Of her piece “The United States of Attica,” the late great Faith Ringgold said, “This map of American violence is incomplete – please write in whatever you find lacking.”

faithringgold.com/portfolio/unit…

The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at UChicagoPress.

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

in the rules based international order there are two separate yet equally important groups: good states that can bomb embassies with impunity and bad states we'll never forgive seizing our embassy 44 years ago merely because we overthrew their democratically elected government

Please see below for information about the upcoming conference Signification, Circulation, Emanations.

The two-day conference will take place later this month on April 26–27, 2024, 8:45am–5pm CDT (GMT-5:00). The conference is in-person and broadcast online through Zoom.

'A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing'

14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates have been moved up in priority on the transplant list after a biased race-correction factor was eliminated.

apnews.com/article/kidney…

If you are an AERA member, please consider signing and sharing this Petition for Justice in Palestine.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1GCG4O…

ICYMI, last week in Contexts Magazine, I published a piece about my time working in NYC fine dining for the legendary chef David Bouley.

It's gotten more attention than anything I've written recently.
contexts.org/blog/the-class…

my dept at Manchester Metropolitan Uni is advertising for a Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice. Challenging raciolinguistic ideologies in education is part of the job advert.

Come and work with me and my brilliant colleagues doing critical language work! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

So excited for this work to be out in the world 🎉

We're entering month six of US-sponsored genocide in Gaza, and our universities are still speaking in platitudes about 'the crisis in the Middle East.' We live in a deeply anti-intellectual society and our academic institutions are tragically no exception.

Honored and excited for the dialogue this summer!

As Americans, Nguyen says, we’re trained “to think of wars as episodic” rather than as a continuous production of the American war machine and its long history.
bit.ly/3TKdulw

Rühlmann's work on 'Race, Language, and Subjectivation. A Raciolinguistic Perspective on Schooling Experiences in Germany' is a much-needed contribution to the limited scholarly discussions of #language and #race in #Germany #sociolinguistics link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

“Our martyrs are not numbers; this has always been everyone’s statement in Palestine. We believe our martyrs deserve honor and remembrance.”

Western academia's silence on this speaks volumes.

'During a rich, unhurried conversation with David Naimon, Lubrin describes her 1st encounter with the work of Dionne Brand as the irrevocable, life-altering moment in which she recognized a shared frequency'
Writing in the Wake—WinnipegFreePress
winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/… canisia lubrin

Protests against VP Kamala Harris in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷are underway

US flags 🇺🇸 were removed & replaced with flags of Palestine 🇵🇸 , Haiti 🇭🇹 ,& the Black Puerto Rican resistance flag

Protesters demand an end to U.S. intervention in all 3 countries

More info below

📸IG @JSALPP

CHICAGO: So excited about our upcoming 'Puerto Rican Archives: Preserving Community Memory' Symposium, organized by the PRCC Digitizing the Barrio Project (which I co-lead), the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, and the MCA.

Register now!
eventbrite.com/e/day-1-puerto…