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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 8h

in my recent book Balikbayan, I theorized that the hyphen of the nation-state is race (hence why so many of them frantically attempt to rectify crisis by enfolding subjects - diaspora and home - back into their mythos, which they peddle as ethnos)

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg I bet that charred sumac note goes crazy

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...

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Careers - Human Resources

find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!

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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tonight at IPK: @tejnagaraja.bsky.social discusses his new book Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II with @aadeleon.bsky.social and Ruth Milkman.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cowen is one of the smarmiest people I've ever met in my life, can't wait for the lawsuits

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

today's class: "what kinda fuck shit did Grover Cleveland do? yes, fuck shit is a theoretical concept."

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Been thinking quire seriously about this suggestion all day - just msged you on FB

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

one day I will once again attempt to write a critical biography of Bulosan, he and his world were far far weirder than the Asian Am nationalisms and the orthodox Marxists reduced him to -- autofiction was not only formal experiment but as realist as he could get about the colonial migrant condition

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:

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Desiring Freedom

A groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima...

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Baldwin (my cute little tree) would like to let you know that today is my memoir's American book birthday :) Order link below, or get it from your local indie bookstore!!! (Yes, both tree and book are James Baldwin namesakes. Can you tell who my favorite writer is?) uncpress.org/978146969663...

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hope this essay is taught in craft classes because here I am cackling and cringing lol

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

chapter one of my memoir. smfh LOL. (hope I wrote it at least decently.)

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

giving Eala the stoic Asian treatment and Stoiana the Europeans are immigrants too story in this commentary is a choice lmao

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The insistence on making Eala perform Filipino gratitude in the colonial metropole, I see yall

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The AHA should be in the process of being dismantled by its dues paying members tomorrow. If that is not happening then…

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There unfortunately seems to be some faith remaining in the reformist electoral approach, though we'll see with the HPAD updates that are bound to come. No longer a member myself.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

this is what I have to ask when I see academics post entire threads on whether or not he plagiarised. AFTER his death.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the immediate discourse to pathologize Prof. Arday's death as "mental instability" so these opportunistic hounds can absolve themselves from their culpability

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

B*njamin Ryan spent whole days posting about Arday endlessly on Twitter. He seems to have deleted/be deleting his posts now. But plenty of academics were very happy to continue in his comments and elsewhere. Hounding someone to death is unlikely to weigh much on the minds or hearts of these people.

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I found that Cambridge quietly edited Jason Arday's Jesus College bio sometime between Jan 1 and Aug. 2. His title changed from "Professorial Fellow of Education" to "Fellow of Education," and an MA in Education Studies from Liverpool John Moores vanished from his list of https://x.com/benryanwriter//benryanwriter/status/2084345409812488494

Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

genuinely I was spitting bars with this one lol :)

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Academic folks: I've got two PhD students on the market this year, broadly within Global Asias and geography. (One on postwar environmental remediation in Vietnam, the other on infrastructure and aesthetics in Hong Kong.) Would love some leads on postdocs, esp. in this changing landscape. Thanks!!!

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

what my books see when I'm about to sign my 65th copy at the exhibit

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/07/2026

Tomorrow's combination of dangerous heat and unhealthy air is a serious threat to New Yorkers’ health. If you can, stay somewhere cool with air conditioning, limit time outdoors, drink plenty of water, and check on your neighbors — especially older New Yorkers and anyone with a health condition.

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If you know the particular mix of love, sacrifice, expectation, and guilt that comes with immigrant parents, please read this one. Out Sept 15. And happy Father’s Day! @aadeleon.bsky.social

Advance Review Copy of Notes from a Wayward Son by Adrian De Leon.

“A masterfully written exploration of fatherhood, migration, identity, and masculinity. De Leon writes with the poet’s eye and the historian’s precision, crafting a deeply personal story that illuminates larger truths about family and belonging.” — Anthony Christian Ocampo, author of Brown and Gay in L.A. A Memoir.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

He was definitely aware, and couldn't help himself by trying to shit on Mamdani's charisma in his stupid little speech 😂 a Nepo baby with the charisma of a wad of chewing gum fr

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/06/2026

OG Anunoby Sends Parade Crowd Into Frenzy With Celebratory Nod

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

MY VOICE IS SHOT FROM SCREAMING THE PRAISES OF OGUGUA ANUNOBY

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

MY BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL SON OG ANUNOBY

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

New York as a simultaneity of stories-so-far 🙂

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

my doctoral student Kavita Gawrinauth just published "Faith in transit: Caste, conversion and colonial Christianity under indenture in British Guiana," and it promises to be a major contribution to the growing study of Indo-Caribbean migration and religion: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

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Faith in transit: Caste, conversion and colonial Christianity under indenture in British Guiana

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d38427554e104">This article examines Indian conversion to Christianity in British Guiana during the in...

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Tim Duncan is my favorite player of all time, but The Alien might be in the running to be The Big Fundamental's successor

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

stomping out of the crib for a stupid mental health walk

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

happy Canadian book birthday to my debut memoir :)

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My write-up for the American Historical Association's (@historians.org) Perspectives on History magazine, an In Memoriam for my late friend and teacher, Vicente Rafael, historian and theorist of language and the Filipino postcolonial condition: www.historians.org/perspectives...

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Vicente L. Rafael (1956–2026) – AHA

Vicente (Vince) Leuterio Rafael, eminent historian of the Philippines and scholar of translation, died on February 21, 2026.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

lockdown D in the clutch 🥵

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Really we all should root for a Knicks-Sixers playoff series every year because it’s one of the few matchups where the teams commute back and forth via chartered Amtrak trains instead of chartered flights. Tons of C02 emissions saved (Sixers boarding train pics from 2024)

A 76ers social media post labeled “Playoff season 🚂” with pictures of the Sixers boarding an Amtrak at Union Station

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm opting to eschew AI policing and just trust them this term, to reward their devotion, and to show them the gift of scholarly relation and intellectual freedom. But am I teaching a dying kind of humanities? Will it even matter after they leave? Cuz man I sure hope so.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

...and it showed in their passionate presentations, their class group chats and post-seminar dinners, and their near-perfect attendance and engagement. In short, they really came to care about the texts and the study of global US history.

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This semester, I had this group of seniors/4th years, and we read a monograph a week, w/ weekly responses on handwritten index cards, where they can do anything from outline to reflect or doodle about the book. It started as an anti-AI safeguard but it yielded something else entirely...

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adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm so glad I left that shithole of an institution. But who's to say we won't get outmuscled everywhere? I can make as much space as I can in my classrooms - and I get really incredible and kind students in it for the love of the game - but money, like violence, screams over a Socratic seminar.

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