You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs?
Re-sharing @ronakkapadia.bsky.social post, which hits queer & trans* studies, medical humanities, disability justice & abolitionist thought, among others
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Academic/art friends and comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 and would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, and reading groups. Drawn from my forthcoming book, *Breathing in Common*, the talk asks what it means to sustain life in common when air itself has become a site of governance, risk, exposure, and abandonment. Thinking with contemporary art, disability justice, abolitionist medicine, and COVID-era aerosol knowledge, I trace how breath functions as shared infrastructure under empire, and how queer and trans artists of color theorize collective survival through opacity, luminosity, care, and improvisation. I’d be especially glad to connect with those working in feminist studies, queer and trans studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, medical humanities, environmental humanities, art history, visual culture, and abolitionist thought. I’m open to virtual, hybrid, and in-person invitations. For in-person events, I’m happy to participate, provided thoughtful safety precautions are in place. If you’re organizing something for the coming academic year, please feel free to DM me or email me. I’d also appreciate shares to colleagues, programs, and organizers who might be interested.p
Selfie featuring author in a red shirt that says Museums Are Not Neutral in white lettering
Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!
Academic/art friends and comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 and would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, and reading groups. Drawn from my forthcoming book, *Breathing in Common*, the talk asks what it means to sustain life in common when air itself has become a site of governance, risk, exposure, and abandonment. Thinking with contemporary art, disability justice, abolitionist medicine, and COVID-era aerosol knowledge, I trace how breath functions as shared infrastructure under empire, and how queer and trans artists of color theorize collective survival through opacity, luminosity, care, and improvisation. I’d be especially glad to connect with those working in feminist studies, queer and trans studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, medical humanities, environmental humanities, art history, visual culture, and abolitionist thought. I’m open to virtual, hybrid, and in-person invitations. For in-person events, I’m happy to participate, provided thoughtful safety precautions are in place. If you’re organizing something for the coming academic year, please feel free to DM me or email me. I’d also appreciate shares to colleagues, programs, and organizers who might be interested.p
Selfie featuring author in a red shirt that says Museums Are Not Neutral in white lettering
Academic/art friends & comrades, I’m beginning to circulate a new talk for AY 2026–27 drawing on my book in progress, *BREATHING IN COMMON.* I would be glad to bring it into conversation with departments, programs, centers, classrooms, workshops, & reading groups. Please help me circulate this note!
"Surviving the Long Wars" takes on new, surreal, ridiculous, epic, infuriating, humiliating, heart-wrenching, and nervous-system-destroying meanings by the minute.
It feels so absolutely silly to be working on a book project about expanding infrastructures of breathable life in a moment when the most powerful demonic forces on the planet are trying to destroy life-sustaining infrastructure everywhere you look… bleak, exhausting, ridiculous times.
Should I get critical feedback from writer friends on a grant proposal I've been feverishly working on for the past week, or just turn it in way ahead of schedule to be over and done with it? A memoir.
“a failure to thrive or to publish.” Frankly, I feel that second books, privilege or not, are a miracle if they happen at all."
All of these imaginations bump up against the reality of something other wise, a gained humility and the embarrassment of having proffered declarative words at all in print form, and that friction can result in an emotionally confused manuscript or a nonarrival:
nonarrival of the bk, or (2)a relaxed act of self-expression, “letting it out” as a follow-through of built confidence or a sense of explosive release along the lines of unbounded gestures, or (3) a result of further entrainment, having “learned one’s lesson,” or “gained bibliographic authority.”
I just stumbled on this first footnote in Mel Chen's second book INTOXICATED (p. 165, no. 1): "I’m thinking here of the jumble of associations with second books in the mythography of tenured academics, often (1) an emotional complex of “second book jitters” that sometimes leads to extended ...
Academic pals: looking for inspo and seeking examples of your favorite "second monographs"? In grad school, mine was always Saidiya Hartman's LOSE YOUR MOTHER for its style and substance swerving away from traditional expectations toward creative non-fiction and something more. What are your faves?
If/then: how to celebrate the destruction of empire when so much of our (minoritized) lives/hopes/dreams in the imperial core are bound up in the structural dominance of the United States, historically?
Sunday thotsicle: the impending strategic defeats of US/Israel in Iran/West Asia may lead to the accelerated crumbling of US empire, but not without further pain/misery for people around the Global South as well as minoritized people in the imperial core.
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
Background is aqua and purple gradient. Large gradient text across the top says: "Listening for the Long Haul, a new website documenting Long COVID oral history." Below this is a set of illustrations including a bird flying, a window, a face mask, a microphone, a person lying in bed with headphones, a person tucked under blankets with a food bowl and laptop, a radio, an armchair, and a sound wavelength. Along the bottom edge are logos for Long COVID Justice and History Moves.
This #LongCOVIDAwarenessMonth, we’re excited to announce that our new oral history website is live! Featuring 100+ hours of interviews of people living with #LongCOVID.
We’re building a living history of Long COVID, and bringing voices from the margins to the center.
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You can't convince me that the imperial horrors of the 2020s are not explicitly connected to the c19 pandemic's necropolitical social reordering, which anesthesized everyone into absorbing mass death and disablement as the background noise to the dystopian here and now. War crimes = shoulder shrugs?
If you filter your water in your home, but not your indoor air, you’re doing it wrong. Humans drink about 2 to 3 L of water a day but they breathe in about 11,000 L of air! Ventilate and filtrate, folks. You’re welcome.
We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline.
No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!
We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline.
No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!
IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state.
Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.
How do we get every (yt) liberal a CRASH course in abolition, state violence, counter/insurgencies, settler colonialism, disability justice, & racial capitalism??0? Like June 2020-style study & collectivism? BC the political regression is painful. We gotta retool for the remainder of this decade.
I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such.
I say this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: academics who casually speak of the “covid years” as if they’re in the rear view mirror only and not *currently still ongoing* are intellectually and morally impoverished. All of their critical contributions should be questioned with skepticism as such.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
THE U.S. HAS KILLED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE IN BOAT STRIKES. WE’RE TRACKING THEM ALL.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.
Shaming rarely works on most people, so I will simply say: follow the facts, both scientific and economic, for they tell the same story:
The pandemic is far from over. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading; COVID-19 is still disabling millions today. It's never too late to align one's conduct with reality.
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.