Breaks my heart to hear from all the Morehouse alums who feel betrayed, who feel, understandably, that awarding Biden an honorary degree sullies their own degree.

Many of my faculty colleagues and I tried to prevent this. We failed. To all the Morehouse Men out there, I’m sorry.

been thinking about how to cut to the chase in academic writing ✍🏻✍🏾. #lifegoals #experiments write-up from a meeting w my friends and comrades UptownBerber Zachariah Mampilly Amy Niang Oumar Bâ et al. in Paris last year. read, comment, share. 🙏🏾 pomeps.org/refusing-disav… LSE Sociology

i’m 3 and 4

last summer Zachariah Mampilly and UptownBerber brought a bunch of us together in paris to discuss racial politics and colonial legacies in france, africa, and the middle east. here's what come out of it (published open access)
pomeps.org/pomeps-studies…

A lot of fascinating, open access, work here

Check out this long gestating collection on racial politics in France, Africa and the Middle East, a Pasiri x POMEPS x E.N.S. collabo. Featuring original essays from Amy Niang, Olivia U. Rutazibwa, Oumar Bâ, Madina Thiam and many others.

in that liminal space between the end of the semester and the grading purgatory

i tried to find something clever to say about this fiasco, but i failed

Just wow.

dailytrojan.com/2024/05/10/202…

last i checked, one doesn’t need to have a phd in Middle East history to be against genocide. not only our global liberal elites are dangerous, they are also idiots, which makes them doubly dangerous

europe has entered the chat

well, well

come for the horrible metrics, stay for the devastatingly morbid ring of “John ‘Organ Failure or Death’ Yoo”

‘Dien Bien Phu was one of the decisive battles of the post-1945 era. Not since the British were turfed out of Afghanistan in the 19th century had an indigenous army inflicted so resounding a defeat on a colonial power.’

Chris Mullin in Vietnam: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

My classmate and colleague professor Refaat al Areer, who was murdered by the Israeli occupation forces along with several members of his family.

I invited him for a picnic.. He said he was busy preparing for the final exams for his students..

I rushed to his office and

We’re so back… autonomous New School faculty, in support of our students and their demands, the first faculty solidarity encampment in the nation, named after Refaat Alareer ♥️…

i have a short rant coming out soon about ‘the fetishization of measurement.’ and this is exactly what i was ranting about (for IR)

cornellsun.com/2024/05/06/mar…

“The Africa they won’t show you” and it’s just the neocolonial overseer class.