I really want to ask people about their methods of reciprocity when they study Black peoples, places, and issues. Does the work stop after the research is done? Or are u in community with these people? It’s pass time we do better…

Kent State is well known, but more people should know about Jackson State. Why is it lesser known? Bc it was an HBCU

The open carry policies can’t be great right now

University presidents in their ivory tower offices begging police to arrest students in tents is so vile

Incredible scenes in Nashville today. #WhatWeveBecome …. and what we will be.

UCM Sociology Class, Climate Change and Society (SOC 112), holds 2024 Earth Day event on campus to raise awareness about planetary warming

I enjoyed the entire teach-in by Sociologists for Palestine and thought Buroway's historical analysis of sociologists' collective actions - and how/when the Association chooses to act - was very revealing. ICYMI, check out the blog:
sociologistsforpalestine.org/blog/sociology…

Estimates suggest that a quarter of all incarcerated women have not been convicted of a crime. Fed gov't has not collected key gender data in 20 yrs so we have no idea if that number is growing. Thanks to Prison Policy Init. for highlighting this critical data gap.

Another one by Ryan Petteway, DrPH, MPH.

“these lungs aren’t built
to survive the formulas
of a science without conscience…”

What a privilege it is for the UW community to learn from Bita Amani. Zoom link available.

🔴 Did You Know?
18 Black DC female residents are serving life without parole.

This Mother’s Day, 150,000 incarcerated mothers will be separated from their children.

#FREEHER #endmassincarceration #FreeBlackMamas
Dmvfreeher.org

using university busses to ship your students off to jail is WILD

So grateful to the Emancipatory Sciences Lab for hosting this unconference and to the presenters who are leading today's critical discussions! Feels especially important to be in community with scholar activists and conversing on resistenace.

I’ve met Ian Golash a few times. Most recently when he gave a presentation at the abolitions conference on teaching. He’s exactly the teacher I’d want in the classroom.

'Genocides are not the result of a few big, bad, boogiemen but enabled by a bureacracy of evil of people just doing their jobs of people clicking, moving, working but not asking any hard questions' Ruha Benjamin

'I support this ASA Sociology resolution because it signifies sociologists refuse to be a part of this bureaucracy of evil.' -Ruha Benjamin

Scientists have been complicit in constructing the very categories of race that create the conditions of genocide we're here to oppose.

You can't kill a people in broad daylight if you haven't first unpeopled them.

-Ruha Benjamin

🍉🍉🍉💥💥💥

This incredible student-led antiwar movement is a defining moment in history.

And as an academic, I can’t stop thinking about Frantz Fanon’s writing on “the colonized intellectual.” (thread) ➡️