet again, it feels like industry and the state are making it impossible for people to *not* get COVID?

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  16. Apr 18

    Not to be all "it's only champagne if it's from the Champagne wine region" but if it's US-made biltong and the bag isn't transparent, just stick to jerky bc it's shit

    NYT Notable Books 2022
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    Apr 17

    An incredible interview with Nisreen Salem, an Afro-Palestinian journalist, who talks vulnerably about racism, her experience with Israeli soldiers interrogating and assaulting her, and what she hopes for her Afro-Palestinian community living near Al-Aqsa

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  18. Apr 18

    My cancellable take is that Zimbabwe's national project, although fairly young, has failed and will continue to fail because of a critical lack of imagination and political will

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  19. Apr 18

    The only patriotism I respect. Happy independence day, Zimbos at home and abroad🇿🇼

    What’s your cancellable take of Zimbabwe?
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  20. Apr 18

    "Not convincing" is Beltway speak for "not to my liking"

    Biden's collapse with young voters is kind of mysterious. I've heard a lot of theories, but I'm not sure any one of them is all that convincing.
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  21. Apr 18

    (And this is no shade whatsoever to the curators! This is just about the painful limitations of criticism on the subject matter that have been made evident by the responses to, for example, Grief and Grievance last year)

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