In ACTS OF LOVE, author Allyson Nadia Field delves into the rediscovery of the first film to depict African American affection.
For #SCMS26, she writes about the afterlives of ragtime romance. Read it here:
www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r...
📽️ #SCMS2026 @allyfield.bsky.social
For people in the Chicago area: Please join Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social and me on March 4 at the Seminary Co-op @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social for a conversation about my book ARCHIVING THE PAST (University of California Press). www.semcoop.com/event/aurore...
This new book by Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social is a gift to film history and cinema and media studies more broadly. Field's work has been and remains an inspiration. Many congratulations for this major achievement, dear Ally! @ucpress.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/acts-o...
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
Indeed, this issue enters the world at a different moment from the one in which it began. In my introduction, I try to make sense of the histories embedded within the issue itself and clarify my own understanding of just what methods we might require from here. 5/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
10/21/67: Melvin Van Peebles breakthrough feature, Story of a Three Day Pass
More:
@hamrahrama.bsky.social: 4columns.org/hamrah-a-s/t...
@allyfield.bsky.social: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Renata Adler: www.nytimes.com/1968/07/09/a...
@nicolasrapold.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/m...
Chicago come out!
At immigration court in Chicago this morning.
Per reporter inside who was told he can't use his phone, at least three people have been detained by ICE this morning after their hearings; two men and one woman.
Two black SUVs with plainclothes agents inside have arrived, presumably for transport.
Ahmed Abu Shaban
For the Gaza Scholasticide project, we spoke with Ahmed Abu Shaban, a professor and dean of agriculture at Al-Azhar University-Gaza.
You can listen here:
voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticid...
🧵 Under Shira Perlmutter, the Copyright Office identified major harms to copyright holders from AI training, as well as writers who must compete with AI-generated material that was trained on our own creative works.
It is really important--no matter how often it happens--that we not normalize college presidents calling in militarized police to clear students engaged in peaceful protests from their campuses.
This seems like a big deal: The NYPD shared a Palestinian Columbia protester's sealed arrest information with ICE, which promptly detained her and whisked her to a Texas jail. The NYPD claims, without offering evidence, that this doesn't violate NYC sanctuary city laws: apnews.com/article/nypd...
Every day, a new reason to despise this asshole. Every. Day.
A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/81hXXEqK
HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III.
Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵
U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves into the government’s long-established process to alert the public about potential federal grants and allow organizations to apply for funds.
I know they can’t respond, but to my friends at the ODH, we love you and are so angry on your behalf and we haven’t even begun to fight back yet.
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."
It looks as if the National Endowment for the Humanities is at risk of imminent collapse, following DOGE going in and apparently firing everyone.
Please consider reading the short legislation that established the NEH, and embodies its mission: www.neh.gov/about/histor...
It's looking less like a story of "Trump forces Columbia..." and more of a story of Trump, reactionary Columbia Trustees and donors, and Bari Weiss types forming a coalition that feeds off of each other
Betar: She was on our list. Many more jihadis are. We will be making a new submission Monday with approximately 1800 more jihadis. Submit to us candidates with proof for @ICEgov to consider! 🇺🇸
We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.
With global attention fixed on the war on Gaza, Israel is rapidly redrawing the map of the occupied West Bank through intensified assaults, paving the way for full annexation.
On Palestine Land Day, we map out what is happening ⤵️
I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom.
I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others
She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
it takes a full NINE paragraphs in this nyt story from today before there is any mention that hundreds of palestinians have been killed www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
