We organized a special issue w/ @liberation-gen.bsky.social
"The Corporate Power of It All" — and it's now live! Seven conversations with organizers, researchers, and frontline leaders on how corporate power shapes our lives and how we fight back.
Read it here: forgeorganizing.org/issues/corpo...
I spoke with a first grade class about what they would do to make cities better. More color, more art, more rainbows on streets, crosswalks, and sidewalks. One student suggested sidewalks that look like chocolate chip cookies! We could make this happen.....
The last time my team put out a big, data-intensive project, we included this in the acknowledgments, and it's something I want to continue to do going forward. Time to sing these heroes.
Photography is about observation. It's about being able to keep your mind open to seeing the world. #photography #streetphotogrpahy
And Sarah Hinkley and her team at UC Berkeley Center for Cities + Schools have been writing about this for quite some time. Some great resources here: citiesandschools.berkeley.edu/major-initia...
Will be more relevant to more places as districts close schools. My forthcoming book argues for the importance of maintaining public ownership + use/access/interest and including communities most harmed by closures in imagining the future. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo268432754.html
NYC Curb Czar would be one of the coolest jobs on the planet, no joke.
In a new article, co-authored w/Casey Dawkins & Sophie McManus, we use data on TOPA transactions to understand the impacts of TOPA on preservation outcomes. tl/dr: TOPA was highly effective at preserving affordable housing, particularly where rents were rising. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am finding hope in live streaming Artemis II content. Women in STEM, paradigm of communication and teamwork, and just so many NERDS doing what they love. Check out this guy dancing in the bottom of the screen as he listens to a description of the sun's corona structure!
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
Neoliberal Consensus: College should be about ROI
Humanists: Um, no
NC: Sorry yes
Humanists: Ok your premise is flawed but also humanists have really strong ROI data and have for decades.
NC: We're pivoting to AI
www.startribune.com/what-should-...
Life goals, courtesy of Toad.
Academic reimbursement culture limits scholars from low-SES backgrounds who cannot front conference travel and research costs. When access depends on who can pay upfront, it limits growth and reproduces inequality.
#AcademicSky #Vent
A screenshot of my cover with this quote: David Perry is one of the most trusted voices on how to think, write, and work in public. He has a clear ethic about the critical importance of intellectual labor at a moment when the risks of being public have rarely been greater, and the reasons why academics must risk it have rarely been so clear." - Tressie McMillan Cottom, New York Times columnist, author of Thick: And Other Essays
My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work.
Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
These CM in Philly are choosing to use their power to reshape the conversation around closures and reuse. They are using planning powers to assert the public interest in school buildings as public infrastructure. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
Leaders make these choices. And the closure and sale of civic assets to the private market with no attention to public benefits is not inevitable. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Closures and reuse are part of larger patterns of disinvestment and dispossession of Black communities. They are connected to planning decisions made over generations. And decisions about their reuse can either mitigate or exacerbate the harms of the past. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
In our forthcoming book, Julia McWilliams, Amy Bach, Elaine Simon, and I take these arguments further and look at school reuse in Philadelphia. The pain, harm, and impact of closures does not end when buildings are shuttered. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
@sallynuamah.bsky.social has documented how “mass school closures undermine the citizenship of Black Americans” by alienating them from school district and also political and civic engagements in other arenas of public life. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Ryan Good has shown us that they are institutions that shape how people make sense of place and their place-based communities. doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Schools are physical and social infrastructure in our cities. Their presence and their closures "make and unmake" neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1177/0739...
Ryan Good has shown us that they are institutions that shape how people make sense of place and their place-based communities. doi.org/10.1080/0272...
For 10+ years I have studied school closures and argued that they are not only ed, but also urban policy. We need to understand them in concert with other tools of planning.
#phil CM using zoning as a resistance tool vs arbitrary / harmful district decisions.
www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
My family has a gratitude practice at meals. I often say that my "grateful" is for the food we have and the people who make it happen. I then list out the workers who make up the whole supply chain so my daughter can see the labor that makes our meal possible. TY @ufw.bsky.social for these posts!
Don't be overwhelmed by your evidence; you're telling a part of the story, not the entire thing.
Where's your thesis; where are your topic sentences?
Is this relevant, or is this a tangent?
Analysis and argument, not summary.
Show, don't tell.
Georgia suspended its fuel tax—33¢ per gallon on gas and 37¢ per gallon diesel—for 60 days, in response to rising fuel prices due to the Iran War. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
That will result in up to $400 million in fewer state revenues for transportation infrastructure.
My students bring me joy: "What surprised me most was how much possibility lives in place. Even in neighborhoods marked by disinvestment, there is creativity, resilience, and vision. The challenge is not whether potential exists—it’s whether our systems are designed to recognize and build upon it."
