Reposted by Chris DingwallThe University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Publishing this month: BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO offers a rich exploration Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their work influenced modern Black life. buff.ly/cWYxtxX 0105
Reposted by Chris DingwallVenus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Well this looks outstanding. 086
Reposted by Chris DingwallChris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduBlack Designers in ChicagoA richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life. In twentieth-century Chicago, generati... 184
Reposted by Chris DingwallWill Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If you are employed as a teacher, researcher, graduate student, or in a related professional appointment at a college or university, you can support this work (and protect your own job) by joining the AAUP: www.aaup.org/join-aaup 03223
Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026With writing by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Jacqueline Goldsby, Brenna Greer, Kinohi Nishikawa (@kinohi.bsky.social), Norman Teague, and Daniel Schulman 021
Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The beautiful cover and typography is designed by Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab who draws from from fabric patterns designed by textile artist and book contributor Robert Earl Paige 120
Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduBlack Designers in ChicagoA richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life. In twentieth-century Chicago, generati... 184
Reposted by Chris DingwallSeth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!! 251010384
Reposted by Chris DingwallTom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Wise advice from Hungary: The only way university leaders have a chance against Trump is forming a broad alliance with other institutions and enlisting "American families, employers, unions," + more. Going it alone won't work. Hiding and appeasing (duck and cover) won't stop systematic "vandalism."chronicle.comHow a University Fights an Authoritarian RegimeViktor Orbán came for me. Donald Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do. 0165
Reposted by Chris DingwallDripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Mike Copeland has been delivering mail in Detroit for the past 45 years. 📸 credit: Sam Robinson 211288188
Reposted by Chris DingwallToby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Spent the afternoon with the papers of the Midwest Committee to Protect the Foreign Born, part of a national network fighting political deportations during the height of the Cold War. These "Know Your Rights" cards--similar to those circulating today--remind us that the fight has been a long one 0204
Reposted by Chris DingwallAAUP @aaup.org · 11/03/2025We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...aaup.orgAAUP Condemns Trump Administration’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at ColumbiaThe Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administratio... 1431172
Reposted by Chris DingwallAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/03/2025We're still soliciting applications for this position as tenured associate professor of History / associate director of UMass' Slavery North initiative 🗃️ careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 12724
Reposted by Chris DingwallGabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com 511943506
Reposted by Chris DingwallColson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 07/03/2025History circular nature of, 26 don’t learn from it, doomed to repeat it, 35-7 Faulkner cliché that “past is never dead, it’s not even past,” 111-114 Jerry Lewis theory of, 215 711715
Reposted by Chris DingwallChris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Very excited to share some new work at the African American History seminar at MHS on March 21. The paper is about Chicago-based textile designer Robert E. Paige, the history behind his remarkable Dakkabar Collection for Sears (1973-1974), and interior decoration in the Black Arts Movement 083
Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Very excited to share some new work at the African American History seminar at MHS on March 21. The paper is about Chicago-based textile designer Robert E. Paige, the history behind his remarkable Dakkabar Collection for Sears (1973-1974), and interior decoration in the Black Arts Movement 083
Reposted by Chris Dingwalljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/03/2025remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do! 40897551392
Reposted by Chris DingwallMax Read @maxread.info · 25/02/2025one thing this demonstrates is the extent to which racial, gender, and sexual discrimination has been an important cause and substance of worker organizing, rather than (as is too often claimed) some kind of HR-driven distraction 71483388
Reposted by Chris DingwallKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · 08/02/2025The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:newyorker.comThe War on Diversity, Equity, and InclusionD.E.I. programs faced legitimate criticisms, but the Trump Administration’s actions make clear that we can’t achieve color-blindness on command. 10755197
Reposted by Chris DingwallInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This also describes libraries, except they don’t run on plagiarism and potable water 248989
Reposted by Chris DingwallGina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive conservation workshop for HBCU students! In an intensive week-long workshop, students learn photograph conservation and engage with the Archive. July 13–18, 2025, in Chicago. Application deadline: Feb 21. www.getty.edu/projects/con... #archives #BlackHistory 13622
Reposted by Chris DingwallGabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.orglabor4highered.orgLabor for Higher Education 224091
Reposted by Chris DingwallJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 09/02/2025All the right wing populist op-ed hacks in Canada have been fronting for Poilievre for 2+ years but Trump’s 51st State threats have put them on the spot: they secretly want Canada to become part of the States but only so they personally can get hired to work there, impossible for em any other way 1161
Reposted by Chris Dingwalljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid! 542393686058
Reposted by Chris Dingwallmckinsey egg price gouging specialist @10000thmule.bsky.social · 05/02/2025also im gonna be real with you freed slaves carried that flag into battle against their former masters and it represents a country where it's your god given right to burn it. you're goddamned right i'll wrap myself in that fucking thing. it doesn't belong to this fucking nazi cabal we call the GOP. 9753130
Reposted by Chris Dingwalle.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/02/2025There are a lot of things going on in the rise of Silicon Valley fascism, but one of the most important is simply spiraling impunity due to the political class's increasing reliance on magical high tech narratives as a substitute for real, difficult policy. 747163
Reposted by Chris DingwallGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 02/02/2025‘Do you have any light reading?’ ‘How about this pamphlet, Talented Canadian Bands’? 1232
Reposted by Chris DingwallChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/02/2025It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience". MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy. 212496503
Reposted by Chris DingwallGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly." 020744
Reposted by Chris DingwallEvie Hemphill @evhemphill.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"In St. Louis, the leaders are pathologizing some riders and telling the rest that their enjoyment and convenience do not matter. The heavy, sharp infrastructure of gates matches the concrete barricades that populate the streets of downtown St. Louis and the riverfront." -Michael Allenmoundcitymessenger.comMetroLink Gates Put Ordinary St. Louisans In Their PlaceOn January 1, Belgrade made mass transit free while St. Louis is spending $52 million on security gates for its MetroLink, neglecting user needs. Is civic imagination suffering amid crime-focused n… 3266
Reposted by Chris DingwallBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 27/01/2025“Behind the AI boom looms an expanding asset bubble. Big Tech firms, venture capitalists, and the fossil fuel sector all work to ratchet up investment.” @edwardongwesojr.combostonreview.netThe Plot Against Finance - Boston ReviewAny public agenda will have to take on Wall Street. 1347
Reposted by Chris DingwallMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/01/2025my generation had a good and normal alternative to someone like Jordan Peterson, and it was the Beastie Boys, who dispensed invaluable life lessons like "if you've got bad breath then maybe try Scope/if you wash your ass, you best use soap" 1553144
Reposted by Chris DingwallRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/01/2025Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster 1120345
Reposted by Chris DingwallNoliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I believe the intent of this moment is to unravel New Deal sensibilities, and attack existing civil rights in place since the 19th century. 076
Reposted by Chris DingwallAAUP @aaup.org · 24/01/2025“Harvard likely read the room, so to speak, from a political perspective, and decided to cut their losses.” In this period of capitulation, it probably won’t be the last school to fall in line. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on AcademiaThe administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education. 13716
Reposted by Chris DingwallEdward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 20/01/2025Wrote about Las Vegas, the rise of gambling, CES, AI propaganda, and the exterminist future we are racing towards thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in...thetechbubble.substack.comTrapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God (Pt. 1)Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions at CES, and the future. 9471111
Reposted by Chris Dingwalljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like 546139555
Reposted by Chris DingwallToby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Handy reading list here to get up to speed on the political economy of “AI” and all the hype… 041
Reposted by Chris Dingwalljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...wsj.comYou Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse. 1093335076207
Reposted by Chris DingwallErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/01/20251. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!erininthemorning.com2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day! 380236969671
Reposted by Chris DingwallDavid Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 15/01/2025This is Biden’s legacy and on the conscience of every Democrat who didn’t speak out. If Trump does get a ceasefire by applying the slightest bit of pressure on Israel it will be a deserved final humiliation for Biden and his team.nytimes.comEstimated Gaza Toll May Have Missed 25,000 Deaths, Study SaysAnalysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war. 36539123