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hieyoon kim

@0absentia.bsky.social
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write and teach about cinema, media, and politics; author of Celluloid Democracy (UC Press, 2023); prof at Brown

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We're all being held hostage by this administration.
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 28/02/2026
I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths apnews.com/article/isra...
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How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/02/2026
Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.
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Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police
“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.
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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Luke Munn, Liam Magee, Vanicka Arora, and Awais Hameed Khan introduce “Unmaking AI,” a framework for critically evaluating generative AI image models beyond surface-level bias metrics, focusing on ecosystems, training data, and outputs in #CriticalAI 3.2. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Unmaking AI: A Framework for Critical Investigation | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
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Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
OMG, all of "area studies" cut at UNC, this is huge. (The region-based centers like Asia, Middle East, African Studies...and more. The loss of Title VI and the $ that used to go with it taking a toll.
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Sara Brinton @sarabrinton.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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The New School AAUP @newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/12/2025
Sign this letter in support of Sang Hea Kil as she fights for immediate reinstatement.
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Dr. Sang Hea Kil - Letter
Subject: Immediate Reinstatement of Dr. Sang Hea Kil Dear President Teniente-Matson and the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees, We are scholars and educators who are submitting this...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/12/2025
Sang Hea Kil is the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to pro-Palestinian advocacy. “All faculty should be able to protest all genocides without targeted punitive actions." - Sang Hea Kil
theguardian.com
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...
Limited Time Offer:
Blanket Friday sale, shop for gaza
by workshops4gaza
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Happy Genocide Day" Corrected Thanksgiving mural seen in Pensacola, Florida
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine" Seen in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
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RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Now free. Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime U.S. permanent resident, Korean American scientist with a green card, is finally out of ICE detention after 3 months. Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!
Photo of Tae Heung “Will” Kim.

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LATEST UPDATE
HORRIFIC NEW DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT CBP'S
UNLAWFUL DETAINMENT OF U.S. PERMANENT
RESIDENT RETURNING FROM SOUTH KOREA
Reports detail how CBP trapped Tae Heung "Will" Kim under inhumane
conditions for over eight days at an airport. Officers moved Kim several
times to "confuse and disorient him," kept the lights on at all times, gave him minimal food and no bed - forcing him to sleep on a row of chairs.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."
theguardian.com
UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan
Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF
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aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Brown Chapter of the AAUP's Statement Urging the University to Reject the Federal Government's “Compact” www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements
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Statements — Brown AAUP
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪
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hieyoon kim @0absentia.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
THIS FRIDAY: interested in contemporary South Korean feminist movements and backlash against them? Don’t miss this roundtable!
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/09/2025
U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia
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U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia
On Sunday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau expressed regret over the recent ICE raid that detained 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia. Landau met with Kor...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Does your university have policies around students recording professors without consent?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
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hieyoon kim @0absentia.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Looking forward to this necessary and ever-so timely conversation on how Korean feminist and queer discourses have shifted over the past decade since the “feminist reboot.”
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hieyoon kim @0absentia.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Thank you for welcoming us today. I’m thrilled to be part of this amazing group!
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
startribune.com
Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future
From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
compactmag.com
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”
bostonglobe.com
Harvard faculty won’t cave to Trump demands - The Boston Globe
Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.
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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.
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Sherene Seikaly @srseikaly.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"The genocide has “killed my lungs.” This is how Samah al-Dahshan narrates losing her nine-year-old daughter Nasma." My latest editor's note for Journal of Palestine Studies @PalStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
tandfonline.com
From the Editor
Published in Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2025)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/08/2025
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
theguardian.com
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/07/2025
The settlement doesn't require Brown to pay off the Trump administration, nor does it appear to constrain teaching. But Brown will provide admissions data to prove "compliance with merit-based admissions," and it will "adopt Trump’s definitions of male and female" (though Brown has coed housing).
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:
Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash
untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities
and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual
assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal
resources Congress intended. The majority apparently
deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very
real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not
support such an inequitable result.
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The President must take care that the laws are faithfully
executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule
undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such
abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/07/2025
BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 98 Palestinians since dawn, including 38 aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2nui5x
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