Cover of The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property by Eunsong Kim. Cover features an edited imaged of an individual's arm hanging over something with their hand reaching downward. Orange, red, and brown hues are overlaid atop the image along the righthand side of the cover.

In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Read the introduction for free now.
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We call upon our colleagues in the homeland and internationally to support our steadfast attempts to defend and preserve our universities for the sake of the future of our people, and our ability to remain on our Palestinian land in Gaza. We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.

“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”

Open letter from Gaza academics to the world. Damn.

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Alaska Native Resilience The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to a...

Ever wonder about the history of the Arctic, North Pacific, and Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska from an Indigenous perspective? Available for pre-order now! Oral history centered: 🗃️ uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Is there an article, book, or poem you've read this year that has become sacred to you? If so, what is it? What words do you hold close?

How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston Review Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

This piece by @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is excellent and I’m so grateful to have it. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

With Africa's carbon sinks up for grabs, offset debate heats up | Context From Kenya to Zimbabwe, swaths of African forest are being locked in carbon offset deals that activists say threaten land rights

"As African countries line up to cash in on the global carbon offset market, concern is growing that the multimillion-dollar deals to keep their forests intact could threaten the land rights and way of life of people who live there"

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Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, he toa takitini kē Opening comments by Professor Leonie Pihama on behalf of Te Wharepora Hou Kia uruuru maiA hauoraA haukahaA haumāiaKi runga, Ki raroKi roto, Ki wahoRire rire hau, Paimārire Te Wharepora Hou is a rōp...

Wise and important words from Professor Leonie Pihama
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The looming land grab in Africa for carbon credits Countries might soon be able to trade emission reductions with other governments, but experts warn the market is already being exploited in developing countries

"Scientists have also warned about the broader risk to the planet of giving big polluters a green light to continue pumping oil and gas based on purchases made from the existing unregulated market for credits"

“We are fooling ourselves when we purchase these offsets"

History Decades Centuries Anthropogenic CO2 emissions (GtCO2/yr) If globally we stop emitting CO2 into the atmosphere Atmospheric CO₂ concentrations (ppm) The concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere will gradually decline Heat uptake in the ocean (ZJ/yr) Global surface temperature change (K) ← The ocean will continue to take up heat, but this uptake will slow down and become zero over time The difference in global temperature increase between the time when net zero CO2 emissions are achieved and a specified time in the future is referred to as the ZERO EMISSIONS COMMITMENT (ZEC) ↓ Our current best estimate is that global surface temperature would not increase further - But there is a range of possible temperature change Global sea level rise (m) Meanwhile, some other parts of the Earth system continue to change over multiple centuries in response to the perturbation human activities have caused (e.g. continued sea level rise). Temperature range

"There’s a common misconception that we are committed to decades or centuries more global warming from CO2 already in the atmosphere, no matter what we do now. Happily, current science says this is not true"

The great @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social

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NIH awards $9M for Indigenous-led tribal data repository to improve In an effort to improve the health of tribal communities and Indigenous people, the National Institutes of Health has awarded $9 million in funding for Native scientists at Arizona State University

The NIH has awarded $9M for our Indigenous-led Tribal data repository to improve Indigenous health. This represents a major move for Indigenous data sovereignty. I am proud to be site PI at ASU with NativeBio (@nativebio.bsky.social), UWisc, Ohio State, UW, UCSC. news.asu.edu/20231206-nih...

Today is the anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre. Let's remember that violence against women is endemic. In @academicaunties.bsky.social , we talk w Dr. Rebecca Major abt gendered, anti-Indigenous violence in the academy: www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the-violence-we...

Very excited to share the job ad for THREE positions (open rank) in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Stony Brook University. The departments listed are WGSS, English, and Anthropology. Please share widely (and apply, kin!). apply.interfolio.com/135452

I love writing letters of recommendation!

(Please don’t ask me to write any more!)

(Kidding-not kidding)

Friday, November 24, 2023 – Native bookshelf: Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs... The full picture of how the earliest colonists interacted with the Native Americans they encountered is clouded by the myths constructed by those writing history. Linda Coombs (Wampanoag Tribe of Aqui...

Three excellent books about Indigenous history in what is now the US, told by Natives, came out this year. This episode of Native American Calling highlights Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs. Targeted to young adults. Link to the book: bookshop.org/p/books/colo...
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History - National Book Foundati... The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changin...

AND . . . we have a NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remind myself that people are learning so much right now, and what people are learning matters both for right now, and the years to come. The pedagogy of organizing spaces, the conversations at direct actions, these are generating ways to be in relation beyond what currently feels available to us.

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I walked through this installation, acknowledging the land, for the first time this week. It is an extraordinary feeling to walk in relation to these works, in this specific place. Inspiring and heartening.

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Genocide: When Does State Violence Pass the Threshold? In this short text, Zoé Samudzi comes back to a question she had articulated in the issue she guest edited for The Funambulist 37 (Sep-Oct 2021): who has the right to use the term “genocide…

I wrote a short piece for @thefunambulist.bsky.social about the genocidal threshold: the point at which quotidian state violence conceivably becomes capital G “Genocide” crime vs. the acceptable genocidal outcomes of nation-state policy
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Childhood researchers call for an end to the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza There is no moral justification whatsoever for continuing this brutality which will result in the debilitation, wounding and death of thousands more children.

Childhood researchers call for an end to the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza

There is no moral justification whatsoever for continuing this brutality which will result in the debilitation, wounding and death of thousands more children.

Practicing New Worlds in a Time of Collapse “Our survival is at stake,” says author and organizer Andrea Ritchie.

This week, I talk to @dreanyc123.bsky.social about organizing, solidarity with Palestine, and why activists cannot defer the work of practicing new worlds. I needed this conversation and I think some of you may need it too. ❤️

When you have a meeting with @uwapress.bsky.social and they tell you your book is available for pre-order 😭 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
40% off this weekend with the code: Welcome23 🗃️ #AlaskaNativeResilience Voices from World War II